Month: May 2008

WARNING TO ALL ASSHOLE PROPAGANDIST TRAITORS: Be careful about proselytizing in coffee houses. You never know when a blogger might be listening! Rand Simberg links a wonderful essay by Gerard van der Leun titled “The Banality of Sedition” — prompted by the latter overhearing the sort of thing I used to overhear in Berkeley before…

GayPatriot’s B. Daniel Blatt has a great PJM piece about gay Republicans — “Washington’s One-Sided Gay War“: We gay conservatives face similar name-calling from our liberal peers, even those in the gay media. Our gay peers, however, don’t limit themselves to calling us fascists. They also call us the equivalent of African-American Klansmen or Jewish…

We’ve all heard of the Safety Nazis, and I’ve complained about an emerging group some people are calling the Gonad Nazis. And I’m fond of complaining that I hate to violate Godwin’s Law — usually just before I violate it. So this time — just for now — I have decided that I will not…

Tom has graciously provided a pdf of his most recent Analog article The World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisited for your edification and enjoyment. Please read the following and then follow the link provided for your own copy. Tom sends his regards to all. Enjoy! Copyright 2007, 2008, by Tom Ligon. This article was first published…

Eric in some private e-mails thinks I have been too soft on Hillary lately. He is probably right. With Hillary rising in the polls again I think it is time to give her a few whacks. She says there is no military solution to what we face in Iraq. How does she explain that the…

Eric has a bit up on how the anti-Evolutionists can beat the arguments for evolution in 5 minutes or less. Here is how to beat their argument in less than 15 seconds. It’s the Internet Age – why waste time? My god is more powerful than yours. He set the Universe in motion billions of…

We have been a little light on classical music lately. So here is a bit. Ruslan-yn-Fryslan, that is: Russia in the Dutch Friesland province. Violonist Galina Rezaeipour from Minsk and the Fries orchestra. Arnaud Oosterbaan conducting.

I just got a long email from Human Events which is marketing (in the manner of a self-improvement program) a how-to course which promises to turn 97 pound intellectual weaklings into Charles Atlases ready to do battle against the Great Satan Charles Darwin, by discrediting and debunking evolution. While I get a lot of annoying…

Part 1 Part 2 The 60s represented a period of unregulated therapy. However, not all of those participating were uninformed. A lot of the misfortune of that era was due to government hysteria. Had the government actually provided true and useful information much of the damage would have been mitigated. “Unless we put medical freedom…

In an earlier post discussing Barack Obama’s political “friendship” with Bill Ayers, I maintained that people are missing a larger point. Wright may have talked the talk, but Ayers walks the walk. This, IMO, makes it necessary for Obama to address the issue head-on, instead of issuing evasive statements about how Ayers is a neighborhood…

In the wake of Albert Hofmann’s death, I thought a few words would be in order. The guy was a chemist who inadvertently stumbled onto LSD during World War II. And people have been stumbling over it ever since. No, I don’t mean stumbling in the sense of being intoxicated, but in the sense of…

Wall Street Journal Editor Daniel Henninger wants to know: Barack Obama was bleeding by Monday and needed cover. Where, when he could have used them, were Obama’s oh-so-famous endorsers: Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Tom Daschle, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Jay Rockefeller, John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Roger Wilkins, Eric…

I wonder if these are the originals or the expurgated versions? Here is the link: Obama’s books. Obama’s Books another link. Direct links: Audacity of Hope [pdf] inspired by the Great Jeremiah Wright. Dreams From My Father [pdf] inspired by his socialist father. And an essay by his socialist father Problems Facing Our Socialism [pdf]…