“Dastardly pings! Curses, foiled again!”

Everyone else is speculating as to the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Might as well get my two-cents-worth in. This is assembled from my comments to a post on pw. These remarks assume you've followed the story closely.One variant of a scenario geoffb linked above might explain the lack of passenger participation (using their cell phones or other devices to attempt to establish post-takeover communications). If induced gradual...

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Eugene Robinson's triumphalism over "12 Years a Slave"

I left this comment for Mr. Robinson's article that can be found here.Eugene, people knew already that the United States had this problem 'growing up', and that slavery was an intolerable condition that existed when this nation was founded. During the Civil War, there was considerable blood shed banishing slavery from the USA. Not since that war have Americans shed as much blood for any cause, as was shed for the banishing of...

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Various sundries

Putin invades Ukraine; Barry and Kerry engage, and hilarity ensues.Got Red Line ?Ellen Degeneres does a selfie at the Oscars that shuts down the Twitter.NASA and ISS also try a selfie; hilarity ensues.Got Gravity?DRUDGE posts a nice pic of a woman walking in the snow. Unfortunately, she's dawg-ugly.I FIX~!Piers Morgan, self-stuffed Brit who...

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Gator's Dockside and Democratic Party Butt-Hurt

Most businesses will simply pass along the cost of ACA - ObamaCare to their customers without pointing out why yet another sudden price increase happened. Pointing out up front that this cost inflation was caused in response to new unfunded mandates and regulations imposed by Big Government (specifically, by the Democratic Party) is a good...

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