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9 Nov 2011, 4:40 pm
This stuff was just awful. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:33 pm
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive via instapundit. Colbert may be a termite chewing on the foundations of America, but he is often hilarious. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 6:00 pm
I wonder if the custom of a "moment of silence" comes from the Roman law idea of Iustitium, in which public business was suspended, routinely for mourning and much more dramatically because of a public emergency. (This actually has some US constitutional import as moments of silence are sometimes objected to as "prayer in disguise" by First Amendment zealots/religion haters. Seems one could say, no, not religious, just an old Roman republican thing, like neo-classical… [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:11 am
Are you going to watch Obama's speech Thursday? The GOP debates Wednesday? Just curious. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:30 am
Be green. Have your body dissolved when you die. They do that in TJ too but for different reasons. This would not work for me. I was thinking more along the lines of 500 old utility poles, a couple hundred gallons of gasoline and free booze for everyone. And some very loud music. Dropkick Murphies, that sort of thing. I have a great uncle I guess he would be who had to be buried in the winter on his ranch not far from Milad, Idaho. They had to dynamite a hole in… [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 9:06 am
This is a good journal for mainstream (center-liberalish) thinking on US foreign policy. Subscription only, but well worth it for the Kindle edition anyway. Good articles this issue on China, depending on whether you like to be discouraged about the future of the Republic. In a nutshell, boy do we need to we worried about China. Also an interesting and thoughtful piece from Mark Kleiman at UCLA, whom I think I know mostly for Bush-hating blog posts (I may be confusing him with another UCLA prof),… [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 6:50 pm
Too bad they had to kill the guy who put the urns there. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 11:25 am
I don't know if this is more evidence that Herr Doktor Professor Krugman has farmed out his column to some annoying undergraduate, thinks his readers are stupid, or both. Krugman is responding to claims by Stanford economists Boskin and Taylor that (I paraphrase) the Reagan years ushered in good economic times. Then, mysteriously to me, Krugman shows us a graph from the BLS that shows multi-factor productivity growth in time chunks that don't correspond to presidential terms.… [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:09 pm
This seems to be one of the more intelligent things I have read lately on the unfolding DC debt drama. I say seems because it is hard to follow let alone really know what is going on with the various proposals and counter-proposals over extending the credit limit of the United States. However such things should be done, something as consequential as the fiscal constitution of the next two decades or so should not be decided in the murk of last minute political fixes. But there it is. Maybe the… [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 8:53 am
I get a fair amount of spam from PR agencies about all kinds of stuff, but the one below struck me as more interesting than most. Whether the spots below are really SF underground or corporate faux-underground, I don't really know. But even those of us who have a 1000 gal. propane tank attached to our pool side gas grill like to see something different every once in a while. San Francisco is experiencing an underground cultural renaissance right now and I think your readers would love to peer… [read post]
24 May 2011, 9:03 am
Here. We should have such a president. [read post]
23 May 2011, 9:52 am
Worried about what will become of your pets after the Rapture? These folks can help. (h/t JS). Me, I am certain that in the event some creatures are assumed up into heaven, my chocolate lab, Denali, will be among them. Although profoundly stupid (for a lab -- he's probably smarter than the average, oh, cat), and possessed of horrible and mysterious body odor, he has the heart of a whale and would be brave, except that sometimes he just gets so scared he has to run away. He was bred to be a… [read post]
7 May 2011, 10:16 am
More on the SEALs here. (Did anyone else notice the NYT is calling them "Seals"? They can't seem to get anything military right. Though Joe Biden had a funny line in his speech at Fort Campbell yesterday -- his grand daughter was excited that he was going to meet the Navy "Whales".) As I've mentioned before, San Diegans take a lot of local pride in the SEALs. Naval Special Warfare is headquartered on Coronado, technically a separate municipality but part of the San… [read post]
4 May 2011, 7:26 am
And I thought some of my friends were nutty. World wide collapse of civilization not a viable plan? Really? And I knew that certain people had a preference for nubby clothes, but somebody has seriously suggested we all just weave our own tweed? Has anybody pointed out to these folks that they are insane? Are they crazier in the UK (quite possible)? [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 9:29 am
If you're a napper, you don't count. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:55 am
Columbia should just get over itself and welcome ROTC back to campus in a robust way. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think they will. If not, Congress should make it a condition of their getting any federal funds. Then we would find their idealism is qualified and right quick. I think we are speaking here of not very conscientious objections. Why we should be having this argument is beyond me when there is a perfect solution for the liberal conscience -- to do the putatively objectionable… [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 8:25 am
This is really bad. Part of me wants to appoint myself universal dad and say, just stop the nonsense and do your #$%^ homework! [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 5:17 pm
Heh. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 11:21 am
This is interesting. Plug in a person's twitter handle and get a report on their psychological profile based on a statistical analysis of the words they use. I ran Glenn Beck and he came back angry and worried off the charts, which seems about right. Probably more toy than science but still cool. Law professors (not naming anybody) seem to come out as pretty arrogant. Could that be? [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 12:18 pm
I might be normal after all. [read post]
