Month: February 2010

You can’t be an image President unless you can control all the information sources. And even that is not possible. There are leakages. The best you can hope for in this age of the Internet is about 30 to 60 days. Long enough to win an election campaign. And thus we have a quote from…

I can think of few people more deserving of Christopher Hitchen’s vitriolic wrath than Gore Vidal. Once a talented writer, the latter has clearly degenerated into a tawdry peddler of ridiculous crackpot conspiracy claims. …in an article headlined “Vidal Loco”, Hitchens launches a stinging attack on Vidal, claiming that the events of 9/11 “accentuated a…

Anthony Watts has a great article up on how he changed out a fixture that used a CFL Flood Lamp to one using an LED lamp. Anthony bought 5 LED fixtures and got a deal. He paid $80.00 each for them. So let us run some numbers. LAMPPRICEOPERATING HOURSWATTS Cree LED Lighting LR6-GU24 White 6$80.0050,00012…

In a fit of homesickness, earlier I was thinking about surly service in favorite decrepit Chinese restaurants I have known over the years. (For some reason the two tend to go hand in hand.) In Berkeley, some of my fondest drunken memories involved Robbie’s Chinese American Hofbrau, which used to be on Telegraph Avenue. The…

Eric of Classical Values sent me this link via e-mail about the Tea Party Convention held Saturday. I was particularly struck by this comment: RueTheDay says: The whole Teaparty Movement is a fraud. Charging $600 for tickets to the Tea Party Convention, so attendees can eat steak and lobster at the Opryland while listening to…

To what class should Barack Obama be assigned? That is not an easy question to answer, because while it’s clear that he is now at the top of the political and “intellectual” ruling class elite, his background cannot easily be characterized in ordinary class terms as we understand them (or, as we once understood them).…

Since Eric put up a mystery doo wop song, I thought it might be nice to put up a song that was no mystery and that has over a million YouTube hits. For you young whipper snappers here is a wiki on doo wop. Note: whipper snapper may have been derived from whipster. And if…

Earlier today I found a longtime favorite doo-wop song that I’ve listened to for years recently uploaded to YouTube. Hardly a video, but it does have a cute picture, and I also think it’s cute that it has only had 23 views! The song is the mysterious “Oh You,” by an obscure doo-wop group called…

Yuri Besmenov was a KGB Agent. You can watch more of Yuri at YouTube. H/T Big Journalism Cross Posted at Power and Control

From time to time, I write posts about Salvador Dalí. However, I tend to move on from one thing to another, and unfortunately, this blog doesn’t have categories, so things get lost. Last night I collected and cross-posted the Dal&iacute posts into a blog I started years ago, but neglected, Daliblog.com. I don’t know whether…

A fairly absurd argument that Dems’ health care reform bill will increase liberty from William Galston: So when the Tea Partiers complain that a government health insurance mandate invades their liberty, they reveal a defective understanding of the logic of liberty in a modern society. Individuals who choose to go without health insurance could try…

While he was guest blogging for Glenn Reynolds yesterday, Michael Totten linked an interesting analysis which tends to confirm my previous suspicions: …for those seeking a true measure of Obama’s judgment, on both policy and politics, the meeting between the president and Senate Democrats yesterday was much more instructive. Obama’s words made it clear that,…

This is a must watch video. About 19 minutes. And worth every pico second. I really liked his take on the elitists of America and the world near the beginning. I also got a kick out of his Jewish shtick about 9:50 into the video. I also liked the fact that he considers himself a…

For those of you not familiar with Latin “iter” means “the way”. And the ITER Fusion program now headquartered in France is undergoing a top management shake up. In an effort to put the world’s largest scientific experiment back on track after delays and cost overruns, Europe is shaking up the agency overseeing its portion…

Who said that? If you think it’s some liberal bigwig, you’d be wrong. Tom Tancredo said it, and I agree with Dan Riehl, who calls it “stupid pandering.” While no big fan of McCain, if Obama gets the two more SCOTUS appointments he might, don’t tell me we’re better off because McCain lost. We’ll be…

And what a well-deserved tearing it was! Never have I felt more destroyed, disemboweled, mauled, hammered, ripped, slammed, and buttf*cked than I did when I watched this. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Because I know that Jim Treacher is a humorist, I thought that this early, one paragraph report of him being hit by a State Department vehicle might have been intended as some sort of satire. I’m sorry to see (via Glenn Reynolds’ later link) that I was mistaken, and that this was actually a very…

Amazon and Apple are having a book war. Which is to say a war over who will get the biggest market share for electronic books. “One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.”–Sun Tzu, The Art of War The Apple iPad isn’t even available yet, but already it is forcing…

The above is a little Moby Grape ditty called Omaha. Which brings to mind a report on how Omaha voters view the Obama administration. OMAHA, Neb.–As President Barack Obama began his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, Kevin Fischer glanced at television above him and compared his 2008 vote for the president to…

In an earlier post, I made a point of hesitating, ironically, to use the word “savages” in characterizing those Pashtuns who have sex with men who would kill one of their own for admitting homosexuality I’d say that the British had a word for people like that — “SAVAGES” — except I’d be inviting trouble…