Monthly Archives: February 2010

The man is so deranged that he’s just not worth wasting brain space on, but the dozen or so remaining Times’ readers have elevated his latest hallucinations to the top of the “most emailed to Eskimos” category, so here’s Powerline’s … Continue reading →

Oh, the humanity! Israeli police go after stone throwers.

They’re doing more to aid the afflicted than anyone else – I have my reservations about some of these groups but Kristof is absolutely right: they’re putting their money and effort where my mouth is  - good for them. A … Continue reading →

SWAT team busts into house, shoots the family dogs (including the 12″ Corgi) and charges parents for endangering the welfare of a child. This has to stop, now.

Instapundit links to a distressing article from London: the Muslims are taking over the Labor Party. Viscount Grey would not be surprised. Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the … Continue reading →

Great game, and someone had to lose, but another 24 seconds and it would have gone to a shoot out. Dang.

Greenwich Time is running a series of articles by a young nitwit named Sarah Lipman who is touring Asia on the cheap and, while I admire her free-spirited adventourousness, I’m appalled at her ignorance. The Hao Lo Prison is more famously … Continue reading →

In the D.C. area they’ve tossed out IQ tests so up to 72% of all children are “gifted and talented”. Going on IQ, I could have been considered gifted and talented, yet never amounted to much, so I’m not saying … Continue reading →

Oceanographers defend their tsunami warning. Scientists use an earthquake’s magnitude and location as the basis for their predictions and then refine it constantly with data from more than 30 deep-water sensors stationed across the Pacific as the shock wavesweeps across the ocean … Continue reading →

Should be a good game but  for sheer poignancy,will anything ever top USA goalie Jim Craig, after the win against the USSR in 1980, carrying our flag and searching the stands for his father? Not in my lifetime. A bunch … Continue reading →

My neighbors had a Toyota end up in their yard yesterday – this lady had a bull in her parlor. Everyone got away, in the end.

Hmm. I wonder if there’s anything else that’s eluded his wisdom too?

If you’re deeply underwater, this WSJ columnist says you’d be a chump not to. How widespread is this? More than 11 million families are in “negative equity”—that is, they owe more on their home than it is worth—according to a … Continue reading →

They’re just further down the road to oblivion than us, but we’re both on the same road. What’s happening in the developed world today isn’t so very hard to understand: The 20th-century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people … Continue reading →

First Gold medal in 62 years, and Sports Illustrated has a good story on the team.

Canadian Girls hockey celebration is forgotten, quite rightly. Vancouver organizing chief John Furlong said it was simply a matter of “young kids who were happy.” “They had a great time,” Furlong said. “They let their hair down. Yes, they said … Continue reading →

Matt Haughey on the tsunami: So live news coverage in America is basically staring at webcams and reading wikipedia? Shit, I could be doing this myself.

I mean, I’m glad, sort of, but as a disaster buff, just a tad disappointed. UPDATE: Okay, ain’t nothing happening. I don’t fault the authorities on this in the slightest – if Thailand had had similar notice, thousands of lives … Continue reading →