Month: May 2011

Let’s see. The head honcho of the IMF, one Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been arrested for “allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid,” shortly before he tried to get on a plane to France: The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off…

Well not Polywell directly. More like a fusor. A program started by Richard Hull at the instigation of Robert Bussard and Tom Ligon. Here is part of a message on the subject I got forwarded to me by e-mail. On April 28th 2011, the Microsoft Corporation held its annual Hardware Summit. This year’s theme was…

I am glad to see that one of my worst political fears appears to have been misplaced. If present trends continue, Newt Gingrich will go nowhere. When hard core socon Stacy McCain, liberal David von Drehle of Time, and conservative stalwart John Podhoretz all agree, then I’m thinking maybe I can breathe a sigh of…

In my endless quest to understand the nexus between morality and immorality, I found myself returning to an observation I made the other day in the context of 1920s speakeasies: Not a SWAT team in sight! In the days when morality reigned, the police could be paid off. Now that there’s no right and wrong,…

I can’t post at my other blog Power and Control – http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ because Blogspot has been down (for posting) for about a day now. Funny thing is if you Google blogspot news or blogspot crash there is no information on the subject. After a bit more searching I found BLOGSPOT HAS JUST CRASHED. Is It…

Hillary Clinton says, “We don’t have to blow.” Cross Posted at Power and Control

One of the advantages of living in a student neighborhood is that when students move, they often leave things behind. Just yesterday I found this Weber grill left on a nearby curb, so I wheeled it home. The “flavorizers” are rusted out, the burners need overhauling, but it still fires up, and with a little…

Dr. Helen links John Hawkins’ interview with Warren Farrell (author of Why Men Are the Way They Are.) I haven’t read the book, but I felt sorry for a woman he quoted in the interview. Basically what I’m saying in The Myth of Male Power is that power is about control over one’s life. I…

Alan Boyle has the latest on Polywell. A Navy-funded effort to harness nuclear fusion power reports that its unconventional plasma device is operating as designed and generating “positive results” more than halfway through the project. And that is not all: “It’s a very nice machine,” he said. “I like what we have so far. It’s…

Burglars are criminals and they can be very dangerous, but they tend to be rational people who in general simply want to get in, get your stuff, and get out as fast as they can.  Home invasion burglaries are of course the type of burglary people dread the most, but they are quite rare, because…

I am disgusted with Firefox, and thinking of dumping it. A few days ago I downloaded Firefox 4, and ever since, it has been a nightmare of constant freezes and endless glitches. “Support” says that Google is making it freeze.  Others say Firefox needs to be uninstalled and redownloaded and reinstalled. (I did the latter…

and I like this one by KC Tunstall This was brought on by Wretchard’s dissertation on love. Dante believed that loneliness was the memory of happy times lost. And for perhaps that reason, the demand for love will always be greatest among those who have only heard rumor of it and glimpsed it, fleetingly, but…

No I am not dead. Just almost. I have been burning the candle at both ends doing campaign work which has a deadline of today. So until later today, I can’t blog. I don’t even have time to be writing this post! But a friend reminded me that I missed out on Berkeley’s Pagan Festival,…

Havelock insists that there be total understandings if not peace with Coco, who is acknowledged to be limping towards godhead. Pay no attention to the asbestos content of the flooring! What is dropped on it will be EATEN! Signed,

Paul Wolfowitz suggests giving Gaddafi the UBL treatment:  One of the most extraordinary features of the protests that have swept the Muslim world has been the courage of the demonstrators. The great bravery of Tunisians and Egyptians has been exceeded by that of the Libyans and Syrians, while Bashar al-Assad and Muammar Gaddafi have joined…

Thanks to modern embalming methods, most people don’t have to worry about one of the most dreaded fates since ancient times: being buried alive. That’s simply because no one can survive embalming.  Draining all the blood from your body and replacing it with perfumed formaldehyde offers 100% insurance against living burial. However, mistakes are occasionally…

When Bush was President, it just felt more like the country was being run by people who really took the job seriously, as something bigger than themselves.  Maybe this explains why. UPDATE: Or maybe it’s this. UPDATE: Or possibly this.

Back in the 20s, horses couldn’t have dragged me away… …from crying my blues away! A cheerful thought, actually. Click the pic for a feel! The Krazy Kat, btw, was a popular artists’ speakeasy in DC back in the day. Not a SWAT team in sight! In the days when morality reigned, the police could…

Simon already covered this in his usual concise fashion, but I’d just like to add a few more verbose and wandering thoughts. The more I think about this sparse, even cryptic update, the better I feel about it.  the WB-8 device operates as designed and it is generating positive results Assuming “positive results” doesn’t just mean…

Althouse and a few others have taken over Instapundit for a week to give Glenn a rest. What is Ann linking to? An article on boob squeezing. Seriously. It can cause pleasant contractions according to the article. So, tell me: If you love breasts so much, why do you so often neglect or manhandle them…