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When Phil gets bored, he looks for something to break and then rebuild. Today’s project: trash the MovableType installation that powered this site for the last six years, and try something new. So, here we are, trying out a fresh new installation of WordPress 2.2. I must say, as much as I enjoyed MovableType, WordPress strikes me as a superior blog/simple CMS solution.

Time for a fresh new design, I guess. (What you see here is the free, third-party theme: 3K2 Beta 1.01, by aydin.)

And make no mistake: No matter how much diplomatic, military and financial oxygen is pumped into Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, it’s oxygen flowing to a corpse. Palestine has always been a notional place, a field of dreams belonging only to those who know how to keep it. Israelis have held on to their state because they were able to develop the political, military and economic institutions that a state requires to survive, beginning with its monopoly on the use of legitimate force. In its nearly 14 years as an autonomous entity, the PA has succeeded in none of that, despite being on the receiving end of unprecedented international goodwill and largesse.

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It’s not like we haven’t seen this very same accusation written on countless placards at countless left-wing protests. What makes this example notable is how this Mehlman moron justifies the slur:

You could argue that even the world’s worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc.

This is what passes for thought, on the Left. Sure, Hitler tortured, starved, and murdered 6 million Jews… but, at least he meant well. What?

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Gaza is now run not by a conventional political party but by a movement that is revolutionary, Islamist and terrorist. Worse, Hamas is a client of Iran. Gaza now constitutes the farthest reach of the archipelago of Iranian proxies: Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Mahdi Army (among others) in Iraq and the Alawite regime of Syria.

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To complement my recent nVidia 8800 GTS 320 acquisition, a nice 22″ widescreen HD LCD:

Samsung SyncMaster 226BW specs

Last night Rush opened their Snakes & Arrows Tour at the HiFi Buys Amphitheatre in Atlanta. Here’s a run-down of the show, as reported by fans in attendance:

Set 1:

Video Intro (features all three band members and Alex and Neil waking up in bed together)

Limelight
Digital Man
Entre Nous
Mission
Freewill
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl (Bob & Doug video intro)
Secret Touch
Circumstances
Between The Wheels
Dreamline

Intermission

Set 2:

Video Intro (features Alex)

Far Cry
Workin’ Them Angels
Armor And Sword
Spindrift
The Way The Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt
MalNar
Drum Solo
Hope
Summertime Blues
The Spirit Of Radio
Tom Sawyer (South Park video intro)

Encore:

One Little Victory
A Passage to Bangkok
YYZ

Video outro (features Geddy)

Wow. That’s a killer setlist. Nine of thirteen songs from the latest album (they rarely do more than 4), and a couple oldies, dusted off first the time in decades: Circumstances and Entre Nous.