Saturday, May 3. 2014
Well, we all hate Chicago Transit Authority, don't we? When did it become OK for wedding bands to get real, live, rock band careers? Who signed off on that? I know I wasn't consulted. Maybe it's not Chicago's fault. Maybe they thought they were just going to play the Bernstein wedding at another Mediterranean-themed stripmall function room; four hours, twenty minute breaks each hour; chicken and shells for dinner. Perhaps their agent bollixed it up and sent them to a recording studio instead. Back before GPS, it could happen. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Besides, Blood Sweat and Tears was much, much worse, and sooner.
Anyway, time to colour your world, with links
An "Astrobiologist" has written a book about Rebooting Civilization:
Survivors’ How-to Guide for Restoring Technology after the Apocalypse
Hmm. He's an astrobiologist. Really? Me? I wanna be a astroquarterbackpornstarsecretagent.
At the New Yorker: How To Tell If Someone Is Lying
I sort this sort of thing out the old-fashioned way: If suspicious, I punch them, hard, on the nose without warning. If they cry, they're usually innocent.
Steve Ballmer is now the largest individual shareholder of Microsoft stock.
He was handed the greatest cash cow in the history of the world and tried to ride it in the derby. Should go on the Rushmore of incompetence,
despite the money he's made.
The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios. Here they are, collected on one Tumblr page
The Internet is 99.9 percent drivel. This is the other 0.1
Washington sues Kickstarted game creator who failed to deliver
Whoah, hold on there. Do you mean regular old laws apply on the Internet now? I'm in big trouble.
Hipster mini-golf in San Francisco with a Day of the Dead hole and even a faux earthquake
So it's come to this. Now we're being ironic ironically.
Ben Affleck Banned from Playing Blackjack at Hard Rock Casino After Getting Caught Counting Cards
Pardon my skepticism. I'm fairly certain Ben Affleck's lips move when he read Highlights Magazine.
The latest obstacle in obstacle racing is bloody diarrhea
Extreme sports, extreme dysentery; whatever.
The artificial leaf that could power the world
Ah, yet another science article, claiming the greatest breakthrough since campfires, without any math in it.
At least 9 arrested in Seattle anti-capitalist march
Consider, if you will, how much education it would require to find yourself dumb enough to be "anti-capitalist." It's like being anti-gravity.
North Korea releases list of U.S. ‘human rights abuses’: ‘The U.S. is a living hell’
Don't I know it. Preach it, brother. It's getting so I have to skim my pool twice weekly.
Well, there you go. Hope your Saturday goes great, and I trust someday you find the peace and contentment seldom found outside a Nork rice paddy.
Friday, May 2. 2014
"Poor people get fat, and watch TV" because they are too passive: The Myth of Poverty:
When we think of true poverty, the famous picture of the migrant mother in the Dust Bowl comes to mind, but today’s poor look more like Honey Boo Boo’s mom. They live in big houses or subsidized apartments. They play video games. They watch TV on a massive screen and they stuff their faces.
What do these people do in exchange, to justify their existence and to pay back to a generous society which helps support them and, often, their kids? Or does the entitlement state erase a sense of obligation, duty, and gratitude to tribe, community, and nation?
The free-loaders are what bother me. I have known plenty of people who are poor by life-style choice, but they are not seeking freebies from their neighbors via government programs and they are neither fat nor lazy. You know some such people too, I'm sure. What do they do?
I'll start with a few people I have known in that latter category: Maine Guides, ski instructors, organic farmers with small plots, tennis bums, aspiring artists, actors, writers, and dancers, pastors with tiny congregations, grad students, Catholic priests, nuns and monks, older people with minimal savings who would rather try to live on Social Security than to keep working at something - and I could go on. Many do not choose to make accumulating money their life priority although few people would refuse a windfall.
Your examples of such people are welcome in the comments.
