Archive for 2010
February 8, 2010
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON: Our world is a collaborative SF novel.
IMMORTAL SYNTHETIC ORGANISMS: What Could Go Wrong?
MAX BLUMENTHAL LEARNS that he can receive, as well as give. You don’t really want to throw stones at the Breitbart Media Empire, especially if you live in a glass house.
ED MORRISSEY: Jobs Bill Could Contain Card Check.
WELL, DUH: Ale is good, make no bones about it. “A beer a day could keep brittle bones at bay. That’s because beer is rich in silicon, an element that has been linked to bone health. . . . The pair found that lighter-coloured beers made from pale malted barley and hops, such as pale ales, are richest in silicon, while low-alcohol beers contain the least, along with stouts, porters and wheat beers.”
MOVING FROM WHISKEY TO RYE: “What is it about rye that rocks my world, the way scotch and bourbon never could?”
A SHORT STORY FROM HOMER HICKAM: The Boy Who Looked At The Moon.
LEGAL CHALLENGES in an age of robotics.
ARNOLD KLING ON the Progressive tantrum. “My point is that the ones throwing the temper tantrum right now are the Progressives. They think that the 2008 election gave them the right to operate like China’s autocracy, and they are lashing out hysterically at those they perceive as preventing them from doing so. On the one hand, the villains are a small minority in the Senate. Or maybe the villains are the incoherent majority of the people. The important point is that Progressives are never wrong.”
Related: Jay Cost: “America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.”
PROF. WILLIAM JACOBSON: Negotiations Without Preconditions for Iran, But Not Republicans.
NOAH POLLAK: The Human-Rights Facade Is Beginning To Crumble.
HEH. “This is, by all reports, an actual billboard on I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota.”
“IT’S ONLY A MODEL.” But the pics are pretty cool.
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Michael Yon posts another dispatch from Afghanistan.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d see constitutional rights suspended in the face of flimsy claims of “emergency.” And they were right!
TECHNOLOGY THAT REALLY MATTERS: Improved ketchup packets!
BMW X5: Price drops.
IN THE MAIL: From David Schoenbrod, et al., Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work.
MICHAEL BARONE: Public-sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: One-armed man hunted for stealing single cufflink.
KENNETH ANDERSON: Borrowing from Our Children? And Hegemony.
ERIC SCHEIE: If Only Class War Had Remained A Marxist Theme.