Month: March 2007

I have just read the most amazing report. UNIFIL – the UN forces in Lebanon – want to go after Hizballah. UNIFIL would like a more aggressive mandate for its forces to engage Hizbullah on their own, The Jerusalem Post has learned. After last summer’s war in Lebanon and the passing of UN Security Council…

It has come to my attention that my attribution to the Animals of a Nina Simone song was not completely fair. blah blah blah And George Harrison imitated the Shirelles blah blah blah Likewise, the Dovells imitated the Students blah blah blah and blah blah blah The Grateful Dead stole (with help from Owsley Stanley…

Normally I don’t deign to correct grammatical errors, but Glenn Reynolds’ link to what he called an “ongoing disgrace” made me feel obligated to say something about this one: “We will never come out against a religion, but the politics we are against,” said Buckner-Nkrumah. “We believe every Zionist should have a bullet in their…

America left South Vietnam to its own devices in 1975, leading to 2 1/2 million deaths and totolitarian governments in Cambodia and Vietnam. So I assume the anti-war mantra now is: if it turns out no worse than ‘Nam every thing will be fine. Also note that in ’75 all the South was asking for…

Anxiety Insights has a post up about childhood trauma and its relation to depression. Childhood trauma, but not adult trauma, is strongly associated with depression and coronary heart disease in adulthood, say Emory University researchers and colleagues presenting at the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting, being held March 7-10 in Budapest, Hungary. “Little is known…

That’s Clayton Cramer’s take on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Parker, which Cramer calls “very nearly the perfect decision, for the following reasons”: 1. Because it struck down key parts of DC’s gun control law, DC governnment either has to appeal it to the Supreme Court, or actually deal with DC’s violent…

Where was I? India? Gay porn and Christian forgiveness? I don’t know whether there is any way to tie these loose ends together on a Friday afternoon before I lose my head completely, but I’m going to try. I’ll start with Ghandi: I do not believe in forced unions. If you (Nagas) do not wish…

A conversation with Justin brought back fond memories of the following video, which of course I promptly found at YouTube. It’s proof that hideous nihilism respects no boundaries, and that it didn’t start with the blogosphere. So don’t blame me for Ghandian revisionist thinking, OK? UPDATE: Commenter Phelps notes that this video is from Weird…

I know, I know, true confessions are always hard. (No, seriously!) Before I go any further, let me just thank the “right wing hordes” in the blogosphere who have been gracious enough to acknowlege that having been a gay porn star is not necessarily a prohibition against supporting the war, being a Ronald Reagan Republican,…

Well almost. It was on March 7. But considering the time changes between here and Japan, it might be even later than I think. Of course if I turn the date upside down I’m still OK even if it’s the 9th in Japan, because it’s the other side of the world, which means it is…

I was reading a thread at the Netscape blog about why and how Iraq is lost. It made me clarify some of my ideas from an earlier post. One commenter put forth the notion that wars are in fact diplomacy by other means and that the object is to gain a post war commercial advantage.…

I just left the following comment to M. Simon’s last post: Mein Kampf is a bestseller in the Mideast. So why is that Glenn Reynolds’ remark — that fighting and winning a smaller war now is the best way to avoid the genocidal war our enemies want — gets him accused of being a murderous…

The usual quit now and avoid the rush folks are out in force at Winds of Change. One of them comes up with the clever idea that in geopolitics it is wise to avoid moves whose outcome is uncertain. Of course that cedes all uncertain ground to our enemies. Given that most of life is…

Wind energy generation is booming [pdf]. Brussels, 2 February 2007. The booming wind energy markets around the world exceeded expectations in 2006, with the sector experiencing yet another record year. On the day of the publication of the 4th Assessment Report on Climate Change by the IPCC, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its…

Among other things, Ann Coulter has caused renewed interest in the Isaiah Washington case. From her appearance on Hannity and Colmes: Frankly, I didn’t think Edwards was really worth attacking, and I promise you, an audience of conservative news junkies not only know the Isaiah Washington story, they know John Edwards, with his two Americas…

Well the design is hippie. The sentiments not so much. Click on the design to get one. Mugs and other stuff too. The artists? Cox and Forkum of course

It isn’t offensive to gays. It has nothing to do with gays. It’s a schoolyard taunt, meaning wuss. — Ann Coulter, on the correct usage of the word “faggot” On the Hannity and Colmes show recently, Ann Coulter maintained repeatedly that she was joking, did not mean to insult gays, and that the word “faggot”…

I’ve been trying for some time to figure out exactly what “principles” are. Is there a universally agreed-upon definition? All too often, when someone is called “unprincipled” it will arise in a political disagreement — usually over what tactics and methods should be used to advance an argument or a cause. People who play by…

While I’m a skeptic about anthropogenic global warming gas, I have been steadily pointing out the suspicious silence by the MSM on the meat issue — because according to all the official data, human meat consumption is said to be the number one cause of global warming. I now I see that People for the…

A safety Nazi I am not. Nor am I much of an environmentalist. But I was very curious to know what Glenn Reynolds meant when he referred to “pushy Prius drivers,” and Mickey Kaus explained: As Priuses have proliferated from the do-gooder niche into the mainstream, their drivers have gotten as rude and aggressive as…