Whigging Out - More Fallout Analysis - If the good people of America wake up on November 7th of 2003 to a world mostly rid of the Islamic menace, and the Middle East is strewn with the corpses of Al Qaeda and Hezbollah loonies, Saddam is in his grave, the Iranian theocrats are scouting out digs in Aix-en-Provence and the Sauds are begging us to take their oil; if there are lots of judges seated on benches who will keep true law and order and send the most violent offenders to their doom; and if a legitimate tax cut is passed, THEN will this election mean anything.

Clubbeaux - Maybe I Should've Gotten Sports Illustrated Instead - And is it Republican's fault if Democrats insist on pouring their money in unwinnable races in Florida and Texas just to tweak George Bush's nose? Take the millions and millions of dollars Democrats wasted on Sisyphean quests in Florida and Texas, spread it around to where it could have actually affected close races and the electoral results might have looked a lot different.

Have 20-sider, Will Travel
Kaylr.com - A Real-life Dungeon? - This Daily Torygraph story about the Belgian pensioner killed by his own booby-trap sounds too much like an RPG scenario to be true. Was he a fan of Gary Gygax's "Tomb of Horrors"?

Hello from Walden!
Fragments ~ from Floyd - Good Life, Fertile Soil - I remember a cool November morning like this one, watching the steam rise up through the slanting sun as it lifted from the mound of hot compost: the heat of decay turning water into vapor. I had read an article in our worn how-to magazines that said you could actually slow-cook a chicken in your compost pile if you tended the pile just right and you coaxed the bacteria to produce enough heat.

Jack Handey has a Posse
Heretical Ideas - Philosophic Foundations For Libertarianism - In fact, it could be argued that mind-body integration can, in fact, undermine capitalism. One of the failings of materialist philosophy is that it does not provide a satisfactory answer to the existence of free will. If the universe is completely materialistic, then free will, by definition, does not exist.

Ipse Dixit - Not The Right Course - The focus on "freedom to" rather than "freedom from" is, I believe, the most essential error of modern liberalism. The Founders established our country to be one based on negative rights - rights the government could not abridge ("freedom from"). Taking its cue from the pre-WWII Progressive movement, modern liberalism has tended to focus on positive rights ("freedom to").

Philosoblog - Common Sense, National Review, and God - National Review is a great source of wisdom. But it likes to assure us that morality requires God, and this is as false as can be.

Media Bash
Sine Qua Non Pundit - The Scourge of Richard Cohen, Vol. LXIII - If Eminem is the new Elvis, I guess I could be the new Barry Mann and start putting the bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp on little Richard.