Wednesday, September 6. 2006
Atlas reminds us of the "stench of Soros." Yes, he is trying to buy America, but his name should be a dirty word. Let's make it one. The man hates America, and American traditions, and he likes anything that leads towards world government...controlled by him, no doubt. The battle of freedom vs. empire never ends. People who seek power because they "mean well" are the creepiest of all. Hey, George: "If you're so rich, how come you ain't smart?" I did not realize this, (but how many Americans know anything about Mexican history?). Mexican democracy is facing yet another crisis: To get a sense of the danger hovering over Mexican democracy, consider these numbers: In the 681 years between the founding of the Aztec empire in 1325 and the present day, Mexico has lived for 196 years under an indigenous theocracy, 289 years under the absolute monarchy of Spain, 106 years under personal or party dictatorships, 68 years embroiled in civil wars or revolutions, and only 22 years in democracy.
Whole piece at WaPo. Chimpanzee crossing guards. Cool. "I know the material - I just don't do well on exams." Right.... Betsy Debtors could make a difference in the election? Why? The economy happens to be excellent. If you go into debt, it's your own damn problem. Ankle-Biting Marketing made very simple. This is good. Reasoned Audacity Sometimes you just have to trust the pilot: (stolen from Mr Free Market) 
Tuesday, September 5. 2006
Summer is done. The beaches begin to be deserted, and school, work - Real Life - takes over. The leaves will be turning soon, and another hunting season will soon be upon us. Ye olde blogge has a minor change: We have added a Food and Drink category, and we tried to collect, in there, most of our past posts on those subjects. One comment on the evolution of blogs: We are seeing more blog-and-news aggregators, sites that combine the professionals with the amateurs, and blur the distinctions. Places like Pajamas, Powerline News, Town Hall - we like them very much, and visit them, and admire their ambition, but they aren't much fun. I realize that is a deeply silly criticism, and we are in favor of blurring the pros from the people. Those sites seek visibility, eyeballs, importance, and maybe even income. That's well and good. Maybe 8 million Americans visit blogs regularly - not a huge number. World-wide, who knows? Still, a tiny number. Thus far, we have declined to get on board with these organizations. We do want more readers, but we do not really want ads, and our eclecticism doesn't really fit. We occupy a niche. If you enjoy us, please bookmark us, send our site around, and, if you have a site, blogroll us. We will just "do our own thing" for now. Maggie's Farm: always surprising. Or we try to be. Thanks for reading us. We appreciate it.
 Michael Caine is sick of modern movies. Me, too.
Arrested for stealing garbage? Dumpster-diving is a fine American tradition. These cops goofed. Being a public atheist is not fun. Life is tough. Anti-faith writers: Newsweek Iranians love America. I have said it here many times. Their leaders are just nuts. I do not wish to bomb these good folks. Powerline Healing faith. Dr. Bob Life is not an alcohol deficiency. Psychiatry and AA try to get it together. The government can raise kids better than you can. Of course they can. They are so wise! They do studies! Did the Brits ever read Brave New World? Or did they like it? SDA We offer a Guernsey cow today, to get the fall off to a good start. Most American Guernseys are descendents of the original six imported to the US in the 1840s. Good buttermilk.
Monday, September 4. 2006
 Have a good holiday, readers. I am visiting friends in Rhode Island, and hope to meet the lovely miss on the right at the beach today. I could not find her yesterday, and I have to be back in Pittsfield by Tuesday morning. Cherchez la femme. I once met a Swedish gal like this in Riverside Park, but was too timid to proffer the appropriate invitation. "Let's get something to eat and go back to my place and have some fun." No more. Life is short. Hey, Jude. Carpe diem and all that. Nothin' to lose but your pride and self-esteem, and the agony of rejection: part of the challenge of being a guy: guys have to learn to suck it up. (?)
Jay Tea does religion - an agnostic takes on the faiths of the world. Rick takes on restaurants, and wants the fattiest, most delicious stuff he can find. Climatologists moderate their predictions. Am Thinker A good senior moment joke: Lib Leanings The death of the First Amendment, thanks to McCain-Feingold. From the DC Examiner (via Polipundit) Something almost without precedent in America will happen Thursday. That’s the day when McCain-Feingold — aka the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — will officially silence broadcast advertising that contains criticism of members of Congress seeking re-election in November. Before 2006, American election campaigns traditionally began in earnest after Labor Day. Unless McCain-Feingold is repealed, Labor Day will henceforth mark the point in the campaign when congressional incumbents can sit back and cruise, free of those pesky negative TV and radio spots. It is the most effective incumbent protection act possible, short of abolishing the elections themselves.
The right to self-defence, and the UN, at Willisms. One quote: The UN is most eager to deny that self-defense is a right, because this would obligate the UN to defend the concept of individual self-defense. Since unarmed self-defense in a world full of weapons is too often meaningless, this puts the UN in the position of having to defend the individual right to bear arms. Quelle horror! Is there anything more vulgar to a silk-suited euroweenie diplomat than individual gun ownership? This should not baffle you - the UN and its supporters are proponents of a single world government, under the ludicrous belief that a unitary government would hold a monopoly on all arms throughout the world, thus abolishing violence. Then, once violence is abolished the UN may disarm itself and the glorious new age of peace, love and rainbows can ensue.
Convert or die: The new Al Quaida tape. These guys need a cultural sensitivity program. How come it's always us who need them? The Dem 1864 Party Platform. Astonishing parallels. Gateway Clausewitz on the Iraq war. The politics of war. Dem Project Ernesto wasn't much of a hurricane, but it brought some strong winds to New England. Chris took this in his harbor in CT (more of his storm photos here.) Quite a few boats came off their moorings, despite storm harnesses (heavy cables). 
Saturday, September 2. 2006
Michelle has the numbers to phone 
to complain about their pro-illegal program. It's the job of citizens
to speak their minds. (We are partial to Ballantine Ale, if you can find it. The big glass bottles, which make excellent .22 targets for enjoyable recycling/re-use.) Good wholesome fun for the kids, and you. Ballantine Ale and guns: perfect together.
Only in Lebanon. Photo borrowed from Big Pharoah: 
Frank Furedi in Spiked: How long before British adults will need a licence to parent their children? UK prime minister Tony Blair and his colleagues believe that the solution to society’s problems is to get their hand on the nation’s toddlers before their parents get a chance to ruin them.
Is Maryland ready for a transgender lawmaker? WaPo. I don't get what it is in the first place. Everybody's confused, if they think too much about it. Miller beer sponsoring march for illegals. Michelle ""Border War" does not portray illegal immigrants as economically desperate people who break the law by sneaking across the border then often go on to renew the American dream with their thrift, enterprise and hustle while filling back-breaking jobs that few citizens want." Taking the Cause to the Big Screen
Friday, September 1. 2006
Will launch on Sept. 6. Amazing photo borrowed from Calif Yank 
 Two good hunting pieces for Sept 1: What and how do deer see? And a short profile on the Duck Commander.
An alternative view of the war on terror, by Paul Rogers at Open Democracy New lightbulb. Instapundit Is the sky falling? More on the global warming (absence of) debate. Volokh Munch's Scream found intact. Synthstuff Remember this one from last year? Iowahawk's back to school letter, beginning thus: Dear Parent or Guardian: On behalf of the faculty, staff, administration, and grief counselors of Rockwood District 603, please let me extend a warm welcome to you and your student for the upcoming 2005-6 school year at Rockwood Public Schools. In the enclosed information packet you will find your student's classroom assignment and schedule, a calendar of important dates, staff contact information, and a handbook of detailed first aid tips. Please read and review carefully. Your cooperation will help insure that your student enjoys an enriching and survivable year of educational opportunities.
