VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! (Except if you’re a Progressive. You can stay home. You’ve done enough damage.)
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Continue readingMonth: October 2010
Where the bureaucratic state always seems to end up — death
The other day, I did a post about the fact that bureaucracies, in their ceaseless question for administrative protection, run the risk of killing us all. I think Zombie makes my point precisely, in a post pointing out that people and nations most deeply wedded to perfection through bureaucracy (i.e.,
Continue readingAbout Meg Whitman’s maid *UPDATED*
I keep meaning to blog about Meg Whitman’s maid, and then I don’t. Factually, it’s an insanely stupid story, although the lurid headlines in California’s lefty papers may be enough to confuse some independents into abandoning any vague ideas they may have been having about voting for Whitman. In other
Continue readingThe Little Ice Age (1300-1850) and Global Warmists
For my book club, I’m reading The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850. The title is self-explanatory and the book’s premise simple: Following a fairly halcyon early medieval period that saw global warming, and with it a rare stability in an intensely agrarian world, the world cooled down,
Continue readingMy favorite new blog of the day — Ben Howe Blog
Okay, it’s not a new blog, but it’s new to me, so that’s what counts for purposes of this post. You already know Ben Howe from his well-received Last Best Hope video. It turns out that Ben is not a “one hit wonder.” Instead, he is a film maker for
Continue readingMy two cents about solar panels on the White House
I found the report about the White House solar panels interesting. In theory, I think solar panels are a fine idea. In practice, here in the land of PG&E, I do not. You see, we have solar panels. It cost us roughly $15,000 to install them. Before we even purchased
Continue readingWatcher of Weasel’s nominations and Open Thread
I have a rush project today, so the blog will be silent, at least for a while. If you’re looking for good reading, though, I can’t give you a greater gift than this week’s Watcher’s Council submissions: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – R.T.T.T. stress — and more Rhymes
Continue readingWhy is Arlen Specter jetting around on the taxpayers’ dime?
(Welcome, Best of the Web readers! James Taranto is correct that nobody’s asking this question, and my readers are correct that Specter’s doing this “because he can,” but it still drives me nuts that, as a taxpayer, I’m funding this old duck’s last political hurrah.) We all know who Arlen
Continue readingWhy I’m voting Republican
I told my friend Don Quixote about the way in which liberals were boasting that the crowds at One Union exceeded those at Restoring Honor, despite the fact that the pictorial evidence showed the opposite to be true. Don Quixote, a lifelong conservative, responded by asking “Do liberals really believe
Continue readingDennis Prager on immigration — exactly what I’ve always wanted to say
I don’t think as well as Dennis Prager, so I’ve never been able to organize my thoughts as beautifully as he did in this column about illegal immigration and the reason legal Hispanic immigrants should look to conservatism as their political home. This hits every moral nail squarely on the
Continue readingWatcher’s Council winners for 10/3/10
It was a wonderful week’s worth of materials over at the Watcher’s Council, and the voting outcome shouldn’t surprise you. Council Winners First place with 2 votes! – The Razor – Obamacare – The Worst of All Worlds Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – The Glittering Eye –
Continue readingDeath through bureaucratic perfection *UPDATED*
I was speaking the other day with a friend who is contemplating a different type cancer treatment, one that is neither chemo, nor radiation. She has reacted badly to both, so they simply aren’t an option for her. Her doctor highly recommends this third type of treatment, which he believes
Continue readingThe death of privacy
All over my “real me” facebook, my liberal friends have been treating Tyler Clementi’s tragic suicide by framing him as a victim of an anti-gay crime. I saw it as him being the victim of the total loss of sexual privacy. I was going to blog about that, but IBD
Continue readingCulling the in-basket
I’m still catching up, but this stuff caught my eye: Geert Wilders, on Islam and Western culture. This link, by the way, ties in tightly with the next link, since both involve looking at people’s actual words and acts, rather than suppositions about who, or what, they are. As I
Continue readingTen seems like such a small number. How about 100?
Will 100 of you check out the USO’s website? You don’t have to give, although I think you’ll want to after seeing the site. (I certainly did: that is, I wanted to and I gave.) And if we all give $10 (or $1 or $100), we’ve made a difference.
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