How to get rich in public education. Edn Wonks. Key issue: know nothing about it.
James Bond's guns up for auction. Alphecca. It was more fun when eBay allowed guns.
French union threatens strike to protect Islamist airport workers. What a country.
A look back at Izzy Stone. New Criterion. He was not a "useful idiot:" he knew exactly what he was doing in defending Stalin. Stone was just another Lefto-fascist benefiting from American freedom while celebrating its absence elsewhere. Like the folks today who love Fidel...but do not move to Cuba.
CA library bans church from using their space, on separation grounds. Ninth Circuit (duh) upholds. Cramer begs to differ.
More Michigan: Even you are better off than the French!
The Kyoto scam, free speech, and global socialism warming: TCS
The Economist has a blog (h/t, Marginal Rev.) This blog competition is getting intense. How can the little guy survive, with day jobs? We demand government support now for our blogging lifestyle, or an entire way of life may disappear.
Hollywood hubris. A quote from Horsefeathers on Clint Eastwood and Flags of our Fathers (the book was fine - not great):
Some men (and women) whom the gods would destroy, they first raise high for all to see. These men (and women) have been so successful, have amassed such wealth, and have acquired so many playthings—the grand houses on Lily Pond Lane, Chateaux en Provence, estates in Scotland surrounded by rushing streams rich with trout, or vast glass and steel condos looking out over Central Park, that they yearn for things that wealth cannot buy. These are men (and women) like George Soros, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg. Besotted with their wealth they forget that they are ordinary men (and women) with small gifts for entertaining or trading in markets. The gods first enchant them with dreams of changing the world and then cast them into the outer space of narcissistic illusion, where they are doomed to watch their own inner movies forever.
One fears that Clint Eastwood is heading in that direction. He has become so successful as an actor, director and producer of movies that he may have forgotten that the gift he was given was to be used simply to entertain us, like a juggler, or a trapeze artist who makes us breathless with fear and then takes a smiling, confident bow.
Now he wants to teach us something important, to tell us what is right and what is wrong about the world.