Thursday, August 31. 2006
Some of our international readers may not know that Labor 
Day, this Monday, is the counterpart of Memorial Day - the official book-ends of summertime, but with both holidays having solemn and important meaning. Labor Day, of course, was designed to celebrate the trade union movement, which succeeded in raising the American blue-collar worker to the middle class. A very worthy accomplishment, but perhaps not a reason for a national holiday. So we ignore its meaning and make a long weekend out of it, which many seem to be beginning today. Image: a 1920s worker's lunch bucket, made by Thermos, no doubt designed to contain a loving wife's preparing of a thermos of coffee, a sandwich, an apple, and a hunk of cheese or something, and maybe a piece of chocolate for her hard-working man. Fresh truffles, out of season, from Australia. A good thing. US incomes rising. That's another good thing. Class and politics. Fabrizio wonders whether the poor are tired of being politically exploited, when they could work - and shop - at WalMart. Am Spectator Chavez taking golf courses for housing projects. So much for private property. Rule #1 of the Left: Make the "little people" dependent on you, no matter what. A propos of Labor Day, Maxed Out Mama takes on Marxism - and wins! Are manatees dumb? Maybe so. NYT Science News Legal bill-padding. What's OK, and what isn't. the Prof Stephen Schneider - MIT's inconvenient scientist. More on the ethanol scam. Synthstuff. Many would be happier if they just called it corn alcohol and gave it away free.
Wednesday, August 30. 2006
 Move-On's "Jew Lieberman"? Is something creepy going on here that I am missing? Israpundit. Sounds like the Dems are going after the anti-semitic vote, big-time.
Never mind. Hyped storm fizzles. American Moslems increasingly huddle together. Bad idea. Daily Pundit. Join the club, or go away. More at LGF: "I don't have to assimilate." Rethinking birthright citizenship. Yes, it's about time to do that. h/t, HH It's the Koran, stupid. Afraid so. View from the Right "Artist" running con job? Kincaid's stuff is popular schlock. h/t Lucianne Never wrote a bit about Valerie Plame. Never believed it was worth the virtual ink. Was right, for once. Hitchins at Slate. A book: The Life of the Mind, by Georgetown's Schall The US-Canada passport mess. This is not good for Canada: fewer than a quarter of Americans have passports. Aren't Commissions great? The Commission on Higher Education cannot say what colleges do. There's a start. Dem. Project. The cow? The Holstein, of course. German. The cow of the northeast dairy business for over 100 years.
Tuesday, August 29. 2006
 Belgium, going down the tubes, with eyes wide open. Opinion Journal. Very sad. And free speech in the UK takes a major hit. Samizdata. Who do these government people think they are?
Alito: "It's sort of surreal." Althouse That was no missile, any more than the missile that hit the Red Cross truck. The press will buy anything if it seems anti-Israel. P'line And for more media bias. the open-border bias: Michelle. The real crime of WalMart? It does more for poor people than the government does. Dino The true secrecy in Washington - how they spend our money to buy votes. Captain Ed. The RICO laws should apply. New Hampshire is supposed to be a loony-free zone, but AVI found one. Mary K. Ham to the MSM: Why we don't believe you. What's going on with the Mexico election? Bad stuff, dangerous, too. Calif Yank The cow? That's a Brown Swiss. The prettiest coat of all dairy cattle, and a good milker, from Switzerland, of course. Only 155 of them were brought to the US before foot and mouth disease halted cow importing in the 1800s. It's about time for some cows on the blog.
Like many of our posts, this one came out of a dinner conversation. Thanks to N for putting this together for us:
In 2004 petroleum products contribute about 40.2 percent of the energy used in the United States. This is a larger share than any other energy source including natural gas with a 23 percent share, coal with about a 22 percent share, and the combination of nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal and other sources comprising the remaining 14 percent share. 
