Maggie's Farm

Has Al Gore failed? Tiger

Coyote loves his Squeezebox

Mankiw on income inequality

Why plants are green

Borneo Pigmy Elephant update

The "Why bother?" societies, via Blue Crab:

A British think tank has issued a report that shows that high taxes, an entitlement mentality and poor education are sapping the British populace and turning the nation into a "why bother" culture.

In memoriam: Tibet

Is this for real? Why am I skeptical?

Driscoll begins:

Mark Steyn notes that, pace Obama, guns and God, and proper respect for both, are what make Red State America a much healthier--and sustainable--place than the Biggest Blue State of 'em all: Europe. Steyn writes, "In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God’n’guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion":

WSJ: Gun owners are happier people

Brussels commands Scots to pipe down

Straight talk about casual sex. Am Thinker

Virtue by default. David Thompson

Woman turns 115

Carnival of the Insanities at Dr. Sanity