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There has been a lot of back and forth at the places I post (Classical Values and Power and Control) about America becoming an immoral nation. So I have to asks a question of my readers and especially those commenting on my various posts. What can make America the moral nation that so many seem…

A few days ago I wrote a post about sex in men’s rooms, and among the issues I discussed were whether or not some of the men who have sex in restrooms are “straight.” (I don’t think they are entirely straight, although I do think many of them are bisexuals who lead heterosexual lives but…

As the Mumbai attacks have made crystal clear, the situation in Pakistan sucks. Big Time. If you have the slightest doubt about this, Bridget Johnson details why in a must-read piece that Glenn Reynolds linked earlier: As the smoke clears and the body count grows in Mumbai, in one of the most brazen and chilling…

Researchers at a Hewlet Packard Laboratory have combined computer logic with at type of controllable variable resistor into a neural network that may in time be dense enough to mimic a human brain. Also at the symposium, Snider unveiled a design that used memristors in their analog mode as synapses in a neural computing architecture.…

Time Magazine chronicles the anti-gay movement in Florida led by Anita Briant. The year is 1977. In the heat of the campaign, emotions have got out of hand. A gay worker was hospitalized after a beating; others have received crank calls. Urges a bumper sticker: KILL A QUEER FOR CHRIST. After receiving many telephone threats,…

I’ll be gone most of the day, so I thought I’d leave a little more “natural” art. First, another photograph of the purely natural art that’s been staring at me: And here’s some rodent art, which was carefully preserved inside a pet hobbyist book. Finally, some VHS tapes from the late 80s and early 90s.…

In light of my earlier post about terrorist attacks on Westerners in Mumbai, the idea of wishing people a Happy Thanksgiving feels a bit surreal. However (via Glenn Reynolds), as Roger L. Simon explains, even in light of these horrific events, there is a way to say “Happy Thanksgiving” in an appropriate context: The brutal…

I keep reading and hearing that Barack Obama is thinking of reneging on his campaign pledge to close Gitmo, and the issue came up in this often wry PJTV discussion between Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin. In light of the horrific events still unfolding in Mumbai, coupled with recently discovered plans to launch a terrorist…

Stagflation, Stagflation, my banker doesn’t have near enough information. The printing presses are running over time and yet folks don’t want to spend one thin dime. Stagflation, stagflation, I think it will wind up ruining the nation. Pass the Bill will Ya Hill?

Speaking of WorldNetDaily, the place has become almost a full time Birth Certificate Truther site. This morning I counted no less than eleven articles devoted to the subject at their front page. The crux of the matter is the claim that the Hawaiian birth certificate — which the state asserts is a legitimate record, and…

H/T Helius

Reflecting on Glenn Reynolds’ happy reaction to the news of the Robert Gates appointment, (“I’m beginning to feel like I won this election!”), John Hawkins takes issue with the emergent view of Barack Obama as a centrist: Obama is not a centrist and he’s not filling his cabinet up with them either. Hillary Clinton, Joe…

There is a rather long discussion going on at the post The Government IS The Devil. In that post I suggested that the government was limited to protecting public order and that its intrusion into the business of schools (currently a socialist enterprise called the Public School System) and the socialization of morality through ventures…

In what’s becoming increasingly common, traditional children’s Thanksgiving Day costumes have been banned by a school board because activists have complained: For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast. But on Tuesday, when the youngsters meet for their turkey and songs, they won’t be…

Watching the sunset from this house is always a treat, and much better than television. Today was especially spectacular, because, while it was overcast all day, the sun broke through at the last minute in a most peculiar, other-worldly manner. Here’s a view from inside the house. To give an idea of how the window…

I’m not sure about whether making convicted noisemakers listen to music they don’t like isn’t carrying “an eye for an eye” too far: FORT LUPTON — Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs” may begin with the line, “I’ve been alive forever,’” but for noise ordinance violators, listening to Manilow may feel like forever. Fort Lupton…

Yes, in what comes as very sad news to me, apparently irony died on the day Barack Obama was elected president. So stated the now-disgruntled Joan Didion (who didn’t say whether she voted for or against irony): The week after the election, in a talk at the New York Public Library, Ms. Didion lamented that…

Scientist at DOE’s Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, have found a material that is very hard and slicker than teflon by a factor of 2.5X. A superhard substance that is more slippery than Teflon could protect mechanical parts from wear and tear, and boost energy efficiency by reducing friction. The “ceramic alloy” is created by…

I’m having a conversation with one of my social conservative friends about marriage and child welfare. This is what I had to say: The government IS the Devil. Not metaphorically. Really. Everything you get from government will have a price much larger than the value of the object gained. Some times the price will not…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I read about the Gender Analyzer War. (Just plug in any blog URL at the Gender Analyzer, and it will tell you how male the blogger is.) While the ostensible blog manliness showdown initially arose between Jules Crittenden and Gateway Pundit (the former being a whopping 95% male in contrast to the…