Petroleum products fall into three major categories: fuels such as motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil (diesel fuel); finished nonfuel products such as solvents and lubricating oils; and feedstocks for the petrochemical industry such as naphtha and various refinery gases. Petroleum products, especially motor gasoline, distillate (diesel) fuel, and jet fuel, provide virtually all of the energy consumed in the transportation sector. Transportation is the greatest single use of petroleum, accounting for an estimated 67 percent of all U.S. petroleum consumed in 2004. The industrial sector is the second largest petroleum consuming sector and accounts for about 23 percent of all petroleum consumption in the U.S. Residential/Commercial and the electric utility sectors account for the remaining 8 percent of petroleum consumption. Fuel products account for nearly 9 out of every 10 barrels of petroleum used in the United States. Demand for motor gasoline alone accounts for more than 44 percent of the total demand for petroleum products. Other petroleum fuels include distillate fuel oil (diesel fuel and heating oil), liquefied petroleum gases (LPG's) (including propane and butane), jet fuel, residual fuel oil, kerosene, aviation gasoline, and petroleum coke. Liquefied petroleum gases (LPG's), such as Propane, Butane and Ethane rank third in usage among petroleum products. They are primarily used as inputs, or ‘feedstock’, for petrochemical production processes. LPG's are also used as fuel for domestic heating and cooking, farming operations, and as an alternative to gasoline for use in internal combustion engines. Electric utilities use residual fuel to generate electricity and depend on petroleum for about 5 percent of its total energy requirements. Nonfuel use of petroleum is small compared with fuel use, but petroleum products account for about 89 percent of the Nation's total energy consumption for nonfuel uses. Examples of these uses are: Solvents such as those used in paints, lacquers, and printing inks, Lubricating oils and greases for automobile engines and other machinery, petroleum (or paraffin) wax used in candy making, packaging, candles, matches, and polishes, petrolatum (petroleum jelly) sometimes blended with paraffin wax in medical products and toiletries, asphalt used to pave roads and airfields, to surface canals and reservoirs, and to make roofing materials and floor coverings, pettroleum coke used as a raw material for many carbon and graphite products, including furnace electrodes and liners, and the anodes used in the production of aluminum, petroleum "feedstocks" used as chemical feedstock derived from petroleum principally for the manufacture of chemicals, synthetic rubber, and a variety of plastics. Industry data show that the chemical industry uses nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of natural gas liquids and liquefied refinery gases as petrochemical feedstocks and plant fuel. Petrochemical feedstocks are converted to basic chemical building blocks and intermediates used to produce plastics, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, drugs, and detergents. Petrochemical feedstocks also include products recovered from natural gas, and refinery gases (ethane, propane, and butane). Still other feedstocks include ethylene, propylene, normal- and iso-butylenes, butadiene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and xylene.
 A reader clues us in that gold is back in fashion, that there are only a few more shopping days until Christmas, and that Neiman Marcus has good stuff ("Neims," the gals call it.)
The US Open began yesterday. It's about time. For me, it's the only worthy spectator sport of the year. Black babies exterminated in the US, by liberals. Ten Napel. Religion of peace executes 16 year-old girl. LGF Record number of major black candidates this year. That's good, but we hate counting colors, ever since kindergarten. Speaking of color, how about fiber-optic clothing? 129 kids sent home for poor clothing. Makes sense to me. Dress like a kid, act like one. A change in thinking in the UK re multiculturalism? Wizbang
Monday, August 28. 2006
 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman fails to show up to receive his Fields Medal. His Wikipedia entry reveals him to be an unusual fellow. A heavy dose of IQs can do that to a fellow. Thankful I was only blessed with a modest number of them.
Remembering the remarkable Rahsaan Roland Kirk. NY Sun Humanism and sub-humanism. Gagdad Bob says the Left cannot do vertical. It's an interesting point, but I still think he misses the point - honest communication is not their thing. They say "by all means necessary." Phila. more dangerous than Iraq. Time to re-deploy from Phila? UN aided Hez with military data. Being raised on the sanctity of the UN, we are all slow to get the message.
Sunday, August 27. 2006
 Cold and wet today in Yankee-land, in August. Good day for the first fire in the fireplace, but we are still awaiting the chimney-sweep. Where is all of that warming we keep hearing about? Perfect weather for putting in all of the wierd new hostas that the Mrs. Bird Dog has been finding via the Hosta Society. (Never plant hostas in the sun.)
