John Moore | August 28, 2003
Jon Ray points out that a big influence on political orientation is genetic (the Useful Fools gene, known to geneticists as Fool1):
There has been a recent claim that birth-order determines whether or not you are conservative or liberal. The evidence on birth-order effects has always shown them to be very slight however. The big influence [...]
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John Moore | August 28, 2003
First we had the amazing pictures of US Special Forces operators charging into combat on the horseback, ready to direct high tech weapons from their low tech mounts.
Now we have an Israeli helicopter defeating a donkey cart!
“Modern” warfare is weird when you are fighting barbarians!
The good news: The Hamas terrorist monster on the donkey cart [...]
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John Moore | August 28, 2003
So North Korea plans to test a nuke (probably on a national holiday on Sept. 9).
Well, if I were Osama, I’d want to verify that the merchandise worked. And plutonium-based nukes, which is what they probably have, are tricky to make, which is why the US had to test one before using it in WW-II.
Once [...]
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