Read it. You can almost hear the sneer. Unfortunately for The Pinhead William Grimes, he’s wrong and she’s right.

Read it. I find it curious how quickly the People of the Crust rush to conclude that a brilliant scientist has somehow gone horribly wrong when he does something or comes out with an idea that doesn’t fit their a priori worldview. It never occurs to them that perhaps he was being consistently brilliant and right and they are being inconsistent and possibly wrong.

Read it. You can almost hear the sneer. Gee, an insurance company is spending some money to protect their investment. What a shock.

Read it. Life imitates great art.

Read it. The New York Times is so clueless it’s almost a parody of itself.

It would have been nicer if Mr. McConnell had really wanted to enlighten the public.

Well, that’s not really his job, is it? In fact, I suggest that his job is precisely the opposite.

This was supposed to make us feel better. It did not.

Well, anything that refrains from making the socialist morons at the Times feel better certainly has my support.  It’s still not clear to my why these clowns aren’t under indictment for all of the secret programs they’ve exposed, contrary to law.

Read it. I have a question.

As president, he said, he would streamline the bureaucracy, strengthen law enforcement to curb a rise in crime and immediately close the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in order to restore wetlands to protect against storms.

When was the last time a Democrat succeeded in “streamlining the bureaucracy” or “strengthen law enforcement”? Although it certainly doesn’t surprise me that he would ruin the Port of New Orleans’ commercial traffic to “restore wetlands”.

Read it. The viewspapers are only courageous in denouncing censorship by people who do not, in fact, have the power to censor them. When faced with people who have demonstrated that they can and will kill them, they not only shut up themselves, but willingly shut up other people.

David Brooks reviews a book that purports to explain Democrat failure with the novel theory that Democrats are just too rational.

I must admit that the notion of Democrats, the party of deconstruction, postmodernism, and “gender studies”, being just too rational to win elections made me laugh so hard that my stomach hurt.

Read it. This would seem like a sensible precaution. Don’t see what they’re bitching about. You’d think that there wasn’t a war on.

Read it. And yet, if these kids were black, or Muslim, nobody would be bitching about it.

NYT. Remind me again — Who is the “party of the rich”?

NYT. This is silly. If the kid gets hungry enough, he’ll eat. If not, he’ll die. Either way, problem solved.

WSJ. “Environmentalism” is one of the great mental disorders of our time. Unfortunately, our legal system ecourages wackos to be wackos.

PowerLine. It’s good to call things by their proper names, even if one has to construct a new one.

NYT. There must be a rule at the Times that reviewers have to be substantially clueless about a book’s subject matter. The “Dangerous” in “Dangerous Book for Boys” represents the danger to modern political sensibilities, not to the kids themselves. This person is obviously a metrosexual who waxes his back hair.

NYT. I love the way the People of the Crust write about religion as if it were Disco, something that happens in America but with which they have only a passing acquaintance.

Though we have our own fundamentalists, we find it incomprehensible that theological ideas still stir up messianic passions, leaving societies in ruin. We had assumed this was no longer possible, that human beings had learned to separate religious questions from political ones, that fanaticism was dead. We were wrong.

I’m glad that some of them are finally beginning to feel the knife at their own necks.

Understanding this difference is the most urgent intellectual and political task of the present time. But where to begin? The case of contemporary Islam is on everyone’s mind, yet is so suffused with anger and ignorance as to be paralyzing. All we hear are alien sounds, motivating unspeakable acts. If we ever hope to crack the grammar and syntax of political theology, it seems we will have to begin with ourselves.

But their heads are still up their asses.

Clue: They want to kill us. It’s not about us, it’s about them, and what we need to do to them before they do it to us. Wakey, wakey.

Read it anyway — it’s a good depiction of the sort of attitudes that will be making our job a lot harder for a long time to come.

NYT. Ever notice how poor people love to write about rich people, but rich people tend not to write a lot at all, much less about poor people?

Scratch any journalist and you’ll find a heapin’ helpin’ of wealth-envy. “These people couldn’t write their way out of a paper bag! How come they have oodles of money and I don’t?” Well, they concentrate on counting rather than writing, for one thing….

PowerLine. It has always astounded me that a “profession” that consists largely of fussbudgets and busybodies has this notion that they’re the smartest people in the room. And those that are the first to poke their noses through your curtains are at the front of the line to denounce the government trying to do the same with terrorists.

Techdirt. The buggy whip manufacturers are a pitiful sight, aren’t they?

NYT. It’s not a problem unless you’ve got something to hide. They could fly aircraft over and do the exact same thing, and that would be neither unlawful nor unconstitutional.

Steve Sailer explores the wonderful world of modern education.

LanguageLog. And the tight sphincters win another round.

Read it. Couldn’t agree more.

LGF. It’s hard to tell which is the more moronic: The terrorists who come up with this crap, or the “journalists” who publish it.

NYT. Everybody gets a world of his own.

NYT. Guys, it’s a bridge. Put up a plaque, or something. In the mean time, people need to get across the fargin river.

“I think the public is asking for a distinctive bridge,” Councilwoman Diane Hofstede said. “This is a bridge that got international attention and was the scene of a terrible tragedy.”

