Month: March 2007

Does “the right” have “a penchant” for making things up? That’s a fair question, and it was posed by Skippy, who left a comment here: before we clutch our collective pearls in collective disgust at the left, let’s take a look at newsbuckit’s actual process and data. as i point out on skippy, while it…

A. Jacksonian says China Has Problems. He gives a long and detailed look at China’s current situation (bad) and its future outlook (worse). * He looks at economic problems – non-performing loans in the 30 – 60% of GDP range. * Demographic problems – an aging population and too many men * Ecological problems –…

Al Gore is starting to sound like an eco-echo of the MediaMatters “the media are too conservative” canard: “I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action,” Gore said. “There are many reasons, but one of the principal reasons in my view is more…

The subject of John Kerry and his war stories has come up again. Some of the people at the above link started in with their war stories. So naturally I had to tell one or two of my own. Some one was talking about Danag. So I piped up. I remember Danag early ’66. My…

My whole ambition in the pictorial domain is to materialize the images of my concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision… — Salvador Dali Today is March 1 — a strange day for several reasons. According to Wikipedia, today is the first day of Spring in Denmark, while in Australia, today is the…

Naturally, I am fascinated by the InstaLinked experiment InstaPunk posed last night: I propose an exercise to be perfomed by those who have the software and expertise to carry it out. The exercise is this: Search six months’ worth of content, posts and comments, of the 20 most popular blogs on the right and the…