When Bird Dog told me he needed a rest, and was heading out to "take the waters," I pictured him going to one of those fancy hotels with lots of ceramic tile on the walls, within sight of the Danube, where all the women speak with a heavy Bavarian accent and they smear you with the local mud. Silly me. Let's get these links out of the way so I can go post Bird Dog's bail. Apparently, to him, "taking the waters" means shoplifting a couple of bottles of Poland Spring and some beef jerky in a convenience store on Staten Island.
The Slow Death Of Purposeless Walking
Why single out walking? No one has any purpose for much of any activity anymore.
Are Americans "The Weirdest People In The World"?
Sure, if you think a profound sense of fairness, coming and going, is "weird."
Yesterday's handwringing was over hackable traffic signals. Today, it's hospitals: It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
Yes, I can walk into any operating room in the country and sneeze into some poor sod's open chest cavity if I feel like it. What's your point?
The White House has issued a report calling for stronger privacy laws to guard against mass-data collection
Who says Barry doesn't have a sense of humor? That's hilarious.
The Rise and Fall of Circus Freakshows
The author's confused. Nothing much has changed. Instead of paying a carney in a booth to see the geeks and freaks, you pay a transit worker.
Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88
Now what am I going to do with my 43-Man Squamish uniform?
A Photo Collection of Hippies in San Francisco in the Mid-Sixties
Why do Americans worship the layabout? Bill Gates gets more bad press than street bums ever did.
The New Yawk Times has an online utility to help you "Divide Your Rent Fairly."
The modern young urban American seems entirely incapable of dealing with other human beings face to face. This is Exhibit A.
The Next Star Wars Movie is Getting Bad Reviews Before It's Emerged From The Concept Stage
Never mention to these people that none of the Star Wars movies were any good. It upsets them greatly
Via our friend at American Digest, a long form cri de coeur called: Programming Sucks
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro,1 you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver."
They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it's certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you're an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming.
It's an enormous misappropriation of the word to call software designers "engineers." You're stressed because your stuff doesn't work, you're incompetent, and people notice it from time to time.
Boehner Calls on Kerry To Testify About Email In Benghazi Subpoena
God, I hope it's a closed-door session. John Kerry's weird facelift fetish has morphed him from plain old Lurch to full-blown Frankenstein monster.
Amusing Video At The Borderline Blog for Boys: Father Time Rides A Chopper, Son. Don't Mess With Father Time
Young feller got schooled.
There you go. Read all that stuff. It won't make you any dumber, I promise. After I bail out Bird Dog, I'm going to ask him to chain me to an oar on the other side of Maggie's Farm's Trireme. My left bicep needs work.
Thursday, May 1. 2014
Between the Bundy mess, ACA, and a myriad of other issues currently presented to the American citizen, we may be faced with another situation of government overreach very soon.
Is it any surprise the idea emanates from a Democratic Party Think Tank? No, not really. Force and coercion are their stock in trade.
Compulsory voting is a very bad idea. While there is sometimes more than one choice on any ballot, I have definitely felt the need to abstain from voting simply because I didn't like the choices. Furthermore, not voting is a 'vote'. It is an expression of either complacency (I'll accept whatever everyone else wants) or disgust (I have no use for anyone on the ballot). When I abstain, it's always out of disgust.
The right to vote is akin to a right of free expression. In fact, it is free expression. Compulsory voting, as a result, is a violation of your right to free speech.
Chalk this up to the two parties (because while the Republicans would likely oppose it, if it passed they would support it just like they are beginning to give up on repealing the ACA) wanting to make false claims of 'popular support' where none exists, and further increase their choke hold on the voting public.
Bird Dog needs therapy, so you're stuck with me. I imagine he's
currently trying to convince some girl to rub him the wrong way in order
to relax his tense muscles. He should just read the papers. Everything
in there will rub you the wrong way.
Half the population of Illinois would move if they could.
Sounds low. Hell, I wish I could move to Illinois, just so I could move out of Illinois.
