Ball of Fire. If you didn't hear this Algore satire, it's good. By the great Paul Shanklin. Link here.
Nations, ranked by obesity rates. Tiger Hawk. Hey! We're Number One! I guess there is plenty of hunger in America - an endless hunger for carbs.
Ant or grasshopper? If you aren't sure, take the spending habits survey. Ants win, of course.
Everybody loves Sarkozy now. Pajamas. They are lucky to have him. Can he be France's Maggie Thatcher? He has the chance.
How does illegal immigration harm American citizens' unskilled labor? It holds down wages. Dem Project
Everyone has linked ex-Dem Senator Bob Kerry's essay on how Iraq should be handled. Why? Because it is sensible.
Stalin as a "fine young criminal." Book review via A&L Daily. (h/t to one of our blog friends, but I forget who.)
Sacrificing fetuses in utero. No Left Turns
Thompson speaks. As usual, no BS, and no calculation.
Three ordinary lives in Baghdad. CSM. A good look.
Iran plans summer war campaign in Iraq to empower the Dems. Never Yet Melted. Sheesh - they are working hand-in-hand.
Edwards charges $55,000 to speak about poverty. That $ came out of your tuition check, parents.
Want Pat Buchanan's view of amnesty? National suicide, says Pat.
More on Hillary's nationalized babysitting proposal. Betsy. Would those babysitters be the same folks who work at the Post Office?
College boozing and heart problems. Time
Gotta record that macaca moment, says Kos.
From a Dr. Sanity piece on the greenies:
The "elites" have never abandoned their dreams of imposing a socialist paradise, and one of their basic strategies is to undermine capitalism by using the talking points of their "environmental religion".
I suspect that they truly believe that if humans would abandon capitalism and technology; go back to the cave and live the "simple life", then their ideology would finally work in the real world and their dreams of a religious caliphate international socialist paradise would finally be realized.
Perhaps that is why they have consciously and deliberately joined forces with radical Islam, which suffers from the same inabilty to bring peace (unless you count death as the ultimate "peace") and prosperity to their adherents; and has the same fantasy.
Kim du Toit imagines his singles ad, were he to find himself single:
”Foul-tempered old man, very set in his ways, not especially fond of women, but willing to put up with their shit for the occasional burst of laughter and even-less-frequent good time, seeks woman of any advanced age who will not scream and call for the cops when she sees him at her front door. Pets okay, as long as they don’t crap on the rug or chew his shotgun stock.”
Flares into Darkness on work, markets - and adult reality. Every young person should read this, and we wish we had written it. A quote:
The sad fact of life in a market economy is that you have to do what somebody else wants in order to get paid. You don't generally get paid for what is fun for you or for what you want to do; you get paid for what somebody else wants you to do, and usually that's something they themselves don't want to do for some reason. Maybe the work is tedious, maybe it requires high levels of responsibility, maybe it is dirty or dangerous. One thing you can be guaranteed is that it's something somebody else doesn't want to do themselves.
Now this is contrary to what most of us learn in school and in our cultural role models. We learn that we should be "free". We learn that we should be self-actualizing. We learn that we should break the rules and make things better and in the end everyone will reward us for "doing the right thing". Don't bet on it.
Photo: Quaking Aspens in winter, from the Tree link earlier today.
