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We have the technology. And there’s probably a gene somewhere for that.

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This is news? What have they been doing for the past twenty years?

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The solution proposed by researchers such as Harvard’s Thomas J. Kane and Dartmouth’s Douglas Staiger is not to raise teacher qualifications but to lower them—hiring “anyone with a pulse and a college degree,” Mr. Gladwell says—and then impose a rigorous yet flexible system of assessing new teachers in the classroom and weeding out the bad ones. That would mean adjusting teacher salary scales and ending automatic tenure, among other sweeping changes in the profession.

An idea so absurd that only an intellectual could believe it. We’re already doing the first part and the second part won’t ever happen while we have (a) Democrats and (b) education unions. Bzzt! Thank you for plaing.

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You mean “Muslim” isn’t a race? Whoda thunkit?

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I am not making this up.

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A useful skill for when whining Muslims get all seeing-eye dogs eliminated.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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We have the technology.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Change you can believe in.

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That’s the new Britain for you.

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After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense.

Well, yeah. I, for one, am looking forward to it.

Fred Thompson, the “Law & Order” star turned presidential candidate, will begin hosting a two-hour show in March, as the syndicator Westwood One is expected to announce this week. Mr. Thompson’s show would take the place of Mr. O’Reilly’s.

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The democratically elected government of South Africa is forcing white farm owners to sell to the government which turns large white-run farms into many small black-run farms. One result is that food production is dropping.

Funny how that works. South Africa is turning into a slower version of Zimbabwe.

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The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico. Nine of the headless corpses were strewn along a busy street, where the Guerrero state governor later appeared for a religious procession. Authorities said some of the victims were Mexican army soldiers.

Yeah, we really want more of these people in our country.

Fence, please?

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Hint: Mostly missing.

The thought of a terrorist highjacking my plane and flying it into a building somewhere doesn’t prevent me from flying. The prospect of having to run the gauntlet of would-be concentration camp guards to get on the plan does.

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Gotta love Australians.

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Sure, Muslims are just like us — 1500 years ago.

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Bet they fix it so that Harold wins this time.

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The next step is to come up with a government program to assist them in integrating fully into a responsibly multicultural forest society.

Or perhaps he was part of the loot stolen from Paris Hilton’s home. You never really know.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Why hasn’t a manufacturer come out with a device like this? Because it would take 20 years and 20 gazillion dollars to get it approved by the FDA, and it’s just not worth the hassle.

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If they can use it to make a diet soda that doesn’t taste like horse pee, I’m all for it.

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Guess Joe Stockbroker is just as quick as Joe Sixpack to resort to violence to preseve his way of life.

Reminds me of Ted Kennedy and his liberal friends turning into NIMBYs when it was proposed to put a wind turbine farm (“Alternative energy good! Oil and coal and nukes bad!”) where it would spoil their view.

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I am not making this up.

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We have the technology.

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Well, I guess it really worked, didn’t it?

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I’m still trying to grasp the concept of “Muslim cocktail waitress”.

Yaacov Ben Moshe wishes you a Merry Christmas, dammit.

Rhode Island is in dire straits.

“Rhode Island and some of the other Northeastern states were really the cradle of the Industrial Revolution,” said Edward M. Mazze, a professor of business administration at the University of Rhode Island. “This is where manufacturing began. . . . That worked well up until the 1960s.”

For a long time, those factories provided good jobs for the state’s blue-collar population. But today, many of those factories are no longer here, having either relocated south or gone overseas.

Gee, I wonder why they would do that?

A big issue here is the state’s tax rates. Many Rhode Islanders said the high tax burden has discouraged businesses from locating here and pushed others to leave. The most recent state-by-state comparison of business tax climate by the Tax Foundation put Rhode Island at 46 out of 50th, with only four states — Ohio, California, New York and New Jersey — having a less favorable business tax environment.

Take whatever action you think is appropriate. Or starve. Your choice.

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Good luck with that.

“Well, we don’t believe in legs, but we want to walk anyway, so we’re searching for alternatives.”

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This would be neat, if it works.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Darwin Award nominee.

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I saw a movie about this once, had Max von Sydow in it I think.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Yes, South Africa boasts perpetual sunshine, jaw-dropping scenery and vigorously free media and civic debate. But since the dawn of democracy in 1994, many thousands have found reasons to emigrate, and 2008 delivered several more — political uncertainty, power shortages, gruesome attacks on foreigners.

The most oft-cited reason for leaving, though, remains crime. Ghastly, violent crime.

Well, that’s what happens when you deliver the country into the hands of radical fringe groups, which the ANC and it’s wannabes are. For all of the hagiography of Nelson Mandela, don’t forget that he was imprisoned for being a Marxist terrorist — exactly like Robert Mugabe — and the only reason he isn’t a Marxist terrorist today is that he’s too damned old.

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I am not making this up.

Steven Brust, who is one of the outstanding fantasy writers of his generation but politically is a reincarnation of Eugene Debs (I guess fantasy is his life) has an entertaining rant that will sort of stand as an archetype for what all of the “Change We Can Believe In” crowd are probably feeling right now.

I won’t say “I told you so”, but I will enjoy a quiet snicker.

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A Jew and a Viking walked into a bar….

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I am not making this up.

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Oh, the humanity….

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Always wondered where the word ‘gas’ came from

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Might as well, it’s probably obsolete anyway.

Those guys who took an analog phone into the box with them are in for a rude surprise if they ever wake up, though…

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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In a landmark decision that critics have said only proves the maxim that no good deed goes unpunished, the court decided that California’s Good Samaritan law only protects people from liability if they are administering emergency aid.

California — of course.

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We have the technology.

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Oh, those nice Pakistanis wouldn’t hurt anybody, would they? Why can’t we all just get along?