DOES THE OLD RALLYING CRY "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" hold up to philosophical scrutiny? Probably not, since at best (liberal) philosophy has only a marginal correlation with physical reality.

WORLD'S SHORTEST BOOKS:

MY BLACK GIRLFRIENDS
By Tiger Woods
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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY COUNTRY
By Jane Fonda, Cindy Sheehan & Michelle Obama
Illustrated by Michael Moore
Foreword by George Soros
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MY CHRISTIAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS & HOW I HELPED AFTER KATRINA
By "The Rev" Jesse Jackson & "The Rev" Al Sharpton
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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL
By Hillary Clinton
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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HILLARY
By Bill Clinton
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THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD
By Bill Gates
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THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY
By Dennis Rodman
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THINGS WE KNOW TO BE TRUE
By Al Gore & John Kerry
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GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC
By Amelia Earhart
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HOW TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
By Dr. Jack Kevorkian
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TO ALL THE MEN WE HAVE LOVED BEFORE
By Ellen de Generes & Rosie O'Donnell
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GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE
By Mike Tyson
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MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS
By O. J. Simpson & Casey Anthony
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HOW TO DRINK & DRIVE SAFELY
By Ted Kennedy
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By Bill Clinton
Introduction by The Rev. Jesse Jackson
Foreword by Tiger Woods with John Edwards
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HOW TO WIN A SUPERBOWL
By The Buffalo Bills
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MY COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF MILITARY STRATEGY
By Nancy Pelosi

And the shortest book of them all ....

THINGS I DID TO DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
By Barack Obama

From my email.

THEY'LL TURN US ALL INTO BEGGARS 'CAUSE THEY'RE EASIER TO PLEASE. Gold in Them Thar Hills, But EPA Won't Let 'Em Dig.

AS IF IT WEREN'T OBVIOUS: White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information. Dianne Feinstein may be a Democrat, but she's a national security Democrat and not a political expediency one.

UNEARNED SUCCESS is the central theme in his life story. Follow the link.

WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF EXTERNAL ENEMIES an intra-victim war ensues.

ELECTION 2012 IN A NUTSHELL: the individual vs. the collective. We know which side the president is on. Which side are you on? Follow the links.

HEH: Obama -- The Black Man's Burden.

MOVING OFF THE PLANTATION? The NAACP no longer speaks for me.

EAT MORE BLUE BELL ICE CREAM and support 'right-wing attack ads'.

Linked from Instapundit.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BAN BIG GULPS: NYC jobless rate hits ten percent.

SELLING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: This is a long post, but if you're a lead systems engineer responsible for working with customers developing system-level requirements, it's well worth the read. I've found over the years that I've developed pretty much the same ideas, but without giving them any formal thought. My 'methodology', if you will, probably came from my prior teaching career where I used similar techniques (though not as obviously formal) to get students to understand why certain mathematical and engineering tools were important to understand and use.

FEDERAL OBSTACLES hamper battle on wildfire. So what? It's only Nevada.

HARD WORK BE DAMNED: Obama Says It Is Government and Luck. Yeah, right.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. The reason for the Obama campaign's Bain Capital attacks and Elizabeth Warren defense (you can't be successful on you're own) is that the Obama administration has nothing left to campaign on. They have to destroy any vestige of the (capitalist) market in order to survive the 2012 election.

STEVEN PERLSTEIN: Help! He's drowning in rules. Perlstein discusses outsourcing and how it may be reshaping the economy. Which leads to an interesting question: can Obama (or any President) bring manufacturing back to the United States?

FIVE MYTHS about free enterprise. Give the Washington Post some credit here; occasionally they do let an intelligent (i.e., conservative) commentary slip in.

DANA MILBANK: Ruined by one-party rule.

It's not often that residents of the District of Columbia get to brag about our local government, but this is one of those moments when we are leading the nation. We in the capital are on the cutting edge of entropy.

Even perennial contenders such as Louisana and New Jersey can't compete with the record of dysfunction and corruption we have compiled in recent weeks.

Milbank does have occasional bouts of sanity when it's his ox being gored, but here's the rub: he won't vote to kick the bastards out because D.C. is a one-party town and Milbank refuses to vote in the Democrat primary (lest he be thought of as biased, you see). So rather that taking part in reforming his vaunted party, he whines that he's disenfranchised by ... the Tea Party and Republicans!

Kojo Nnamdi (D.C. resident and NPR radio talk show host) agrees D.C. is corrupt, but -- wait for it -- it's Congress' fault for not making the District of Columbia America's 51st state.

You have to read it to believe it.

GOVERNMENT ROADS. And government kids.

HA! EVEN THE CREW is abandoning the Titanic. Bill Whittle tries to encourage them to stay on board.