A few end-of summer, goin' back to school notes: 1. We have added (or are in process of adding, due to some technical glitches) a bunch of new sites to our blogroll - read 'em, if you don't. Here's just a sample of our additions: Sister Toldjah
Solomonia
Jerusalem Post Blog Central
Dust My Broom "Dust my broom," as our literate readers surely know, is a line from a Robert Johnson song. 2. Last chance for the Yankee Farmer: As soon as technically do-able, we are going to blend him into our archives. 3. Food and Drink: Considering a new Category. Dr. Bliss seems like she'd rather write about food than shrinkology: maybe she needs a break from deep thought. Our rule is this: Write about whatever you want. 4. News Junkie: Since so many of us all check at leat a number of blogs and new sites daily, we are urging the NJ to focus on obscure stuff. He won't, because he never does what he is told to do, but we assume everyone checks Drudge, Powerline, and Instapundit daily, without our help. 5. We wonder where blogging is headed. Maybe nowhere, but it's an interesting ride for us. Like magazines, there are too many interesting ones to have time to read, but I find the blog collectors, like Pajama's fine site, a bit dull to look at. I think we will stay independent, and maybe mediocre, and just a strange brew, for now. The eccentric, Yankee way: we do what we want, and if you don't like it, you can leave us alone. None of us has the time for intense writing or reporting, but our readership is growing steadily, which is gratifying. Time, intelligence, and creativity are our limiting factors. For some reason, we don't have the commenting culture here that I would enjoy, but the handful we get are pretty intelligent - and we do not mind criticism, no matter how harsh - if it responds to points - because we know we are far from perfect, and sometimes lazy. Money? We do not want money from the internets, unless it's Big Money. Small money is of no interest to us. We all get that from our day jobs. Why the cheesecake? Many email about that. The female, like a flower, is art. Period. We love art, with or without frames. We also love cold weather - the colder, the better, which is why we are happy to hear about the new global cooling data.
"I'm tired and I want to go home." Max Mayfield to retire. "Stem Cell hustle." Are they really that important, anyway? Town Hall/ Scientists always follow the money, because they live on grants. Is Israel's deterrence damaged? Radlauer in JP Blog Glaciers expanding....due to warming? When reality doesn't fit your narrative... distort reality, of course. Ace via HH Slightly peeved with the UN. Rick Moran What is Cuba really like, these days? Babalu Marrying a career woman seems like a bad idea. SDA Anchoress likes men.
Saturday, August 26. 2006
Goin' back to school? Writing for Maggie's Farm? How to structure your basic essay. Nagin? Big-time loser tries to rebuild image by knocking down others. Very lame. How good is Mark Steyn? Extremely good. Mark on one of our favorites, Alaistair Cookie Cook.(thanks, reader.) Travel with your pets. A growing trend. But I would say - leave them behind. Vacation is for humans. Every day is a vacation for a pet. A day late with the morning after pill. Woops. Yesterday's news. Are the details confusing from the Duke "rape" case? The NYT thinks so. I do not know. Murtha lied. But everyone already knows that. Lib. Leanings. Luttwak on why not to bomb Iran....yet. Not persuasive, in my opinion. Commentary
Friday, August 25. 2006
My  Dear Generale Bird Dog, Kudos for an excellent blog. I read it twice daily, before I brush my teeth in the morning, and before I go to bed with my most recent proletarian sex slave comrade, (carefully selected by Raul from our political prisons Happy Thinking Centers, well-fed, smelling sweet, and cleaned up nice almost like a chiquita South Beach gal with Victoria's Secret thong, etc., just for poor little ol' me). Yes, the girls cheer me up. How would you like a visit from Hugo or Raul on your death bed? Would that cheer you up? No. Or old Mrs. Castro? With her old lady smell? And her Bible and rosary? God forbid! You raise the level of discussion of the entire blogosphere, with wit, intelligence, and cultivation. And you keep my kind of people thinking, instead of stultifying in the coffin of dead ideas and dead theories. We leaders must be stimulated, but, alas, we cannot allow the People to get confused! Keep up the good work. You capitalists have such humor! I wish we could afford it. But please, amigo - just three minor criticisms: Too many Jesus pictures - it reminds me of my blessed mother, God rest her soul. More babes instead, please, to distract us from the subject of age and death. And how come no baseball commentary? And, lastly, how come no stock tips? You Yanquis know the score, but my Swiss bankers were behind the S&P last year, not even including fees! And my hedge funds did great, but after fees, and after your