Friday, September 14. 2007
 Bush's speech last night on Iraq via Surber here.
"Democratic Europe, RIP" Gates. Lance Morrow of Time quoted at Blair: The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized. This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started.
Bullying, intolerance,guns, code language, and "peace studies": Lessons in tolerance for the Intolerant, at Classical Values. A quote: Recently, I noticed an insidious movement called "Peace Studies" which among other things redefines the word "violence" to mean opposition to socialism. Last week Andrew Sullivan called it "ideology masquerading as scholarship" and praised Bruce Bawer for "putting his finger on something": We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it's opposed to every value that the West stands for -- liberty, free markets, individualism -- and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. Second, we're talking not about a bunch of naive Quakers but about a movement of savvy, ambitious professionals that is already comfortably ensconced at the United Nations, in the European Union, and in many nongovernmental organizations. It is also waging an aggressive, under-the-media-radar campaign for a cabinet-level Peace Department in the United States. I don't think this is happening merely under the media radar. It's happening under everyone's radar.
Thursday, September 13. 2007
Brit Tories consider a ban on HDTV, along with controls on kitchen applicances, to save the earth. (h/t, Gay and Right). Meanwhile, climate scientists increasingly skeptical about global warming fears. Photo above: an "ultra-modern" American kitchen of the 1920s, which is still probably too electrically-powered for the Tories (photo via Dr. X.). Yes, the Tories. Sweden's Islamic crime wave. Free Republic. A quote: The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to.” The immigrant youth regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young robbers do not plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have nice mobile phones and then we rob them...”
I guess the Swedes take their "tolerance" and "multiculturalism" seriously. Orwell Update: The EU has a "Justice and Security Officer." He is worried about what words people use. Samizdata. Want some more EU Disease this morning? This quoted at No Pasaran: The head of the Council of Europe - a mainly human rights watchdog based in Strasbourg, France and not an EU institution - branded the protesters bigots and said they were a threat to Europe's values.
"It is very important to remember that the freedom of assembly and expression can be restricted to protect the rights and freedoms of others, including the freedom of thought, conscience and religion," secretary general Terry Davis said.
Who was it who said "1984 (or was it Brave New World?) was intended as a warning, not as an instruction manual."? Is Iraq Al Quaida bait? It's a theory. Am. Thinker Good news for the planet: Earth may survive the death of the sun. Brit troops sent to Iranian border. Polipundit Denialists. Germans and 9-11. Moonbattery. The Europeans have an historical weakness for denial, don't they? The Conservative advantage in syndicated opinion columns. (h/t, Memeorandum) Totten on Ramadi today. Lots of photos. A quote from Oxford Medievalist on Hsugate: While the story is still very much alive, which is surprising since it involves Hillary, I'd point out that, if it were any other non-Clinton politician at the center of this scandal, his or her candidacy would've been sunk by now.
Yes, we have learned to have no standards for the Clintons: they have taught us well. Many Hsu links and much info at Gateway.
Wednesday, September 12. 2007
 That air strike by Israel into Syria was a good story. Wish we had more details h/t, Roger Simon.
How did the West secularize politics and governance? Book review by Kirsch in the NY Sun George Will: A war seeking a mission. He makes a good point: What "forced" America to go to war in 2003 -- the "gathering danger" of weapons of mass destruction -- was fictitious. That is one reason this war will not be fought, at least not by Americans, to the bitter end. The end of the war will, however, be bitter for Americans, partly because the president's decision to visit Iraq without visiting its capital confirmed the flimsiness of the fallback rationale for the war -- the creation of a unified, pluralist Iraq. After more than four years of war, two questions persist: Is there an Iraq? Are there Iraqis?
Hsugate? It is all reminscent of Bill Clinton's China connections. Scott at Powerline sums up the recent news reports. How smokers saved Iraq. Surber More on the dark side of diversity. Driscoll Was 9-11 a "failure of human understanding"? Boston Herald. Pretty to think so. The BEEB, predictably, takes it to a fully dishonest extent: It's America's fault. That sort of propagandizing and lying to kids infuriates me. Unfortunately for the world, the Islamist terrorists are driven by religious hate and nothing more.
