Month: October 2009

It appears that there will be no anti-plant food (CO2) bill from Congress in time for the anti-plant food summit in Copenhagen this December. Carol Browner, head of the EPA, says so. “Obviously, we’d like to be through the process, but that’s not going to happen,” Browner said. “I think we would all agree the…

While I have nothing against morality per se, sometimes an overabundance of morality can get in the way of analysis, and this is especially true in economic analysis. So, while I’d like to say that I think that the biggest problem with capitalism is socialism, these concepts are so dripping with morality that it’s tough…

Sometimes I get so sick of the Internet that I want to kill it. As a perfect example of my frustration, I have been plagued by Firefox slowdowns which have grown steadily worse since I was forced to largely stop using Internet Explorer. This started with sluggishness whenever I tried to type URLs in the…

I’m told Michael Moore has a new movie out that is anti-capitalist. And he charges people to see it. I’m having trouble wrapping my head around that. Cross Posted at Power and Control

That is what I have been told repeatedly — both by commenters I don’t know at all and by friends like M. Simon, who recently said, “Where I might have given Jennings a pass as a single as a parent I’m not comfortable with him.” Of course, I never said I was comfortable with him.…

The US Navy has just published a Justification and Award for EMC2’s Polywell Fusion Reactor experiment. The highlights: * The award is for $10 million * WB-8.0 report to be delivered 30 March 2010 * WB-8.1 report to be delivered 30 March 2012 The WB-8.1 effort is contingent on success with WB-8.0 experiments. What does…

While I can’t believe that anyone would take another movie by America-hating hypocrite Michael Moore seriously, apparently some people are. The film has been gushingly praised by Arianna Huffington, who wants President Obama to see it, and I find it typical of Moore’s intellectual perfidy that he starts the film out by resorting to “a…

Eric asks that in his recent post on Kevin Jennings in response to my post on Kevin Jennings (for sure the Google rankings are going up now). He says something to the effect of: “is it good to be demonizing Jennings because of one incident between a boy and an older man which on the…

The Secret Service has closed its investigation of the Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be assassinated: WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday. No criminal charges will be filed…

It has been my observation that people who preach “working for the greater good” always wind up picking your pocket, imprisoning you, or worse. In general I prefer the company of cutthroats and thieves to ecclesiasticals. The thieves and cutthroats are more honest. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Hey suppose I asked “What do Bill Maher and [name omitted] have in common?” Because I said [name omitted] (who will remain blank), no one would know what I was talking about, so they would draw a complete blank. About Blank. What if I said that this Blank was having a huge blog war with…

I am so not-in-the-mood for blogging that I feel like flaking out totally. But that wouldn’t do, would it? I have a blog which is alive and which requires daily posts, and to not supply them is tantamount to negligence. Like having a fish tank (which I have) and neglecting to put food in it.…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

My biggest problem right now is that I can’t stand Obama, but that has not translated into loving conservatism. Now, while that equation might not seem terribly problematic in itself, and it might even constitute remarking the obvious, there’s an added dimension. While I may be wrong about this, it seems to me that conservatism…

I had not wanted to write about (much less argue about) the rather tedious gay politician Kevin Jennings, but for reasons which elude me, I feel that my hand has been forced. Or has it? Should I be entitled to ignore issues that are raised here at my own blog? Do I have any duty…

You learn something every day, and I just learned something cool about Facebook: “The mere use of the word ‘retard’ is not a violation of terms of use.” I’m 100% in favor of free speech, even when the speech in question is not within the rubric of my day-to-day vocabulary. I often get spontaneous, though,…

ACORN is in big trouble in Harry Reid’s home state, Nevada. A preliminary hearing Tuesday in the downtown Clark County courthouse has put ACORN on trial for the first time as a criminal defendant. Until now, prosecutions for voter registration fraud have focused on ACORN workers, and authorities have secured guilty pleas from several who…

Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools “Czar”, is in the news. So I thought this bit from Atlas Shrugs might be of interest. President Obama has appointed Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) — which sponsored the conference that produced the notorious “Fistgate” scandal (in which young teens were guided on how…

The Democrats plan to pass their health care bill next Thursday. The Washington Post front page blares today: “Prospects for Public Option Dim in Senate.” Don’t believe it. Yes, the Senate Finance Committee did vote down two amendments that each would have added a government-run insurance plan to the committee’s health care bill. But two…

M. Simon sent me a link to a piece which makes some fascinating assertions about what otherwise appears to be a relatively simply piece of legislation (HR 3567), the operative text of which says this: For the purposes of any Federal law in which marital status is a factor, an individual shall be considered married…