Archive for 2012
April 20, 2012
AT AMAZON, it’s the Kindle Deal of the Day.
SO HOW’S THAT WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Secret Service agents are supposed to handle, not cause, trouble. A fish rots from the head.
UPDATE: Bill Whittle emails: “Man, this Obama sure talks a lot of class warfare for a guy born with a Golden Lab in his mouth.”
Heh.
BOB OWENS: BREAKING: Bank of America Reportedly Drops Gun Company for Political Reasons. “They simply do not want to be associated with gun companies.”
That’s dumb. The firearms industry is one of the few to flourish under Obama.
HMM: Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme Court GPS Ruling. “If followed by other courts, this means that law enforcement agents and prosecutors in 19 states, as well as Guam and the Mariana Islands, can use the so-called ‘good faith exception’ to support warrantless GPS surveillance in pending cases where data was gathered prior to the Supreme Court ruling, while those in other states cannot.”
RADIATION: A Devilish Issue in 1946.
AT AMAZON, markdowns on Mother’s Day gifts.
LECTURE: Brad Thompson: Why Marxism?
TOM MAGUIRE: Prosecutor Has Bad Day At Zimmerman Bail Hearing.
MORE MEAT-ORIENTED EDUCATION FOR BARACK OBAMA.
Why does the boy — as remembered by the man — connect the killing of the bird to his own good fortune? Is it some elemental realization that simply to be alive is amazing, the bird being dead? Or is he excited to be in this new place with lots of thrilling new activities like beheading a bird and shortly thereafter eating it? Or is it the connection to the father figure, who’s so eager to show the boy what life is really about and so easily overcomes the reticence of the mother? The next thing that happens in the book is that Lolo teaches him how to deal with bullies: Don’t cry over the lump where he hit you with a rock; learn boxing. Lolo buys boxing gloves for him and teaches him to “keep moving, but always stay low—don’t give them a target.” Good advice!
And it’s on the very next page that Lolo teaches him to eat dog (and snake) meat.
New Media Matters spin: See, he’s practically undergone Navy SEAL training!
ED MORRISSEY: Romney’s Veepstakes: Seven Govs on the Short List.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
ASPIRIN: The Elixir of Life?
THE MEDIA’S MORMON MACACA?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: What’s Your College Degree Worth?
SURE, WHO NEEDS JOBS? Green Bureaucrats Nix U.S. Timber.
DEREK LOWE: Buckyballs prolong life? Really? Plus, what looks like a serious problem with the report.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Skin In The Game: Texas technical colleges want to link state funding and employment outcomes. I’ll bet this is sending a shiver down the spines of humanities faculty everywhere.
UPDATE: By the way, lest anyone think I’m dissing the humanities in principle, I’m not. I spoke just today with a friend from law school, though, who despairs of finding people who can write clearly, even with fancy degrees. If humanities programs — or, for that matter, high schools — actually taught writing and critical thinking effectively, it would be great. Too many of them don’t.
ANOTHER INSTAPUNDIT READER KINDLE BOOK: The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories. Well, one of the stories is by InstaPundit reader John McCann, who’s married to another InstaPundit reader, Joy McCann.
IT HAD TO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER: Neo-Nazi Twitter Libel.
OBAMA FLIPFLOPS: “Suddenly, Mitt Romney is a big old right-winger.” Well, as Jim Geraghty famously noted, every Obama statement comes with an expiration date. Every single one.