PETITION: Call For The FCC To Remove Bill Maher.
Archive for 2012
March 6, 2012
March 5, 2012
A COMING U.S. CONSUMPTION CRASH?
REVEALED: The new blacklist.
Have you no decency? No decency at all? Oh, who am I kidding?
AT AMAZON, it’s the Automotive Outlet sale.
NONSENSE. IT’S FINE FOR DEMOCRATS TO CALL REPUBLICAN WOMEN CUNTS AND SLUTS: Will Obama Super PAC Return Misogynist Bill Maher’s Million-Dollar Donation? “Former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, the man who runs Obama’s super PAC, did not reply when asked if he will be returning Maher’s $1 million donation.”
NETANYAHU AT AIPAC: ‘I Will Never Let My People Live in the Shadow of Annihilation.’
TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: “Dr. Weevil says that the Blogosphere is the Borg Collective. I’d be upset at this, but since he kind of implies that I have a shot at Seven of Nine, I’m not sure I am.” Little did I know I’d wind up married to a cyborg. Oh, well. As the cyborgophiles say, once you’ve gone “metal,” you’ll never settle.
THE DISCOVERY PROCESS WOULD BE INTERESTING — FOR LIMBAUGH: Hoyer says Fluke should sue Limbaugh over ‘slut’ comments.
I HAVEN’T FOLLOWED THE WHOLE KOCH VS. CATO THING, but I’m inclined to think that Jonathan Adler is likely right: “A Koch takeover of Cato, however well-intentioned, will necessarily diminish the Institute’s credibility and compromise Cato’s ability to advance individual liberty. This is true whether or not the Kochs are within their legal rights to take such actions and whether or not they have better ideas as to how Cato should be run than current Cato President Ed Crane.”
JIM GERAGHTY: “We’re not really people to them.”
SOME PEOPLE EMAILED TO ASK IF BREITBART IS UNDER ATTACK, and when I got 503 errors on all sites I wrote Dana Loesch. Nope: Just some roadbumps with the new setup.
ON THE WHITEHOUSE.GOV SITE: We Petition The Obama Administration To Resign.
CHASING ANDREW. Hey, all you need to know is that IowaHawk sent me the link, with a strong recommendation.
RON BAILEY REVIEWS Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler’s Abundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think.
READER TREVOR DAHL WRITES:
In light of your recent column, I thought I’d share my experiences this weekend. I attended the Federalist Society’s Student Symposium at Stanford. The theme of the weekend was on the ever expanding role of the administrative state and the last panel talked about future innovation and the regulatory state. One of the panelists was Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal, and he has taken a very dim view of the future. He spent his allotted time arguing that innovation outside of computer technology has basically stalled since the 1960s. He also argues that we are living in an increasingly Malthusian world of scarcer resources. Although he spent most of his time describing the “what”, he did mention one possible “why” could be the bureaucratic sclerosis that has seized most industries and a large majority of the sciences. In contrast to the dismal view of Thiel, I spoke with a local attorney in Palo Alto afterwards, an immigrant from Croatia, who argues all the predictions of permanent decline in the West are overblown. It is his contention, that twenty and thirty somethings in Europe are increasingly becoming innovators and entrepreneurs in response to the dismal job market. His view is that humans are incredibly self-reliant and will overcome the increasing burdens of government. It was an interesting contrast of world views offered by Thiel and this attorney. I suppose like all things in history it will come down to the battle between individual and state. I sure hope that you and the attorney are correct and that Thiel is wrong.
So do I.
MORE ON THAT MARYLAND CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY from Eugene Volokh.
And here’s more on that Colorado campus carry victory from Dave Kopel.
Alas, my Second Amendment Penumbras article has been put to bed, so it’s too late to include these.
BRUCE STERLING ON the importance of “design fiction.”
READER GREGORY CARLSON WRITES: “I thought you might find this article interesting. Especially considering the rate at which a a college degree is being overblown. I will note that it seems like the opinion hasn’t changed much since I enlisted in 2003. I had High School teachers explain to me just what a bad idea the military was. I can honestly say that there is no way I would have succeeded in college, nor would I have been as successful post college, had I not joined the Marines. The line in the article ‘The military isn’t college, it doesn’t count’, well, polite words fail me. Politely put, I would say that my military experience provided me with far more in terms of life skills (i.e. communication skills, professional conduct, personal management etc) than a college could ever hope to provide.”
UPDATE: Reader James Sampson writes: “I completely agree with Mr. Carlson. I would, however, add one more item – ‘public high school doesn’t count’. Because it sucks, and they hate you.”
#GOVERNMENTFAIL: The Failure Of Government Anti-Obesity Policies. Yeah, they’ve been a miserable failure indeed. But the answer, of course, is even more of the same!
LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAY: Outside Panel Should Review Politician’s Speeding Ticket. “You have to be kidding me! This representative of the people, caught driving the people’s car 105 mph at noon on the people’s road, is temporarily and voluntarily giving up the privilege of using her county car until she completes a driver improvement course?”
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: One does not simply walk in to fluorine chemistry.
KENTUCKY ESCALATES IN THE war against Sudafed.
A NICE DINER PHOTOBLOG from DaTechGuy.