Archive for 2010

MORE WORRIES about the Euro.

UPDATE: Just out of curiosity, what happens if the Euro craters? Will Euros be like confederate money, or will there be a transition where they can be exchanged for deutschmarks, francs, etc? If the former, it seems as if we’d have a colossal financial collapse. If the latter, it seems kind of complicated. That may be the Euro’s greatest source of strength . . . .

HOW TO GUARD AGAINST sexual injuries.

LOWER TESTOSTERONE means getting less sleep? And here I thought it worked the other way . . . .

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America is now a campus, and Obama is our Dean. Nonsense. No Dean would rock the boat so rashly, or offend the money folks so gratuitously, or put the college into so much debt. On the other hand, Hanson hits the nail on the head in other ways.

PROF. JACOBSON: Is It His Katrina Yet? “The evidence mounts of bungled permitting, delays in response, and understating the impact.” Of course, he’s got the press running interference, rather than playing gleeful executioner. So that’s a plus.

UPDATE: Reader Fred Schoeneman writes:

My Schadenfreude-ometer is pegged. As much as I enjoy the Obama administration squirming over their recent mis-steps in the gulf, and making comparisons to the previous administration’s failures in New Orleans, I’m not the one who gets to call this Obama’s Katrina. Nor are you. But the kids over at Firedoglake are.

Heh. Indeed. It’s definitely been a botch, and although the press has been soft-pedaling it, the fact that Obama got more money from BP than any other politician is sure to get more public notice as this disaster unfolds.

TEA PARTIERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! “Multi-national political movements are indeed an old concept. It should strike us as curious then that there has never been, as far as I can tell, an international movement focused on the tenets of individual liberty.”

RAND SIMBERG: A Translation Guide to the Obama Space Program. “It isn’t the ‘death knell for U.S. human space exploration.’ It’s simply the death knell for a egregiously unaffordable NASA program.”

ELENA KAGAN: Bad on guns?

SHOCKER: Media blow it on Japan, again. Though I thought the Texas gay-bar line was at least mildly amusing.