Space entrepreneurs.
Who created one of our favorite web sites? Denis Dutton, of Arts & Letters Daily
How bad are things in Gaza?
Also, US Asked to Look into American Backers of Gaza Flotilla
Gateway: In 2009 the Obamas spent over $10 million of taxpayer money on drunken White House parties. Hey, that was my money. That was my Beer Fund.
As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather
Global warming hoax update, h/t Vanderleun
GOP Still Sees Gains in November Despite Tightening Races
Re Krauthammer:
You may wonder whether [Krauthammer] ever applies his psychiatric knowledge to his analysis of politics. He has been known to joke, “As a professional, I diagnose Senator X with . . .” — but the real answer is no. “Psychiatry has no application to politics,” he says, “and anyone who pretends it does is a fraud.”
Helen Thomas: Blacks should go back to Africa. How about WASPs back to England?
What's "news"? Surber, from his piece on Al Gore:
(The) 10 elements of news: immediacy, proximity, consequence, prominence, suspence, oddity, sex, conflict, emotion, new.
News stories must have at least one of these elements. The more elements, the greater the story — usually.
Moonbattery asks:
Any English trolls care to step up to the plate and explain how you're not really living in Muslim-occupied territory?
Megyn Kelly: Actually, Elton John had a great time at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. h/t, Insty
NYM responds to Kinsley's bashing of Tea Parties:
Michael Kinsley sneered at participants in the Tea Party Movement, in the Atlantic, dismissing them as people only interested in a tax cut, and challenging their patriotism. Kinsley admires instead the 1960s anti-war movement, which he describes as “selfless and idealistic.”
Bah, humbug! I was there. Whom does Kinsley think he’s kidding? The 1960s anti-war movement was pure selfishness. The student revolution gave people our age the chance to throw their weight around and they took it. Adolescent hormones, excess energy, and self-importance found expression in opportunistic rebellion against authority powered by the disproportionate weight of an unusually large age group sept. A lot of people back then went out to the demonstration motivated by nothing nobler than the desire to see themselves on the six o’clock news.