terrible US short-term capital gains taxes, I hardly kept up with inflation! Sheesh. Thanks a ton, Hugo, Thesesa, Cindy, and Hillary, for the necessary introductions to your hedgie friends - I might as well have had a proletarian Vanguard tax-exempt fund! And my "pal" Georgie Soros can ---- me for his after-tax gains! He is a burro and a closet capitalist pig, masquerading as an internationalist socialist! With warmest personal socialist regards from beautiful Cuba, (where the sunshine is from Fidel, the hurricanes are from Bush, the cigars are great, freedom is just a bourgeois indulgence, and the money is from, wait, where? Oh, there isn't any for them, but why do the People need money if they're happy? Free medical care from aging experienced Russia-trained doctors!!! Free rice!!! Free beans!!! Beano from your Miami relatives!!! No more revolution, and no more confusion!!!) Your amigo, Fidel Castro Fidelito PS. Still waiting for that next Viagra shipment from the States, the large WalMart package. I have left orders to leave it all in my coffin, just in case. Not to worry - Raul will send you the cigars via Mexico. Haha. Like Freud? Sometimes a good one is worth a Cuban cigar? Viva WalMart. The price is right. PPS: Are you sure you can sneak me into Sloan-Kettering if I need to go? You have a certain connection? Are you sure they have priests there? It doesn't matter to me, but it matters to my beloved countrymen. I think I might need a good Jewish doctor, and all we have are these glorifed Russian nurses that call themselves "Dr.," and shake so much they give you the creeps. Rum and tequila. If they drink rum at breakfast, they settle down and seem OK, but it's not exactly New York medicine, and Raul says they are 40 years out of date, but what does he know? Their medicines expired in 1972, but its free! Heck, it's good enough for The Little People! But they are ignorant! Thank God! If they got the internets, we'd be SCREWED!
Shamelessly right-clicked from Right Wing Howler: 
Thursday, August 24. 2006
 Should the West decide that Iran has won? And then work from there? I don't know. What I do know is that fighting, while trying to "win hearts and minds," and trying to please the "international community" - whatever that is - does not work. You fight, and maybe make up after, but not during.
Or will Israel decide to take on Iran, mano a mano? Jerusalem Post What do Canadian unions want? They want to try socialism again. It's "progressive"! Dust my broom. On the other hand, those who want to work and to do things - like doctors - have energy and drive and want to work and want more private opportunity. (aka freedom, h/t, Instap.) The Lebanon ambulance hoax - exposed. Michelle The end of easy credit. It's a good thing. First mortgages, then credit cards democratized credit, which had once been a preserve of the privileged. Viking Auster smacks down Heather MacDonald, re God. Right - God is not to be confused with Santa Claus. It's a tempest in a teapot, of course, because who cares about Heather's religious beliefs? She's a fine essayist. A quote from Auster: I’m glad she’s gone public with her views, revealing to the public her uninformed understanding of the Christian and Jewish God, and giving more people the chance to reply. I myself pointed out to her at length that this is not what Christianity says. For example, I noted that the phrase “Thy will be done on earth” in the Lord’s Prayer suggests that in the ordinary course of things, God’s will is not done on earth. I also said that the main point of God’s relationship with man is not that God doles out good material things to man like the government, but that man (through God’s grace) strives to live his life in accord with God’s will. I made many other arguments, including Augustine’s great explanation of evil. None of this made any impression on her. She is basically saying that if Christianity fails to live up to her liberal, secular, and materialist expectations of what Christianity ought to be, then it is a false religion.
What do European Moslems believe? Who feeds them this crap? It's dangerous. Natural selection at work. This is painful. FMFT CT took pride is its Yankee lack of an income tax, until Weicker decided they needed one. It was a short-term fix, but a long term disaster. Zero growth since the tax. Florida Commissioner says "get a gun." Some scream in horror, but it makes sense to me. Fire a shotgun over some bad guys' heads - or into their butts - and they run like hell and soil themselves in the process. They will not come back. They will bother unarmed persons in the future. Maryland's Steele is giving the Dems fits. Blacks are supposed to say "Yowsa, Massa," and never think for themselves. And if they run off the plantation, Donna Brazile, their Simon Legree, will run them down with the baying hounds of the Party and bring them back, dead or in chains. Capn Ed
Good fun. Never heard his voice before. The guy is a natural for radio.
