Month: April 2005

Today is the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, and considering that there are so many unanswered questions, it’s worth giving this whole matter another look. I’ve posted about this (repeatedly), and the most comprehensive post I’ve seen recently in the blogosphere is this one by Bizblogger (which includes a review of Jayna Davis’s…

I just heard there’s a new pope, but no word yet about the details. Nothing on Drudge. UPDATE: Drudge now has his siren up. No white smoke yet. UPDATE: They just announced that Josef Cardinal Ratzinger was selected, and he has chosen as his papal name Benedict XVI. MORE (1:00 p.m): Last week I had…

Via Roger L. Simon’s link to BoiFromTroy, I am sorry to see evidence that Howard Stern and Jeff Jarvis (who’s not PTC approved) were apparently right about this administration’s plans to expand the role of the FCC. (Not a new issue for me.) BoiFromTroy also links to Brendan Loy: This attempt to expand the power…

We have a lot of moms who are concerned about everything from the deficit to air quality, particularly in North Texas. — Melody Townsel, of Mothers Opposing Bush, last summer. John Bolton put me through hell — and he did everything he could to intimidate, malign and threaten not just me, but anybody unwilling to…

Are environmentalists, by opposing new food technologies and life saving pesticides, actually harming people in Third World countries, and preventing their economic advancement? I just ordered Eco-Imperialism, by Paul Driessen which claims this is the case, and offers detailed documentation. Here’s Amazon’s Product Description: Reveals a dark secret of the ideological environmental movement. The movement…

Thanks to a tip from Robot Guy, Eric pointed me toward the latest article on the Oxyrhynchus papyri, promising a 20% increase in the body of classical texts. I’d seen an earlier, shorter version of the story but this one made it seem much more significant. For more than a century, it has caused excitement…

Was that (asked recently of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) a political question? At the risk of being politically and sexually redundant, I keep saying that when the political becomes sexual, then the sexual is political. Well, I’m glad to see that on this point at least, left and right are increasingly finding agreement. Here’s…

Considering that yesterday was official Buy A Gun Day, I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and actually buy a gun of some sort. Being somewhat of a cheapskate, I poked around on the Internet, and finally found a local dealer who was having a special on “Bulgarian” Makarovs. I bought one…

As regular readers know, I try to keep my non-blog life out of this blog to the extent possible. But considering the scientific posts which keep cropping up on this blog lately, I thought interested readers might enjoy knowing that I have myself co-authored an important research paper: Decoupling Journaling File Systems from Interrupts in…

Whether in politics or life, inconsistencies and contradictions both intrigue and frustrate me, but fortunately I have this blog to help me see them more clearly. I guess I could use the politically loaded term “double standards” instead of “inconsistencies” but that seems more argumentative, and I really dislike arguments because I do far too…

I said it before, I said it repeatedly, and I’ll say it again: UNSCAM has been and remains a multinational bipartisan coverup involving both parties, big oil and more. Right now the fuss in the press revolves around a sleazy American oil company, a notorious, 1970s-vintage Korean influence peddler, and a Bulgarian. Anything to avoid…

An email from a friend directed me to some vital science news. It appears that two scientists have named slime mold beetles for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld! The following comes from the text forwarded to me without a link: Slime-Mold Beetles Named for Politicians Grumps and cynics often compare politicians to worms, bugs and other…

Bloggers have made it to the front page of today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, which features a story headlined “Bloggers count on cybertips“: The tip jar, which took hold in the early 1990s with the explosion of coffee bars, has long since extended its guilt grip to the dry cleaner, doughnut shop, and ice-cream drive-through. So it…

Evan Coyne Maloney supplies graphic proof that targets depicting the president riddled with bullet holes are popular on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. (Via InstaPundit.) Not surprising at all. And while I don’t say this in defense of Manhattanites, I suppose the argument could be made that they’re a tad kinder and gentler than San Franciscans,…

Another American civilian has been taken hostage in Iraq. A US hostage in Iraq has appeared on a video tape urging his government to “open a dialogue with the Iraqi resistance” to save his life. The hostage is believed to be Jeffrey Ake, a subcontractor who went missing on Monday, say US officials. US Secretary…

A miraculous blogospheric event has taken place! The Anti-Carnival has arrived! To share in the joyous festivities, go and read the Cardinal of the Vanities #134 – Avignon Edition! This week’s Carnival so irritated His Eminence Laurence Cardinal Simon (history’s only formerly Amish Cardinal), that invoking his divine authority, he has declared the godless Dr…

It looks like Eric’s valiant old friend isn’t the only pitbull worthy of that title (Link from the Right Coast): Two dogs whose breed has a reputation for being mean played the roles of rescuers for a woman who was being attacked by another dog. A red chow was on top of Angie Pecoraro, 22,…

I took a test which automatically tells you your Unitarian Jihad Name. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sister Hand Grenade of Patience. Get yours. ( Via Brother Howitzer of Moderation.) Did I really need to know I was patiently waiting to blow up?

According to Newsmax, the Arizona Minutemen are poised to invite “Artillery Hillary” Clinton to see their border operation up close. “We’re thinking of inviting Hillary Clinton,” Minuteman founder James Gilchrist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity, adding that he’d already looked into flight arrangements to Arizona for the former first lady and could provide appropriate…

Via Charles Johnson, I see that Heather Mac Donald has expanded upon Steven Levy’s contention that blogosphere lacks “diversity.” If the top blogs link to other top blogs, Levy assumes that they are doing so out of race and gender solidarity. Levy is suggesting that if an Alpha blogger comes across a dazzling blog, he…