Month: December 2005

Last week (via Mark In Mexico), I found this startling discussion of Iranian President Mohamed Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial: Yesterday we noted that a Reuters dispatch, titled “Iran’s President Questions Holocaust,” included this sentence: “Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust.” A later version of the dispatch, however, deleted the words “Historians…

Here I go, a non-photographer shooting off my mouth about photography! Well, it’s for a good cause; Glenn Reynolds is putting together a Carnival of the Digital Cameras. Frankly, Glenn’s background in professional photography is a bit humbling, because I’m a total hack who just likes to have fun with a camera. My hope, though,…

Why, Michael Moore, that’s who. (It’s right there on his tax returns.)

Now that Tookie Williams has been executed, I guess the question is whether riots will be triggered, as, um, threatened? (Promised?) I hope not. It’s tough to understand why someone who claimed “redemption” wouldn’t have expressed regret for past crimes — particularly here, as it would have saved his life. What this means is that…

Speaking somewhat rhetorically about the notion that the United States was “warned” by France (about phony intel), Glenn asked recently, “Would you have relied on the French?” No. And I certainly wouldn’t have relied on Wilson either. Not in light of what’s coming out now (albeit in bits and pieces). If this thought-provoking piece in…

Blogging has been light today for a variety of reasons, but be sure to read this week’s Carnival of the RINOs at The Countertop Chronicles. “The Rino Rodeo” is a very witty carnival, and Countertop (a gun blogger after my heart) does a fine job despite an earlier trip to hell. A few faves: SayUncle…

Disturbing, downright intrusive dreams directing my attention to the Maori last night. Awakening with a feeling that I really didn’t need to be dragged into something about which I knew very little, I immediately suspected Steven Malcolm Anderson’s ghost of making mischief with my unconscious. I can’t prove that, of course, but I have as…

NOTE (12/11/05): This post was written last night after I received the tragic news, but as today is the day of Steven’s funeral, I’m moving this to the top of the blog, where it will stay all day to honor him. I just received the saddest personal news in the history of this blog. (I’m…

The sunset was looking spectacularly crazy a few weeks ago, and I’m glad I’m not an augurer, because I wouldn’t want to interpret it. Here’s how it looked: Doesn’t happen very often. (And Steven Malcolm Anderson, I’m missing you. Wherever you are.)

Another screwy airline incident! This time, it appears that a crazed passenger went berserk and among other things threatened a baby. Finally, passengers were forced to take matters into their own hands: About 10 minutes before Flight 91 was preparing to touch down last night in Honolulu, the unidentified 37-year-old Mexican national burst toward the…

When most people think of bigotry, they think of people who have made up their minds about people they never met and don’t know, based on their membership in a group. Identity politics shares this characteristic with bigotry, except that instead of having made up their mind in a negative way about the people in…

A local Philadelphia Imam (whose preachings included references to “our hero, bin Laden“) has been deported back to his native Egypt: An Egyptian cleric arrested during a high-profile federal raid last year on his East Frankford mosque has finally been deported. Mohamed Ghorab, the imam or spiritual leader at the Ansaar Allaah Islamic Society on…

I see that the voting is still open for the Weblog Awards, and I take umbrage with Eric’s previous post on the matter … this is without a doubt the best site around featuring Libertarian Guys Blogging Things. Oh … you mean … I get it now.

As I just reiterated in another post, “A man’s home is his castle!” (But, as the communitarians would counter, “No man is an island!”) With that in mind, this piece by Cathy Seipp really irritated me, and made me glad I don’t have kids, because the undisciplined monsters among them scare the crap out of…

In a discussion of a murder conviction of a man who defended himself against the police and is now on Death Row, Glenn Reynolds touches on one of the worst fears of many a law-abiding gun owner: distinguishing between police and criminals. In a way, this is the flipside of the Miami airport shooting. And…

In a story quick to point the finger of blame at federal officials for shooting mentally ill passenger Rigoberto Alpizar, Time Magazine quotes a passenger named John McAlhaney for the proposition that authorities overreacted, and that Alpizar had been behaving in a “normal” manner before the flight: McAlhany said he saw Alpizar before the flight…

John Lennon a Republican? Hard to know. But Glenn Reynolds adds: I had heard stories of him breaking people’s ribs, and they didn’t seem very credible in light of my memories of the fragile and emaciated Yoko-era John. But looking at the earlier Lennon, well, yeah. Incredible as it may sound to the people forever…

I think it?s more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards. —Rev. Bob Edgar, former Democratic congressman, General Secretary, National Council of Churches I’ve been thinking that statement over, and for the life of me, I’m just not sure what Reverend Edgar means. Does he think the flap…

How is anyone supposed to be able to tell the difference between a crazy person who actually has a bomb, and a crazy person who only thinks he has a bomb? Beats me. (I’ll let you know when I figure it out….)

Via Glenn Reynolds’ link, my attention was drawn to an absolutely monstrous device which instantly makes barcodes for whatever item you might want, at whatever price you might set. Ichiku’s Barcode Magic can be used to generate your own custom pricing labels for whatever price you choose. Since most barcodes use a uniform system, it…