Another Duccio (b. 1255) Don't believe Human Rights Watch any more. They have other agendas. Sowell warns of Islamic fanatics with nukes. What is the world supposed to do about it? The sale at Filson's ends soon. Focus on the Family launching its Truth Project. (h/t, News for Christians) Let Bush be Bush? Scott at Powerline. As further proof that politicization of medical treatment has poor results, see the AIDS industry sucking up all the dollars (piece in Am Spectator): No matter that even the current AIDS budget swamps spending on malaria and tuberculosis, which together kill about twice as many people annually as does AIDS. Antiretroviral therapy for AIDS cures no one and while it costs relatively little in the Third World -- $300-$1,200 per year -- compared to North America, TB can be cured with $65 of medicine. Malaria in Africa and Asia can be prevented for a pittance by spraying DDT, yet environmental activists and the European Union have essentially blocked its use in those areas that need it most.
Alas for these victims, they don't have a politically correct disease. And for that they must die.
Of all people, the LA Times defends WalMart against Dem demagoguery. Everybody likes WalMart. It's a dumb choice of scapegoat. Maxed out Mama on the subject of men. A quote: The best thing a mother raising a daughter can do in this society is to teach her to be virtuous, and to make demands of herself to do the right thing towards others. Then, and only then, will the daughter become an adult woman who is capable of recognizing and appreciating a fine man. Because decency is hard. Decency is a struggle! Trying to live a decent life is an epic adventure much more praiseworthy and admirable than climbing Mount Everest. Anyone who tries it will find that out, and in light of the knowledge of her own failures to live up to her own standards will then be able to appreciate the attempt in a man.
Read the whole thing - worth it.
Wednesday, August 23. 2006
Why Duccio today? I was in a Duccio mood. Never, never jest in airports. No matter how droll you may be. Full of humorless SOBs. Liberals do not reproduce, statistically. I could come up with all sorts of hypotheses to explain why, but I won't. But it makes a difference in voting projections. Opinion Journal Government employee pensions. This will not be pleasing to tax-payers, and it explains why the toll-takers smile despite the crappy job they hold. Ankle Biter Buchanan's book on immigration is # 1. What do liberals mean when they say they want "progressive reforms"? Mickey Kaus responds to Josh Marshall, via Viking Pundit When an armed person breaks into your house and is taking your kids and your stuff, the UN suggests phoning "the appropriate diplomatic channels," to file a complaint. Good essay by Betsy on "How Dionne went wrong" in trying to understand why liberal is a dirty word these days. "Does govt stupidity know any bounds?" No, of course not. That's why we aren't progressive/socialists. Excellent examples at Volokh: they will ruin your day, because we pay for this crap. Update on Dr. Bob's ongoing photo-essay of the construction of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Good stuff. Mandatory voting? Horrible idea. Will never happen. Who wants people voting who don't know and don't care anyway? Ornstein proposes mandatory voting.
Tuesday, August 22. 2006
 New York has their own Lamont, but nobody discusses it. And the moonbattery isn't supporting. Wonder why? (h/t, Instapundit)
Browning will continue to produce Winchester models, now that Winchester is defunct. That is pretty good news. Alphecca. The psychology of fame-seeking. NYT Science News (h/t, Marginal Revolution) 14% of Brits favor immigration. Is anyone listening? Sounds like the US. Tangled Web A fresh look at Mother Courage and Brecht. Horsefeathers. How Islamic terrorists bugger the media, while the media enjoys the experience. Mowbray at RCP (h/t, SDA) Greenland may be turning green again. It was, during Viking times. Cramer looks at the Greenland data. Everybody wants their color in the history books. How mature is that? I call it feel-good history, for babies. Ten Napel. Turns out they use fake wheelchair kids, too. Moonbattery demonstrates their diversity quotas - it's a world of non-history, same as in the Soviet Union: History as You Wished It. Easy to laugh, but it is insidious and destructive as heck. Buddhist monks battle peacenik loonie Tamil Tiger supporters. What a world! David Warren Jihad and the battle of the womb. View from the Right Hey, babe, let's do one for Allah. Cassandra at Villainous Company finds some reason for hope in the essay of an America-appreciating Brit. Did you read Shelby Steele's op-ed piece today? Our readers ought never miss a latest Steele, here, via Conspiracy
Galaxies collide, separating dark from "normal" matter. Science Daily
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