Archive for 2009

SO MUCH FOR the post-racial America. Which is, I think, precisely the point. It was a trap, and it worked. . . .

HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S cunning plan.

WORKING AFTER RETIREMENT BOOSTS HEALTH? That’s good to hear, since it’s looking like most of us will be . . . . .

DOW INDEX BREAKS 10,000. Well above the previous low, well below the previous high. Is it a real recovery, or just a sucker’s rally? Like I would know. . .

FTC TO BLOGGERS: You’ve got us all wrong. “We are not planning on investigating individual bloggers. . . . We’re not interested in playing gotcha in the gray areas.”

UPDATE: FTC charged with being misleading and deceptive.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ann Althouse doesn’t trust the government. At least, not fully after she’s parsed the statement.

MORE: I’m reminded of what Clay Whitehead said about Nixon’s use of the FCC against his critics: “The main value of the Sword of Damocles is that it hangs, not that it drops.”

Especially since, when it does fall, it’s often revealed as much duller and flimsier than it looked when it was suspended up in the air.

15 ABORTIONS in 17 years.

And I’ve only had the one.

THE EMPTY IDEA of authority.

A GLOBAL-WARMING tipping point?