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Late blogging · Dec 21, 10:03 AM

The onion has some tips for drinking responsibly this Christmas.

If someone you know is too drunk to drive, demand that he let you have his car keys. If he refuses, pull out a gun and demand the car keys again. This also works with people who are not drunk, and whom you do not know. [ link ]

Another National Review conservative writes against the failing war on drugs.

Why government tosses pot smokers in jail while tolerating use of alcohol and cigarettes, far more dangerous substances by most measures, has never been obvious. There is good reason for people to abstain from all of them; there is no good reason to imprison them if people do not. [ link ]

Steven Den Beste writes intelligently on Libya’s recent actions.

It was not “We’re all reasonable men here” diplomacy (a la Solana) which ultimately did it; it was a clear and naked threat. Qaddafi was afraid of American military power and afraid of President Bush’s determination.

Why did he call the British, rather than the French or the Russians or the EU or the UN? That’s another interesting piece to the puzzle. What has developed over the last couple years is that Blair and Bush are doing a superb good-cop/bad-cop act. … [ link ]

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