Archive for 2010

COMING SOON: A “Performance Hybrid” Sedan From Infiniti: “With numbers like 0-60 miles per hour is less than 5.9 seconds, a top speed of 155 miles per hour and the ability to reach 50 mph under battery power alone, we’d bet that Infiniti’s words are right on track.” Plus better than 32 mpg combined.

ETIQUETTE ADVICE FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON. Christian Grantham and Jeff Moore put this together, and I’m writing the introduction.

WOMAN FENDS OFF BEAR ATTACK with a zucchini.

CAN CALLING YOUR PARTNER “HONEY” ruin your sex life?

NETFLIX CEO: Americans Are Self-Absorbed. Yeah, cancel your Netflix subscription and join a Tea Party group.

UPDATE: Reader Hugh Myers writes: “Thought you’d be amused to learn that upon reading that Netflix charges Canadian subscribers less than American and that Mr. Hastings’ political donations overwhelmingly favor Democrats, I reduced my subscription level and therefore reduced the fees I pay Netflix. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see if a trend develops? Regardless, ‘bet he wished he had kept his big fat mouth shut on that one.”

ARE U.S. PORTS still vulnerable to a nuclear 9/11? “The report said DHS has failed to develop a comprehensive strategy to defend the nation against nuclear threats from around the globe despite a 2008 admonition from Congress to do so.”

GIVEN THAT JOHN KERRY’S WHOLE CAREER HAS DEPENDED ON VOTERS BEING UNINFORMED, it seems kind of churlish of him to slam voters for being uninformed.

THE HORRORS OF bloghorror. You have to be thick-skinned to be a blogger, but that doesn’t excuse the death threats, attempts to get people fired, etc.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD WANT EXPANDED INTERNET SNOOPING POWERS: And They Were Right! “The Obama administration is developing plans that would require all Internet-based communication services — such as encrypted BlackBerry e-mail, Facebook, and Skype — to be capable of complying with federal wiretap orders, according to a report published Monday.”

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” US: Inverted Philippine flag was ‘honest mistake’. “The U.S. government said Sunday it made an ‘honest mistake’ when it displayed an inverted Philippine flag — which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war — in a meeting hosted by President Barack Obama. The Philippine flag was displayed upside down behind President Benigno Aquino III when leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met Obama in New York on Friday.”

OBAMACARE KILLING STUDENT HEALTH PLANS? “Neither Congress nor the Obama administration has taken concrete steps to ensure that student plans will survive all the changes coming to the insurance market in the next few years, even as higher education associations seek out attention.”

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANKS halt gold sales. “The shift away from gold selling comes as European central banks reassess gold amid the financial crisis and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.”