Tuesday, September 11. 2007
 "You haven't earned the right to be war-weary." Willisms. Indeed. The only people suffering in this war are the soldiers and their families, and it's part of their dangerous profession to do so for the rest of us. It is not "suffering" to hear the news in our comfortable seats as we dine on our chips, salsa, beer and Twinkies.
The politicization of this "small war" is a damn shame, and simply gives hope to those who want to destroy a free Iraq. Like it or not, we will be there for a long time and as soon as the bad guys realize that, some of the scumbags will find something better to do - like getting married and getting a job and trying life as sane, honest, peaceable citizens. Heck, we are still in Korea, and nobody complains about that except me. Furthermore, I was a skeptic about invading Iraq and figured Bush Sr. had some very good reasons to hold back (and he did). Am I a "moron dead-ender"? I don't think so. Some things are difficult: consider curing cancer, getting rid of cockroaches from a NYC apartment, eliminating crime, weeding the garden, removing corruption from New Jersey politics, killing terrorists one at a time - but it doesn't mean you don't work at them. "Can do." Moslem Jihadists are the cockroaches of the world today, and they are going to be with us for a long time because they believe they are pleasing their god by killing infidels. If some of them want to die in Iraq, fine by me. Related to above: Attack Machine considers "Copperheads Redux." Belgium: Bring back the Duchy of Burgundy. EU Referendum Time Magazine regrets the invention of the automobile, forgets how their magazine gets delivered. Blair Obstruction of justice? Gov. Eliot Spitzer's "black car meetings." You want a burger, and the burger wants to be eaten. Consenting adults, right? LA may limit fast food in some neighborhoods. As Coyote notes, this is mini-fascism. How are the Polar Bears faring? Small Dead Cute Baby Seals The worst school in America. Front Page Is there anything good about men? An essay/speech by Prof. Roy Baumeister to the American Psychological Assoc. (h/t, Minding the Campus) One quote: Culture has plenty of tradeoffs, in which it needs people to do dangerous or risky things, and so it offers big rewards to motivate people to take those risks. Most cultures have tended to use men for these high-risk, high-payoff slots much more than women. I shall propose there are important pragmatic reasons for this. The result is that some men reap big rewards while others have their lives ruined or even cut short. Most cultures shield their women from the risk and therefore also don’t give them the big rewards. I’m not saying this is what cultures ought to do, morally, but cultures aren’t moral beings. They do what they do for pragmatic reasons driven by competition against other systems and other groups.
Image is from the Harrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Tournament of Champions. What kind of cool sand to they have there?
Monday, September 10. 2007
 Mass without a priest? I did not know that the Prof was a converted Roman Catholic. The Eucharist requires a priest in Catholicism.
Is Fred a lightweight? Reason Here we go again: Is Shakespeare Shakespeare? More on those "uninsured millions." Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid. Luskin consludes: Which brings us to the ultimate question: Does it make any sense to destroy a health care system that 5 out of 100 people do not have adequate access to?
A computer program to translate hieroglyphics and cuneiform. h/t, cool links from Flares. A fine meditation on Mother Theresa's "dark night of the soul." Anchoress Socialism: Is the debate over? Solim at Volokh. I thought it was done. When "carrying" was normal: Charlotte Bronte's dad, and related handgun topics.
Sunday, September 9. 2007
 Peter Breughel and kids' games: Yesterday and today. Cool.
A nice visit to Baskin-Robbins. Alphecca. Word to the wise: Do not point a weapon at anybody - even at a friendly Baskin-Robbins ice-cream scooper. The Golden Bears: Football and the soul of Berkeley. Suddenly I find myself liking college football. Why I left South Africa. Kim du Toit Hispanic immigrants account for all increases in US poverty. Coyote Have you noticed how Christian preachers, outside church, always mention God but never Jesus in public prayer? They pretend there is a generic god, to be polite. Here's what happens if they don't. h/t, News for Christians A sovereignty that no-one has taken by arms since 1066 will be handed over. EU Referendum. My opinion? Insane. Speaking of which - "Get your own damn army." Why is the USA still defending Europe? Or South Korea, for that matter? Time for them to grow up. The Inca mummy on display. More nukes is good news. Willisms. It's as close to a free lunch as this world offers. Dartmouth update: "The First Shoe Drops," at Powerline. Bad news for the Indian Uprising: the Indians have stone-age weapons, and the bad guys have cannon. Photo: One of Theo's gals to remind us that it is getting time to get the guns out. Hunting season is just around the corner.
