Kevin Francis delivers a wonderful and well-deserved bitch-slap to the lefties ensconced at the Economist:
Oh dear! This post is just another example of the decline in standards at the “Economist” and the leftward drift that seems to have accelerated since the change in Editor. You’ve drifted a long way from your supposed standards of support [...]
David Warren writes:
The more I think about “global warming”, in light of the most recent United Nations report, the more confident I become in averring that it is a fraud, a political stunt, a criminal imposture, that every intelligent journalist should be helping to expose.
I’m sure all five of them are doing everything they can.
No email again today. This will allegedly be cleared up tomorrow.
Stanley Fish references Ann Althouse’s blog in an NYT article about Kevin Barrett, that “911 was an inside job” prof at UW, prompting an interesting response / discussion at Alhouse’s blog. Fish claims that the teaching (”teaching”) of any subject should be OK as long as one doesn’t cross the line into indoctrination:
Rather, the question [...]
Today I accidentally bought a Black Cherry Vanilla coke, because it looks an awful lot like a Cherry coke.
OMFG what vile nastiness. More attention to labels is indicated.
David Warren, as dead-on as usual:
The whole point of the Geneva Conventions is to encourage legitimate soldiering, even under the pressures of war. It was written intentionally to exclude terrorists and other “informal” fighters, who do not wear uniforms or other clear markings, who arm themselves in exceptionally vicious ways, who target non-combatants as a [...]
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Apple iPod owners love their sleek machines. That’s when they work. When they don’t, they enter a twilight world where they discover their prized music player is considered by its manufacturer as nothing more than a throwaway item.
Apparently their life expectancy is only a year.
RCN has had me on hold for about 40 minutes now, and I’m starting to feel like a sucker - they probably closed up shop at 5, and this fucking recording will keep lying to me until tomorrow morning. If I hadn’t already decided to dump their service, this would have persuaded me.
UPDATE: Well, I [...]
Jonah Goldberg is bothered by the fact that a private company isn’t doing enough to celebrate something he thinks is important. Goldberg is free to get his own damn website, and do whatever he likes with the logo on it, on any day he sees fit.
What a dingleberry.
Don Boudreaux writes:
Economist Paul Craig Roberts has joined recently with the likes of Lou Dobbs and Sen. Charles Schumer to denounce so-called “outsourcing” — that is, the importation of services.
Roberts is aware that, throughout history, free trade has raised the living standards of ordinary people. But, he says, this historical record is irrelevant to today’s [...]
Wendy McElroy guesses at Toyota’s possible motivation for taking a loss on each of their hybrids:
Now, the U.S. FedGov’s EPA measures “fuel economy” via a performance metric called “Corporate Average Fuel Economy,” or “CAFE” for short. The EPA computes this metric by simply adding up the MPGs of all the “passenger vehicles” (cars, vans, SUVs, [...]
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched some pundit/show host/other idiot on TV tell me something counterfactual about history that I actually witnessed myself (at some remove, of course), and now this little gem:
“President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead [...]
I have no idea which links I followed from where to get here, but:
Back then, I was willing to give the administration the benefit of the doubt. All the heavy rhetoric seemed to be part of an overall strategy to intimidate Saddam Hussein to give up his weapons of mass destruction. The threat of force [...]
So, the Pentagon has started releasing untranslated documents from Saddam’s archives to the blogosphere. Iraq the Model has translated an interesting one:
In the name of God the merciful the compassionate
Presidency of the Republic
Intelligence Service
2/913/5th directorate
Sir: Director General of the 5th directorate
Subject: Information
Our Afghani source #002 (info on him in paper slip ‘1′) has informed us [...]
“Profiteering from the Arctic Thaw”, from Spiegel Online:
Global warming isn’t necessarily the catastrophe it’s made out to be — at least not for multinational oil companies. Shrinking ice caps would reveal the Arctic’s massive energy sources and shorten tanker routes by thousands of miles.
[...]
The Arctic is a giant treasure trove for energy multinationals. A quarter [...]
John Bolton slays me! From the Q&A session following his talk at The Federalist Society Student Symposium:
Q: To what extent do you feel the United Nations is impaired by the United States’ actions in Iraq without having gained support?
A: I think there’s no question that there was substantial opposition in the United Nations Security Council [...]
Amid rumors that Summers will resign before next tuesday’s faculty meeting (at which another no-confidence vote is possible), The Crimson reports:
While disaffection with Summers has been widespread throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leaders of several other schools are expressing their admiration for the embattled president.
Wait… there’s more to Harvard than the FAS?
Althsuler, the [...]