Author: Simon

You learn something new every day. Congress failed to reapportion following the 1920 Census. The failure was in part the result of a difference of opinion over the method of dividing political power. Throughout the 1920s, Congress debated which of two mathematical models for reapportionment–whose outcomes for distribution of House seats differed–would be used. In…

More than six billion humans face extinction every year. And every year millions die. If the death rate accelerates it is hard to predict the overwhelmingly catastrophic consequences. Inspired by Ecologist who says: More than 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered I wonder if he didn’t spell his name…

From the YouTube page. connvee3 October 24, 2009 FACEBOOK: If you’re on Facebook, JOIN their page as a fan…I wanted to do the full version 11 min. but youtube says No -10min only. So here it is, a few cut here and there. Also, my uncles are doing well in So. Cal. They have a…

If you were looking for my regular bikini edition go here. I have pretty much refrained from blaming Obama for the mess in the gulf. But his ineptness and failure to waive the Jones act as Bush did for Katrina pretty much hangs this bird around Obama’s neck. Especially when you consider that bioremediation technology…

For those of you who take an interest in that sort of thing, this year’s July 4th Bikini Edition is up. Not only do we have the latest Tactical Girls but we also have women shooting machine guns – visuals with sound. Plus the usual bevy of semi naked patriots. Men and women. And some…

Overheard on the ‘net: Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism I note that Eric has a post up on Political Correctness. Generally I try to avoid reading the blog until I do a post so I do not feel constrained by anyone’s recent posts. So you can count this post as serendip. BTW ancient people had…

A new Bill Whittle video. And don’t miss his take on soccer. Hilarious. Cross Posted at Power and Control

A song for our times. Written by Sheldon Harnick. You might think this song was written recently. The above recording of the Kingston Trio was made at the Hungry I in 1958. Cross Posted at Power and Control

It all started (in modern times) with Richard Nixon “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.” Richard Nixon as quoted by H.R. Haldeman, supporting a get-tough-on drugs strategy. Thus begins the Fort Worth…

The site Resist.net, billing itself as The Home of The Patriotic Resistance, is supporting Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio. So let me tell you a few things about Sheriff Joe. How about we start with the wrongful death of Scott Norberg. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Norberg wrongful death lawsuit was settled out of court for…

Instapundit linked to the RS McCain blog which was discussing the resignation of Washington Post reporter David Weigel. I found this comment there of interest: Danby June 25th, 2010 @ 5:41 pm The deal here Stacy is that Weigel was NEVER A CONSERVATIVE. He’s not a member of set B. He’s a member of set…

Donald Sensing asked me to write up an e-mail conversation we were having about the coming war in the Middle East. You can find it at The Coming War. Cross Posted at Power and Control

H/T Hot Air Cross Posted at Power and Control

Yesterday I posted a story on the publicity amateur fusion has gotten over the last few hours (at the time). It is a day later and a Google search on fusion suppes (Suppes is the last name of the fusion experimenter profiled) now shows 857,000 hits. And my Classical Values article is right up there…

My friend Famulus whose blog is Prometheus Fusion Perfection has just had his efforts (and in part mine too – I helped him with a Polywell research proposal) picked up by the BBC Mr Suppes, 32, is part of a growing community of “fusioneers” – amateur science junkies who are building homemade fusion reactors, for…

Commenter simentt at my post Got An Old Hard Drive? tells me about a campaign going on in Norway to reduce the costs of goods imported to Norway. Do you eBay? There is a small campaign (Organized by the libertarian magazine ‘Farmann‘, apparently on Facebook) going on to have people eBay all kinds of stuff…

Amazon is selling for a very reasonable price (currently $27.93) a hard drive to USB adapter that is just wonderful for extracting data from old hard drives or using a new hard drive for an emergency backup. I don’t recommend it for use as a permanent USB drive as it doesn’t come with a case.…

A promo for an article on the Gulf oil spill at Rolling Stone is entitled: The Spill, The Scandal and the President: How Obama let BP get away with murder. No wonder my friend Eric at Classical Values thinks the Resident would like to be doing something else besides being President. Like parties, golfing, and…

We hear a lot about how greed is ruining _____ (fill in the blank). In other words: Definition of greedy: anyone who has more than you do. OK I’ll play. Governments are the greediest bastards on earth. Cross Posted at Power and Control