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Donald Sensing is taking a break from clapping blogging for a while. Here's hoping for a return soon.

Stephen Green found the best deal on the Star Wars DVD box set: $31.19.

Indian scientists may have discovered a cure for SARS. Well, duh. That was like two seasons ago on South Park. The cure is the middle-class white man's cure for everything: Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup, DayQuil and Sprite.

Sky Captain Dan and the All Out War for the Future of the Universe: "I wouldn’t call the documents ‘forged.’ Instead, I would characterize the documents as ‘futuristic,’ in that the forensic science needed to prove conclusively that these documents are in fact genuine won’t exist until all of the computers in the Cyberdyne Network surreptitiously pool their considerable resources and engage mankind in an all out war for the future of the universe."

John Kerry's greatest accomplishment may be to make Al Gore look good.

This month's Jeff Cooper Commentary is up. Besides the gun stuff it continues a recent thread on envy:

To say that the root of all evil is money is to read the matter incorrectly. The word in scripture is not money but rather cupidity (in Latin). If you say cupidity is the root of all evil you are closer to the answer. It may be envy is the root of all evil, though that is certainly worthy of a seminar topic. The sophisticated personality will be readily aware of envy as the prime evil. He will see, however, as he matures that wanting something that you have not but that somebody else has is a basic moral corruption. Some very old sage (whose name I forget) is said to have opined that the two most distressing discomforts are wanting what you cannot have and having what you no longer want. The innocent may say that he would like to try the second option, but experience will disabuse him insofar as he can discover it.

That reminds me of Thibodeaux's comment: "They say the two happiest days in a boat owners life are the day he buys the boat and the day he sells it."