Month: August 2010

By the Vince Guaraldi Trio. This a long version which I had never heard before. The short version of Cast Your Fate To The Wind was a Top 40 hit in 1963. I was reminded of it by #3 son who was practicing it on the piano. (He is really into jazz and electronics). He…

I’m an inch away from total writing burnout mode today, but I thought I would try to squeeze out a couple of Friday tidbits from my dying fingers…. Much to my amusement, it turns out that Glenn Beck has (via the other Glenn) joined Dick Cheney and Laura Bush in being to the left of…

The video is a survey from the advent of man to the invention of the computer mouse and what it all means. Highly entertaining and well worth your time. And just today Instapundit linked to an article exactly illustrates the concepts discussed in the video: Progress on Alzheimer’s. H/T to Bishop Hill for the video.…

I don’t know exactly why, but of all the potential Republican presidential candidates, it is Newt Gingrich who most makes me see red. There’s more to it than disagreement on issues; if I sat down and went through their various platforms and statements I’m pretty sure I would disagree with Huckabee more than Gingrich. Yet…

I bought a copy of Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional Upgrade]. Microsoft says the upgrade will be easy and it has an XP compatibility mode for all those old programs I need to run. Plus I can set up Virtual Machines for things like DOS, Win3.3, Linux, XP, and who knows…

It would seem that one of our satellites may have been misreporting Earth temperature data for as much as a decade. US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high. The fault was first detected after a tip off…

Perhaps because I have a strange compulsion to obtain facts so I understand the human motivations behind crimes, every once in a while I’ll find myself utterly baffled over a news story, and a really creepy series of fatal stabbings in Flint, Michigan has left me without a clue. It was widely speculated that the…

Speaking of marijuana, I think it’s high time that we cracked down on huge landowners who know or have reason to know that Mexican drug cartels are growing the stuff on their land. This sort of outrage is typical: GREEN BAY, Wis. — Several people have been arrested in a raid on a large marijuana…

DRUG WAR = BIG GOVERNMENT As seen at a Tea Party Rally. Cross Posted at Power and Control

In an earlier post, I defended Andrew Breitbart (who probably doesn’t need me to defend him) against a snarky left-wing remark by John Dean that he was some sort of tribalist: Now, while they love accusing people who disagree with them of “tribalism,” I suspect this might stem from the fact that people like Glenn…

From the comments at Washington Rebel. Emphasis mine. Well, there’s no such thing as “conservatism”, and hasn’t been for a while. The clue is in the snarky references to marijuana. Marijuana and cocaine are bad for you, and that’s a fact; I don’t want either, and I’m not promoting the use of the weed. I’m…

While I haven’t had as much time as I might like to sound off on the issues of the day (and don’t really have the time now), I want to take the time to say this: GOD BLESS GREG GUTFELD’S GROUND ZERO GAY BAR! No, really. I cannot stress the importance of such, um, inclusion,…

In a post Glenn Reynolds linked the other day, John Hinderaker touches on something which has long intrigued me: whether or not debts created by governments are in fact owed forever by the taxpayers: The injustice is obvious. Yet the retired or soon to be retired public employees have a point: the law of contract.…

Some times you have to divide things up to make them work better. At least in the computer world. Which is why disc users who work with legacy systems often partition their systems. What to do? And how to do it? Well I found the testimonial on this page very helpful. Well what does it…

Cross Posted at Power and Control

I just learned about a new idea that’s floating around in the left’s ongoing war against private property rights. It’s called “right to rent” and it would require lenders to rent foreclosed properties their former homeowners for an indefinite period. The idea is being promoted as as a reasonable win-win solution; in the Washington Post…

Tim Cavanaugh has a devastating cite from just-retired Obama economic adviser Christina Romer: The generally precise Romer spells out the difference for us: Using this approach, the estimated multiplier for monetary policy is 0.823 and the estimated multiplier for fiscal policy is -0.233. You don’t say. Gee, that would have been nice to know a…

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. – Maimonides It seems the trend these days is to skip all the hard stuff like logic, math, and physics (including chemistry) and go straight for…

Ah, the joys of being herded into packed rail cars in the hot summer! As many as 70 people were involved in a massive brawl at two Metro Stations in Washington D.C. on Friday night. At least four were injured in the incident which began at Gallery Place station in Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Fire…

I was reading Watts Up With That and came a cross this link to a pdf in the comments which describes the response of the State of Texas to the EPA intent to rule us by regulating CO2 production. In order to deter challenges to your plan for centralized control of industrial development through the…