15 "Retronym" Terms in modern usage.
Retronym? Hmm. The term the author is looking for most of these terms is "a debasement."
Delightful Portraits From Around America, at Slate
The photographer, and her audience, aren't accustomed to regular people.
He's not obscure, exactly; he's just not universal. Ahmad Jamal in 1959
I don't know about you, but Ahmad Jamal seems cooler than I am.
Wired is very concerned that Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars
Yes,
and a man could walk into the middle of any intersection and start
directing traffic, and people would obey him if he looked legit. So
what?
Supreme Court reverses patent judges (again) in 9-0 decision on lawyer fees
The Supreme Court wants to ensure lawyers get paid, coming and going. Duh.
Driver caught using cell phone jamming device
I'm not saying he should have done it. I'm saying I understand.
Guess "The Deadliest Animal in the World" before you click this link to Bill Gates' blog
I got it wrong. I hereby apologize to my cat.
Grantland is flummoxed that the world's greatest living juggler quit and opened a construction company
People who can't do much of anything are always astonished that people than can do something can do something else, too.
Apple freaks can't understand why nothing can kill the PC. Since the iPad can't do it, Dustin Curtis figures cellphones will
Dustin's
hypothesis is that old people don't count. My hypothesis is that young
people can't find their ass with a map and a flashlight.
Inc. Magazine wonders about The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship. Ooh, sounds pretty grim -- to a journalist
Take it from me. Entrepreneurism isn't easy, but it's a porcupine, and all the needles face out.
The Execupundit:
As the
employees examined some of the equipment, the owner stood by and said
nothing. He was remembering how difficult it had once been to afford
those machines, even the basic ones. What the employees regarded as
standard, he saw as an achievement.
Institutional memory is important.
The Times is shocked that Yahoo's Marissa Mayer's remuneration is tied to the performance of a company she manages
Lots of things shock the Times -- except shocking things, generally. CEOs get a piece of the action, and talking about it like it's wages is stupid. Me? I just like saying "Marissa Mayer's remuneration" over and over.
NASA appears to have allowed people to vote on the design of their latest spacesuit, with predictable results.
What happened to you NASA? You used to be cool.
How I removed Email From My Life
Install of labeling it, threading it, full-screening it, and adding it Google Hangouts, I just answer my emails. Seems easier.
The Mayor of Toronto, currently up for re-election, has apparently been seen smoking crack. On video. Again.
He and Marion Barry should star in a buddy picture.
Wednesday, April 30. 2014
 For Some, Caffeine Addiction Is Dangerous
Good grief
Is breast truly best?
Probably doesn't matter much at all. Most Moms and babies like it, though
Whole Foods Quackery
G.K. Chesterton in 1000 Words
Short sex is pretty normal, it turns out
Half of human copulation takes 2 minutes or less. Quickies are efficient, but not so much fun for the gals.
Why teens are rebelling against Facebook
"Shoes especially"
Andrew Sullivan on Friendship
Dalrymple: I will never complain again
Smith College tangled in knots re gender identity
Female Performance Artist Shocks the Art World By Staging Event That Doesn't Involve Her Vagina At All
New Poll Shows America Is More Racist Than Ever
Climate Models Behaving Badly
When does reality ever comply with models?
Average Retirement Age In America Hits Record High
That's a good thing. Work keeps people young and engaged.
Never too late to learn: McGovernite Rides Mobius Loop
Who’d a-thunk it? The USPS used its coercive monopoly power to squash the digital mail startup Outbox?
A Walmart Fortune, Spreading Charter Schools
The NY Times seems to feel that is a bad thing, but they use private schools for their kids and thus have choice
Bummer: Your Pets Are Mucho Evil For Climate Change
KEYSTONE PROTESTER: Our People Are Willing to Die to Stop Pipeline
Good grief. Why not just protest to close the pipeline that heats your house?
