My predictions

Iowa: I am not sure who will win, but I'm pretty sure Clinton will come in third. Not sure about the Republican field--probably Huckabee or, if not him, McCain.

NH: I haven't been following the NH race (I rarely do), but as a shot in the dark: Obama & Romney.

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Book argues that Bell stole phone idea

One person out of every thousand has synaesthesia, a psychological phenomenon in which an individual can smell a sound or hear a colour (thanks, dsgood)

Why fish oil is good for you: UCLA researchers find anti-Alzheimer's mechanism in omega-3 fatty acids (thanks again, dsgood)

found webcrawling

National Priorities Project

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I'm listening to Hardball (something I rarely do) as I work on my transcription. So far, Mr. Matthews has struck at Huckabee, Clinton, and Edwards, while mentioning his amazement that McCain is holding up the rear and is "an alternative" to Huckabee.

I'm waiting for him, in the next twenty minutes, to say something bad about Obama or McCain. Because, otherwise, he will have made his bias plain.

Ron Paul=bigot

This is something I've known about for around six months, due to frequenting DailyKos, but I haven't been on there very much recently.

However, seeing several of my friends (including the veritable fizzyland) intellectually endorse Ron Paul, I must make this DailyKos diary known (it was brought back into the limelight by kos today):

Ron Paul, In His Own Words

The only complete article from the Ron Paul Political Report on the Internet that I am aware of is a 1992 piece titled "LOS ANGELES RACIAL TERRORISM," on the subject of the so-called Rodney King riots in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. It is available to us today because it was posted to the talk.politics.misc newsgroup on July 30, 1993 by Dan Gannon, a notorious white supremacist and Holocaust denier, and archived by the Nizkor Project, an anti-revisionism organization that was active in cataloging hate speech on the early public Internet. [...] Some relevant passages from the article:

Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots. Many more are going to have difficultly avoiding the belief that our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists -- and they can be identified by the color of their skin. This conclusion may not be entirely fair, but it is, for many, entirely unavoidable.

Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.... Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the "criminal justice system," I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.

Perhaps the L.A. experience should not be surprising. The riots, burning, looting, and murders are only a continuation of 30 years of racial politics.The looting in L.A. was the welfare state without the voting booth. The elite have sent one message to black America for 30 years: you are entitled to something for nothing. That's what blacks got on the streets of L.A. for three days in April. Only they didn't ask their Congressmen to arrange the transfer.

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How is it that I've never heard of Ashley Montagu? I must read some of his works.

John Henrik Clarke quotes him, saying, "In his book, Race, Science and Humanity, (p. 111) Dr. Ashley Montagu refers to the belief in race as a 'widespread contemporary myth in the Western World.' He further states that, 'It is the modern form of the older belief in witchcraft.'"