Saturday, September 8. 2007
 What is missing, and what is wrong on this agenda? A prominent Brit leftist on what a nation is for. The Left is totalitarian at its core, regardless of what our friend Uncle Norm says. He is surely not, as an individual - but the movement is.
Federer beats Roddick, and other US Open updates from the NY Sun Re Madeleine L'Engle: Our brief post did not mention to what extent she was a Christ-inspired author and a long-time presence at St. John the Divine in NYC. I heard an interview with her recently. Very impressive lady. Brit mosques are becoming a metastatic cancer in Brit society. More on the Deobandi sect at Dino. Psychologists are overwhelmingly Dems. Driscoll. I have no idea what that means. Osama and the Dems: Perfect Together. Ace. Bin Laden can tell useful idiots when he sees them, and, despite his apparently minimal knowledge of the Vietnam era, he picked up one useful fact: get the surrenderist Left as allies by humoring and flattering them. Photo Editor note: We were recently introduced to this old-time Italian summer squash, (which goes by many names including Zucchetta and Serpent of Sicily) which I am told grows like crazy and resists bugs. There is an old joke: If you park your car in a suburban neighborhood in August, be sure to lock it. If you don't, someone will put zucchini in it. Same goes for this squash.
Friday, September 7. 2007
 The US government has the Bin Laden tape. Sounds like people are hoping he looks ill. Too many chicks and too much booze and blow down in the fleshpots of Dubai? Too many hours of Beer Pong with Mullah Omar and the hos and goats?
"Until Proven Innocent." The new book about the Duke disgrace, with comments. Never Yet melted. Horrors! Military recruiters in NYC schools! Rhymes with Right. Which is the greater evil in NYC: The military, the Boy Scouts, or Christians? All are evil counter-revolutionaries. Fallujah, Revisited. INDC Journal Al Gore caught with his pants down. Drudge. What a phony. I'm supposed to think he's worried? All he wants is attention. A day at the range, Theo Style What are you having for dinner? I am now smoking a pork butt with some locally-grown Black Cherry wood for some friends. Beer and an Oregon Pinot Noir, home-made cole slaw, tomato salad from the garden, and some Italian-style potato salad (garlic, parsley, white vinegar and olive oil). Western North Carolina-style sauce for the pulled pork, on cheap burger rolls. Splurged on a bottle of Dewars, too. For dessert, vanilla ice cream with powder-ground good coffee sprinkled on top, then a splash of Scotch over it: believe it or not, I am told that's Italian too. Go figure. Finally adding to Blogroll: Dissident Frogman (recently returned to the internet swamp) and Oxford Medievalist (A Jules talent discovery who we forgot to add a while ago)
We were alive during one of the handful of milestones of human history. Sippican What does 1+1=2 mean? Evangelical Outpost NY Sun opinion: Fred Thompson can win. Medical care in the US is already half-socialized. TCS (h/t, Insty)
Thursday, September 6. 2007
Luciano Pavarotti: RIP. We have YouTubed him recently, so will not do it today - everyone else is anyway. We'll miss the big guy. And about Fred: Let's see how he does. He surely is a likeable, seemingly-straight-forward fellow. Greenies: Airplanes for us, man-driven treadle pumps for you. Moonbattery. Related: Global warming and ocean saltiness. Did you grow up poor in America? You probably did if you are over 35, by today's definitions. I did, and I am under 35. Never thought I was poor, though: plenty of food, plenty of sports, and plenty of books. Duke, Ham, and PC: SISU, the Queen of the Segueway (if that is how it is spelled). Will the NAACP ever resume working to lift up and inspire their constituents? Viking wonders. So do I. Ethanol for cars: One more strike against that dumb idea: It's depleting water supplies.
