Author: Dave

An interview with Yael Naim. The Macbook Air ad which sparked my interest in Yael. And this little bit which got me looking into all the above: She doesn’t look Jewish.

A blog about US politics has this comment: The time for talk is over. We can’t drill our way out of this and both his and Gore’s plan point us in the right direction. We need to just do it. I got news for him. If we can’t drill our way out of our immediate…

Senator/Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama wants to create a civilian National Security force. I’m not sure the Senator, who is a constitutional law scholar, understands the US Constitution. We already have a civilian National Security force. He can read all about it in the amendments to the US Constitution. Specifically the Second Amendment. A well…

I used to know Ted Aliotta when I lived in Carbondale, Illinois from 1972 to 1975. Interesting fellow. He had a very unusual beetle he kept wrapped in cotton he would show to special friends. May I add that there is nothing quite like driving LSD when listening to LSD.

Thought Mesh takes a look at why the left does not get the New American Empire. In my view, what most of the declinists miss is that the American Hegemony is unlike any previous empire in its structure and means. The former British Empire is the closest, but it still depended on far more direct…

So I’m reading the comments at Gateway Pundit and I come across a commenter who says I should do a bit of research on the al-Ameriki tribe. Interesting. So I did a search. And what did I come up with? A wiky entry to start. It is short. So here it is: The Al-Ameriki tribe…

The Presidential candidate who recently said economics is not one of his strong points appears to be taking lessons. …on deep background, this senior McCain advisor told me I was correct: no cap-and-trade. In other words, this central-planning, regulatory, tax-and-spend disaster, which did not appear in Mac’s two recent speeches, has been eradicated entirely —…

The Sterling, Illinois man who went on a murder spree has been captured. GRANITE CITY, Ill. – Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside of a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night. Nicholas T. Sheley, who was the subject of a multistate…

This is kind of old news, but I need a post today. So here goes. I used to know David Mamet from his time helping to get the St. Nicholas Theater on Halsted Street in Chicago going. I was actually living in the theater at the time and helped them set up their sound system.…

Yes it is true. America’s need for more oil refining capacity is bringing a new refinery on line. In India. Shouting Into The Void tells the tale. Here’s some news that should make all the energy independence buffs throw their hats to the floor and shout “Tarnashion!” India’s Reliance Industries is building the world’s largest…

Some commenters out there, among them Instapundit, say that the decision in Heller today takes gun rights off the table as an election issue. I beg to differ. The decision was 5-4. That means that everything could change if a Justice is confirmed whose views are more in line with Obama’s views (which appear to…

I’m really concerned about the half time at a Globe Trotter game. Is it safe for children with Chinese acrobats checking for cellulite? Besides his potential to make a really bad President, I think Obama’s constant return to the theme of racial intolerance in America puts him outside the mainstream. Which will make it hard…

William Saletan discusses a theory of homosexuality that I have seen before. That homosexuality in some men is compensated for by the increased fertility of their female relatives. Gay couples can’t have biological kids together. So if homosexuality is genetic, why hasn’t it died out? A study published last week in PLoS One tackles the…

Students at Penninsula College have achieved fusion. I am more than a little proud to say I had a little to do with it. At least in so far as getting them on the right track. From left to right: Devon, Ivan, Sarah, Chris, Aaron, and Derek. The Reactor It glows Which just goes to…

I think this election is going to turn on the economy. Oil prices in particular. The Democrat resistance to drilling, mining, and converting is going to bite them hard. This campaign will turn on blackness. The blackness of oil. The blacker candidate will win.

Fusion energy pioneer Robert Hirsch says in a CNBC interview that the US must drill for oil. And use all its available resources to help us get over the current liquid fuels hump. I’m inclined to agree. No Blood For Oil or No Drilling For Oil? Good question. Cross Posted at Power and Control

In keeping with the theme of Do Your Own Thing. The guitar work on this is something else.

The Atlantic has an interesting article on how moving people out of crime ridden neighborhoods has moved the crime with them as well. In the whole piece, not one single commentator mentioned the rhinoceros in the room. Drug prohibition. The American price support system for criminals. Oh it gets mentioned in passing. The usual “drug…