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[links] Link salad for a winter's day

17 gigapixel photo — Yosemite like you've never seen it. Wow... (Via willyumtx.)

Artificial Life Shares Biosignature With Terrestrial Cousins

Economics Can Be Bewitching! — Witches, taxation and free riders.

Don't go blaming guns — Tom Tomorrow nails the conservative perspective on public violence.

Manufacturing false equivalencies in the wake of the Giffords assassination attemptFact is, one side is obsessed with using violence as a solution to their political frustrations, and the other side is not. There is no equivalency. Not even close. Or if not using violence, at least extensively using the rhetoric of violence.

A Right to Bear Glocks? — Got to be able to defend those essential liberties, you know. So a few nine year olds die, what's that against your Second Amendment rights, after all? Only a socialist libtard would draw a connection between widely available firearms and gun violence.

Gore Vidal responds to Michele Bachmann — Hahahahah.

?otD: Guns or butter?




1/11/2011
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (2,400 words on a short story)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 5.75 hours (solid)
Weight: 251.2
Currently reading: Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar

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    Your Saturday moment of zen. Dark side roast, the Star Wars Shop in Aberdeen, WA. Photo © 2012, 2013, Joseph E. Lake, Jr. This work…

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