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Jokes Every Man Should Know by Don Steinberg

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Review posted at 2009-07-01 18:30:44

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Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo

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Review posted at 2009-06-21 15:36:56

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Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto

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Review posted at 2009-06-13 09:25:08

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It was fashionable in the early nineteenth century for scientists to nominate friends to do postmortem examinations of them in the hope that even after death they would continue to advance scientific knowledge—a trend that reached its climax in 1875 with the founding in Paris of a "Society of Mutual Autopsy."
Russell Shorto
Source: Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto

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It may be that the story of the High Enlightenment after 1750 is more familiar to readers and historians, but that does not alter the reality that the later movement was basically just one of consolidating, popularizing, and annotating revolutionary concepts introduced earlier.
Jonathan Israel
Source: Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto

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The reason there are no successful Arab democracies today is because there is no successful Arab democracy today.
Larry Diamond
Source: I think I've actually read this quote before, but my source for today is a Tom Friedman op-ed.

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PM's RSVP
2009-06-05 21:17:01


After reading about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's love of strangers' weddings, TMBWITW and I decided to send him an invitation to ours:

Wedding invitation to Stephen Harper

(Click the image that is unnecessarily small to see the image that is unnecessarily big).

Unfortunately, he declined. At first I was outraged. I mean, what do I pay my taxes for? It sure isn't for paved roads, since all they do is make the fact that I drive a 4x4 to the grocery store seem ridiculous. However, after a sober second thought, I'm somewhat mollified by the thought that some junior staffer was probably forced to utter the words, "Mr. Prime Minister, do you know someone named Fane Henderson in Edmonton?"

Wedding RSVP from Stephen Harper

The good news, though, is that the Governor General still has not responded to her invitation. I assume she'll come because she's pretty much up for anything.

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