Since when is being labelled a Moslem a smear?
Why is eating meat unacceptably patriarchal?
Religion shopping in America
Deer-resistant plantings.
Global warmists try to stifle debate. John Fund
The economy, bad decisions, and the endless pursuit of stuff, quoted from Free Republic:
Lenders across the country are pulling the plug on equity lines and tightening credit after a lending spree to people for whom the housing market was their pot of gold.
Much of this economic "pain" is self-inflicted. Rather than purchasing homes they could not afford - or putting too much down, making them cash poor - they might have invested their equity in balanced mutual funds (the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.59 percent over a 10-year period). Such a path could have avoided the tight spot in which many now find themselves.
Some of the lust for bigger and better is human nature, but a lot is the result of consumerism. The Timex watch is no longer enough. We now must have a Rolex, though both accurately tell time. The adequate low-end automobile is insufficient. We must trade up to a luxury car with numbers and letters on the rear that mean nothing, but convey "status." And the house we are living in, which would have been more than adequate for our parents and certainly our grandparents, must be upgraded to larger digs in order to impress, if not growing families, than enlarged egos.
No more Mr. Nice Guy: Clinton to throw kitchen sink at Obama
Female sexual predators. Why should that be puzzling?
Having fun with hippies
And speaking of firearms, the Prof likes this wheelgun.
And speaking of hippies and weapons, here's a good example of how our MA intelligentsia thinks.
Detroit schools. Quote from Surber:
Hmm, if this were health care, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would be decrying those “greedy” teachers and bureaucrats and would be calling to slash spending and use more technology.
