Item. The Irish were always overachievers.

Item. We’ve got the same system here but the woman has to be unmarried to qualify.

Item. And soon it will be turned into a Day Care Center and Community Soup Kitchen. Gotta move with the times, you know.

“George Washington lived there in the 1790s, as did his slaves.” Being the New York Times, you know they had to mention that. I’m surprised they didn’t manage to work in some mention of him being a Dead White Male.

“Historians and community activists began demanding the excavation in 2002, after the site, which is adjacent to the Liberty Bell Center, was found to be above the mansion’s living quarters for nine household slaves that Washington brought here from Mount Vernon.” It’s not important that George Washington lived there, of course; what’s important is that nine slaves may have lived there. Nine slaves are far more important than George Washington could ever be.

Item. God forbid we should anger those immigration lawyers.

Item. And why not? The British don’t appear to be using it any more.

Item. Who wants to take a chance on getting sued?

Item. Richard Cohen making sense. How did that happen?

Item. “Recycling is the philosophy that everything is worth saving except your time”

What he said.

Item. Lest you think that we don’t deal with Serious Subjects here.

Item. Honestly, who doesn’t love Australians?

Item. Well, well. No mention of where Steve Jobs came in the lineup. Probably just as well.

Item. Yeah, but it’s only 4200 RPM.

Item. Bet Bill Clinton could do it — or knows someone who could.

Item. Some FrayCheck and you’re good for another  20 years, I guess.

Doesn’t surprise me that Time was wrong, though. They do that a lot.

Item. So when we all yawn in series, does that mean we’re all hot? Or that we all want to be cool? Inquiring minds want to know.

Item. “Nobody should have to die a horrible death,” Manning said. Tell that to the victim, David Manning,

Item. Human Rights Watch? Nowhere to be found.

Item. UN: We’d rather talk than do anything.

Item. UN: We’d rather talk than do anything.

Item. A step in the right direction. Would that Rick Perry would do the same.

Item. Dick Cheney must be doing somthing right if the New Yorker hates him.

Item. And, naturally, finds that he is full of it.

Item. “To put it bluntly: it is difficult to celebrate human life in any meaningful way when people – or at least the growth of the number of people – are regarded as the source of the world’s problems.”

Read the whole thing.

Item. A review of Daniel Dennet’s attempt to apply an atheist’s view of the universe to religion.

Item. I think perhaps I’d like to have one of these.

Item. Wouldn’t that be cool.

Item. Some people just think too much.

Item. (Or any other arrested adolescent, for that matter.)

Item. Buy more Havarti cheese. Not only will you feel better about yourself, but your taste buds will thank you.

Item. That would never happen, surely?

Item. Unlike the New York Times, the WaPo will sometimes surprise you by printing sense.

Item. Why does Bozell pretend not to know that “conservatives” and libertarians are completely different?

Item. No wonder we don’t see many Muslims in the U.S. Congress.

Item. Apparently it’s because the non-moderate Muslims would kill them. Whoda thunkit?

Item. Man Bites Dog.

Item. It’s, just, like, ya know?

Item. Ross Douthat is almost always worth reading, too.

Item. Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can get some intelligent writers for the Washington Post. Or at least some who don’t think that the answer to every problem is a government program.

Item. Perhaps we need a “Mark Steyn Award” for democraphic defunction, similar to the Darwin Awards for people who remove themselves from the gene pool.

Item. This is actually quite clever. I may actually use that here, once I get caught up.

Item. This guy’s stuff is always depressing, but still worth reading. And his critique of American (and, really, European) oil policy is spot on.

Item. More Arnold Kling.

Item. I’ve got North’s book, and it’s quite good. I agree that the technology was only waiting for the proper institutional framework to take off; on the other hand, I’m prepared to argue that the needed framework was political, rather than social or intellectual (to the extent that those can be separated).

Consider that the Chinese invented so much of the stuff our modern world is based on, from paper and rockets to gunpowder. Yet the Europeans were the guys who used it to conquer the world. Why? I suggest it was the competition that arose from the fragmented nature of Christendom, as opposed to the unitary Chinese state (and, of course, using letters rather than ideograms had a lot to do with it, too.)

Item. Funny how no two libertarians can ever agree on the “correct” tax system, assuming that they acknowledge any legitimacy to taxation at all.

Item. A position not without its controversial features.

Item. My inner econogeek comes to the fore. Sorry.

Item. An offer you can’t refuse.

Item. Breathe deep. BE the book.

Item. Me want.

Item. “When Ozzie is not looking for someone to fix dinner and mop the floor, he marries a college graduate instead of Harriett. The upshot is that greater equality within the household leads to greater inequality between households.”