Read it. If you’ve lost Wal*Mart, you’ve lost America.

Boy, that didn’t take long. HD DVD: From hero to zero in record time.

Read it. Interesting, if it actually works.

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’.

Yup. So much for a major Democrat talking point.

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I suspect that people with anger management issues wouldn’t want to put a fist through this wall.

Just a thought.

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Read it. A clever trick, if they can do it.

Read it. This is obviously targeted at college students and similar parasites.

Read it. Trouble, I hope. I really don’t like John McCain.

Read it. Proving that he isn’t a total idiot after all.

It’s comforting to know that he has more sense than most of his followers. (Sorry, Derb.)

Steve Sailer will write about anything, as this demonstrates.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Read it. Step by step, closer and closer….

Read it. This is very exciting news.

Read it. This is just freaky.

Read it. And now to the important stuff.

Read it. This looks very clever.

Read it. After you laugh, start thinking. Yeah, I know it hurts, but do it anyway.

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Read it. A key step forward.

Read it. A fascinating look at the science (if one may use the term) behind your favorite movie.

It’s not your favorite movie? Be off with you then, and the angels will weep for you.

Read it. And about time, too.

A federal prosecutor has issued a subpoena to James Risen of the New York Times, one of two reporters at the paper who compromised the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Terrorist Surveillance Program in December 1995.

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Read it. What’s “Arrrrr!” in Somali?

Read it. This makes a great deal of sense.

Read it. Who would know better than Karl Rove?

Read it. Didn’t know that Ross Douthat was a Tolkien fan.

Read it. A review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism in the American Thinker. Very accurate — and refreshing.

Read it. Some interesting stuff from Language Log. Spelling checkers are apparently smarter than I thought.

Read it. Me want. How about one of these in the ol’ glove compartment?

Read it. Not a pretty sight, but a useful reminder.

McCain seems to have conned a lot of Republicans into thinking he’s transformed his position on immigration–for example, Victor Davis Hanson, author of “Mexifornia,” who now writes about “McCain’s won’t-make-that-mistake-again changed views on closing the border.” This even though it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that McCain hasn’t altered his ultimate support for legalization of illegals (once he’s declared the border “secure”). One reason we know this is because he’s said it–he said it again on Meet the Press yesterday, when asked if he’d sign the McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive” immigration bill as president if it came to his desk. Answer: “Yeah.” If somebody like Hernandez, as McCain also said yesterday, “supports my policies and my proposals,” it serves to emphasize that those policies may not have changed as much as cheap dates like Hanson seem to believe. Hernandez’s own Web site features an article describing him as “passionately” advocating legalization of “all Mexican workers in the U.S.” [What about McCain’s statement that: “I will not allow anyone to receive Social Security or any other benefits because they have come here illegally and broken our laws”?–ed Obvious BS. If he offers legalization to the “12 million” who are here they will clearly get benefits from having come here illegally–the benefit of being here legally, for one. Medicaid, Medicare, and public schooling for another. People who came here illegally would also immediately qualify for Social Security benefits as soon as they got the quickie “probationary” Z-visa under McCain’s bill. The only way McCain’s statement would make sense is if he was also planning to offer these benefits to everyone who didn’t cross the border–i.e. the entire population of Mexico. … Actually, that doesn’t seem too far from Dr. Hernandez’s philosophy. … You don’t think …]

Read it. Well, there you have it.

Read it. By “Christian” I presume they mean do-it-yourself Protestants.

Read it. Coming soon to freak out an environmentalist near you.

Watch it. And marvel.

Apparently the rock band Journey was looking for a new lead singer, and found him on YouTube. I read about it in the Wall Street Journal, which unfortunately hasn’t dropped it’s paywall yet (c’mon, Rupert, get with the program), but the guy sounds amazingly like Steve Parry. Proof here and here. And you can search YouTube for Arnal Pineda and get a lot of the material that’s been posted on it.

Speculation is that YouTube will be the audition venue of choice very soon, if it isn’t already.

Read it. Makes you wonder what the buckle looks like.

Lileks deals with the British “Three Little Pigs” situation.

You really have to have multiple years in higher education to craft a statement so packed with radiant stupidity.

The rest of it is worth reading, too, as is The Bleat every day. Highly recommended.

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Read it. More than you ever really wanted to know about the Present State of the Banana.

Today, European opposition to GMO is one factor discouraging progress in developing a substitute and more robust banana crop.

Bloody Europeans….

Read it. Ain’t that the truth.

Lileks is sick of it.

I’m not an economist, but I’ve noted something interesting. Since we decided that ethanol would be the cure to our “addiction to oil,” we managed to bump up the cost of corn, encourage a shift to corn production, and raise the price of foodstuffs. Which fueled inflation fears. Now that we have increased inflation, we have a fear of a recession, which drives the price of oil down, since demand is expected to slump. The price of gas has gone down a quarter in the last ten days, and it’s idling in the low $2.8x range. As others have noted, the cure for $100 barrel oil is $100 barrel oil. It all works out. There’s a boom and then there’s a bust. Having lived through a few, it’s annoying to hear the same fargin’ end-of-the-world hairshirt orations, especially from those who have spent their entire lives walking around with a bucket of black paint and a brush looking for good news to deface.

Of course the news is bad. The news is always bad. Even the good news is bad, eventually. If they cured cancer tomorrow it would take a day before analysts worried about the impact on Medicare, what with people living so damned long and all.

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Read it. Too bad it doesn’t work on government employees.

George Will explains why John McCain is really a Democrat in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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Read it. Pretty cool.