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Reading thedan's LJ tends to depress me, so I'm very pleased by a certain four seconds today.

And, by the way, 48:47 for the Atlantic Puzzler.

Gene Healy amuses:

Sons of famous dictators tend to be an amoral and profligate bunch: raping women, torturing athletes, and racing fast cars, like Whoday and Whatsay, drinking expensive cognac, kidnapping favorite film directors, and building up an extensive Daffy Duck movie collection like Kim Jong-Il. So what's the story with Bashar Assad, ophthalmologist? What was the thinking there? "Well, if this inheriting-the-Baathist-dictatorship thing doesn't pan out for me, at least I'll have something to fall back on"?