Month: June 2009

H/T Raving Dave via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

There is new hope for incandescent light bulbs. Shooting them with lasers can raise their efficiency dramatically. An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt bulb consume less electricity than a 60-watt bulb…

So Bush was King and Obama is his son? Who knew?

Speaking of insults and ad hominem attacks, Ann Althouse (guest blogging at Instapundit) links one of the most extreme examples I have yet seen in all my years of blogging. At Playboy’s online site, an angry leftist named Guy Cimbalo (who apparently fancies himself a “rape fantasist”) compiled a list of prominent conservative women, and…

Here is the book Klavan mentions: Democracy in America and a more modern look at the phenomenon: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change H/T Video suggested by Brendan Wright on Facebook Cross Posted at Power and Control

Not California. Although California is failing. The States I’m going to discuss are Muslim States affected by the world wide financial crisis. Spengler is taking his usual jaundiced look at the world. Financial crises, like epidemics, kill the unhealthy first. The present crisis is painful for most of the world but deadly for many Muslim…

When I saw this video, I was a bit taken aback. It’s easy to forget that (just as there are parents who’d strap a bomb on their baby) there are parents in the world who think it’s cute to watch their baby play with a deadly snake. As the YouTube caption explains, there is a…

Speaking of labyrinths, sometimes the self-canceling nature of blogging prevents me from being able to write. For example, I don’t like ad hominem rhetoric and personal attacks. When I saw one yesterday, I was immediately irritated. But the self canceling “rules” got in my way. This was especially complicated by the fact that it was…

Don’t miss Victor Davis Hanson’s “Lost in the Labyrinth of Race.” Hanson has spotted so many of the perverse twists and turns in the pretzel logic that calls itself “affirmative action” and “identity politics” that for those who love to hate bad logic, this piece is a pure joy to savor. Like this delicious excerpt:…