Month: July 2010

Bill Whittle has a new Afterburner. And in response to it, I’d like to do my bit for those who need a typographical icon (watch the vid to get the joke). L∅L! And for those who need technical details: the html for ∅ is ∅ Cross Posted at Power and Control

Tammy Bruce speaks. And rips the Republicans a new one. And given the Mitttens team’s latest outburst I think she has a point. Still, few express much regard for Palin’s ultimate chances. One adviser to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and, by traditional standards, the putative 2012 frontrunner, says of Palin, “She’s not a…

In an earlier post, M. Simon was comparing the left to cockroaches, whom he suggested should be defeated in November. While I don’t normally resort to insect analogies to describe people, I guess I have been known to compare people to bonobo chimps. And it’s not as if leftists have hesitated to liken their conservative…

Yesterday I said that the national conversation about race sucks and that I hate even writing about it. Famous last words. Here I am writing another post about a topic I hate. Yes, I hate race. As much as I hate the isms of sexuality. This is not to say that I hate races, or…

I was reading Watts Up With That about a dispute between Christopher Monckton and John Abraham about some climate issues. But as is often the case the most interesting stuff is in the comments. Alexander Feht says: July 14, 2010 at 11:18 pm I completely understand, why Christopher Monckton felt a need to make an…

Who owns the Tea Party Movement? The answer (fortunately, IMO) is no one! This can be a blessing and a curse, as Ann Althouse points out in her discussion of the ridiculous demand issued by NAACP leader Benjamin Jealous that “the Tea Party” (whatever he might mean by that) expel the “bigots” and “racists” in…

Analog Designer and control engineer Bob Pease and I have had a discussion or two via e-mail about control theory and control engineering. So when I came across a bit by him in a back issue of Electronic Design on how control control theory relates to how the Federal Reserve ought to control the money…

The AJC’s Cynthia Tucker is getting a lot of flak for daring to suggest that it was inappropriate of the NAACP to call the Tea Party movement racist. She makes the observation that not all Tea Partiers are racist: Still, [the resolution] leaves the impression that the NAACP believes all tea partiers are racist —…

For the first time in my life, I lost a hard drive last night. I had backups, but it’s still very irritating (and perhaps it’s only transhumanist conceit, but its passing faintly echoes to me intimations of my own mortality). I’ve sent the drive, which still emits a healthy hum and is even sort of…

One of my pet peeves involves babies being tossed onto roadways. I’ve complained about this in blog posts, but unfortunately, that does not seem to have stopped the problem. A 21-year-old man was arrested Saturday after he threw his daughter into oncoming traffic and then attacked witnesses and police who were trying to subdue him,…

It isn’t easy to tell people that what they like is evil. That is why scoldings of that sort have traditionally been in the preserve of religion. M. Simon’s last post reminded me that left-wing economic scoldings have tended to fall on deaf ears, mainly since consumers of stuff tend to like the stuff they…

If you are interested in quantum physics as I am I think you will find this paper very interesting: Modern Physics is Rotting [pdf]. You can also follow the discussion and read some words by the author at Talk Polywell. You can also read more sections of Prof. Johan F. Prins’s forthcoming book at Cathodixx.…

I was reading a post at Seeking Alpha about why the economy is headed further down and came across this comment: This is a classic crisis of capitalism, an epidemic of over-production brought about by its most fundamental limitation/contradiction: the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. This tendency exerts its death-grip every 60-80…

A lot of people have been citing this post by Doctor Zero (which I first saw linked at Instapundit), and I can see why. It is one of the best explanations of the central problem which I think is facing the country, and it bears repeating, and repeating: Bureaucracies grow through failure. They present failure…

A while back when my Windows XP box died I was able, with some help from my readers and my mom, to get a Gateway DX4831-01. A very nice machine with lots of ports. But a modem port was not one of the built in options. The first mate of course was always pestering me…

I was looking for the drug courier profile page which used to be on this site and came across this page. Perhaps the most profitable investment a community can make is establishing a POLICE K-9 UNIT. A properly trained K-9 will usually pay for itself in 60 days and keep the revenue of city hall…

Purity of Essence has morphed into Purity of Earth. Inspired by this bit on $Green Jobs at Hot Air. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

To what extent are college professors entitled to voice opinions without being fired for them? I recently learned about an Illinois professor who stated his religious and personal opinion that homosexuality is immoral. Predictably, this caused a student to complain about “hate speech” — which led to the professor being fired: URBANA, Ill. — The…

This article was originally published in a number of places in May of 2001. It is still relevant so I’m republishing it here. ————- I’d like to talk today a little about the origins and meaning of the Fourth Amendment. First off what is the Fourth Amendment? Amendment IV The right of the people to…

I love the graphic. Dead Heads racing. Heh. More music by the Outlaws