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I reappropriated my post

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 9:37am — Mandos

Lambert de-front-paged my post about the Confluence's response to the whole quoting-Liebowitz-on-the-mortgage-meltdown brouhaha, and I understand why he did it even if I don't at all agree, and it is his site. So I hope he'll leave me the liberty of linking to a version of the post that I've put on my own personal blog, where I used to do this sort of thing on a more regular basis. (But now just post tourism photos from my handheld, mostly.)

Please take your comments there.

Compounding their error; or, I do indeed enjoy shooting fish in a barrel

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 1:48am — Mandos

[Welcome, Conflucians! For two other perspectives, see here and here -- lambert]

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