About time

Benghazi is dead.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Not the dead bookstore

Scott Alexander on borders. I particularly liked the hair dryer story, and he reminded me of James Park Sloan's marvelous line: "Many have thought they were Napoleon; only the first (a man named Bonaparte) was allowed to get away with it."

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

And the courts say it's OK

Too smart to be a cop

ETA: Warning: that link autoplays sound, extremely loudly. (Thanx pnh) I liked the Internet a lot more before it became television.

Worst scholarly paper evar

The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology has accepted (for pay) an article consisting entirely of repetitions of one sentence with the F-word in it. I am particularly amused, since I work for computer journals of the elitist sort where authors are expected to know what they are talking about.