The internet will become obsolete, beginning this summer. It was nice while it lasted.
"Who says San Francisco doesn't honor vets?" Driscoll
The school crotch inspector. Reason
Fallacies: A nice example of data selection bias. Coyote
The real inconvenient truth: How warming zealotry can damage the earth.
Fun stuff at Bits and Pieces
How the heavy hand of China creates a Potemkin village for the Olympics
A quote from Luskin:
WOW. How fortunate are we to live in an age where all major political parties want to stabilize both the Earth's atmosphere and stabilize financial markets." Take THAT, global warmers! Take THAT, subprimates!
And speaking of grandiosity, our friend Sissy notes in Saint Obama awaits his Michael Kelly that Michael Kelly's 1993 NYT essay, St. Hillary, which Peggy Noonan refers to as the first and definitive Hillary take-down, can be read online. A quote from Kelly:
...asked if she has always been impelled by what she called, in a recent interview with the Washington Post, "a burning desire" to "make the world better for everybody," Mrs. Clinton say, with a slight, self-conscious laugh: "Yeah, I always have. I have not always known what it meant, but I have always had it."
Sheesh. Who asked her to fix my life? I am an adult. I just want the govt to leave me alone. Virtue sure can be creepy when combined with vanity and power.
And speaking of Mrs. Clinton, another repeated campaign lie comes out. It's a campaign based on lies from start to finish.
From an intriguing essay on the psychology of voting by Sewell at Am. Thinker:
Erich Fromm can tell us a lot about what is behind how most people vote. He makes the point that most people are terrified of being an on-their-own, take-care-of-themselves, free, adult human being. So, we attach ourselves to surrogate family units and surrogate parents to escape from our freedom. That translates to belonging to and becoming psychologically dependant organizations as diverse as the company for which we work and our boss, to the church we attend and its clergy, and the political party to which we belong and the parent figure who gets our vote. Identifying with the group becomes our new collective identity, and we surrender our individual identity and freedom.
Ask any priest, pastor, rabbi, teacher, psychotherapist, supervisor, or elected official and they will be happy to confirm that the people they deal with are all trying to work out their childhood agendas on any available authority figure.
Photo: Wuzzat? A reader sent in this photo of somebody's well-decorated Butterfly House. Do those things work? How soon before it's filled with bees and wasps?
Anita Kuntz's 1993 NYT Sunday Mag illustration of Saint Hillary graced what Peggy Noonan later called the first and still definitive Hillary Clinton take-down. Update: Saint Hillary now available on our own website. At the intersection of vanity and liberalism
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