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The Smoking Gun does some painstaking research and determines that James Frey's Oprah Book Club non-fiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces, was almost certainly made up in several prominent places.

An important quote from Deirdre McCloskey, c/o Cafe Hayek: "no one was ever convinced by raw data of the truth of a proposition that he or she did not already hold to be true. Data are important, but the theoretical filters in our minds are no less so."

Why does Uwe Boll keep making terrible movies? Because of loopholes in German tax code.

whip_lash sums up the difference between the U.S. and Europe pretty succinctly": "I find it telling that Bin Laden had to import eleven guys to fly airplanes into buildings in this country where ten million Muslims live, whereas he was able to find Britons to blow things up easily enough"

Thanks to our friends at The Superficial for this story of Kiefer Sutherland (TV's Jack Bauer) being drunk in public: "He then charged into a 12ft Christmas tree, sending it crashing to the floor. "I hate that f***ing Christmas tree," he declared. "The tree HAS to come down." " Insert your CTU jokes here: [____________]

Finally, again courtesy of whip_lash (indirectly), a handy guide to diminishing civil liberties: The Jews in the Attic Test. For any new law, ask yourself: Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?

Credit is due to thebitterguy for two of those links, as well.