Month: July 2008

I know I haven’t posted today but I’m trying to get caught up. Honest! Just a little slow, that’s all… Working in this heat has a way of slowing me down.

A blog about US politics has this comment: The time for talk is over. We can’t drill our way out of this and both his and Gore’s plan point us in the right direction. We need to just do it. I got news for him. If we can’t drill our way out of our immediate…

Welcome to the latest meeting of the Scions of Entropy. Membership is not Optional. Fortunately, Awareness is. Participation is Not. Consciousness is Both. Amusement is Involuntary. No Options are Necessary in an Open Ended System. What’s in a word or three? The simple fact of the matter is that truths are oft revealed in the…

Senator/Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama wants to create a civilian National Security force. I’m not sure the Senator, who is a constitutional law scholar, understands the US Constitution. We already have a civilian National Security force. He can read all about it in the amendments to the US Constitution. Specifically the Second Amendment. A well…

The simple digital camera has made it a lot easier to work on cars. I have a 1964 Ford Falcon Ranchero that has been sitting for years, and as part of my ongoing pre-move cleanout, I’ve been attempting to get it running. One of the problems is that it was once a 1970s hot rod,…

I used to know Ted Aliotta when I lived in Carbondale, Illinois from 1972 to 1975. Interesting fellow. He had a very unusual beetle he kept wrapped in cotton he would show to special friends. May I add that there is nothing quite like driving LSD when listening to LSD.

While he claims to be seeking world peace, Waafa Bilal (creator of the Bush assassination video game that’s generated controversy) strikes me as a seeker of pseudo-martyrdom for profit. In this interview, he claims that the Americans killed his brother and his father died from the grief, and that he’s letting himself be shot with…

I have been extremely distracted by reality recently, as I am in the process of moving. The only good thing about this horribly unpleasant process is that it will all be over in a few weeks. But meanwhile, this is eating up an incredible amount of time and blogging will be erratic until things settle…

The fine line between the right to speak in public and the right to disrupt the speech of others in public has long fascinated me. That’s because I’ve seen so many examples over the years of people being unable to control themselves when they hear things they disagree with. And while we all agree that…

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Gerald F. Seib observes that bad news for the economy is good news for Democrats: …the collapse of a big bank and the scare over the viability of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — seem likely to reinforce the basic dynamic of the campaign year: Voters think the…

Thought Mesh takes a look at why the left does not get the New American Empire. In my view, what most of the declinists miss is that the American Hegemony is unlike any previous empire in its structure and means. The former British Empire is the closest, but it still depended on far more direct…

Who do you want in the White House when an urgent e-mail arrives at 3AM? “It’s just amazing,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “It’s very hard to even think about someone who doesn’t know how to use the internet. It’s like, ‘Really?’ My five-year-old niece can use the internet. She knows how to go to…

Via a hot tip from Justin, I learned that the Green Party has nominated famed 9/11 Truther Cynthia McKinney to be their presidential candidate. For those voters who think Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are too conventional, the Green Party this weekend named former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, its 2008 presidential nominee. At the Green…

An article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal is a reminder of the endangered nature of free speech. What we Americans take for granted does not exist in most of the world — including supposedly enlightened Western Europe. The apartment of Dutch cartoonist (with a “rude sense of humor) was raided by “six plainclothes police officers,…

Speaking of “meaning” in the political context, a recent email exchange with a friend reminded me of one of my pet peeves: the inability to intelligently discuss issues when the underlying facts — and I mean basic data — are hopelessly politicized. This isn’t the first time I’ve written about the problem. In an earlier…

The other day I saw a Japanese beetle whooping it up on a magnolia blossom in my yard. Well, at least it was up to something; as you can see its hind legs were spread: I didn’t give it much thought. But last night, a large, strikingly atttractive beetle was firmly attached to the screen…

So I’m reading the comments at Gateway Pundit and I come across a commenter who says I should do a bit of research on the al-Ameriki tribe. Interesting. So I did a search. And what did I come up with? A wiky entry to start. It is short. So here it is: The Al-Ameriki tribe…

Ralph Peters takes on a popular but empty slogan: …Nor can all of the hipster slogans used to avoid debates be blamed on the ancients. The latest example of utter nonsense is Obama’s contribution, “The Audacity of Hope.” My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets…

While I don’t want to get hysterical about hysteria, I do find hysteria very tedious. Especially the high-decibel hysteria over the economy like that detailed here (quoting E.J. Dionne): This is the third time in 100 years that support for taken-for-granted economic ideas has crumbled. The Great Depression discredited the radical laissez-faire doctrines of the…