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Damn! There are so many things I can’t write about that it just kills me. Really, this not-wanting-to-hurt-anyone’s-feelings thing gets to be too much, but that’s the way it is in the blogosphere, especially on the right side of the blogosphere these days. People who take themselves seriously do not take kindly to not being…

Ann Althouse reminded me that I don’t like figure skating. Never have, never will. I also don’t like Barbra Streisand. Neither musically, nor politically. While there’s no accounting for taste (and thus no accounting for those who like “Barbra”), I wish people wouldn’t make tasteless demands like this: Call me a stereotype if you will…

Senator Evan Bayh is retiring. On his way out he had a few choice words. “I simply reached a conclusion that I could get more done to help my state and the American people by doing something in the private sector,” said Bayh, the two-term senator and former governor, on ABC’s Good Morning America on…

My apologies to those who came here looking for one of my usual eccentric or silly posts. I’ll try to come up with something later, but I think this is important, so I’m changing the time on this post so it will stay at the top all day. As most of you know, I don’t…

Anyone familiar with Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón will remember that he’s an activist who sought to bring criminal charges against a number of Americans, including Henry Kissinger and the so-called “Bush Six.” (Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General; John Yoo, of the Office of Legal Counsel; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy; William Haynes…

In a post about the latest attempt to medicalize political opinion, I interjected a gratuitous, unelaborated thought: I often suspect that the culture war is intended to keep us bickering over penises in the hope we won’t notice the country is going bankrupt, but that’s another rant. I’ve talked about this before. It’s the old…

I’ve read that conservative is the new gay, but might there actually be a “conservative gene”? What if conservatives are “born that way” as activists maintain gays are? Wouldn’t that make conservatives the members of a legitimate identity group worthy of the full range of legal protections? Lest anyone laugh at the absurdity, the New…

I just came across an Australian Company, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd., that makes a solid oxide natural gas fuel cell, BlueGen™, that can produce electricity and heat. BlueGen™ is a the latest breakthrough in small scale electricity generation – a modular style fuel cell generator that can be configured to suit a range of different…

In a recent news item I wish I didn’t have to take seriously, the Shariah-promoting Fiqh Council of North America is claiming that airport body scanners violate Islamic law. The Detroit Free Press says this could complicate airline screening: In a move that could complicate airport screening, a group of Muslim-American scholars issued a religious…

Earlier I was sent a link to an event I consider ridiculous, which I was all set to ignore in my usual manner. I offhandedly forwarded the link to M. Simon, who made an obvious suggestion — that I ridicule the event. The event featured programs with titles like “Homosexual Rights and First Amendment Freedoms:…

The below video explains why banks are not wiling to make a deal on foreclosed property. And also why “the less we sell it for the better” is depressing housing prices. Now this may be a good thing to get property moving again. But it means that the true market value is unknown. The good…

Phil Jones admits no statistically significant warming since 1995. Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’. The data is crucial to…

When I wrote about the used Japanese rice cooker I found at a Craigs List moving sale for nothing, the implications of this emergent “fuzzy logic” technology had not yet begun to sink in. I was not yet fully aware of how easy it had become to prepare high-quality, low-cost food, but now that it’s…

This video is by a food guy. You know the type – change what you eat because it is killing you. If it’s not one thing it’s another. About 45 seconds in he puts up an atomic bomb blast (very pretty) and then he goes on to discuss the existential threat of our time. Wait…

“Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.” Hendrik Tennekes Science is in a sorry state these days. It is so bad that a Dutch scientist has resigned from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Henk Tennekes is well known to the visitors of our website. A few days ago, he told…

Self hatred has long fascinated me, because it’s one of those psychological conditions which has been transformed from a medical disorder into a political indictment. Gay conservatives, gay libertarians, and any other gays who disagree with the left have been called “self hating homosexuals” for so long and so repeatedly that it’s almost a thing…

My friend Karl has designed a new widget for your sidebar: You can go here to get the code to add to your sidebar. If you want to get a mug or a T shirt or other stuff you can get it at The Tea Party Difference. Support the artist who designed the image by…

And by the same group: Hide The Decline H/T Vanderleun at American Digest via TDPerk at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

It appears that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has some seriously wrong figures for the Netherlands. A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half of the Netherlands is currently below sea level. In fact, just 20 percent of the country consists of polders that are pumped dry, and which are at…

Eric commented on a series of e-mails between us and was wondering if the Christian Conservative wing of the Tea Party Movement was trying to lever the libertarians out of the movement by gay bashing and other culture war memes. He referenced this post on which I commented: M. Simon says: What you saw was…