It was interesting to see the various major linkers to that (surprisingly) controversial piece on Multiculturalism and Arabs we posted the other day because I had only been vaguely aware of one of the sites, and unaware of the others.  The most productive of blog visitors was reddit. That link- collector gets huge traffic, judging by the number of visit they sent over here: over 15 thousand. No comparison with what FARK can send, but powerful still.
We had thousands of visitors via linkswarm, another link-aggregator which seems to have a vast and loyal readership. We also had thousands from a site which our pure and chaste selves had never seen - Ernie's House of Whoopass. Ernie provides general links plus hard-core p*rn links which make visiting Theo feel like going to church. This photo is the most modest image I could find at Ernie's place. Also on the list is This Modern World, which posed an interesting, if sarcastic, contrast between the essay and the famous The America I Have Seen, by Sayyid Qutd (who I believe was the inspiration for Al Quaida and The Moslem Brotherhood). Clicked, an MSNBC blog, was late to the party but provided a few thousand visitors. Will Femia links stuff he finds interesting. A good gig. There have even been many hundreds of visitors via dirty.ru, a Russian blog (in Cyrillic). Cool. We hope we have gleaned a few new Maggie's fans from this spike in visitors. I do know that we made a lot of folks angry.
Wednesday, September 5. 2007
 More Brit health fascism: Dust my Broom, whence the image on the right. Our question at hand is whether they would plan to refuse treatment to those with lung cancer, AIDS, weight-related diabetes, sports injuries, elective abortions, and addictions -- all behavior-related problems.
Looking back at the journalistic malpractice of Katrina. Driscoll The EU is worried about the collective. Hey, I thought the Commies lost the Cold War. Maybe the fall of the hostile foreign Commies provided space for the home grown ones? Excellent review of current state of casualties in Iraq, at Back Talk. h/t Gateway, who has further comments. The purported reason you won't be seeing The Path to 9-11. Fear. George Soros: Enforcer and terrorist of Democrats Immigration and poverty stats: Opinion Journal. The real cause of global warming: Israel
Is America losing its work ethic? Am Thinker Why I quit teaching. Pajamas Surrender. How societies commit suicide. Dalrymple in City Journal. I missed that one. Stuff like this keeps happening. One nation, under therapy. SC&A on ambulance-chasing trauma counselors. Sounds like a scam to me. Similarly, from Dr. X: Are our kids over-diagnosed and over-medicated yet? Emotional. Some big-time emotional reaction to our Multiculturalism link about Middle-Eastern culture. A simple essay from Rants and Raves from a year ago - some reaction! Our apologies to R&R - we didn't know where the essay was from until late in the day. Creeps me out. The proposed Brit DNA registry - and for tourists too? Gender and the workplace. Econlog. Statistically, men work harder and longer.
Tuesday, September 4. 2007
 I am sure that the Maggie's Farm gang is relieved that I am back from vacation, so they can ease up on the links. It has been boats, boats and more boats. Plus a year's worth of beer, lobster, cod, clams and oysters in one week: I eat little else when I am on the coast, starting with cod-cakes for breakfast. It's the best: one day ketchup on them, the next day tartar sauce: cannot decide which I prefer.
Fish-cakes, broiled cod, fried cod, baked cod with Portuguese sauce...now I sound like Ishmael on Nantucket, where the milk tasted like codfish from the fishheads the cows ate. Time to come home to the woods and to dig back into work. I don't mind that at all. Variety is the key, or the tartar sauce, to something. I enjoyed that Yankee Attitude post from Barrister. Right on! Bush stopped by Anbar yesterday. Right thing to do. Should the government rescue fools? Attack machine Sweden has unlimited charter schools. Interesting. Even lefty Cameron is thinking. Worstall. C.S. Lewis and Tolkien: Asst Village Idiot Let's play "Who's The Victim?" One Cosmos More fun kicking Calderon around. RWNH Is anti-Americanism through in Europe? Neoneo Have you read Cato #6 lately? h/t, Dumb Still Looks Free. Or Federal Farmer or Agrippa? "Gun addiction" fears in Australia. Alphecca. Another disease I didn't know I had along with ADD, Asperger's, Beer Deficiency Disorder, and a few others. Charter Schools blooming in New Orleans. CSM The NYT just won't quit with the Haditha non-story. Democracy Project. After all, if the USA is not really the Evil Empire, they would have to re-think their entire view of the world - and that would be a hassle.