U. Wisconsin-Madison’s Advanced Pleasure Workshop: Sex Out Loud
No, Facts Don’t Matter in Duke Lacrosse Case
College ‘Trigger Warnings’ Get Noticed by the MSM
Trigger Warnings trigger me
Professors decry Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ as racist, demand a less ‘offensive’ remake
Reaping the consequences of “Smart Diplomacy”
Related: The leader of the world’s only superpower just “wants to be alone.”
To eat his waffle? Many Americans may be uninterested in geopolitics, but the world doesn't feel the same. It's the big game.
Why Dennis Prager is Dangerous to Young Conservatives
Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders - Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time
Clemency is one thing, but if the laws are dumb, change the laws
Sharyl Attkisson: Obama White House Directed Incorrect Benghazi Narrative
Dem congressman: Let’s face it, pretty much all criticism of Obama is racist
Mead:
Here’s a shocking idea: liberals should be liberal, especially on college campuses. To be truly liberal, you must endorse the free exchange of ideas. The university doesn’t exist to swaddle students in a protective cocoon, safe from any possible offense, insult, or challenge to their beliefs. It exists, in part, to prepare students for the rough-and-tumble of real life. It cannot do so by coddling students and warding off any possible “triggers” that could upset them. By practicing illiberal liberalism, colleges are failing in yet another way to prepare students adequately for real life.
The Persistent Survival of Anti-Semitism
The Iraqi Military’s Downward
Spiral
Tuesday, April 29. 2014
 Could we live longer by eating less?
Probably, but how long do you want to live?
Why gluey mashed taters?
What the Heck Do I Do with Dandelion Greens? These weedy pests should be on your next dinner plate
What the Heck Do I Do with Dandelion Greens?
These weedy pests should be on your next dinner plate
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NYC: Above-ground remnants of the Croton Aqueduct
5 of the Biggest Myths About Pain
UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record
Let’s Kill the Media’s Stereotype of ‘Incompetent Dads’
Behold: the two absolutely worst arguments against homeschooling
Crazy in Colorado, or are male philosophy profs really sexist pigs?
Making cost-benefit college choices - Students should use
online tools to compare payoff to costs
‘Man Up,’ ‘Don’t Be A Pussy’ Labeled Offensive Language at Duke University
The gospel according to Hillary Clinton
"I guess I'm a racist" So What?
‘Check your donor lists’: Paul Begala advises conservatives not to defend Donald Sterling; Instapundit leads schooling
The Good News about Racism in America
The Guardian tries to claim global warming sank the Titanic – research says the exact opposite
Best comment there: "It would be nice to know if there was something global warming and CO2 weren’t the root cause of."
Why does Minneapolis hate America?
A Doctor's Declaration of Independence - It's time to defy health-care mandates issued by bureaucrats not in the healing profession:
In my 23 years as a practicing physician, I've learned that the only thing that matters is the doctor-patient relationship. How we interact and treat our patients is the practice of medicine. I acknowledge that there is a problem with the rising cost of health care, but there is also a problem when the individual physician in the trenches does not have a voice in the debate and is being told what to do and how to do it.
As a group, the nearly 880,000 licensed physicians in the U.S. are, for the most part, well-intentioned. We strive to do our best even while we sometimes contend with unrealistic expectations. The demands are great, and many of our families pay a huge price for our not being around. We do the things we do because it is right and our patients expect us to.
So when do we say damn the mandates and requirements from bureaucrats who are not in the healing profession? When do we stand up and say we are not going to take it any more?
Clinton Library's Doc Dump Reveals CRA Fueled Subprime Bubble
George Will: 'Global Warming is Socialism by the Back Door'
David Horowitz: Who Are Our Adversaries? Conservatives must wake up to the true nature of the people many still call “liberals.”
