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  1. Wearing a bike helmet makes you safer in case of a crash — but may lead to more accidents<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Not surprisingly, Katrina<\/a> has taken a nose-dive as a girl’s name.<\/li>\n
  3. I had no idea that Firefox had a cute anime logo, Foxkeh<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. The best way to protest a law is to enforce it to the hilt and let the public protest.  Hence librarians cranking up proposed censorware to 11<\/a> to show how goofy it is.<\/li>\n
  5. Smoking is now a factor<\/a> the MPAA will consider in whether to rate a movie “R.”  Huh?  How about, as Les notes, drinking and unsafe driving, too?  Or eating transfats? Or just acting like an idiot?  Not that I’m a huge fan of smoking, by any means, but, yeesh.<\/li>\n
  6. The real <\/em>Deadwood<\/a>, 1888..<\/li>\n
  7. Spielberg and Jackson to take on Tintin<\/em><\/a>.  Hmmmm.  I’ve honestly never been into the Tintin thang — but I know that it’s iconic sort of stuff that will take special handling (and will doubtless run into sensibilities issues between lovers of the original and despisers of the new, not to mention the whole European-vs-American thang).<\/li>\n
  8. Remarkably, now that they’re in power, Democratic legislators seem a lot less eager to reform lobbying<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Remember, never use the words “Family Feast”<\/a> — it’s trademarked<\/em>, you scoff-law piratical terrorist!<\/li>\n
  10. Lileks visits Disneyworld<\/a>.  Fun.  He went to the Caribbean Resort, twin to the ones we’ve gone to.  “You\u2019d have to have a heart made of coal and an utterly incurious mind not to find this place fascinating.”<\/li>\n
  11. Zombie Last Supper<\/a>.  It’s so wrong, yet so good …<\/li>\n
  12. I mistrust the romanticization of gangster lore — but this article about Mothers Day and the Mob<\/a> is, if at all true, interesting as hell.<\/li>\n
  13. Because, remember — if you tell your kids about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, they will turn into mass murderers, reject Jesus, and burn in hell forever<\/em>.  You have been warned<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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