This article from today’s Orange County register indicates that a new DVD recorder will make the VCR a thing of the past. I hope they’re right. The VCR in my living room is already a thing of the past, and it’s always nice to be ahead of the latest trend.

This experiment with group blogging did not go well, so it is with regrets that I have asked Puke and Pukewatch to leave. I wish them the best.

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Now that was clever… NOT! How dare you exploit a tragedy to score a few cheap political points? And lern to spell, you ignerant maroon.

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Blogging will be light today, so I’ve decided to try an experiment and allow two guest bloggers to give it a go. Please give a warm welcome to Puke and Pukewatch.

You might remember a top 40s hit from the mid-1980s called “Russians.” The song was an interesting combination of (1) a brilliant melody by Sergei Prokofiev, and (2) some less-than-brilliant lyrics by Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting. Unfortunately, Mr. Sting mistakenly attributed the success of the song to its lyrics, and stopped performing it in 1986. As a public service both to Mr. Sting and to any fans who would like to hear the song again (and who, like most rock fans, are primarily interested in the music and couldn’t give a rat’s pattoot what words actually get sung), I’ve updated the lyrics to make them more relevant today, and certainly no more cheesy than the original. Here goes:

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“Rethinking Schools” has a nice tool for reviewing your knowledge of geography of the Middle East. Unfortunately, nothing else on their site is worth reading.

UPDATE: I take that back. Their unapologetically slanted anti-war, anti-voucher, anti-everything propaganda is so loopy that it probably is worth reading. The Fehl(er)vorhersagefreude alone makes it all worthwhile.

Eugene Volokh offers a nice fisking of the popular but often exaggerated view that our secular system of laws is largely rooted in the Ten Commandments. Going through the commandments one by one, he concludes that only three, or arguably four, impose valid, legally binding obligations under modern law today. Read the whole thing.

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The list of things we haven’t yet found in Iraq, which therefore must not exist, has gotten rather long and hard to follow. Thus, as a public service, I am offering a list of things that we haven’t found after weeks of searching, and whose existence should therefore be written off.

• Sgt. Scott Speicher.
• Saddam Hussein.
• Baghdad Bob (not to be confused with Baghdad Boob, who claims to have been elected mayor in an election that never happened – we know that he exists).
• $2 billion received by the U.N. under the oil-for-palaces food program.
• Tariq Aziz Oops, guess he existed after all.
• Last but not least, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. (Even if they are eventually found, rest assured that they aren’t really weapons of mass destruction.

I was tempted to add Elvis to the above list, but then it occurred to me that we do have proof he once existed: Lisa Marie Presley must have been born somehow. We also have incontrovertible proof that Elvis is dead: Michael Jackson is alive.

Bill Quick has a disturbing theory of where California’s recall effort could lead.