ENERGY CONSERVATION, LIKE TAXES, IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Harry Reid arrives at clean energy summit. . . in a fleet of giant SUVs. “I was absolutely astonished, not to mention appalled, that Harry Reid would retain a fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs so that he and a few aides would not have to walk the mere 100 yards to address environmental activists.” If you’re astonished, you haven’t been paying attention.
Archive for 2010
September 14, 2010
BLACKMAIL: Great Moments In Legacy Journalism.
RAISING BEYOND one’s station. Question: If intellectuals are anti-American, is it surprising if Americans are “anti-intellectual?” Shouldn’t intellectuals be asking why do they hate us?
FIGHTING TELOMERE SHORTENING with fish oil?
HALO: REACH IS OUT TODAY, and engendering much excitement. I’d probably like it, but the last thing I need is another electronic pastime . . . .
DRYING TOMATOES: An Experiment Gone Wrong.
LEAKING SECRETS, LEAKING BLOOD: An interview with the anonymous blogger of Mexico’s drug war. (Bumped).
HOW THE REPUBLICANS COULD LOSE THE TEA PARTY: “If the GOP retakes Congress and doesn’t immediately take on the Tea Partiers’ top issue, the national debt, they face a backlash that could cost them the support of the movement—whose expectations are sky high.”
WHICH IS MORE SANITARY: Paper towels or those air hand dryers? I’d say it’s a wash. . . .
LEON WOLF DOESN’T THINK MUCH OF MEGHAN MCCAIN’S NEW BOOK:
The sad truth is that Meghan McCain is never going to write a book that imparts a basic level of understanding about any topic until she reaches a basic level of understanding about herself. . . .
On the whole, I am simply not a talented enough writer to express how truly horrible this book was. The last line of the book implores readers not to let Meghan “pick up this torch alone.” I can honestly say that I was encouraged throughout to pick up a torch in order to burn my copy of Dirty, Sexy Politics, even though I was reading it on a Kindle. There is no reason that anyone who is not getting paid to review this book should ever, ever spend money on it. If you simply must have large doses of poorly-written fictional tripe written by a narcissistic person who hates conservatives and everything they stand for, read Mike Lupica instead. At least he’s smart enough to know which side he’s on.
Ouch.
SOME TERRORISM HISTORY: Remembering The Munich Massacre. The limp response to this was a mistake.
AN AUDI NAMING FAIL?
TRAFFIC CAMERA UPDATE: Maryland, Australia, Spain: Traffic Cameras Beset With Accuracy Issues.
FRANK MUNGER: Nukes 101. Just to clear things up . . . .
JAMES WATSON: Cancer Research Is Over-Regulated.
CHANGE: Report: Fuel economy standards could add up to $15K to price of heavy-duty pickups. I doubt it’ll be that bad. I hope I’m right!
IN THE MAIL: From Patrick A. Vanner, Ragnarok.
PAUL HSIEH: Get Ready for Your Health Care ‘Re-Education.’ “Kathleen Sebelius’ chilling, Orwellian order that insurers not blame ObamaCare for rising rates was just the start. We must stop the re-education in November.”
PETER SUDERMAN: Politicians From Both Parties Agree That Filling Out Tax Forms Is a Pain In the You-Know-What. The new approach will be for them to just take your whole paycheck, and send you whatever’s left at the end of the month. . . .
RISKING THEIR LIVES to film the atomic bomb.
Film historians say the unit tested many technologies that Hollywood later embraced, including advanced lenses and cameras, films and projection techniques.
The cameramen fanned out from Wonderland Avenue to governmental test sites in the South Pacific and the Nevada desert, their job to chronicle the age’s fury. It put them as close as two miles from the blasts.
Read the whole thing.
WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY (CONT’D): Police continue to harass citizens who record them.
JEFFREY MIRON: The Negative Consequences of Government Expenditure.