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Eric at Classical Values says that what people want to read is weird and sensational stuff. A little humor never hurt either. My take is that if it includes sex and home improvement it ought to work even better. Popular Science meets the National Enquirer. So today I’m doing a short (very short) review of…

Sean Kinsell looks at a couple of pieces by Bruce Bawer on the repudiation of Pim Fortuyn by certain members of the European right wing. Warns Sean, Some of these people probably had contempt for Fortuyn all along but were willing not to repudiate him as long as he was one of the few high-profile…

The singing in the video is one of the best versions I could find on YouTube. I did like the dancing in this version better though. The version in the above video is very good. It doesn’t hold a candle to the version of Brush Up Your Shakespeare that was done by a traveling company…

The other day Glenn Reynolds linked a Reason piece about new federal rules for anyone running a yard or garage sales: Selling old kids books, anything with metal, paint, or plastic that a kid might use, old clothes or shoes with metal components that a kid might wear? You know, any of the stuff people…

“It’s great to have a private jet.” So says Oprah Winfrey (to a group of young and impressionable people). Yes, I’m sure it is just great to have a private jet. (And armed bodyguards too! How great is that?) What I think would be even greater would be if Oprah would just stop lecturing the…

Forgive the title, folks. But inspired by a link, I decided to yellowize the blog up a bit. And why not? As things are, I’m so burned out on human politics that a slight change of pace (to hyena politics) seems very much in order. Whether you’re into traditional values or tend towards more radical…

As you can see from the above graph the heat stored in the ocean does not match global warming predictions. Normally this would mean the death of a theory or at minimum some serious adjustments of it. But you know what we are dealing with is not real science. It is climate change science. Albert…

Michael Barone looks at why public support for gun control and global warming hysteria have diminished over time. The preaching and scolding have had a cumulative effect, aggravated by hypocrisy: …For liberal elites, belief in gun control and global warming has taken on the character of religious faith. We have sinned (by hoarding guns or…

I can’t help thinking that the timing of this this “death to Limbaugh” meme is awfully suspicious. For the past week, a sizeable portion of the conservative and libertarian blogosphere have been debating whether or not to adopt leftie-style meanness and dirty fighting as a tactic, and with the debate still ongoing, what does the…

I tell you we must die. I’m just kidding. Death is optional. Sanity is optional. Hell, everything is optional. Tha’ts the real secret. Coincidentally, it’s happy hour. Always is. Somewhere. Somewhere. You know what is incredibly unenjoyable? A radio friendly version of a rap album. Give me parental warnings for [G]od’s sake! How else am…

I realize that the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is supposed to be a sort of no-holds-barred roast, but isn’t there a tradition that the insults are at least supposed to be funny? I admit, my sense of humor has not been up to snuff lately, but still, I’m having trouble seeing the humor in…

I was reading the reviews at Amazon and came across one about the book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani that I found rather interesting. Pisani has no patience for distraction, a major one being that AIDS is a gender / development / poverty issue. Pisani shows…

This will have a lot of ramifications if Wickard vs. Filburn is overturned. Justice Thomas in his dissent in Raich took the stance that Wickard was wrongly decided. So there is one Justice on board. The States only need four more. Here is my favorite part of Thomas’ Raich dissent. Monson and Raich neither buy…

On Mothers Day, I remember and miss my mother. That’s all I can do, for she died nearly ten years ago. So, my simple advice to those with moms who are living is to celebrate Mothers Day. Go do something nice for her!

In yesterday’s post (in which I maintained that “conservatism can be effectively communicated in a Moveon-esque, 20-second sound clip“), I cited the example of Ronald Reagan’s “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” I forgot about a complicating factor, and that is the recent GOP movement (criticized here by Rush…

As I was reading the comments to some blog posts around the net I came across one that suggested a read of Ludwig Von Mises’ book The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. So I looked at the reviews and found an interesting one. This book explains the basis for the American (and Western) fascination with non-capitalism despite an…

It seems there is a mismatch between jobs and workers that is keeping as many as 3 million people unemployed. (it could be a lot less – but still) Are American employers too picky? Are they rejecting reasonable candidates at the same time they claim to have lots of openings they would like to fill?…

Jeremy Marks (a very articulate, conservative law student) identifies what he sees as the real problem for conservatives: Conservatism’s real quandary lies in the fact that it cannot be effectively communicated in a Moveon-esque, 20-second sound clip — a medium that my Pavlovian generation flocks to without a critical thought. Liberalism is an ideology of…

I wonder whether Linda Sanchez has considered that the bill she proposes (which Glenn Reynolds linked here and here) — to Imprison Hostile Bloggers — would make felons out of some leading left wing bloggers. The text of the bill (H.R. 1966) says this: (a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with…

In a piece titled “Attention Conservatives: Nice Guys Do Finish Last,” John Hawkins responds to Adam Graham’s argument that conservatives shouldn’t play dirty. I read Hawkins regularly, and I like his blog. Although I don’t consider myself especially nice, the point of this post is not to take sides in this dispute so much as…