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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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The Baseball Analysts: Two on Two: NL West Preview
Will Woody have a bounce back season? Will too many balls go by those aged outfielders? Can Benitez keep it going? Will Kemp come back to bite the G-men? A good preview, but in a nutshell: The Giants better do it this year, because 2006 is bound to be ugly for them.
2:33:47 PM 
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GREENSPAN ADMITS HE GOT IT WRONG ON BUSH TAX CUTS: "
Not all of us got it wrong.
But he was forced to admit that his support for the Bush tax cuts had been a mistake. In 2001 he had mounted the extraordinary argument that budget surpluses were too big and that the US foreign debt would be paid off too quickly.
Under vigorous and often aggressive questioning by Hillary Clinton, Dr Greenspan, looking decidedly uncomfortable, said that, with the benefit of hindsight, he had been mistaken in his view about budget surpluses.
'We were confronted at the time with an almost universal expectation amongst experts that we were dealing with a very large surplus for which there seemed to be no end,' he said. 'I look back and I would say to you, if confronted with the same evidence we had back then, I would recommend exactly what I recommended then. Turns out we were all wrong'.
'Not all of us,' snapped Senator Clinton.
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(Via No More Apples.)
2:03:56 PM
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Via Schneier on Security, this technical treatise on how to destroy the earth. And this guy isn't talking about trivial stuff like wiping out civilization (we know how to do that) or cause a mass extinction (we're doing that) or destroy the oceans (ditto). No, this is the big kahuna:
For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to render the Earth into a form in which it may no longer be considered a planet. Such forms include, but are most definitely not limited to: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a quantum singularity; a dust cloud.
The good news is, it's not easy.
10:28:58 AM
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