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Julie Lawrence of Cornwall held a birthday party for her daughter. The child invited her classmates, including 5-year old Alex Nash. Alex accepted. Then Alex's father Derek realized that they already had reserved the day of the birthday party to spend with Alex's grandparents. So Alex didn't show up to the party.

After the party, Julie Lawrence slipped an envelope inside Alex's backpack at school. It contained an invoice for £15.95--Alex's share of the cost of the party. This made father Derek quite mad. He went to the school to investigate the incident, then confronted Lawrence about the invoice. BBC News reports:

Mr Nash said: "It was a proper invoice with full official details and even her bank details on it.

"I can understand that she's upset about losing money. The money isn't the issue, it's the way she went about trying to get the money from me.

"She didn't treat me like a human being, she treated me like a child and that I should do what she says."

In a short statement, Ms Lawrence said: "All details were on the party invite. They had every detail needed to contact me."

Mr Nash said he had been told he was being taken to the small claims court because he was refusing to pay.

It was perhaps undiplomatic of Lawrence, but I'm sympathetic to the notion that people should keep their appointments or cancel them.

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POLL: What do you think?

• Julie Lawrence is wrong and isn't owed a penny.
• Julie Lawrence is right, but went about it the wrong way.
• There was a party? Why wasn't I invited?!
• Just show me the answers to the poll.

Moog's newly announced modular synthesizers aren't really new at all. They're recreated versions of giant hardware the company originally released in 1973. This is big news—like literally, the synths are huge.

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Take a bag of ice for example. Who knew they could be such FUN? Maymo and Penny did.

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This 1992 Renault Alpine GTA Le Mans is claimed to be one of 325 built, and must be one of the final examples to have rolled off the assembly line as our sources show that the similar, flip-light A610 replacement debuted a year earlier. We think it looks fantastic, and with a marque specialist tuned motor is now said to be offering nearly 300 HP as well. Find it here on Classic Driver in Måløv, Denmark for $54,464.

​These earlier versions are our favorites simply for their A310 style nose—a rare case where we prefer the fixed-lamp model over its pop-up equipped stablemate. This one wears what are called very rare three piece, staggered wheels of 16” x 8” in front and an inch taller in back. Overall condition appears to be excellent, though we’re not sure if apparent chin spoiler wear is a reflection of the road beneath it or actual chipping paint.

​A very period Renault looking cabin is dominated by large, comfy looking cloth seats and an equally sizable center console littered at random with gauges and switchgear. Alpine A branded floor mats are interesting touches, and overall things look very nicely kept inside, especially considering the brittle, thin materials often used by French cars of the era.

​Originally displacing 2.5 liters, the now 3L PRV-based turbo V6 has been tuned by German Alpine specialist Axel Ress Motorsport and is claimed to be good for nearly 300 HP and 370 lb. ft. of torque—figures representing increases over factory levels by 100 and 170, respectively. Supporting mods include custom shop-built springs, Koni shocks, enlarged from sway bar and upgraded brakes consisting of AP/Tarox discs with Ress six pot calipers in front and Citroen XM units in back.

​Frequently called a French 911 alternative when new, pointing out that they’re not as well built, thoroughly engineered or durable is missing the point in our opinion. Fast, rare, relatively unique and historically significant as one of the final Alpines, it’d be very unlikely you’d ever return to find another parked in the next spot.

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Last week, Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain wrote an op-ed in the Nashville Tennessean about the Charlie Hedbo attacks. The basic thesis of Professor Swain’s article, which was published in a non-Vanderbilt sanctioned publication and written on her own time, is that present-day Islam is incompatible with Western values like free speech and religious pluralism. The most inflammatory portion of Prof. Swain’s article is doubtless as follows:

It is fascinating today to watch how world events have vindicated Miller in his warnings about the dangers of radical Islam. It becomes clearer every day that Islam is not just another religion to be accorded the respect given to Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Baha’i and other world religions. The Jan. 7 terrorist attack resulting in 12 deaths at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that committed the apparently unpardonable sin of lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, once again illustrates that Islam is a dangerous set of beliefs totally incompatible with Western beliefs concerning freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.

As Miller has so often stated, Islam has a problem with the West. Islam will never understand the freedoms that we live and die to preserve. If America is to be safe, it must remove the foxes from the henhouses and institute serious monitoring of Islamic organizations.

