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  1. Underwear supermodel Karolina Kurkova has no belly button.

    Althouse - Nov 20, 2008

    I read it at BBC.com, where I went to look for some serious news to enlighten you. You may think I post the lowest drivel, but I actively bypassed this story last night. I started a draft, titled "They called him the …

    Also tagged: hitler, models, bikini, scars, testicles, body parts, belly button, adam and eve, underpants

  2. "In the end, nature took its course before the judicial system ran its course."

    Althouse - Nov 17, 2008

    Said the lawyer for the family of Motl Brody, who sued to keep the 12-year-old boy on life support. The doctors had declared the boy brain dead, but the parents wanted their religious faith -- Orthodox Judaism -- to …

    Also tagged: law, religion, death, judaism

  3. "But do we want Google establishing such a cozy relationship with the federal government?"

    Althouse - Nov 12, 2008

    Orin Kerr doesn't. But the government is attempting to perceive the pattern of flu outbreaks. Do you know how many people could die in a new flu pandemic? Maybe 7 million. Maybe 100 million. If Google can see it …

    Also tagged: google, privacy, surveillance

  4. "Jogger runs mile with rabid fox locked on her arm."

    Althouse - Nov 5, 2008

    Jogger runs mile with rabid fox locked on her arm! *** After the fox bit her on the foot, she decided to catch it and bring it in for testing. This led to additional biting. That was a bad move. She had some hope of …

    Also tagged: fox, rabies

  5. Hey, California voters. Let's talk about how to vote on the 12 propositions you've got on the ballot.

    Althouse - Oct 22, 2008

    No, I haven't personally studied this, but I trust my son Christopher, who lives in L.A. He emails: California might not be a swing state, but there are some pretty significant measures on the ballot this year, and …

    Also tagged: drugs, law, crime, immigration, voting, california, economics, birds, prison, abortion, chris, same sex marriage, railroads

  6. Eddie Adcock plays the banjo while undergoing brain surgery.

    Althouse - Oct 20, 2008

    A perfectly sensible thing to do: "During the brain-implantation stage of the surgery, he was kept conscious in order to be able to play his Deering GoodTime banjo and assist the team of surgeons in directing the …

    Also tagged: music

  7. Would you have labor induced to deliver a 20-week-old fetus that had already died?

    Althouse - Sep 21, 2008

    David Hlavsa's wife, given the choice between childbirth and a D&C, chose to go through labor -- painful, induced labor in a maternity ward-- so that she could see and hold the dead child. She keeps the baby's …

    Also tagged: marriage, comedy, children, nyt, abortion, psychology, harvard

  8. "If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives -- your family's lives -- and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service."

    Althouse - Sep 19, 2008

    And so it begins: "I'm absolutely, fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there's a wider argument that if somebody absolutely …

    Also tagged: uk, health, law, insurance, philosophy, death, economics, ethics

  9. Google co-founder Sergey Brin blogs on Google-owned Blogger in the Minima template.

    Althouse - Sep 19, 2008

    It's a new blog, called Too, and he's using the black version of the Minima template, which I use in white. (I use black Minima on my extremely minimal Me Blog.) Brin has made it super-basic with no side bar. He's …

    Also tagged: blogging, google, commerce, sergey brin

  10. "The Intent was to paint a Picture of Mrs. Palin in the Mind of the Audience as a Sow. Such a crude Jape..."

    Althouse - Sep 16, 2008

    After my weekend jaunt to Hilton Head Island, I've got so many unread comments to review for spam and other delete-able things. I enjoy reading the good comments too, but it's really hard when I've fallen behind. I'm …

    Also tagged: law, crime, pig, lipstick, sarah palin, obama, sir archy

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