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Ban on politics

My ban on politics is about to end a little earlier than I expected.

Well, if they were spying they deserve it

Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying

Iranian intelligence operatives recently detained over a dozen squirrels found within the nation's borders, claiming the rodents were serving as spies for Western powers determined to undermine the Islamic Republic.

(Ynetnews)

The world is not as simple as you think

From earlier this week -- I didn't see this mentioned anywhere else: Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatens to declare war on Iran if they don't stop interfering in Iraq.

"We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shiite government and to stop direct and indirect intervention ... otherwise a severe war is waiting for you," he said in the 50-minute audiotape.

(Al Bawaba)

The era of cheap food is over

I think that we're in for a period of sustained price inflation for food. Or at least, that's apparently what I think.

Mark Hill, food and agriculture partner at the firm, warned that rising demand for wheat and maize was bound to result in increases in the price of staple foods for British consumers.

In all seriousness, on this one I agree with Fidel Castro (and that, really, never happens.) We should be using food to feed people, and other things to generate power. It is ridiculous to starve the poor in the world so that we can run our cars cheaper.
(Telegraph UK)

I can't beat the title on this one either

It's a stick-up

Police are on the hunt for a man who robbed a New Hampshire bank on Saturday disguised as a tree ...

(Tim Blair)

Wait a minute... *I*'m doing things!

Latest terror from the UK government -- Look out for people doing things (Power Line)

New books

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Safari 3.0.2

I was getting so frustrated with Safari 3.0 that I was just about ready to roll back to the production version (2). But I decided to download the Safari 3.0.2 update first and see if it was any better.

It's somewhat better, the really egregious bug that was keeping Gmail message submission from working is much less frequent (although I still see it from time to time, I'm not sure if they really did anything to fix it or I'm just getting luckier.)

Happy Independence Day!

What to do today -- the weather forecast says we are in a super severe heat wave, but with my nice ocean breezes here it's more like 70 to 80 degrees outside. I could get used to this.

I will be on a mission a few yards away from the Mexican border later today. No, I will not be building a tunnel.