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I Must Have Missed It
Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a ‘crackpot’ - News, People - The Independent
As literary feuds go it has the all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America’s great man of letters, Gore Vidal.
I’m sorry, but when did Vidal become “America’s great man […]
Government as Criminal Enterprise
U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti - CNN.com
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said.
Given that Haiti is one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, my guess […]
Obama the Diplomat vs. the NORK Reich
Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city. […]
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If That’s What It Is, It’s Okay With Me
A ‘Scott Brown Republican’ is pro-choice, anti-tax - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election - USATODAY.com
Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., told Barbara Walters he supports Roe v. Wade and believes that states should decide the issue of gay marriage, not the federal government, during an interview that aired today on ABC’s […]
Dreams Of Ashes
Via Althouse comes a parable of class warfare.
Legend has it that during a brutal contract bargaining session, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s enforcer, attempted to break the tension by passing around snapshots taken during a visit to Maxon Lodge, a gorgeous hideaway in the woods of northern Michigan.Walter Reuther, architect of the United Auto Workers’ rise, […]
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Bring Out Your Dead
Omnivoracious: Omni Daily News: Remembering J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Louis Auchincloss
J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) CNN has reported that author J.D. Salinger passed away yesterday at his home in Cornish, N.H. Jerome David Salinger was 91 years old.
Yes, I know, he turned into a crotchety hermit, and he was a one-hit wonder, but […]
Apple Apathy
So, am I the only one who thinks Apple’s new maxiPad will be a bloody mess? And doesn’t care?
Unacceptable Statistics
Homeowner’s behavior a mortgage factor
A mortgage borrower’s personal traits and behaviors, not just income or credit scores, affect the ability to repay the mortgage, U.S. researchers suggest.
Well, duh.
But I’m sure that a brief look at the numbers will show disparate results when grouped by race, sex, national original, or other factors. The perpetually aggrieved will […]
They Breed
Here’s a poo storm:
Welfare is like feeding stray animals
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem. If you give an animal or a person ample food supply, they will reproduce — especially […]
the light at the end of the tunnel
May not necessarily be an oncoming train. It is often repeated here that if the government would just stay out of our lives we would be alright.
It is here—at the grassroots level—that you can best glimpse the essential sources of American resiliency. American society draws most of its adaptive power not from its elite precincts […]
In Transit To Las Vegas…
I have managed, through various means and for several reasons, to work up a visit of several days’ duration to the SHOT Show, which, as most hereabouts will know, is the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades Show, being held this year in Las Vegas, NV, aka Disneyland For Adults.
Reasons:
1) I’ve been to Las Vegas, The […]
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Crash
Reuters AlertNet - France fears everyone inside U.N. HQ in Haiti dead
Haiti is the most corrupt nation in the world. In corrupts nations, every government building is substandard, because all are built as part of a boodle payoff to some friend or faction. Want to bet a French contractor had a lot to do with […]
Appealing to the Modern Masses
Blessed be the mobile phone users and those called the children of iPod
Yesterday, in the church of the City of London Corporation, he presented an updated version of Plow Monday, an observance that dates from medieval times. On this day, the first Monday after Twelfth Night, farm labourers would bring a plough to the door […]
It’s Not “Wearable” Computering - Yet - But…
…it is “just about anywhere” computering - how cool is it, to be able to use almost any surface as your screen and your touch-pad and keyboard - by projection?
And how long (or short) will it be, do you think, before someone merges this with this kind of display projection (from the same company), then […]
Speaking Of Reality…
A rather cold realization dawns for The Waiter.
The writing may seem a trifle over-dramatic to some - but the hard, cold face of deadly self-defense (or, possibly, defense of others) carries sufficient drama for many.
When I visualized that someone was trying to kill me it was so anathema to my being that when I started […]
The Illegitimate President and His Gang
Conservatives Finish 2009 as No. 1 Ideological Group
PRINCETON, NJ — The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.
More broadly, the percentage of […]
The Solution: Blow Up That Road
America as Texas vs. California « The Enterprise Blog
Like California, the Obama team and their congressional allies seem to think that entrepreneurs and business leaders will simply sit there and take it, doing their “civic duty” by paying new direct and indirect taxes, and complying like obsequious puppies with new regulatory requirements. California provides pretty […]
Momentous
American Thinker: American Thinker’s First Six Years
Back when the internet was black and white and spoke only Unix, those of us who played on its sparse grounds (by today’s standards) spent a lot of time speculating what wonderful new talents, projects, and goals might be advanced and/or achieved.
The American Thinker turned out to be one […]
One Bedroom, Three Million Bucks
Dubai to open world’s tallest building
“I bought a one-bedroom apartment on the 80th floor for three million dollars in 2008. With the slide in prices, my loss will be huge, at least theoretically,” one Palestinian businessman told AFP.
Eh? But I thought all Palestinians were poverty-stricken victims of evil Jewish expolitation….
Garden Variety Dumbass
Armchair Commentary: Best Movies of the Decade
From a Seattle critic. Apparently Joe Stalin is no longer making movies, because I’m sure he could have garnered a couple of spots.
The commenters nominate this exercise in snobbish vapidity as “Worst Best Of List of the Decade.”
I concur. I was particularly amused by his selection of […]
A Lot
20 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You - Food on Shine
A few of these sound right on the money, more sound weird, and some sound entirely unbelievable.
A Secret You Should Know About Waiters: We Lie.
Fuck It
Sex Offender Law Nabs Man Shooting Hoops in His Driveway - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Freeman was convicted of fourth-degree sexual assault in 2003 for having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. He was 17 at the time. The conviction required him to spend 10 years on the state’s sex offender list. After seeing the […]
Little Did I Know…
that most of my youth was spent in extreme peril.
One day in my early teens my father came to me and asked for my help. On the way out of the house we stopped on the porch where he opened a wooden crate that was sitting on the floor and removed a cylinder about an […]
Good Riddance
Tacoma Suspect Said to Be Killed by Police - NYTimes.com
The suspect, Maurice Clemmons, 37, was shot and killed after he challenged Seattle police officers who had been looking for him in a working-class neighborhood in south Seattle, Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, told local news agencies. The Seattle police said […]
