. . . cops to being "an effete, sissy-boy latte-sipper," while discussing the Iranian-British crisis and the Conrad Black trial with Hugh Hewitt.

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If you had to find someone over the internet—absolutely had to—how would you go about it?

What if their site was a Blogspot site? What if it was a domain, but blind-registered?

What if you only had a name, but wanted to get a social security number?

I'm working on a story. The information I need might not be stuff that should be widely disseminated, so feel free to e-mail me with your thoughts.

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I'm with Beth on the Kathy Sierra flap.

Maybe sexual themes should be considered over the line, but chick bloggers will always be the recipients of such remarks, so I prefer to simply have a thick skin. I leave those accusations of ugly sluttiness (and slutty ugliness) up when they are aimed at me, because they speak for themselves about what kind of argument the commenter is capable of making.

Death threats and rape threats, however, are illegal. And they should be.

Be careful when you threaten people over the internet: you're never quite as anonymous as you think you are.

And if you want to be taken seriously, balance your passion with some . . . what were those things? Ah, yes: facts.

UPDATE: I agree with the thrust of Michelle's post, too: when we give in to bullies, we embolden them. I'm not too interested in that.

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More rock 'n' roll about neurological functions.

Oh, and Southlanders: David Linden himself with be on KPCC today, Wednesday, at 2:40 p.m. (It's a pre-taped interview, so it won't be David in the flesh.)

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If not, why not?

Mike Rappaport quotes this Paul Graham essay on how to recognize and avoid mental conformity.

The main litmus test: if you can't say something out loud, maybe you should be thinking it.

It's must reading; via Glenn.

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That McGehee is a bloody genius.

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I could listen to Gingrich talk all day—particularly when he says things like this.

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. . . may only be on this earth for a few more days.

Pray for her, if that's the sort of thing you do.

I've tried praying, but I may just cuss God out when/if she finally succombs to the cancer. The unfairness of it all gets to me, despite the great attitude Cathy maintained: she was truly aware of what a crap shoot this life business is.

I want a miracle, folks.

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My friend Professor David J. Linden of Johns Hopkins University will be on the Patt Morrison show tomorrow on KPCC, talking about his recent book, The Accidental Mind, which traces fun and quirky features/functions in our brains to the evolutionary processes that shaped the human mind.

If you don't live in the Los Angeles area, or won't be able to listen tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., it looks like you can listen later, right off of Patt Morrison's page, here. I have no idea how long they'll leave the podcasts up, though.

David has a blog, by the way: it contains fun stories from his career—a few of which I remember hearing at parties in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

I hope he sells a lot of books, and gets oodles of readers for his blog. But fewer books than I sell. And, of course, fewer blog-readers. I'd like him to do just well enough in both arenas to be worth beating.

No, seriously: buy his book. It is written for the lay person. He's funny, and he knows craploads of interesting stuff about the brain.

UPDATE: David's been pre-empted by a harrowing tale of the firefight in Sadr City, which Morrison and her guest, Martha Raddatz, see as "a microcosm of the entire Iraq war."

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D'Souza's The Enemy at Home, by Stanley Kurtz, over at NRO's The Corner (where they occasionally stop interacting with each other long enough to post something for readers to read). Kurtz plays his ace in the hole: a condemnation of D'Souza's book by Richard John Neuhaus.

Et tu, Neuhaus? Then fall, DÂ’Souza.

Naturally, I thought that was rather good. But you know how I adore Shakespeare.

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. . . is almost as difficult as finding a Real Conservative.

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is, as Dan Collins points out, almost unprecedented. Almost.

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This RedState Post reminds me of Cousin Attila's assertion that when he plays softball he won't use a metal bat, because "the founders never envisioned them."

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And it'll be held this October in a libertarian state!

They had me at "WiFi throughout the center."

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. . . Has a new blog.

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. . . gets together in the nation's capital.

Warning: Don't criticize Cousin Attila's tie. Just don't.

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so mean?

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That's a shocker.

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. . . to Charmaine Yoest, and I tell her I just don't see the same level of animosity out there toward Giuliani that exists with respect to McCain.

"I mean, some people aren't enthusiastic about Rudy," I remark. "But it's not like you hear all this anyone but him discourse that one gets with McCain."

She blinks, rather politely, and tells me she knows people who feel exactly that way: "anyone but Rudy."

I pause for a moment, and then I reply that she must have friends who are real conservatives.

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. . . that fears your decongestants.

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