WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: New York: Bedbugs invading classrooms at alarming rate, but Education Dept. says there’s no epidemic. “To prevent the spread at some affected schools, students and teachers are putting coats and bookbags into plastic containers and bags, a procedure adopted at PS 197 in Midwood, Brooklyn.” This wasn’t what I expected from the 21st Century . . . .
Archive for 2010
November 5, 2010
SCIENCE WAGES WAR against mosquitoes. Faster, please.
MICKEY KAUS: Obama Didn’t Have to Lose the Seniors.
FIVE POISONS that can save your life.
TODAY’S LAZINESS as fear.
AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.
BILL KRISTOL: Olbermann’s suspension “unjust.”
UPDATE: Gerard van der Leun explains.
MORE THAN THIRTY PROGRAMMERS behind the Stuxnet worm?
EDUCATING Chris Matthews.
FOOD PRICES FACE “an inflationary tide.” “Prices of staples including milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have risen sharply in recent months.”
UPDATE: Various readers say it’ll only get worse as the new round of “quantitative easing” kicks in. Well, when dollars are worth less, a loaf of bread costs more dollars.
Meanwhile, at Forbes, more cheery news: Look At The Real Numbers, The Recession Never Ended. Stagflation is back?
“ONE TOUGH NERD:” Snyder rises from obscurity to lead GOP rout in Michigan. “The election marked not just a power shift but a major facelift at the Capitol in Lansing. The governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and more than three quarters of the Senate and half the House are non-incumbents in the biggest one-day turnover since voters approved term limits in 1992.”
MORE THOUGHTS ON AMERICA AND INDIA from Austin Bay.
WORRIES ABOUT COPYRIGHT LAWSUITS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Magazine Lifts Blogger’s Article, Then Says She Should Be Grateful. Big Media folks lift content from bloggers all the time. But what magazine editor could honestly believe that “the Web is considered public domain”?
THE CARNIVAL OF NUCLEAR ENERGY IS UP!
ETHICS VIOLATION: Keith Olbermann Suspended Over Contributions To Candidates. “Indefinitely without pay.”
So he broke an NBC rule. But while he didn’t disclose the contributions, were any viewers deceived into thinking that he was a neutral journalist?
QUESTIONS THAT NOBODY IS ASKING: The Obama Love Doll — Why? Just … Why?
JOHN HAWKINS INTERVIEWS THOMAS SOWELL on Sowell’s new book, Dismantling America: and other controversial essays.
THE TWELVE UGLIEST CARS at SEMA 2010.