ISN’T THIS “I NEED A WIFE” STUFF kind of, well, dated by now? It was (possibly) meaningful if not very reflective back in 1970 when it started, but . . . .
As for whether technology is making deep thinking harder — well, it’s never been easy, you know.
UPDATE: On the “I need a wife” line, a reader emails: “Yeah, my wife used to say that. I broke her of the habit by replying, particularly when she had said it in front of others, that she ‘Try it first, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.'” Ouch.
HEH: Now it can be told: Liberal blogger says racism ‘barely materialized’ in 2008 campaign. Yeah, Americans didn’t become racist until they started disliking ObamaCare. . . .
TELL ME ABOUT IT: Problems Faced By Hot Professors.
CELEBRATING DIVERSITY! Greg Gutfeld: I’m raising money to build a Muslim gay bar next to the Ground Zero mosque. “As you know, the Muslim faith doesn’t look kindly upon homosexuality, which is why I’m building this bar. It is an effort to break down barriers and reduce deadly homophobia in the Islamic world.”
UPDATE: “Ground Queero: A Mecca Of Tolerance.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails:
In the spirit of Imam Faisal, I have some more structures that world architecture demands in order to build bridges across cultural divides.
St Abrahamy’s Orthodox Church in Riyadh
The Charles Martel École Militaire in Dubai
The Lost Treasures of Tibet in Beijing
The Comfort Women Memorial in Tokyo
The Jewish Holocaust Museum of Gaza
The Daniel Pearl School of Journalism in Islamabad
The Eternal Flame of Waco at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library
The Sanātana Dharma Temple in Medina
St. Judes Cathedral in Mecca( Hey, this would make a great contest! I’d love to see the creativity of everyone out there. The list must be endless. It bridges our differences you know! Can’t you feel the love? )
Of course, all of these must be approved before we go to seek the financing. It is only fair.
Heh.
ROBERT SAMUELSON: Higher Taxes Mean Fewer Kids. “We need to avoid Western Europe’s mix of high taxes, low birth rates and feeble economic growth. Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill confidence about having children. Piling on higher taxes won’t help.”
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CRITICIZE WIKILEAKS: “A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site’s actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military. The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter. The exchange shows how WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange risk being isolated from some of their most natural allies in the wake of the documents’ publication.”
SARAH PALIN meets an angry lady with a sign.
More here.
UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “She didn’t grab anybody, didn’t push anybody, didn’t hit anybody, didn’t have any union goons knock anyone to the street. How refreshing…to everyone but the press. I guess our protectors of the public trust like seeing the average voter roughed up a bit, as long as it suits their political purposes.”
SOME VOLOKH CONSPIRACY polling data.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN WE’D SEE STEM CELL RESEARCH STOPPED. And they were right! FDA Stops Stem Cells In USA. More background here.
THIS LOOKS KIND OF COOL: A cellphone signal booster.
UPDATE: Rick Lee emails:
I use the Wilson…
My office is in a basement and without this there would be NO cell service. It works… it’s not perfect and the coverage is a small area, but it works. I’ve been told by a consultant that if I bought a more expensive unit I’d be happier. I will probably do that eventually.
Happy to say I don’t need one of these. But it’s cool that they exist.
The problem with Michelle Obama’s Marabella-to-Martha’s-Vineyard August is not that the first family doesn’t deserve time off but that Michelle, in the past, has gone on the record that the country’s elite (of which she claimed not to be a part) had created one nation for themselves and quite a different for most others — at least that’s how I interpreted “downright mean country,” “raise the bar,” and never having been proud of her country until the rise of hope and change.
So the Versailles-like aura around her trips suggests that her prior angst arose not because millions were not able to share the lifestyles of the elite but that she herself had not yet quite partaken in the sort of life she felt she deserved — which she is now apparently enjoying to the fullest. The fact that her Costa del Sol trip coincides with hard times back in the states, comes on the heels of the Kerry yacht and the Clinton wedding, and clashes with her husband’s anti-wealthy rhetoric (e.g., “at some point you’ve made enough money”) makes it all the more weird, both for her adminstration’s equality-of-result politics and for the larger liberal narrative of talking truth to power.
Indeed. As they say, the optics are bad.
HMM: Low-Fiber Western Diets Deter Good Bacteria. “The stools of the African children contained almost three times as many short-chain fatty acids. SCFAs are generated by bugs associated with diets containing a very high proportion of vegetables and cereals (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005963107). SCFAs kill harmful gut bacteria such as salmonella and help protect against inflammation. Allergies are often the result of an excessive inflammatory response to otherwise harmless agents.”
UPDATE: Reader Adrian Reilly is unimpressed: “This cheeseburger and beer-loving westerner has surpassed the life expectancy of most Africans by a significant margin.”
IN CASE YOU HADN’T NOTICED, today was 8-9-10.
WITH THE ECONOMY GETTING MORE COMPETITIVE, college students nonetheless don’t study enough. And it’s fallen off over past decades. Grade inflation, anyone? “The most plausible explanation for these findings, we conclude, is that standards have fallen at postsecondary institutions in the United States.” Another sign of a higher education bubble?
MAYBE WE SHOULD START BUILDING SOME FREAKING POWER PLANTS? U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing.
UPDATE: Reader Andrew Medina writes:
I think this serves as a perfect backdrop for a true comparison of progressivism vs. conservatism.
New York and California can’t provide their citizens with electricity.
Texas is building a facility to host the American Grand Prix at Austin.I’m beginning to think that we may be the haves and that they are the covetous have-nots.
And Michael Zorn writes: “India is ahead of us, They have a Thorium fluoride reactor, which produces much less ‘waste products’ than a U-235 reactor.” They have a better political class, it seems.
SOME MONDAY WORDS OF WISDOM, from April Cox on Facebook: “World, be thankful it’s Monday and that you have the health and freedom to be doing what you do. Celebrated my grandmothers 71st bday yesterday in the nursing home where all she wanted was to be able to go home and cook for her family again.”
EXTENDED reliability tests for select cars.
DAVE FOULK TRAFFIC: A traffic resource for Knoxville and East Tennessee. Plus, Dave’s a swell guy.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Maxine Waters Charged On Three Ethics Counts. “Waters is accused of using her position to help secure Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds for OneUnited Bank, in which her husband, a former bank board member, owned a sizable amount of stock.”
UPDATE: Maxine Waters Influenced $12 Million Bail-Out For Bank In Which She Had Business Interest.
THIS WEEK in the future.
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