I had no idea Berkeley had such a large performing arts department:
Last September, Friend reports, 5,000 Berkeley employees and students rallied in Sproul Plaza, scene of protests that ignited the 1960s and helped make Ronald Reagan governor. Some protesters, says Friend, were “naked except for signs that read ‘BUDGET TRANSPARENCY.’” At an indoor meeting, a [...]
Reminding me how much I hate (well, some) people:
Utterly unsurprising: footage of the People’s Republic of Cambridge masquerading as Copenhagen.
Anybody remember just getting on a bike and fucking going somewhere?
I’ve got a nice Intel Inside-type tag line for all efforts like this: “Powered by Pretension”.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
(via @GreatDismal, whom I – sadly – [...]
Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference. Given the amount of money these guys want diverted to non-productive uses (“graft”), and the likely impact on people living on the margin in various places, I think being put on trial for crimes against humanity isn’t entirely out of order.
Krauthammer, on the latest from the Failed Obama Adminitration™ :
The reason that there is this huge increase in the debt ceiling today is that it gets us past Election Day next year, so you won’t have to have another raise of the limit until after Election Day. … Better to take the political hit now [...]
In suggesting various options regarding the US presence in Afghanistan that the Obama administration might consider (bugging out, kicking the can down the road, and – you know – winning) Victor Davis Hanson writes:
You might have to define the Taliban for what it is—a fascistic sort of murderous religious zealots—and lay out the objectives at [...]
…is so tiresome:
Suggestions for a slideshow of celebrities who didn’t die young enough? Yes, living celebrities qualify.
Or is even expressing disgust too celebrity-obsessed?
Because, really, who’d bother directing movies without the perquisites?
If you see any of these pendejos around your kids, I’d recommend sticking it up their asses, and pulling the trigger until it goes click… click… click… Which is to say I’m glad I didn’t see the Coen brothers’ names on that list.
WOW… $13,00 – $58,000 worth of porn surfing! And that’s just one guy!
Really, who cares what the vendor says the rope is for?
Assuming they’re both guilty of what the rumors say they’ve done, the upside is that they aren’t as stupid as they sound. The downside is that they’re even bigger scumbags than I’ve been assuming they are, if that’s even possible. And if the Clinton campaign’s denials are true, well, that means in addition to being [...]
I didn’t follow the link, but I’m pretty confident in the accuracy of my post title.
It was a long time ago, sure – but still.
kamangir.net:
One of the high-commanders of the Police force stated a few days ago that in 63% of cases of murder with a female victim, women are killed by a family member and that “the Police cannot intervene in these cases”
I’ve read in more than one Robert Kaplan book that violence and crime are far less [...]
Daring SWAT team saves child from headache:
NEW CASTLE, Colo. — A tactical law enforcement team broke into Tom Shiflett’s home and took his 11-year-old son to hospital for court-ordered medical treatment for a minor head injury.
Garfield County’s All Hazards Response Team raided the home Friday night, a day after Jon Shiflett fell after grabbing the [...]
Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference:
BALI, Indonesia – An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to “have the courage to do nothing” in response to [...]
Editor & Publisher:
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (CLRCR) issued a statement today criticizing newspapers for dropping cartoons that might offend Muslims while running cartoons that might offend Catholics.
CLRCR was reacting to the news that at least 25 of the 200 or so “Opus” clients planned not to publish the Aug. 26 and [...]
Via Chuck, Alex Tabarrok’s So You Think You Can Be President? game show proposal:
Our system for choosing presidents doesn’t work very well. Voters are woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on whim. I don’t think restricting the franchise is a good solution, however. A better [...]
What an asshole:
SUNAPEE, N.H. – Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment [...]
Via Instapundit, a fashionable TASER, delivered right to your door! Better-looking than the iPhone, and probably more fun to use… But alas, the fact that
In field uses by law enforcement against dangerous suspects, TASER technology has among the lowest injury rates of any force option.
makes no difference to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which cares more [...]