Monday, September 3. 2007
Photo above: That is not our Dr. Joy Bliss. That must be Theo's assistant, hard at work. I think he gets the photos and she does the thinking. Death of a Phony: Arthur Miller. I never did quite get what was so great about him. Preachy, condescending - and humorless. Chosing the right college. Another view, via Dr. Helen When war was the answer. George Will at RCP. Unfortunately, war is often the answer. Remembering 9-11. Captain Ed. No holiday, please. Official grieving is disgusting grandstanding, and a holiday would be just one more day when government employees do not work, and everybody else does. If anybody doesn't know who the enemy is by now, they never will. How Shakespeare taught me to read financial news. Bowyer at TCS. Poverty in America. This might be a re-post, but it makes it very clear. Nobody is going hungry, or lacking in the crap on TV. Sweden: Truth about communism will confuse people. Moonbattery. At least they admit it. Switzerland wants to keep their country Swiss. h/t, Insty via reader. Yes, it sure does sound racially-tinged, but is that what it is really about, or is it about preserving their culture? From Leno (h/t, Conspiracy): Speaking at a forum organized by Lance Armstrong on cancer research, Hillary Clinton told Chris Matthews if she is elected president, she will declare war on cancer, and then she will support the war on cancer for two years, and then she will be against it for a year, and then she will back out of it all together.
Porn on the web: Some data in our comments - scroll past those lawyer jokes to comment by Pat Jones Calderon: "Mexico does not end at our borders." What? Is he demanding Lebensraum? Every once in a while, the totalitarian impulse, the grandiosity, and the contempt for people which underlies nanny-statism and socialism is spoken out loud. Was it Bill or Hillary who commented "What if people don't spend their money the right way?" John Edwards proposes telling people when to go to the doctor. Arthur St. Germaine: A Maine kid and his Guadalcanal memories. Scroll down to the final comment by Buddy
Sunday, September 2. 2007
 A pasta strike in Italy? The problem, once again, is biofuel.
Who is Mr. Hsu?, with good links, at RWNH Sen. Craig is no hypocrite. I agree. Powerline. Related, a men's room update, from Cramer. And, the good news, Jim Risch. The Rykestrasse Synagogue - the largest in Germany - reopens, restored Thank God for the intellectuals. They will save us from ourselves. Blair, with links Long overdue: A Crystal Gail Mangum Chair of Women's Studies at Duke Leftism, a "fear of seeming," and the Left's contempt for working people. Thompson New Orleans is doomed, says geologist. Duh. Photo: Pinella and Wagner, from Will's caption contests.
Saturday, September 1. 2007
Are adults acting more like teenagers? Diana West interviewed. h/t, Driscoll Justice going after Hsu. Good to hear it. Captain Ed. Something fishy. What Bernanke says. Dino Koreans lash out at those missionaries. Gateway Oh - almost forgot. Skip past the pie and the Jooo-Amish conspiracy and read the Right Wing Prof today. He has some good posts.
Friday, August 31. 2007
 Chart on right borrowed from S,C & A. What's with that DC number?
Soros' ACT fined $775,000 by FEC. The organization doesn't seem to care. Pocket change for George. The NY Sun editorializes "Calling the Founders." Accusations of corruption in pro tennis. Breibart Anti-war demonstrators are being paid? Am Thinker Making some money from Beer Pong. Betsy Barney Frank speaks up for Larry Craig. h/t, Pajamas. I wondered what he would do. 1200 tigers remain in India. 24,000 in American zoos. If Jesus makes a difference in your life, don't say it outloud in school. Be careful about what you say about Islam: Libel Tourism, at Cinnamon. A libel suit can mess up your life, even if you are in the right. Insty suggests bringing in Randy Barnett to fact-check the NYT. The "newspaper of record" is confused about what is in our Constitution.
