Lots of snow in Yankeeland this year, including a good dump right now. Photo is Mad River Glen this week.
The state is not your friend. Does this sound like murder to you?
Blog friend Confederate Yank got a cool Valentine's Day present from his wife.
Israel has its own loonies: Quakes caused by gay tolerance. Why not blame them on global warming, like everybody else does?
Race and politics in Alabama: NYT. Things have changed.
Steve Fossett's obit
Are some suburbs becoming future slums?
Argument against the war on terror: Hirsch in Newsweek
Does Cuba need the US anymore? Maybe not. Chavez and China have filled the gap.
25 Dumbest college courses
Totten (at Insty):
RULES OF JOURNALISM: CNN tells its reporters how to write about Fidel Castro. “Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. [sic] in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.” Was he just criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech, or did he actually, you know, oppress human rights and freedom of speech?
John Derbyshire is right: “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”
England's Brain Drain is escalating. Do they wonder why?
What was the NYT up to with the McCain fact-free, unsourced innuendo? Rick Moran
Obama News and Comment
Obama running for Pres of what country? Protein (whence photo on left)
The CHANGE Obama is running on, quoted from Betsy:
..that's the change he's for - taxing young people more and more to pay to give more money to the elderly. I wonder if all those young adoring crowds tearing up at Obama speeches realize what he has in store for them.
If Obama wants to be post-partisan, how come he never has been?
Michelle Obama: Michelle Obama has problems, she says. Huh? Bainbridge. Also, What is she all about? Interestingly, her college thesis is locked up until after the election. (h/t, Jules)
Also via Jules, a hilarious Obama piece by Herald columnist Margery Egan - a quote re Michelle's accidental revelation of her contempt for the USA:
Barack now claims she didn’t mean it. Oh, yes she did. We all know the insufferable, holier-than-thou, Blame-America-First types who lecture the unwashed from the rarefied air of Cambridge and Brookline.
If I wanted lecturing, I’d be with Hillary.
Speaking of Obama lecturing, Mrs. O said this:
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
Nobody would dare talk that way to my face, except perhaps my mother.
