- This is the best analysis I’ve seen of what Google’s doing with their Chrome browser, from John Siracusa of Ars Technica. I’m a little late on this one, it’s from September 2.
- So now for something a little more timely—my liveblog of tonight’s debate: I didn’t watch it. I just can’t stand to watch that stuff any more. I guess it’s because watching them debate would drive home the fact that one of them is going to win.
- Larison watches so you don’t have to: “Ayers and ACORN have landed. McCain: ACORN possibly destroying the fabric of democracy. Obama: Ayers is an education professor, but used to be despicable. They were on the Annenberg board, as were some Republicans. Ayers will not be in the White House–that’s a stroke of luck. ACORN? I hardly even know those guys! I am so mainstream it’s not even funny. No, really, it’s not. McCain: I’m not saying that this stuff matters; I’m just informing people!“ Good thing they cleared that up!
- Apparently McCain called for eliminating tariffs on Brazilian sugar cane ethanol. I applaud that. How come the only thing I agree with either major party candidate about is eliminating the tariff on Brazilian sugar cane ethanol? And it’ll probably never happen!
- Why PR is evil: because it makes people keep talking about Katie Couric.
- Scheuer: Both candidates are stuck in the Cold War. “The difference between parties is just nuance: Republicans prefer to provide a strong, close-up whiff of gunpowder before coercively imposing their values on foreigners, while Democrats prefer raining anonymous death from 20,000 feet on foreigners, who – if they live – will have new values drilled into them. All are imperialism’s paladins and, like Rudyard Kipling and Woodrow Wilson, they are: aching to dictate their kind of freedom to various little brown brothers; willing to kill those who obstruct efforts to make the world made safe for the brand of democracy they peddle; and eager to use an M-16 or two-ton bomb if it takes that to teach their undemocratic, Muslim brothers to elect good men.” An aside: can TakiMag hire a proofreader? Typos abound!
- What’s your favorite planet? Mine’s the sun!
- APOSTASY CORNER: Richard Spencer on Buckley, National Review, Purges, and the National Review purge of Buckley: all here. (Spencer writes, “[NR editor Rich] Lowry is capable of none of the insights of O’Sullivan, Brimelow, Christopher Buckley and all the rest who’ve been kicked off the island during his tenure. (Though, true, the woman in charge of NR’s online operations makes Lowry seem like Lord Acton in comparison.)” Hah! Poor K-Lo. But it’s true.)
- Spencer continues, “it’s remarkable the degree to which the NR purges have been, in a sense, dumbed-down during Lowry’s tenure. What once was ideological warfare is now petty partisanship.“ Read the whole thing!
- HEALTH CORNER: Top ten reasons marathons are bad for you.
- CRUNCHY CORNER: Farmer’s markets are on the rise.
- SYSTEMIC GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN CORNER: Is there anything more depressing than Kunstler being right?
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