Michael Crichton posts another of his speeches, detailing the history of our priesthood’s^H^H^H^H^H^Hmedia’s ability to grok complexity, and the fine job it does educating the the public about it.
I’m reminded of Kelly’s blogpost about the park service. Apparently the arrogance she revealed is matched only by the ignorance that fuels it.
Somehow, I just can’t get that worked up about this:
Masked gunmen stormed into a club for United Nations workers in Gaza City on Sunday and blew up the drinking hall in a new sign of spiralling unrest ahead of a Palestinian election.
It was the first such attack in Gaza on a U.N. target and came [...]
Over at LfDC, which suffers from the too-early closing of comments on its posts, nzc cites an article suggesting there is no biological need for women to have periods while taking oral contraceptives. JP opines:
I’m told that there are studies showing that women who skip their periods all together are at higher risk for stroke. [...]
Lee Harris hits one out of the park with his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
…let us consider some of the people who have won it in the past, and see if their names are more familiar to you than mine is: Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontopiddan, Carl Spitteler, Wladyslaw Reymont, Grazia Deledda, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Frans [...]
… on the backend, anyway. WP 2.0 has lots of very cool improvements. Hopefully everything will work as advertised (Spam Karma 2 will apparently continue to work, with the addition of a new plug-in).
UPDATE: If you actually use WP’s posting UI, and not some crazy coding tool that takes fifteen years to learn and three [...]