Canada takes a step forward towards permitting smoking in schools. Blue Crab. Teacher, I can't think without my cigarettes, due to my inherited tobacco deficiency disorder.
From Boortz (h/t, Instap):
It is clear that something is terribly wrong in Washington right now. We just went through an election where principles of individual liberty and limited government were not even on the table. I am hard-pressed to name one leading Republican or Democrat who still extols the virtues of freedom, individualism, free markets and limited government.
Churchill had ADHD and Alan Turing had Aspergers. Tangled Web. Yes - you can have such difficulties and be smart, and successful, as hell.
We knew, thanks to Powerline, that Rep Ellison was a closeted jihad sympathizer, but did we know that Conyers probably is too? Singleton.
Carnival of Capitalists, at Casey's Software this week. Cool.
Feminism alive and well, quoted from Augean Stables:
...the Jerusalem Post reported that an all-women’s cell of Islamic Jihad terrorists was discovered and apprehended. The women were handlers of several terror cells in the areas of Jerusalem and Judea. Among other activities, they were involved in the transferring of funds from Syria to be used for the families of suicide terrorists, and for the funding of terror attacks. One of the arrested women also oversaw the building of an explosives laboratory. The less capable women have been relegated to the position of acting as human shields for terrorists - but hey, it’s a job.
A re-post of this piece about Hamid, the ex-jihadist (thanks for the reminder, Asst. Village Idiot):
He's a disarmingly gentle and courteous man. But he's determined to tell a complacent North America what he knows about fundamentalist Muslim imperialism.
"Yes, 'imperialism,' " he tells me. "The deliberate and determined expansion of militant Islam and its attempt to triumph not only in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. Pure ideology. Muslim terrorists kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what they believe."
Hamid drank in the message of Jihadism while at medical school in Cairo, and devoted himself to the cause. His group began meeting in a small room. Then a larger one. Then a Mosque reserved for followers of al-Zawahiri. By the time Hamid left the movement, its members were intimidating other students who were unsympathetic.
He is now 45 years old, and has had many years to reflect on why he was willing to die and kill for his religion. "The first thing you have to understand is that it has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with poverty or lack of education," he says. "I was from a middle-class family and my parents were not religious. Hardly anyone in the movement at university came from a background that was different from mine.
Whole thing here.
