Are bad manners and obnoxiousness hate crimes? I thought there had to be a crime before you could have a hate crime. Where's the ACLU? Heck, I've been called all sorts of names in my life. Sticks and stones...
15 year-old outsmarts UN Climate Panel
The model graduation speaker: Mr. Rogers. I am sure that I would agree.
Illegals register to vote in Texas.
Al Quaida is better at media manipulation than at war. So they do what they're good at.
Hispanic immigrants to the US: 42% of births are out of wedlock.
Sarkozy wants to reform the Sarbonne. Excellent ideas.
30 years later, Argentinian mothers still march for justice for their dead.
A pill that stops menstruation. Volokh
A plague of locusts. The 17-year cicadas are crawling up from their 17-year stay in the soil, and will soon be all over the place. Predictably, there will be articles about how to cook them. This piece from 2004 explains how the broods work. I have always enjoyed watching birds try to catch them when they fly.
More about the new WalMart walk-in clinics. Always amazing the way markets can figure out things that experts and government cannot: it's because experts always have blinders on, and government is stupid.
Atheist donates 22 million to NYC's Catholic Charities. Good move. Great organization, with no political agenda.
Your friend Google wants to know you much better. Yes, it is creepy. But if you don't like it, use Dogpile.
This invasive species seems to have no friends. Not cuddly enough, I guess.
A treadmill desk. Not a bad idea. But the irony in the concept does not escape me.
Hansen: Cut America Some Slack. I agree. A quote:
...radical American egalitarianism is what terrifies our Islamist enemies. Bin Laden—many of the terrorist’s family were living in the United States on September 11—knows the insidious dangers of Americanization, both from his own wealthy youth spent enjoying the high life, and the failure of his Sharia law to compete with Spiderman for the attention of most of his flock.
Read the whole thing.
