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By Hobbes | Oct 31, 2007 |
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Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.
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By Hobbes | Oct 26, 2007 |
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It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.
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By Virginia Fox | Oct 15, 2007 |
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What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.
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By Pukka Sahib | Oct 12, 2007 |
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Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.
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By Virginia Fox | Oct 9, 2007 |
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I stood on the bridge; I stood right there on the bridge looking down at the Rio Grande River, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a Mexican gentleman who had started himself a ferryboat service.
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By Hobbes | Oct 1, 2007 |
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Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.
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By Pukka Sahib | Aug 31, 2007 |
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Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.