Whales evolved from dogs. PBS Video. That explains a lot. We love dogs.
The new Puritans. A new moral code, but just as annoyingly controlling as the old Puritans. Betsy on this piece by Ferguson at Weekly Standard
We don't know what it is, but there is a heck of a lot of it. Dark matter
Not your ordinary small luxury cruise ship. The Atmosphere, at Forbes
Cleared by DNA after 20 years in jail. A terrible story.
Europe's demographic collapse. Quote from a piece by Sensing:
There is no longer a single country in Europe where people are having enough children to replace themselves when they die. Italy recently became the first nation in history where there are more people over the age of 60 than there are under the age of 20. This year [1998 - DS] Germany, Greece and Spain will probably all cross the same eerie divide. [link]
The greedy geezers of the AARP. Conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid quotes a letter written to AARP:
"Even though senior citizens are the wealthiest demographic group, your organization is forever finding new reasons to take trillions of dollars from working people to give to your constituents, so they can go on cruises while working families are struggling to pay the rent."
A harsh piece by Bernard Lewis quoted at Insty. One quote:
During the Cold War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire. If you said or did anything against the Americans, not only would there be no punishment; there might even be some possibility of reward, as the usual anxious procession of diplomats and politicians, journalists and scholars and miscellaneous others came with their usual pleading inquiries: "What have we done to offend you? What can we do to put it right?" . . .