Thursday, August 30. 2007
 I alert myself from my extended long-weekend holiday stupor to help with the blog and to note these items:
Al-sadr suspends Mahdi Army activities. About time. They are just killing each other and creating anarchy. Other than the fact that guns and bombs are fun, because they go boom, what's the damn point? Fight Club with live ammo? Get a life, morons... or get dead. Colorado school bans tag. Maybe they should do needlepoint during recess. No, those needles could put an eye out. How about a nap time? Woops - that is really asking for a lawsuit. Well, how about time in class learning about the American Constitution? No, it's not PC. Well, then just send the brats home or put them to work. Mr. Free Market is fed up with his homeland. That saddens me. He is who they need. Stand and fight - don't run. But if you want to leave, speak Spanish or wear a burkha or declare yourself a political refugee and you'll be welcome here. My advice is this: fly to Grand Cayman, deposit your life savings, then fly to Mexico (bring your Wellies and wife and laddie and gun collection), wade across the Rio Grande (remember to say "Muchas gracias, Senor border-policeman"), and hitchhike to Montana or New Hampshire. Or maybe Texas might suit you just fine. Or, if you can handle a John Deere, we might have a job of work for you on the Farm. The Theo girl? She was in my dream, but she's too young for me. In my dream, I was young too. Back in reality, the wife wants me to join her for a rollicking ride over hill and dale, which I guess I am half-game for if she will let me ride Mickey today, but after that I want nothing but book and hammock and pool. What a great country I live in, where they let me keep half of what I earn.
Rocket-powered prosthetic arm. Neurophilosophy Less than half of climate researchers now endorse global warming theory. h/t, Junk Science How to get rid of rampant bamboo. (thanks, reader. This has been a comment topic) The economics of opium production, in Afghanistan. We need this stuff. Who knew? Studying intuition. NYT. My gut tells me there's something to this intuition thing. A new translation of The Paradiso. In blank verse. The New Yorker. With many comments about allegory and poetry. Is modern cosmology a fairy tale? American Scientist. Of course it is. Our fairy tale of the moment, but still interesting. Science is never "settled." Katrina: the $127 billion boondoggle. Kudlow at RCP. More federal funds for N.O. rebuilding than Louisiana's total GDP.
Wednesday, August 29. 2007
1. Man, did we attract a lot of comments on the Are All Repubs Pervs? piece. Some entertaining and emotional comments in there. I hope our debaters will want to return to Maggie's - it's good sport. But do we have to post about perversion to get people excited? Hmmm...that's an idea. 2. Fine piece by Tigerhawk guesting at Jule's place, on New Orleans. I was even moved to leave a comment, which is something I rarely take (or have) the time to do. "Moral hazard": there's a new concept for me. I mean, I know all about regular everyday moral hazards but did not know the technical definition. If I didn't learn a lot from this here blogging nonsense, I would not bother. 3. The USA is already mentally, if not literally, on the long vacation weekend. I can see that in our stats. Even our News Junkie is AWOL. Not to worry about getting DTs - we are cheerfully on the job, although we may go a bit heavier on the re-posts, while saving some fresh ammo for September. It has not escaped my notice that our Barrister has been unusually busy from his shady poolside hammock, laptop on lap no doubt as he alternates between snoozing and posting. I can picture him now, waking with a start and a notion, jotting a few lines as his wife's horses whinny in the distance, taking a sip of his G&T, then heading back to dreamland, maybe after a lazy dip in the pool as the Farmington River lazily and quietly flows by and the Kingfishers call overhead. Image: An old Lightning. Spent many, many hours racing them and tooling about. Watched them turn from wood to fiberglass. Nice boats with wonderfully-effective, if possibly over-powered spinnakers, but that outboard motor ruins the whole thing: God made paddles for a reason. I fondly remember days when a squall would blow through a race and 50 Lightnings with their spinnakers up on a broad reach would capsize in a minute. What a scene: a glorious and only slightly dangerous mess assuming everyone was good at underwater swimming. It is disconcerting to have a collapsed, water-laden spinnaker on your head when you are in the drink. Been there.
