The Nazis wanted to bring back wild Aurochs to Europe
As Pete Seeger would sing, "Which side are you on, boys?" Hmmm. NYT vs. the unions.
Colleges discriminate against Asians. Not a PC minority, I guess. As a friend said to me, "People assume that because I'm Chinese I'm smarter than everybody else. But I'm not."
Wise, careful and prudent financial planning - and now broke.
Favorite things at the Smithsonian - like Lewis and Clark's compass. One would hope they brought more than one.
Solipcism and the Apocalypse. Pick your favorite apocalypse. I want it to be a life-erasing storm of juicy red raspberries from the Berry Galaxy. I will die happy.
A President who hates his country?
We always knew it was a joke. Amusing from Roger S re Swine Flu:
SF remains a “Media Flu” fanned by CNN, Drudge, etc. and seems even to have infected otherwise brilliant members of the media with whom I normally agree. [So maybe it's you.-ed. Shut up. I told you I came from a medical family. Read my book. It's on my night table.]
Worth noting is what enhances this media flu: political bile.
What the heck does idealism have to do with working for the government? Claremont: ...and we're here to help you.
Bad news for the US: China decides to back off on buying our debt. I guess that means that they do not want to own us.
Two fat black lesbians?
New charges against ACORN
Not socially appropriate to criticize the O. Since when? In my (small) circles, half the folks think he's a royal jerk and half think he's going to bring us to the Promised Land of money and goodies and no work.
Related: The things you don't read about the O's first 100 days
VDH, via Blue Crab:
...it is adherence to the idea of equality of result rather than an equality of opportunity, the age-old debate that goes back to the Greeks. From Aristotle’s Politics and Plato Laws, we learn of the original dilemma: a stable city-state of roughly similar property owners, who vote as equals, and fight as comrades in the phalanx, tragically, but inevitably, soon becomes tragically unequal.
Divide the land up equally to found the polis; give everyone an similarly-size plot (klęros); and then health, luck, brains, accident, strength, ambition, character, and a myriad of other factors, some understandable, some capricious, conspire to create inequality. I agree with Aristotle; I have seen it with families and communities in which equal inheritances soon led to radically different outcomes, as one sibling on rocky ground thrives, while another in deep loam starves; one town with abundant resources goes broke, while another without natural advantages thrives.
As Aristotle saw, some lose, some expand their original homesteads, and suddenly we have Hoi beltistoi and Hoi polloi-and the rallying cry that someone’s liberty to do as he pleases means that egalitarianism of the lowest common denominator becomes impossible.
So, then, how often is a new deal needed?
