STUCK WITH AIRPORT CNN: My sympathies. Plus, a good point in the comments: “All these TVs in airports are contributing to global warming.”
Archive for 2008
July 25, 2008
FUN WITH TONY PIERCE, from Marc Danziger. Yeah, who ever thought that Rev. Tony would wind up as The Man, keeping the bloggers in line?
ILYA SOMIN on secession, ignorance, and stupidity.
JOEL JOHNSON: How to Unlock DVD Regions on Your Mac and PC.
HELPFUL ADVICE: How to look good on TV.
LAW DEANS REACT to a call for a U.S. News rankings boycott.
HOMELAND SECURITY meets The Sopranos?
Plus, How Horrible Will Airlines Have to Become Before We Stop Flying? Not much worse.
THE LATEST CARNIVAL OF THE RECIPES IS UP!
IN THE MAIL: Patrick Oden’s It’s a Dance: Moving with the Holy Spirit. The cover letter invokes An Army of Davids, and the back cover reads, “Get a new grasp of the Holy Spirit by listening to this conversation in a pub.”
Knoxville, Tennessee. At the Farmer’s Market.
A COOL volcano light show.
BURT RUTAN on the future of space flight. (Via Dale Amon). Related thoughts here.
EXPLAINING the Northern Lights.
MAN BOY BITES DOG: “An 11-year old boy is in Brazil’s media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle’s backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm. Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.” Hey, it’s called a “canine tooth” for a reason.
PETER KIRSANOW: “Judging from the local drive time radio shows, we bitter, religious pistol-packers here in flyover country remembered only two things from Obama’s Berlin visit: the phrase ‘citizen of the world’ and Obama’s failure to visit wounded troops at Landstuhl and Ramstein.”
UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin says the media missed the big story on Obama’s trip.
FACT-CHECKING OBAMA ON CLIMATE CHANGE: “Barack Obama is just wrong. Sea levels have been declining, not rising, for the last two years. . . . What about drought to farms in Kansas ‘as we speak’? Again, not so much.”
Plus, some questions answer themselves: “You don’t suppose there is any chance the press will check his facts ‘as it reports’?”
THE PORN-LOVING PEOPLE VS. NOAM CHOMSKY:
Trawling YouTube’s daily list of top “activism” videos, I found this wonderful, horrible clip of Noam Chomsky pontificating on the evils of pornography. Chomsky first defends himself against the charge that he himself is complicit in promoting pornography because, back in 2004, he was interviewed by Hustler magazine. But, he tells his interrogator, he “had never heard of The Hustler” until someone told him “what The Hustler was.” Chomsky, a prolific emailer, apparently didn’t know that The Google could have provided him with much information on The Hustler and its filthy contents.
Really, if Chomsky didn’t exist the right would have to invent him.
GERARD BAKER: He Ventured Forth To Bring Light to The World.
STILL fighting over fat in the diet.
In a move that has apparently stirred up some internal discontent, the Los Angeles Times has banned its bloggers, including political bloggers, from mentioning the Edwards/Rielle Hunter story. Even bloggers who want to mention the story in order to make a skeptical we-don’t-trust-the-Enquirer point are forbidden from doing so. . . . That will certainly calm paranoia about the Mainstream Media (MSM) suppressing the Edwards scandal!
Much more at the link. Seems to be slipping out elsewhere, though.
JOHN MCCAIN ON Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
REQUIRING STUDENT SPY CAMERAS FOR ONLINE COLLEGES? “No one in Congress objects to it.”
FINDING OIL RICHES IN THE ARCTIC:
The Arctic may contain as much as a fifth of the world’s yet to-be-discovered oil and natural gas reserves, the United States Geological Survey said Wednesday as it unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle.
Oil companies have long suspected that the Arctic contained substantial energy resources, and have been spending billions recently to get their hands on tracts for exploration. As melting ice caps have opened up prospects that were once considered too harsh to explore, a race has begun among Arctic nations, including the United States, Russia, and Canada, for control of these resources.
The geological agency’s survey largely vindicates the rising interest. It suggests that most of the yet-to-be found resources are not under the North Pole but much closer to shore, in regions that are not subject to territorial dispute.
Well, thank Gore that the ice is melting just as we need the oil. It’s like divine Providence at work.
ADVICE ON teaching your kids about money.
More on that subject here.