Month: May 2008

It looks like Hillary won Indiana, and the polls have not yet closed in North Carolina. I won’t be live blogging the results, but Pajamas Media has great coverage, including Stephen Green’s Drunkblogging and Bill Bradley’s Special Coverage. And constantly updated coverage here. I’d be very surprised if Hillary didn’t hold her lead in Indiana,…

Coco is sleek and svelte, and has been compared to both Audrey Hepburn and Kim Novak. She’s wonderful dog, but my only disagreement with her is that she’s a Hillary supporter. That’s not surprising, though. Because, being a pit bull, Coco admires grit and stamina, and Hillary Clinton has that. Moreover, Hillary is a female,…

Richard Nebel tells about plans for commercializing the Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR) at Talk Polywell. Richard starts off discussing who owns the BFR technology and patents. DOD is The Department of Defense. Currently the US Navy is funding the research. …EMC2 owns the patents and the commercialization rights. DOD retains the right to use the…

While suicide is a very poor way of coping with federal racketeering charges, I have to say that I’m somewhat sympathetic to Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who left a suicide note explaining that she couldn’t face spending 6-8 years in prison: “However, I cannot live the next 6-8 years behind bars for what both you and…

In a piece titled “Obama Rebounds From the Wright Stuff,” Bill Bradley said something that worried me: Yesterday’s CBS poll has even better news for Obama, showing him opening up a lead on Clinton again and also leading John McCain. This is a pattern we saw a while back when Wright’s sometimes incendiary sermonizing became…

Confused by the interpretation of unemployment statistics? Then b y all means don’t miss Tim Worstall’s Pajama Media piece on the subject. Worstall wonders whether some unemployment can be a good thing, and points out (gasp!) that some people actually choose not to work! ….places where people have looked at the employment to population ratio…

Yesterday (while contemplating a new Hillary Clinton comedy book that Dr. Helen linked), I opined that maybe there was a “bright side”: Maybe Clinton II will conflate the annals of history into the annals of comedy. Today I see evidence of what can only be called a rush to conflation, headlined, “Hillary Laughs at Limbaugh…

This is a picture of Obama’s close associate Bill “Bomber” Ayers. He looks so wimpy for a bomber. Let me see if I can decipher the captions. Let me start with the top one. The group was dealing with the past with a kind of amnesia about violent actions. Bill Ayers recollected his adventurous violence…

The murder of a Philadelphia police officer during a bank robbery continues to dominate the front page of the Inquirer. As it turns out, all three of the robber/murderers are convicted robbers who have served time. From today’s account: Police charged a journeyman boxer with murder and issued a warrant yesterday for an alleged accomplice…

Real class warfare has always been the upper classes against the masses. Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School in a speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference lays it out: And so, yeah, we will continue the War on Drugs for a while until everybody sees its patent bankruptcy. But, let…

Can you cut a hole through a 3×5 index card large enough to walk through? I hate to say this, because it sounds so trite, but yes you can! It never ceases to amaze me how many people don’t know the “trick” (which isn’t a trick at all), and I was going to make a…

Not that this should suprise anyone, but here’s the latest polling data from RealClearPolitics: General Election: McCain vs. Obama RCP Average McCain 45.5 Obama 44.8 McCain +0.7 General Election: McCain vs. Clinton RCP Average McCain 44.2 Clinton 46.3 Clinton +2.1 As I keep saying, if there is a Republican argument for Hillary based on strategy,…

I think what we have here is a telling slip of the tongue. A senior Democrat strategist privy to Obama’s campaign said: “He’s sick of the battle against Clinton. He wants to get stuck into McCain. His people have had to remind him that this thing isn’t over yet and he needs to focus and…

If someone murdered one of your loved ones, would you be more concerned with who did it and why, or the make and model of the weapon used? Would these concerns change if the murderer killed a police officer, or if the murder occurred during a bank robbery? When we think of famous bank robbers…

I alway loved the Morse Code opening to news reports. Reminds me of Walter Winchell. In this video clip I believe we have a new parliamentary rule (not found in Roberts Rules of Order). That would be the Respect Rule. Women take precedence over men. Blacks have precedence over whites. And the universal unwritten rule.…

Regarding the Jeremiah Wright affair….. Groan. Ugh! Really, I am as bored with Wright as I am sick of him, sick of elections, and sick of politics. As “issues” go, that man is one of the most tedious and tawdry I have ever seen. The more he fails to just shut the eff up, the…

H/T Curmudgeons Corner

Here is a progress report from MSNBC’s Cosmic Log about the status of the Bussard Fusion Experiment, WB-7. Currently, the most promising path toward electrostatic fusion runs through Santa Fe, N.M., where a team at EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. is currently trying to validate Bussard’s results. The team’s leader, Richard Nebel, told me this week…

Our next stop was the local Chamber of Commerce, located on the second floor of what looked like a pawnshop. Inside, we found a plump black man who was busy packing boxes. “We’re looking for Mr. Foster,” I said to the man. “I’m Foster,” he said, not looking up. “We were told that you were…

I’m familiar with the so-called “allegations” about McCain calling his wife the “c” word in 1992, and although I hadn’t checked with WorldNetDaily to see if they’re repeated there, I’m not sure they’re even up to that level of “journalism.” But today I saw (on a FireDogLake YouTube video linked by Gateway Pundit) that a…