Woman, the public is asking FOR A WORKING BRIDGE. A distinctive bridge is one THAT CARRIES TRAFFIC ACROSS THE RIVER.

This is the sort of bureaucratic bun-fight that is delaying the replacement of the World Trade Center in New York. Every two-bit politician has to get to pee in it before they like the taste.

LGF. People forget that they leave tracks in this electronic world.

PowerLine. Sometimes politics can be the best amusement going.

NYT. Prediction: The conclusion will be that humans suck and it’s all our fault. Any takers?

NYT. And yet nothing about Hamas, or Hezbollah, or Fatah. Or Cuba or Zimbabwe, for that matter. Boy, those guys from “Human Rights Watch” are really watching, aren’t they?

NYT. Of course textbook prices are outrageous. What would you expect from something invented in the 16th century?

Of course, the solution is to get rid of them, and the factory-model school that requires them. But that would mean actually thinking about how education is done these days, and it’s much more convenient to do the same-old same-old.

NYT. Another nomenklatura pathway back to the pre-modern world.

LGF. Well, I guess AlGore will shut up now. (NOT)

LGF. I guess the patron saint of jounalists is P. T. Barnum.

PowerLine. Wisdom about journalists and what they do.

But there have been, especially since the sixties, disturbing trends in journalism. Just as Hollywood, in its hiring practices, has replaced talent with education, journalism is in danger of replacing experience with report cards. Journalism is not a profession. There is no specific body of knowledge required, and there is no licensing. What is needed is a sharp set of skills, high powers of observation, and a humility about how much we can understand quickly, and these come only from experience. But when you’ve gone through Yale or Stanford, when you’ve been told how smart you are, when you got 700s on your SATs, you start to believe what mom has whispered in your ear. You start to think that you “know.” It’s a kind of self-inflicted grade inflation. I’m bright, therefore I’m right.

As somebody who’s gone through Yale and gotten 700s on his SATs, I can vouch for it. In fact, I’m still prepared to argue that I’m smarter than you. I guess I ought to have been a journalist. *sigh* I’m just a victim of bad career choices. Surely there is a government program for such a victim as I….

Read The Whole Thing.

WSJ. Sometimes giving both sides gives the false impression that one side is as legitimate as the other. That’s not always the case.

NYT. You can almost hear them breathing hard.

Guys, this is science, not religion. This stuff gets re-arranged all the time, as new evidence comes to light and existing theories, most spun from a few scraps and threads, get revised. By its nature, it’s an iterative process. Hold the panic attacks.

WT. I have an idea: Let’s send Mexico a bill for all the shit we have to go through because people are trying to get out of their kleptocracy.

WT. Oh, ya think?

I don’t know whichis worse: The thumb-suckers who did the research or the one who wrote the article.

Let’s see: Government-funded academics find evidence that the government ought to spend more money on education. What a surprise.

Read it. The world is full of people who are delighted to run others’ lives.

EconLog. The trees used to print the New York Times — those have died in vain.

Read it. And I can understand that.

You’d think that Greenwich would be solid Bush-loving turf — what with all those tax cuts for the rich. It is not. The voters are roughly 40 percent Republican, 40 percent unaffiliated and only 20 percent Democratic, but Bush won the town by only a sliver in 2004, even though his father grew up here.

Well, duh; the filthy rich are all Democrats, popular political mythology to the contrary notwithstanding.

Steve Sailer is not the first to note that the nutroots YearlyKos conventions was largely a herd of middle-aged white males, but he’s pretty funny about it.

A lot of the influential segments of American society are almost as white male-dominated as in 1960, especially those where affirmative action doesn’t apply, such as at liberal netroots conferences or as CEOs of Fortune 500 firms, which are about 99% white.

PowerLine. The New Republic doesn’t seem to be having a good time of it these days.

LanguageLog. Well — apparently Teaching By Gesture may not be the panacea we might have been told it was.

Read it. Only a socialist would complain about no vegetarian choices at a free lunch.

Read it. Only if they decide to hire Scooter Libbey.

How did the Bush administration follow up? Faced with the politically explosive challenge of indicting our country’s leading newspaper, it did nothing at all. It was rewarded for its forbearance by another New York Times sensation, a front-page story in May 2006 revealing the details of a second highly classified counterterrorism program that worked through the European banking consortium SWIFT.

If you reward bad behavior, you only get more bad behavior.

NYT. Guess these guys never heard of “federalism”. You’d think that the states were Iraqis being abandoned to their fates.

“States will act in a vacuum,” said Leticia Van de Putte, a Democratic state senator from Texas who is the president of the conference this year.

Note: No federal law = a vacuum. That tells you all you really need to know about these people.

The Times. I’ve always suspected as much….

NYT. Just when you think the Times has reached the limit for partisan drivel, something like this comes along.

One part of the Justice Department mess that requires more scrutiny is the growing evidence that the department may have singled out people for criminal prosecution to help Republicans win elections.

Oh, as if Democrats haven’t been doing that since the time of Tammany Hall? Certainly prosecuting voter fraud will help Republicans win elections, but that’s because Democrats are the one who are mostly responsible for trying to steal them. The Florida 2000 debacle is all you need to know on that subject.