India says that poverty is a more pressing problem than climate:
India said on Tuesday that poor nations had to give priority to ending poverty rather than fighting global warming at 189-nation U.N. climate talks criticized by environmentalists as a rambling talk shop.
Nations from Papua New Guinea to Iceland gave speeches during a novel two-day U.N. [...]
Victor Davis Hanson reports on WWII as our present-day media would:
Yet even this government’s propaganda efforts ring hallow, as we noticed with the recently released film footage purportedly showing Adolph Hitler incompetently handling a Colt .45 revolver. In fact, such a weapon, little known in Germany, is hard to load and shoot, especially the early [...]
Steve Almond, author of those revered contributions to the western canon, the story collections “The Evil B. B. Chow” and “My Life in Heavy Metal”, inadvertantly reveals a way to take academia back from left-wing extremists:
Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
By Steve Almond | May 12, 2006
An open letter to William P. [...]
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 [...]
The Luckiest Girl in the World breathlessly reports that
On Wednesday, I was at work when I got a call for a Neil Young session the next day. Needless to say, I was excited about it - Neil Young is one of my musical heroes. When my husband and I got to Capitol, we found 98 [...]
Congratulations on your newly redesigned website! Alas, the top-of-the-page horizontal flash ads are displaying against a white background three times taller than the flash ad itself in my browser (Firefox 1.5.01 on Linux), obscuring the top couple of paragraphs in each article.
Of course, this will force people (not many, I admit, but surely some) to [...]
TJIC fisks an overwrought review of V for Vendetta:
Douglas Kern has done a decent job of arguing that - for example - Saddam Hussein wasn’t the real fascist; the Iraqi Kurds who fought against him were the real fascists. After all, they killed government employees, they had an “endless sense of grievance” (just because family [...]
This is interesting:
According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the global warming of the past 100 years could be due to atmospheric changes that are not connected to human emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of natural gas and oil.
Shaidurov explains that there was a slight decrease in temperature until the [...]
Cry havoc and let slip the letters of Boudreaux:
5 December 2004
Editor, The New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036-3959
To the Editor:
Many more red-staters than blue-staters believe the Biblical account of creation. But blue-staters embrace their own version of creationism. For example, yesterday Robert Rubin and Michael Rubinger alleged in your pages that fairness [...]
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 [...]
Following up on that woman with balls:
Dr. Wafa Sultan is in hiding, fearful for her life and the safety of her family, after she lambasted the roots of radical Islam during a debate televised on Al-Jazeera last month.
Dr. Sultan is leading a struggle to create a new reality in the Islamic world, which she believes [...]
Annie Proulx, author of the short story that Larry McMurty adapted for the screen, whines:
The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy awards, it would get Best Picture [...] We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring [...]
I agree with what one commenter posted; I’d love to see esr say this to Clooney’s face:
Don’t bother telling me what I’m supposed to feel about Brokeback Mountain or what a philistine I am for dismissing it out of hand, or why it would be good for me to see it. That’s exactly my point; [...]
As far as I can recall, I’ve only been to a movie theater 9 times in the 21st century. Seven of those times have been to see a movie that was part of a franchise (Harry Potter, X-men, Ghost in the Shell). I’m planning on seeing V for Vendetta on the release day, or close [...]
Victor Davis Hanson on his visit to Iraq:
Critics dub our military a “mercenary” force and sometimes call for renewal of the draft. But it is hardly a late-imperial Roman legion filled with foreigners and malcontents, but rather a true volunteer force, whose diversity in age, gender, race and religion would shame a university faculty or [...]
Muslim Man Complaint Box:
this woman was having a talk with guests and things got a bit out of control when the woman host said “no, I don’t think so” to one of the guests. I was so mad I told my wife to drown herself in the bathtub while I finished watching the show. Then, [...]