DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Note that nobody is dying to get into Africa. What do they know that you don’t?

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Not something you see every day.

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What can you say about an entire state party that approves of corruption?

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Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Americans must have a healthy kind of dual loyalty: to our individual communities and to the nation that enables them to exist. The alternative of trying to force national uniformity would lead to tyranny, failure or both. Madison and Hamilton made this argument far better than I have when writing about an emerging nation with a population that was less than that of New Jersey today. Governor Corzine ought to go read them again before he decides to destroy local autonomy and traditions in pursuit of administrative uniformity.

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If you were asked to name the technologies whose proliferation inadvertently threatens the human race, what would you include? IEDS? Assault rifles? Nuclear warheads?

Add this one to your list: the sonogram machine.

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And I, for one, am looking forward to it.

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Gonna get that bird, see if I don’t….

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Well, that’s California for you. Gotta pay those high prices somehow.

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Say what you want about New Yorkers — and who doesn’t? — in some fields they stand alone.

Well, not precisely alone … I mean, you’ve got to catch it from somebody, right? … but you know what I meant.

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Money is wasted on some people.

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It’s harder than you’d think.

Let me rephrase that: It’s harder than it ought to be.

Dave Barry does the Democrat Convention in his own inimitable way.

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I think Bruce would have laughed.

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News from the world of stem cells. Turns out you don’t have to kill embryos after all.

Feminists will be so disappointed….

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The corrupt and contemptible Republican senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens….

Nick Gillespie of tReason magazine is ordinarily an obvious dimwit but here he’s exactly right.

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This seems somewhat overly officious.

Parent Becky Daniel said the school’s dress code should not apply to cheerleader’s uniforms.

Or the uniforms ought to be adjusted to fit the dress code. I fail to see why something that is appropriate for a game is inappropriate for class, or (more to the point) why something that is appropriate for class would be inappropriate for a game.

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As if anybody cares, least of all Russia.

Tell us the one about Goldilocks and the three bears.

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That’s like saying that the Irish revolution dismembered Britain. The areas involved aren’t inhabited by Georgians, so why they belong as part of Georgia is an excellent question that nobody — besides me — seems to be asking.

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Apparently Hugo Chavez didn’t get the memo that socialism doesn’t work.

Stupid people around the world need to relearn this lesson on a regular basis.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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I’ve said that for years. Children don’t act like humans until they get to be 24 or so. Don’t believe me? Look at car insurance rates. Actuaries are the least delusional people in the world.

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After all, who wouldn’t rather be in Paris?

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Alaskan Republicans have disgraced themselves once again. Just goes to show you that democracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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PHYSIOGNOMY, the art or science of predicting inward character from outward form, has had its ups and downs over the years. A century ago, the idea that a person’s character could be seen in his face was more or less taken as given. It then fell out of favour, along with the idea that behaviour is genetically determined, as Marxist ideas of the pliability and perfectibility of mankind became fashionable. Now, it is undergoing something of a revival. It has been found, for example, that women can predict a man’s interest in infant children from his face. Trustworthiness also shows up, as does social dominance. The latest example comes from a paper just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society by Justin Carré and Cheryl McCormick, of Brock University in Ontario, Canada. This suggests that in men, at least, it is also possible to look at someone’s face and read his predisposition to aggression.

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Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, records show. Obama succeeded in getting $192,000 for one of the clients, St. Xavier University in suburban Chicago.

Democrats? Corrupt? Boy, that’s news.

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I guess the Overclass would get their wish to revive the trains. I strongly suspect that a lot of leftoids would have played with trains as a kid if they could have figured out how to put the tracks together.

Just think: Four days from New York to Los Angeles rather than eight hours, and you’d have to travel through all those grubby big square states full of non-organic farmers and people who drive pickups with gun racks in the bag. The horror! The horror! But they’d get to have negro servants again; I suppose that would be something.

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A Brazilian woman says car thieves left her money instead of taking her car when they realised its poor condition.

I don’t believe it, but it makes an entertaining story.

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A disgruntled bank customer changed his account password to “Lloyds is Pants” - only for staff to switch it to “No We Are Not”.

Time to change banks, I think.

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A Taiwanese fisherman shocked his family by suddenly reappearing - after being deserted on an island for 27 years.

Thomas Sowell is not deceived.

If you took all the fraud out of politics, there might not be a lot left.

And that’s the truest thing you’ll read today.

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The day may be coming when those who pretend to be Christians while espousing unChristian policies will be forced to come clean. Hypocrisy may be the tribute that vice pays to virtue but that account’s been overdrawn for a loooong time.

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For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.

A lot more useful than a cat. Sign me up.

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It somehow conflates labeling with inspection. It fails to acknowledge that large industries tend to like firm regulations because they create often insurmountable barriers to entry. It’s anti-food. It sucks. End of story on that.

And that says pretty much everything that needs to be said on the subject.

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Politicians abuse power, and the less power they have the more they abuse it. This is a particularly absurd example. Be careful who you vote for; you never know what you’re going to get.

The city attorney told the mayor that a link is perfectly legal — but offered to send a cease-and-desist anyway, which the mayor approved.

That that’s why lawyers have a popularity rating below used-car salesmen.

How can you tell the difference between a lawyer and a prostitute? A prostitute will make you feel good for at least a little while, doesn’t wear a necktie, and charges less.

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But what, exactly, is the dream? The dream of Democrats occupying the White House and again being able to parcel out jobs in the Executive Branch, as best I can tell. Too, there is something odd about harkening back to 1980, when Ronald Reagan carried 44 states, sweeping to victory against Jimmy Carter, who also will address the Democrats’ convention. Do Democrats really remember that year fondly, and do they really want to draw the parallel implicit in the Kennedy/Carter deja vu?

How many people, over the years, have resisted the urge to send Ted Kennedy a set of SCUBA gear? I’ll bet it’s a non-trivial number.

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There are Americans who judge politicians by their race, or gender, or religion; Mr. Obama will certainly carry the black vote in November because he is black and because he is a Democrat. But we reckon that a scant number of voters are motivated by racism, and that number’s growing smaller by the day. Virginia elected a black Governor two decades ago, and Illinois has had two black Senators. America has had two black Secretaries of State, and major corporations are run by black CEOs. No other Western democracy has done as well at opening up political, business and other arenas to minorities.

Bernie Marcus, founder of Home Depot, is taking it personally.

I am retired, so this is not business for me. It’s strictly personal. I care deeply about the competitiveness of American companies and our system of free enterprise.

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So let me get this straight — the job of the Justice Department is not to go after unrepentant domestic terrorists such as Bill Ayers, but rather to police campaign ads about Bill Ayers.

Steve Sailer is not impressed with the new global ruling class.

These are the kind of people who will be running the world for the next generation, making Georgia a harbinger of what’s in store for all of us.

And what did these exemplars of the globalized Best and Brightest do when they got power?

They started a tank war with Russia.

Gee, it sounds sort of stupid, the way Steve says it. (Come to think of it, I can’t think of any way to say it that doesn’t sound stupid. Maybe, just maybe, it actually was stupid. Ya think?)

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Don’t say we don’t present useful information, here.

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I guess that sort of thing only works for Bill Clinton.

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I gather that the main difference between Pakistan and Somalia is that Pakistan pretends to have a government whereas Somalia doesn’t,

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On Monday, Illinois’ National Organization for Women President Bonnie Grabenhofer reportedly called on Jones to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for using the racial slur.

This has got to be the most entertaining political season that I can remember.

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.