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Kung-fu pander?

Megan McArdle adds some righteous common sense to the gun debate.

Men like to kill themselves with guns. (This is not culture-specific; women tend to choose poison everywhere, presumably because of some deep fear of disfigurement). Gun suicides tend to be successful. But this does not mean that if you took away the guns, people wouldn’t commit suicide. There are many other near-surefire ways of killing yourself, like jumping off a high bridge, gassing yourself with carbon monoxide, driving your car at high speed into a piling, hanging yourself, etc. Think of it this way: most people who choose to wear high heels are women. That doesn’t mean that if I threw out my Manolos, I would turn into a man.

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Women of the world wait with bated breath.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Note that she isn’t whining about it as some would do.

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I wonder what “Star Wars” is in Mandarin….

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We have the technology.

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A female Cambridge graduate who has a PhD in computer science has struck a lucrative deal with a US broadcaster to become a television cage fighter.

A career plan worthy of envy.

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Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by the country’s military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat.

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Gotta love Australians.

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I’d like to be able to believe that.

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

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Steve Sailer will say what others are only thinking.

So, the small number of mulattos who grew up with one non-black parent and thus get introduced to a wider range of cultural options beyond rap and hoops are disproportionately taking the plums that people a generation ago assumed blacks in general would be achieving.

For a real eye-opener, read Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.

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And chill out.

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“But that trick never works!”

Be the first on your block to get in on the ground floor of this historical political opportunity.

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I especially like the map.

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We could use those over here.

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The aliens have a sense of humor. “Hey, let’s have some fun with these guys.”

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“This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.

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Much the best thing I have ever heard about Barack Obama.

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Megan McArdle explains it all to you.

Correlations are, at best, suggestive. They are not by themselves evidence–nay, not even if you cross your arms, scowl at your opponent, and say “Well, then give me another explanation for this astonishing correlation!” Until you’ve got something better than a simple correlation, the burden of proof remains upon you.

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Bill Gates is escaping in good time.

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Guess even hippies don’t like expensive gas.

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And, more importantly, appreciate the picture.

We have the technology….

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An extensive experiment, which saw 16 species of dragon lizard sprint on a treadmill, concluded that the creatures run on their back legs because the rate of acceleration alters their centre of gravity, making it impossible to keep all four feet on the ground – the reptilian equivalent of a cyclist’s wheelie.

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To identify and arrest them later.

What a great idea.

Of course, it doesn’t sit well with those who write for Slate magazine, who appear to think that rioting in the streets is a Constitutional right — hell, a Human Right! — but we reactionaries, who think that children (and they’re mostly children, in thought if not in fact) ought to refrain from inconveniencing others who just want to Get On With It, will applaud.

Kaus thinks maybe.

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He’s a fool if he’s not. They’d be happier in Orthodoxy, though.

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Spiderman, here we come.

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