Memo To Dr. Yellen: Don’t Look Now But The Wealth Effect Is Over Straight talk about gay Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio
The Good News about Racism in America
Monday, April 28. 2014
 The EPA Is Going to Regulate Wood-Burning Fireplaces Out of Existence
That is not from The Onion. Wood stoves and furnaces, and charcoal grills too. These bureaucrats are crazy and drunk with power.
"Everything that is not banned should be mandatory." Your moral and intellectual superiors say so. It's all for the best, for the greater good. Trust them.
Sunday, April 27. 2014
In time, these houses won't be as ugly and more will be able to be produced in shorter periods of time. I'd expect these innovations to be available soon, too. Say three to five years. Affordable homes are much needed here in the U.S. I expect some entrepreneur here will figure out how to make that work very soon.
I am more intrigued by a 3-D printed home than by the tiny house 'movement'.
Watching Face the Nation now, and they are discussing the Don Sterling racism situation. Which is good, after all, the media has covered Bundy's obtuse behavior, trying to make his racism more important than his legitimate claims of government overreach. Several clips of people, including Obama, speaking out against Sterling's statements, were shown. Some called for the NBA to "do something" to Sterling.
However, the show spent all of maybe 20 seconds discussing Sterling with Dem. Senator Clarie McCaskill before she shifted the discussion to a bill she is working on. I wonder why?
Oh, here it is! Sterling has a 100% track record of Democratic donations.
In addition, Sterling has another honor to look forward to which will likely be pulled.
Personally, I thought Doc Rivers' son, Jeremiah, had the best response.
Saturday, April 26. 2014
You might not be interested in geopolitics, but geopolitics is interested in you. A good summary, from Mead: The Return of Geopolitics - The Revenge of the Revisionist Powers
Alaskan Polar Bears Threatened…By Too Much Spring Ice.
They do acknowledge the rather obvious fact that bears have legs and go to where the food is. They can swim for miles, too, and seem to like to do that.
Friday, April 25. 2014
My pic above is Newport, RI. Nice little town in the most corrupt mob-union state in the US.
Mark Twain on dueling
Nutrition should be considered folklore
A book: Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
The deadly war on e-cigarettes
Limbaugh Back After Week Off for Second Cochlear Implant
Ladies' Home Journal to End 130-Year Run as Regular Magazine
*Music
at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert* - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/04/music-at-midnight-the-life-and-poetry-of-george-herbert.html#sthash.jpFJhS6D.dpuf
Student Goverment Votes to Change Oppresive, Racist ‘Utah Man’ Fight Song
The most interesting dilemmas are moral dilemmas.
The Dutch and their Moroccans
Asian-Americans, affirmative action, and the
“political restructuring” doctrine: Does the doctrine work when there
are minority groups on both sides of the issue?
Russia, India, China planning epic $30 Billion Oil Pipeline that could shift the Geopolitical balance
Guess Who Makes More Than Bankers: Bank Regulators
Why it pays to be an environmental skeptic
How did Harry Reid get so rich?
Even the WaPo: Keystone XL’s continued delay is absurd
SEAN HANNITY Responds to Cliven Bundy’s “Beyond Repugnant, Beyond Despicable” Racist Comments
Al Gore Is Not Giving Up
Small Businesses Figure Out How to Cope With Obamacare
Thursday, April 24. 2014
Our favorite designer of professional womenswear (see Forbes: Nora Gardner Turns A Careerwear Challenge Into Winning Looks) has come out with...
... a line of men's polo shirts with her seahorse logo.
It's Spring up here, so I'm gonna get me one, in black. Be the first guy on your block to have one. Those Brooks Brother's dead sheep logos are so dorky, and the Ralph Lauren polo player is just plain gay, and nobody wants to be gay unless they are. A seahorse is cool, like Neptune.
Photo is a Nora Gardner day-to-night dress.
Wednesday, April 23. 2014
We probably all remember Obama's "You didn't build that" speech. Which, of course, was really lifted from Elizabeth Warren's "You didn't build that" speech, itself lifted from yet someone else whose views helped frame the Occupy Movement.
