Author: Justin

A triplet of interesting posts at “Fight Aging!” (Definitely not an ambiguous monicker). First, some poll results. I am always rather suspicious of any poll that presumes to settle an issue. So much depends on how you phrase the question. “There is a type of medical research that involves using special cells, called stem cells,…

Has anyone been to this restaurant? I owe someone dinner and thought it looked promising. Strolling gauchos carve choice slices of churrasco, for your dining pleasure. Did I mention it’s all you can eat? Problem is, someone told me Brazilian Barbeque is too salty. Anybody have a first hand account? Operators are waiting to take…

I was reading more of “The Lever of Riches” today, and it reminded me of my latest post. We have far more good ideas at any one time than we can ever “make real”. But we can still see that many of those ideas are balanced right on the edge between dream and reality. More…

Tomorrow is a very special day. Did you think I would forget? Oh, no. Not a chance of that. Tomorrow the newest Jeremy Rifkin book is released in the stores. I suppose I could have ordered it from Amazon by now and read it cover to cover, but frankly, I don’t want to pay him…

If you devote any time at all to serious life extension, that’s the first reasonable objection you hear. Assuming of course, that you have the nerve to bring it up in public at all. Thirty years ago it was thought “eccentric”. But today’s a new day, and more and more people find the idea at…

The Beastly Overlord has left me with strict marching orders, and in the strangest tone of voice, too. It was a painfully self-cancelling mixture of virile, manly authority and unseemly whining. ?I?m counting on you and Varius to pick up the slack. Try to produce one new post per day. At least one. Two would…

You might enjoy this parody site, “The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog?. I laughed and laughed, perhaps you will too. Here’s just a sample. Good neighbors, bad neighbors When I was in law school, (briefly) (long story – don’t go there) (as in don’t ask, not as in don’t go to law school) (although that…

Blogger D.F. Moore has done me the honor of responding to my latest Kass post. It?s my very first trackback, so I?m kind of pumped. Thanks, Mr. Moore! My argument stands accused of being sophomoric and unhelpful. Well, regarding the first count, guilty as charged, sir! Though my opinions may be sophomoric, I shall endeavor…

So Julia Child is gone. I mourn. She was truly one of a kind. Some of you may not know this, but she served in the O.S.S. during WWII. It?s true, so help me. She worked at one point with ?Wild Bill” Donovon. Scheie told me years ago, and I researched it. Frankly, I was…

Let me call your attention to a truly superlative little book. That is, if you have a love for historical technology bordering on the obsessive. Joel Mokyr’s immensely informative “The Lever of Riches” poses the question, how does an economy grow? It goes on to define the different modes of economic expansion, and explores in…

Hugh Hewitt made me laugh today: Atrios has put up the lamest post in history, an apparent defense of Kerry’s lies about having been in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968. Go read it and laugh. The meltdown is progressing, as Carl Cameron reported on FNC tonight that the Kerry campaign is saying that Kerry was…

She wasn?t really my aunt, but rather my great aunt, my grandmother?s sister. But she was always just ?Aunt Margie? to us, and she was always our favorite. She died years ago, but we all still remember her. She was there at my christening, dressed to the nines, clowning and laughing. We used to have…

Looking for something to do? Want to be horrified? Then Read This. “Death by Government” by R. J. Rummel. Be sure to scroll down for the reader reviews. It makes a nice companion piece to “Carnage and Culture“. It also makes a nice counter balance to “War before Civilization“. Here’s just a snippet of editorial…

I first heard of Leon Kass through the good offices of Virginia Postrel, under whose editorship Reason magazine became one of my favorite periodicals. Back then, I never missed an issue, and wouldn’t you know it, it just hasn?t been the same since she left. Come back, Virginia!! Please? I felt a little bit the…

We here at Classical Values thought Dr. Ehrlich deserved some rebuttal space after the casual dismissiveness of Norman Borlaug. Accordingly, we dispatched Peabody and Sherman to 1974, where they found this treasure. It’s not quite as over the top as I might have liked, but I would urge all readers to click over for the…

Deep, deep thoughts on the classics, from the Chairman: Having a limit to the drama is one of the conditions for taking life seriously and trying to make the most of it. Homer, in The Iliad and The Odyssey, showed us the alternatives. He contrasts the mortals with the immortals?Zeus, Apollo and the like?who, if…

Not that you could easily tell, but I try not to be negative. It just isn’t healthy. So you may wonder why all the negative coverage on Rifkin, Ehrlich, Kass und so weiter? Well, I figure it’s not really negative if it generates wholesome enjoyment. Plus, it’s a public service. But even so, I sometimes…

This convention is boring! I wanted excitement and I think everyone else does too! So what to do, huh? Huh? Here’s my big idea. What I wanna see is John Kerry fighting Wolfman. Don’t you dare laugh. It’s perfect, see. For many reasons. First John Kerry gets to dress up in tails and an opera…

This image has been making the rounds. A teeny tiny Sydney Opera House. Just sixty four microns long. I know it’s not practical, or even decorative. What it is, is very cool. For the metrically challenged, a millimeter is roughly one 25th of an inch. A micron (or micrometer) is one 1000th of a millimeter.…

Here?s an interesting note from Brothers Judd, who also find Dr. Ehrlich contemptible, though coming from a somewhat different perspective. Seems our POTUS was visiting Amish country this week. Read about it here, cause you sure won?t find it in the LA Times. I find the whole scenario charming, as much as anything because of…