Month: April 2008

Earth Day is fast upon us, and rather than crank out yet another primal scream of dismay, I have chosen (lazy me) to dredge the archives for crunchy nuggets of eco-wisdom past. They do say it’s virtuous to recycle. Earth Day: The Remix… “We have about five more years at the outside to do something,”…

When I got up this morning, today’s much-anticipated Philadelphia Inquirer endorsement was available only online. Well, for me, at least. And for my neighbors. I looked around, and no, they didn’t just miss my driveway; there were no Inquirers to be found anywhere. Occasionally I’ll have a missed delivery problem, but no papers anywhere is…

Notice anything missing in this video? No American flags. And Obama seems to have forgotten to wear the flag pin given to him by the disabled veteran. In any case I don’t think we should pledging to the flag. We should be pledging to the Constitution, like people who become naturalized, like people who join…

Not my title, but the title of Dick Morris’s latest (and interestingly-timed) piece documenting Hillary’s “close relationship with known terrorist sympathizers and Hamas supporters”: Her relationship with terrorists began in the mid-1980s when she served on the board of the New World Foundation, which gave funds to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when…

I got to shake Truman’s hand when I was on a train to St. Louis and he was headed to Independence. I was going to a Synagogue Youth Organization convention and some one said Truman was in the club car shaking hands. No one else was interested but I went back and shook his hand.…

Richard Warman claims he has a bad reputation because of a possibly erroneous story published by The National Post newspaper of Canada. REGINA — Linking one blog to another and allowing comments on her blog postings has landed one prominent Saskatchewan blogger in a legal quandary. Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals is one of…

The great big Pennsylvania primary election happens tomorrow, and I couldn’t be gladder, because at least it will be over. Hillary is ahead of Obama here, and she has always been ahead. She’ll win, but the only question is by how much. According to the punditry, if she wins by double digits, she may be…

You may remember that four way debate on life extension over at Cato Unbound between Dan Callahan, Diana Schaub, Aubrey de Grey, and Ron Bailey. Nothing much came of it, except for the revelation that Diana Schaub gets a tad sanctimonious when her back is up. If deathlessness ever arrives for human beings, I would…

“Bloggers are the dealers in the world of internet addiction.” So said Ann Althouse, in a post about what to do when “The Internet” is down. I have to admit, the South Park episode she links touches on one of my primal fears — imagine if They were to actually shut down The Internet! All…

Last night I had dinner with some dear friends who are atheists. I’m not much of a religious debater, as I’m into contemplating my extreme ignorance of the unknown, and one can hardly argue from a position of extreme ignorance with those who have extreme knowledge. I do love irony, though, and one of my…

When the Patriot Act was passed, concerned civil libertarians were assured that the measures were to be used only against terrorists. So what in the hell does a “24-hour street sweep” in which “federal, state and local law enforcement agencies pulled over cars, climbed on boats on the Mississippi River and served fugitive warrants” (link…

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against nature must lead to their own downfall. — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf May Mike Godwin forgive me for the post I am about…

Some music to go with the pictures may be worth even more. Continued 2 Continued 3 Continued 4

I think a little history lesson is in order. Perhaps a musical history would be of more interest. There are almost 2,000 references to the song on Youtube.

Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges (author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America) has a thought-provoking Op Ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. He’s fed up with the left for having sold out to “respectability” and to corporatism. And, in a charming echo of such conservative luminaries as Dobson, Coulter,…

That’s how Malcolm X described the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in The Autobiography of Malcolm X: I seized the opportunity to run down into the lobby, to see it again before Dr. Azzam arrived. When I opened my door, just across the hall from me a man in some ceremonial dress, who obviously lived there,…

In Amsterdam there lived a maid, Mark well what I do say! In Amsterdam there lived a maid, An’ she wuz mistress of her trade, We’ll go no more a-ro-o-vin’ with you fair maid. A-rovin’, a-rovin’, Since rovin’s bin my ru-i-in, We’ll go no more a-rovin’, With you fair maid. One night I crept from…

A lot of people have been asking me publicly and privately, if the Bussard Fusion Technology is successful, can it be bottled up by special interests? I think the we have an answer from Dr. Richard Nebel who is now running the experiments in New Mexico. Your concern is something that EMC2 has thought about.…

It is not as bad as I thought. …based on technology advances and strong new policy, it is now time for the U.S. to look beyond 2012 and to take the next step. We’ve shown that we can slow emissions growth. Today, I’m announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse…

Commenter Rhodium Heart has made a really good point in a comment to Eric’s piece How far off base can the “base” get? I think it is very on point and also is a good answer to my piece Who Will Stand With Us? I’m going to quote it in full because it is a…