Finding Osama: Trying again? NeverYet Melted. He is too tall to hide from a daisy-cutter, or so one might think.
No region will be spared. Tim Blair. I am scared. Help me!
Why large businesses like big government.
Gen Petraeus' message to his troops. Lib. Leanings
In the Crime Capital of the US, Mayor Nagin decides to hold up the US Govt. Meaning you and me.
We somehow never linked this Lego story, and most have probably seen it by now. I like Anchoress' take on it. My opinion? Do just like Mao did: Make the teachers custodians and the custodians teachers.
Bill Maher. Never seen him on TV (and, like most of us at Maggie's, I refuse to waste any life time watching TV, and do not even own one), but I understand that he is is a big deal of some sort. If he likes the idea of assassination of American politicians, he is not sick - he has a twisted, criminal mind. Whoever he is.
The political challenges of the surge. Jules. How did this place change from the cradle of civilization to a place incapable of civilization?
Wealthy Brits continue to abandon the UK. Tim Worstall suggests facetiously that this might be good for equality.
Cherokee Nation votes to expel descendents of their black slaves. Chew on that one for a while.
Justice Thomas talks about himself. Althouse. I'd like to buy the guy a beer.
Weenie culture. Quoted from a piece at Fred on Everything, via Small Boiled Polar Bears:
Not too long ago, Americans were a hardy breed—foolhardy at times, but the one comes with the other. Now we see attempts to eliminate all risk everywhere. Cities fill in the deep ends of swimming pools and remove diving boards. We require that bicyclists wear helmets, fear second-hand smoke and the violence that is dodge ball. Warnings abound against going outside without sun block. To anyone who grew up in the Sixties or before, the new fearfulness is incomprehensible. The explanation I think is the feminization of society, which seems to be inseparable from modernity. The nature of masculinity is to prize freedom over security; of femininity, security over freedom. Add that the American character of today powerfully favors regulation by the group in preference to individual choice. Note that we do not require that cars be equipped with seat belts and then let individuals decide whether to use them; we enforce their use. The result is compulsory Mommyism, very much a part of today’s America.
Image demonstrates the ongoing usefulness of newspapers in the internet age