Continue reading "You Didn't Build That, and We Want More"
A reader sent that pic of an American Egret in New England, with dramatic breeding plumage.
Nepal's Sherpas Cancel the 2014 Climbing Season
Good riddance. The entire Everest Carnival is plain stupid. Unemployed Sherpas are welcome to apply for work at the Farm.
The 7500 Square Foot Soho Loft That Just Sold For $27 Million
Who makes mysterious rectangular tree holes?
Exploding student debt threatens families
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
Re Piketty: New Book Argues Higher Taxes Needed To End Wealth Disparities
We need more capitalism, not less: Piketty Gets It Wrong - Instead of berating capitalists, we need to make it easier for workers to join their ranks.
One True Cause of Inequality
In the US, it's not the 0.01% of movie stars, rock stars, sports stars, hedgie stars, and NYC heiresses. It's the other end - single parents. Anyway, Piketty is French and thus not worth thinking about.
Video: Best campaign ad of the cycle?
VDH:
...common to all these cases is the notion of a technocracy of better-educated elites who know what is best for their social inferiors. They just know that gas-burning yokels have to be taught to forgo natural gas. For the right people to be in places to affirm affirmative action, then hoi polloi must accept that affirmative-action allowances be made to give them power. They know that tea-party zealots have to be taught that their politics are bad for America’s trajectory and that tax laws must make accommodations for that fact. Women must somehow be persuaded that liberal abortion laws are good for both them and the collective.
Once we go down that road of assumed noble ends justifying questionable means, then anything becomes not just possible but assured.
Voters can bar racial discrimination by their government, for now
Mozilla, Duck Dynasty, Chick-fil-A, and the politicization of everything
Obama planning expansion of clemency for “thousands” of non-violent offenders
I entirely agree with the administration on that. In fact, I would go much further.
Reporter Asks State Dept for One Accomplishment from Hillary Clinton’s Big Review Process. Let’s See What Happens.
Sotomayor Attacks John Roberts' Views On Race As 'Out Of Touch With Reality'
Whoa
Re Sotomayor: "Her argument amounts to an assertion that a ban on racial discrimination
is a form of racial discrimination--that everyone is equal, but some
are more equal than others."
CARSON: When government looks more like foe than friend - Feds who send arms against ranch families betray American values
Monday, April 21. 2014
When Lenin backtracked on Bolshevism
Hottest magazine right now for young women: Real Simple
Why It's a Big Deal That Half of the Great Lakes Are Still Covered in Ice
Shortest US graduation speech ever? Nobel economist Thomas Sargent’s list of 12 valuable economic lessons
De Blasio vs. carriage horses
What about the Amish horses?
Under The Streets Of Naples, A Way Out For Local Kids
Over the Hill? Cognitive Speeds Peak at Age 24
An Obituary For High Frequency Trading: The Adaptive Genius Of Rigged Markets
I don't think HFT is so bad
Marxism is back, and Thomas Piketty’s new book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” might be its new Bible. But both
Piketty and the Marxist movement miss the real danger of inequality.
Politics as class warfare
Our Nudge in Chief: How, and why, Cass Sunstein believes laws and public policies should help save us from our irrational impulses
His faith in the sublime wisdom of politicians, bureaucrats and experts amazes me.
Hinderaker: The War On Standards Comes to College Debate
Liberals now love Barry Goldwater, but his 1964 loss won the GOP’s future
Resegregation in the American South - Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back.
Taranto: "This column probably isn't the first to notice a recent intensification of liberal and Democratic rhetoric about race."
Bundy Family Unearths BLM Mass Cattle Grave
Krauthammer on how campaign disclosure got screwed up
Al Gore dupes 9000 people in Hawaii, insults the rest
WH Counterterror Chief: Parents Need to Watch for ‘Sudden Personality Changes in Their Children’
Dem consultants telling candidates not to use the word 'recovery'
Or the word Obamacare
Warmists explain that skeptics have mental problems
Good grief
The United States of SWAT? Military-style units from government agencies are wreaking havoc on non-violent citizens.
