Monthly Archives: February 2010

Is anyone else following this story? I wrote about it a year or so ago, but it’s back with a vengeance: Hawaii’s about to spawn a separate state based on race, courtesy of House Democrats. As farewell presents go, few … Continue reading →

Great tips here. That’s the trouble with blogging – no time for reflection and re-writing. I’d go back to my novels, but does anyone read books anymore?

At 12:35 this morning, Pal Nancy heard a crash, as did our neighbors, but no one could determine its source until the paper girl knocked on our neighbor’s door at 7 and, after handing her her paper, asked whether she … Continue reading →

I’ll admit that until just now I didn’t know that there was a Robinson Crusoe Island but there is, 400 miles off Chile, and the tsunami has hit it with 18′ waves. No report on damage, if any – next … Continue reading →

Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling has an appeal scheduled before the Supreme Court Monday and, although the WSJ devotes most of its coverage to whether Skilling was denied a fair trial because of local antipathy for Enron in Houston, I think this … Continue reading →

Folks in Hawaii are mostly still asleep and don’t know there’s a tsunami heading their way, so authorities are going to set off sirens at 6:00 am their time. Maybe you should call any friends out there and give them … Continue reading →

That’s what the Tsunami folks fear. The’re curiously precise, predicting the first waves will hit at 4:19 PM, our time. Set your watch.

NYT: New wave of anti-biotic-resistent germs invades hospitals.And they have no drug to stop it. My advice: stay out of hospitals. The germ is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands … Continue reading →

New York Times: data since 1895 fail to show warming trend. The article was printed in 1989, before the Times and its allies discovered the usefulness of global warming as a social tool. Within a decade, the science was settled.

Shock, confusion as birth certificates are invalidated.

Fresh from extending the Patriot Act and reauthorizing the torture of prisoners, the Senate, under Vermont Socialist Patrick Leahy, is whining about missing emails from the Bush administration and John Yoo.

A reader sent this along: Impress your neighbors with Amazing Garage Door Covers!” A German firm called “Style Your Garage” – creates posters for garage doors that make it look as if it’s actually showing the interior of your garage, … Continue reading →

Buhl on Brant

Snow storm’s a bust.

Here in Riverside, the sun’s out, the snow’s melting and all is fine, but I hear reports that it’s snowing in Central Park. Really? Or are we being hit with media hysteria? Bizarre.

These guys still have good stuff, despite their firing some great people. You won’t have the expert advice anymore, but if you know what you’re doing, there are good deals here. Description MRSP GD Price Vanity w/ Wood Top and … Continue reading →

Danish paper apologizes to Muslims. Too bad. Here’s another: