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Be sure to check out my Pajamas Media post on the subject, and please feel free to leave a comment The bottom line is that while travel to Burma is generally considered unethical (because tourist money supports the tyrannical regime financially), the situation is so awful there right now that travel could hardly make things…

While I know Mike Huckabee was only kidding, remarks like this just don’t don’t work out too well in the world of politics. LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had…

“We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility.” So said Phil Edwards of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, quoted in a report linking obesity to global warming. “Hands off my steak!” is more like it. That was Andrew Bolt’s reaction. Bolt also supplied graphic evidence of “an enviro-menace who…

I do not admire disloyalty, so I was perturbed to read about a supposedly conscience-stricken young man [Matthis Chiroux] who, after years of military service in Afghanistan and elsewhere, suddenly says he “failed to report” “war crimes” and refuses deployment to Iraq. From his statement: This occupation is unconstitutional and illegal, and I hereby lawfully…

Take a long, hard look at this video: Barack Obama said that when he gave a speech in Detroit telling automakers that they had to build more energy efficient cars, nobody clapped. The reaction of most people who look at the above would be to conclude that he’s simply lying. Obviously (unless the video is…

If the massive outrage I overheard on talk radio yesterday is any indication, yesterday’s California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage is the ultimate affront to democracy, and the final triumph of judicial tyranny run amok. Daniel Blatt (a supporter of same sex marriage, btw) admits to being “troubled by the decision,” as am I,…

Where it comes to dating the divorced, I’m afraid I’m a bit out of my league, as well as out of touch with today’s world. However, I nonetheless enjoyed Dr. Helen’s PJM post on the subject, especially because double standards never fail to intrigue me. And boy, do the double standards ever abound! …a divorced…

Post-Nuclear War Mutant Salt Shakers, anyone? Clayton Cramer said that a Thai restaurant was handing them to customers, but he found them “disturbing.” It’s not the first time this has happened, but once again, I must regretfully disagree with Cramer. I mean, just look at these! I think they’re incredibly cool and I want a…

You can find out more about this at Set America Free.Org. If you want to learn more about why the auto companies should be making Flex Fuel Vehicles you can listen to this or visit Energy Victory. If you want to find out how cheap fusion energy can help (now in the early research stages…

Hey, I almost forgot that this blog is five years old today. Here’s what it looked like in the early days on blogspot. And here it is in July of 2003, right after I moved it to HostMatters with a cool redesign by Little Green Footballs: And in June of 2004, the blog was redesigned…

While I like to think that I pay attention to so-called “wedge issues,” it appears that I missed one. According to WaPo’s Harold Meyerson, John McCain is trying to make “America” itself a wedge issue, by means of identity politics: McCain’s first post-primary ad proclaimed him “the American president Americans have been waiting for.” Not…

In Picture Of WB-7 Bussard Fusion Test Reactor Available I reported that there was a picture of the WB-7 Fusion Test Reactor available. (Well duh). I must sadly report that it is no longer available. Instead EMC2 Fusion has replaced it with a picture of a plasma test of the fusion reactor using Helium gas.…

Human Events and WorldNetDaily have teamed up in the form of this editorial from WND editor Joseph Farah: …John McCain won’t get any help from me. He won’t get my vote. In fact, to be honest, if the Republican Party is ever going to recover itself and become the party it was under Ronald Reagan,…

In what may be the silliest post I’ve written in some time, I’m going to try to make sense of Sean Penn’s recent political analysis, delivered at the Cannes Film Festival: At a press conference beforehand, the actor, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, offered his views on the Democratic nomination race. Asked if…

Crystal Dixon, an associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo, has been essentially fired (she refused to accept a demotion with a pay cut) for writing in a newspaper that homosexuality is wrong, and not the equivalent of race: Dixon was placed on paid administrative leave after a column she wrote…

Here’s a treat for all aging hippies, hippie lovers, hippie haters, culture war buffs, and dog lovers everywhere. Stephen Gaskin on Cesar Millan (aka the Dog Whisperer).

A tireless regular reader of this blog who will remain nameless has emailed me a link to the Oxford Reference Online’s Fact of the Day which was headlined “How is the nine-banded armadillo able to traverse water?” The answer to the question is that it self-inflates, and holds its breath: The nine-banded armadillo, unlike the…

Aside from the fact that I’m not a Clinton supporter, two things bother me about the news of Hillary Clinton’s 2-1 victory in West Virginia last night. One is the fact that while the story was reported, it was treated as a non-event, and buried on page A-4 of the Inquirer. This is part of…

Here’s something Coco is not happy about. A student teacher in St. Cloud who had a service dog was harrassed by a Muslim student who threatened to kill his dog — apparently because they thought the animal was “unclean.” (According to the article, “the Muslim faith, which is the dominant faith of Somali immigrants, forbids…

In my recent post Starting A Fusion Program In Your Home Town I talked about expanding the fusion design and testing environment to increase the rate of progress in the development of a power producing reactor. The lead Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR) experimenter, rnebel, has read that article and has chimed in here with his…