Month: February 2010

I’ve been so preoccupied with personal business yesterday and today that I have had no time to blog about whatever is happening in the real world. I haven’t even had time to look. Between a household repair emergency and trying to help out a friend who has become a villain in a compelling but false…

I have covered the troubles the ITER fusion project is having in ITER Gets Clipped which covered the American view of ITER’s troubles. The The European Voice is taking a look at the problems from an European view. ITER’s projected costs have soared since the first estimates were made in 2001. Contributions will generally be…

The person speaking is Keli Carender. Otherwise known as Liberty Belle. H/T NPR via Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

Are we facing an epidemic of “Internet addiction”? Apparently so. There are more and more studies like this warning of dire dangers, which are said to include depression and the risk of suicide: Study leader Dr Catriona Morrison, from the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds, said: “The internet now plays a…

Reuters has pulled a story on how the Obama Administration intends to short circuit any incipient American economic recovery by stealth tax raises. NEW YORK (Reuters.com) -The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a…

Did you know that if you like small breasts on women, you’re likely a “pedophile”? I didn’t, but today I learned that some people think that, and they’re just the kind of people who enjoy career censorship. In Australia, they’re behind an effort to insist on large-breasted women in porn. No really. (I couldn’t make…

Here is a list of the T Party candidates: GOP Primaries: Adam Andrzejewski – for Governor About 15% in a race where the top vote getters got 20%. Not bad. But he came in 5th. Don Tracy – Lt. Governor About 11% – 3rd place Jason Plummer – Lt. Governor About 34% – 1st place…

Sean Kinsell has noted a downright authoritarian streak in Frank Rich, and quotes a remarkable passage from his column about President’s SOTU address: One year into Obama’s term we still don’t know whether he has what it takes to get American governance functioning again. But we do know that no speech can do the job.…

The US Treasury Department says that bailouts add risk to the financial system. WASHINGTON – The government’s response to the financial meltdown has made it more likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned. The problems that led to the last crisis have…

The Stern Review on the effects of climate change (things will be different?) had to retract a point or two after publication. The Stern Review on the economics of climate change, which was commissioned by the Treasury, was greeted with headlines worldwide when it was published in October 2006 It contained dire predictions about the…

It looks like the Obama Administration is cutting back its support for ITER in next year’s Federal Energy Budget. …funding for DOE’s fusion energy sciences (FES) program gets clipped from an estimated $426 million this year to a requested $380 million next year, a reduction of 10.8%. That reduction would come out of the United…

Quite a few states are working to change their constitutions to prevent Federal health care mandates. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Although President Barack Obama’s push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. About half? Lawmakers in…

Over the weekend, M. Simon emailed me a link to a news item Glenn Reynolds had linked about the Pashtuns. Or should I say the “gay Pahstuns“? As if U.S. troops and diplomats didn’t have enough to worry about in trying to understand Afghan culture, a new report suggests an entire region in the country…