I will admit that some of Swain’s rhetoric and policy prescriptions in the piece are a little over the top. Although I agree that the West generally does itself a disservice by treating modern Islam as a philosophy that is equally peaceful and conducive to good order as Christianity, I have problems with the suggestion that Muslim organizations should be treated differently under the law. For the same reason that I support the right of Charlie Hedbo to (let us be honest) troll all religions in tacky and classless ways, I oppose the idea that “Civic education and other indicators of assimilation should be a prerequisite for remaining and advancing in this nation[,]” at least insofar as this suggestion is meant to convey censure from a legal standpoint as opposed to a social mores standpoint. For the record, I do support social pressure to assimilate and public censure of violent Islamic teaching by private individuals – the objection I have is to the suggestion that the force of government should be brought to bear against Islamic rhetoric unaccompanied by actual violence – for the same reason that I oppose the force of government being brought to bear against offensive rhetoric of any kind (which would necessarily include Charlie Hedbo). I suspect, probably, that much of what Swain suggests (in true college professor form) is really intended to spur discussion as opposed to being serious policy prescriptions.

What’s interesting to me is not so much Swain’s article, but rather the predictable and infantile response from some of my alma mater’s current students, who responded to this article by having a rally against “hate speech” – by which they meant an op ed in the Tennessean. The Nashville media has dutifully reported on this event as being an actual rally against “hate speech” as opposed to a blatant attempt to shut down a viewpoint. The entire sad spectacle reminds me of Michael Scott’s reaction to finding that someone had defacated on the carpet of his office as a prank:

Under no circumstances can anything Professor Swain wrote be construed as “hate speech” except to the extent that some particularly privileged millenials really hated it.

Mainly, though, I wonder whether the media and other assorted American liberals will ever get tired of pretending that ceaseless trolling of Christianity is “brave” and tough while even mild criticism of Islam on the merits is hateful and out of bounds. A pretty good example of this happened at Vanderbilt when Vanderbilt recently actually disbanded Christian groups for having the temerity to insist that their leadership consist of, you know, Christians, a decision which was met with absolutely zero protests that were fawned upon by the media. Another good example is the indulgence by the media of the notion that Michael Sam proposing to his boyfriend atop St. Peter’s basilica represented an act of bravery, as though Sam faced any realistic danger from violent agents of the Pope in 2015. Meanwhile, left unstated is the dark reality that if Sam had recreated the same publicity stunt in front of the Shrine of the Kaaba, he would likely have not left Mecca alive.

Here is the truth we face in the modern world – if you provoke Christianity or Christians, you face the risk of being mildly criticized by Christians which is more than outweighed by the certainty that you will be feted upon by academia and the media. If you provoke Islam or Muslims, you face the risk of violent reprisal including death. Reasonable people ought to be able to point out that the latter is worse than the former without the additional danger of being protested en masse by idiot leftists who are calling for your job.

The fact that you apparently can’t doesn’t exactly give me comfort for the future survival of Western Civilization.

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NASCAR's video game license has changed hands again, this time going to a new studio in Charlotte, N.C., home of the stock car racing series' headquarters. The studio says it is working on a new simulation for 2016.

DMi Games announced this weekend it will be making an as-yet-unnamed racing sim for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, with a release planned for 2016. DMi Games is a subsidiary of HC2 Holdings, which acquired the exclusive NASCAR license effective Jan. 1.

Eutechnyx, which had the NASCAR license since 2014, will still go forward with an update to NASCAR ‘14 that is due to release in the spring. (Though it is called NASCAR ‘15, it is not a new game, but rather a season update to last year's edition.) That will release...

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James bought his little brother a life-size stuffed German Shepherd for his 15th birthday. His mom was kinda creeped out by it, so he thought it would be fun to scare her over and over with it and get her reactions on film.

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Naturally-aspirated engines are soooo 20th century. Thanks to downsizing due to stricter emissions and fuel economy requirements, automakers are all about the turbo now. And now the Porsche 911, famous for putting turbos on most of its top models, is about to go forced induction across pretty much the entire range.

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Cadbury Creme Eggs are the best! At least they were until the company changed the recipe. Now we see why. Apparently the plan was to have a lot of people with holes in their chest on Easter morning, with these aliens stealing all of your candy.

This not so fun Cadbury Creme Egg was made by Ghoulia Childs, who makes foods inspired by horror movies. This timely creation has a chestburster from the Alien movies. Yeah, I already was gonna pass on that new recipe, but now I will definitely stay away.

Makes sense. I had no idea that Cadbury was bought by Weyland-Yutani Corp. I guess it’s all Peeps now.

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Few of us touch or even think about Scotch tape between holidays, birthdays, and whenever a gift needs to be wrapped. But some people deal with the sticky stuff all day long, so 3M enlisted designer Joongho Choi to help create a better tape dispenser, and the results are surprisingly impressive.

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