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Artist’s interpretation of the fate WaPo blogger Dave Weigel wished on Matt Drudge the WaPo blogging career of Dave Weigel.

Over the years, I’ve seen a number of attempts attack, malign, regulate, categorize, and otherwise mess with bloggers, blogging, and the blogosphere, but today I stumbled across an entirely new potential avenue of approach. Apparently specialized software has been developed which purports to psychiatrically analyze bloggers’ writing styles, diagnose them as ill, and direct them…

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…

I don’t like to chide anyone for his or her sexual peccadilloes, and that includes even the very ridiculous Al Gore. The woman’s statement–which could be mistaken for R-rated Vice Presidential fan fiction–describes Gore as a man with a “violent temper as well as extremely dictatorial commanding attitude besides his Mr. Smiley Global Warming concern…

Like many people, I like taking nature walks. There’s something about getting away from humanity that I find emotionally appealing. What I don’t like is the increasing tendency by other humans — especially meddlesome humans — to interrupt the natural beauty with constant, ugly reminders of their relentless and intrusive presence. And what a domineering…

(Forgive my cynicism but that’s what happens when you’re subjected to non-stop government spin and relentless bullshit day after day, week after week, and year after year…..) Right now there’s a tornado warning in effect for the City of Ann Arbor, and the city sirens are sounding. “Take shelter” is being texted in emergency emails.…

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…

Many people are reacting to President Obama’s latest encounter with a fly; the incident caused Ann Althouse to “reminisce about the time when Obama seemed to have superhuman power.” Ditto here. Well maybe microditto. Certainly it is beyond dispute that our president did once have the power to swat flies…. Now, our president (whom a…

I often read things that bother me. Sometimes they are opinions with which I disagree, and other times they involve inaccuracies. Usually, I forget all about them, but sometimes, an item will still be bothering me the next day, and this is one of them. I did a bit of a doubletake when I read…

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

When I read about the Obama $7.00 a gallon gasoline “Global Warming” agenda, my reaction to the “plan” was to exclaim, “I’m beginning to think that these people don’t want to get reelected!” I didn’t want to write a post, though, for I’m worried that the direction of the “spill spin” is still undetermined, and…

The previous post about the kid who was forbidden to wear a hat with plastic toy soldiers on it illustrates a problem which won’t go away. Although the principal announced he would try to change the policy to allow images of guns if carried by soldiers and police officers, it is not entirely clear that…

Note that the gentleman being interviewed is an Obama supporter if you can judge by the above conversation. He says Obama was not born in Hawaii. He also says those that don’t like Obama are racists. Here is what he had to say: There is no birth certificate,” he said. “It’s like an open secret.…

The picture is from Curmudgeonly & Skeptical. The above is a proud Palestinian child. Eric at Classical Values discusses the resurgence of Nazi Politics in the Middle East. I too have posted a few times on the subject. Then there is my post: The Nazis of the Middle East. The Baath Party which runs Syria…

Let us get the bad news out of the way first. The Resident has put a part timer in charge of oil spill operations. And of course the Resident is defending that decision. Can the man who President Obama has tapped to formulate a long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan work only part-time on such a…