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May 18, 2007

Ron Paul rising; Silent Velcro; Books too good to put down

Ron who? After a now-famous spat in the last Republican debate with Rudy Giuliani over the causes of 9/11 -- "They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there." -- Ron Paul's stock is rising:
Misreading Ron Paul: Andrew Sullivan on the libertarian congressman (R-Texas) and GOP candidate:

The conservative pundits are now referring to Ron Paul as a "crackpot." Hannity predictably savaged him last night (see above). The Hewitt site has an image of a man in a tin-foil hat; Dean Barnett and Hugh Hewitt both call for removing Paul from the debates, when he has been the best thing about them so far. Bill Bennett wants him out. I'm getting the usual ridicule for taking him seriously from the usual GOP apparatchiks. They're scared, aren't they? The Internet polls show real support for him. Fox News' own internet poll placed him a close second, with 25 percent of the votes from Fox News viewers. We have a real phenomenon here - because someone has to stand up for what conservatism once stood for. ...

Check this video montage from the first debate and this exchange from the second. Make your own mind up. Hang in there, Dr Ron. There are more of us out here wishing you the best than you know.

Pat Buchanan is one of them: (But Who Was Right – Rudy or Ron?):

Ron Paul is no TV debater. But up on that stage in Columbia, he was speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war.

By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from the beginning on Iraq.

Related: Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq, Ron Paul speech in the House, September 10, 2002

Invention: The New Velcro: A stronger, better grip without the incessant ripping sound. Has a long-standing dream finally been realized? at PopSci.

Reader's buffet: Books Too Good To Put Down by "Librarian without Walls" Marylaine Block. Divided into 14 categories, including "good junk," most of these lists were updated at the end of last summer's reading. Most get a fat paragraph of description.

Remember when you were a kid and your mother made you go to bed in the middle of a good book and you took a flashlight under the covers and kept right on reading (and she pretended to be fooled)? That's the real test of a book: would you read it with a flashlight if you had to? Here are some books like that. Try these on kids (or grownups) who say they're bored, and hate reading...

via Rebecca Blood

Spooky: Bram Stoker, part of Free Public Domain Books from the
Classic Literature Library.

Yup, you can read the 110-year-old tale of Dracula online, along with other Stoker novels and short stories.

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