Archive for 2010

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE ABLOGALYPSE, 2010 Edition? So long as I get to be Death again.

THE WORLD’S GREATEST streetcar.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, we’d see a new Orwellian era of surveillance. And they were right! “The Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts.”

DEBRA MEDINA, TRUTHER? In a response, she says that’s not what she meant, but Ed Morrissey isn’t buying her explanation.

CLIMATEGATE on the BBC.

SOLAR CELLULAR: “An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell the equipment in Africa, expanding cell phone access to new ranks of rural villagers who live far from electricity supplies.” This is the kind of solar application that makes sense even with current technology; using solar to replace coal plants in first-world countries is further down the line.

SUN-POWERED WATER SPLITTER makes hydrogen tirelessly. Sounds great. On the other hand, the research is from the University of East Anglia, so I’ll wait for independent confirmation . . . .

DEPLOYED BRACELET? Some folks seem to be getting desperate.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Let’s see. ABC News didn’t know something like 2COR 4:6 refers to a bible quote. The YALE’s Daily News editorial staff likewise lacks anybody, besides the gent penning the screed about Palin, with recent exposure to anyone who has a child, wife, husband, parent or loved one in the war. And as a bonus apparently neither do any of the legions of other left wing sites jumping on the ‘bracelet scandal” bandwagon. If I were running an Information Operation (IO), say in support of an unconventional warfare campaign aimed at prompting a rebellion against an entrenched ruling class, I’d be looking to plant memes in the civilian population. Memes that suggest their rulers are detached from the population’s daily lives and concerns. Memes that make it obvious that despite an ongoing war most of the ruling class don’t have children in the military themselves and despite protestations to the contrary don’t share the population’s faith either.

If I were running an IO campaign myself, but I’m not. I’m having too much fun watching them run it against themselves.

Heh. It does seem that way.

HDTV for $379. They just get cheaper.

ROGER SIMON INTERVIEWS ISRAELI AMBASSADOR MICHAEL OREN: Part Two.

USE THE FORCE DRIVE, Luke.

WHEN SNOW DALEKS attack.

COULD HEALTH CARE SHENANIGANS TRIGGER recall elections in some states?

ANN ALTHOUSE defends John Mayer.

UPDATE: From the comments: “HA, Ha, Ha! Now even wannabe Lenny Bruces have to apologize for offending. The coolest most iconoclastic badass dudes on planet E have to be politically correct pussies. Have to get on their stupid little devices and twitter an apology. Lenny Bruce would have had another bit of smack and said the offending word again. Louder.” But Lenny Bruce lived in a much less puritanical era.