Our News Junkie is away this week. I will try to hold the fort, with the help of our readers. He's in Rhode Island again, messing with boats. I'm sure you already read about this Hillary contribution scam. Speaking of Hillary, Shiver at Am. Thinker takes a pointed look at her use of the word "unscrupulous." England is Vanishing. Cal Thomas at RCP. Why doctors are always late. DB says it's about money. Only partly, I think: how does one schedule for the unpredictable? Best bet is to get the first or second appt. of the morning before the schedule predictably unravels. Prefers stress of Iraq to stress of Wall Street. Insty How is this for a use of American jails? NYM. Sheesh. Fred the Flirt. I am tiring of Fred. John likes him but isn't overly-impressed with his intensity. Almost everyone I know wants a new Reagan to reinvigorate the conservative message. The conservative message doesn't work unless it is delivered in an inspiring way because it is in opposition to a powerfully appealing delusion: that government is your caring parent (rather than a collection of crooked and half-crooked egomaniacs and oily opportunists, most of whom could never make it in the real world, who want to use my income to buy their jobs). Not for President, but I know I'd like him as a neighbor. Great photo. h/t, Tiger Hawk Which is worse? Read and vote. Classical Values. And quit tapping your damn feet.
Tuesday, August 28. 2007
 All your children are belong to us. The Brit Big Brother child registry. How soon before they stick a GPS monitoring device in each one of them?
Keep your kid out of kindergarten: At NRO Lots of good guest bloggers at Jules this week. Hello, Sailor. It's about Napoleon Mother Theresa's struggles with faith (plus a word about Princess Diana). More thoughts on her "blessing of struggle" at S,C and A. Is Middle Eastern Studies an academic discipline or a political movement? Winfield Myers (h/t, a piece at Augean Stables) Do you have a Melissa Theuriau obsession? Apparently, many do. She is cute for sure, but lacks the edgy, reckless dangerousness one might prefer in fantasy females. Johns Hopkins is rethinking sex assignment surgery. Small Dead Pangolins. Glad to hear it. I like the quote from Dr. McHugh. Why some Dems are completely wrong about subprime loan remedies. Reason The Borderline Sociopathic Book for Boys. Sippican Illegals moving out. Polipundit. It isn't really very complicated. How black law students can get screwed by affirmative action. Ace Think you are horny? Meet Lurch: get a load of this beast. It's about the feedback loop. Climate, by Coyote, our reality-checker. Tell me again - what is Hillary Clinton's experience? Wizbang. In my opinion, she is a press-invented celeb candidate, and nothing more. Crafty? Yes. Wise? I don't see it. Healthy fear. It is healthy and normal to fear Moslems, says Dr. Sanity How do snakes live 6 months without food? They can keep growing too.
Monday, August 27. 2007
Britain in meltdown. Theo, at Jules Real America: The Grange Fair Government-driven urbanization in China. Amazing. Dino Excellent handgun ID chart. h/t, Theo Iraq gov't agrees to benchmarks. That's a good start. De-fund the mullahs. Barone on Iran, in the NY Sun Can Western aid help African poverty? I doubt it. What we call poverty is often the subsistence way of life they have lived forever. They need trade, home-grown industry, and sane, stable governments if they wish to enter the modern world, and that entails a major cultural change. Good debate on the subject at the CSM. Hitler was a socialist, by John Ray. Indeed. "Nazi" was short for the National Socialist German Worker's Party, but the American Left never warmed up to him the way they did to Stalin. Interesting read. h/t, Reader. Also - a comment on Ray's essay by Lifson at American Thinker. Re Vick and the photo below: I am a dog guy, but I believe that any dog owner is free to put down their own dog for any reason, assuming they do it in a humane manner (and obey the law). It is commonplace, I am told, for hunting dog breeders to put a bullet in their hound pups who don't show enough "hunt," and I see nothing wrong with that. We must be humane, but also not fall for the pathetic fallacy.
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