“86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers”
Pro-Labor Media Group Resists Own Staff’s Unionization
Somin: Speed limits, immigration, and the duty to obey the law
Study: Fuels from corn waste
not better than gas
The Middle East War on Christians - Muslim-majority nations are doing to followers of Jesus what they did to the Jews.
Big Revamp of Pentagon’s Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers Looks a Lot Like Old Revamp
“86M
Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers” - See
more at: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=53371#sthash.ZTFVSwXO.dpuf
Friday, April 18. 2014
Via Am. Thinker, explaining the deep thinking of a Soros employee:
...It’s an outlook that is deeply critical, even skeptical, of systems, models and sedimented language, but is ultimately rooted in worldly faith, rather than skepticism itself.
Letting beings be — trusting them to come forth — it seems to me, is the motivating sensibility of radically progressive activism. It’s a question of faith — in the world, in polar bears, in sea turtles, in pygmy owls, in the authority of poetry and painting, in the rightness of ice that has cooled our planet for 800,000 years and is now coming apart.
What about dinosaurs? And the "rightness of ice"? Ice is never right in a gin Martini but, OK, it is right in a Mint Julip and in a Coke with a lime. The guy sounds psychotic to me. Word salad.
 Duke Porn Star Inspires Other Co-Eds to Become Strippers
Why not become whores?
Adultery site big in Japan where marriage reigns
Best lunch deal in NYC
10 Most Disappointing Destinations in the World
Oh, No, Not Another College Tour! Every school has gone green. How about telling us something interesting?
In the business world, it's called "green marketing." It's gone out of style though.
Wild Horse Crisis - What’s the best way to control an invasive species: Round them up or shoot them?
Hardly a crisis, I think. There used to be bison, before that wild camels and all sorts of ungulates in the American West. The Indians killed 'em all except for the bison. What is best? I don't know. The wild horses are eating the food of the cattle.
Why Crony Capitalist Brats Make Me ILL
Antisemitism Explained From An Objectivist Perspective
There is a lot packed into that essay
Also, a lot in this one: Blame George Washington - The first president and the origins of American corporate welfare - link fixed
Should We Force People to Save for Retirement?
How government medical care in Russia takes care of cancer patients
An amusing Klavan vid here, discussing Libs and Conservatives.
Yes, he is an ex-Lib, like so many of us.
Al Gore Calls Global Warming Skeptics “Immoral, Unethical And Despicable”…
That's me!
Censorship is Coming! New Jersey College Silences a Professor Over a ‘Game of Thrones’ T-shirt
High School Girl Screamed at for Carrying Bible in Hallway
Peter LaBarbera Arrested for Professing Christianity in Canada
Warmist Scot Lehigh: This Democracy Thing Is Bad For Climate Change
Steyn: The slow death of free speech - How the Left, here and abroad, is trying to shut down debate — from Islam and Israel to global warming and gay marriage
Krauthammer Against the Tyrants - It's official: The Left is out of control.
Proposed Common Core standards omit ‘liberty’ from list of America’s founding principles
A voice from an American rebel: The Pig Trap
Selfless Crusader Against Income Inequality to Heroically Accept
$225,000 For Nine Months of Sub-Part-Time Work from State-Funded
Organization to Occasionally Give a Few Quotes About the Scourge of
Income Inequality
White House: “Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change”
When I was a kid, there didn't use to be weather, but I blame the Weather Channel.
Telling ‘Noble Lies’ About Climate Change Will Backfire - Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is a serious mistake
Megan McArdle goes off on suspicious Census Bureau/Obamacare methodology switch
Sultan on Passover: From slavery to freedom
Wednesday, April 16. 2014
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