Read it. Cox & Forkum are calling it quits. They will be missed.

Read it. This is huge.

Read it. News Flash: The Chinese are our enemies, not our friends.

Read it. Nothing steams a politician more than missing an opportunity to demonstrate lack of principle in a politically profitable way. “They never let poor Susan / Join in all their RINO games….”

Read it. And, of course, the government is involved, which makes things both more complicated and more stupid than they need to be.

Read it. Well, this is America — suing people is a legitimate leisure time activity when there’s nothing on TV and you’ve seen all the movies at the mall.

Read it. A very thought-provoking article. I’m surprised to find something of this quality in the Washington Post.

Read it. Is there some other country that we could sell the San Francisco Bay area to? They certainly don’t seem very happy being part of America, and I for one would love to see them go elsewhere.

Read it — if you dare.

The kind of conflicts we’re seeing and are likely to see are far more like crime, pervasive and opportunistic, than like conventional interstate warfare. The patriotic sentiments that motivated volunteer armies in the past are harder to apply to campaigns designed to strengthen vulnerable foreign states, or to limit the extent of bunkering and other criminal activities that have no obvious ideological valence. And so we will need to rely on skilled professionals to help police the world.

Indeed. What our culture faces today is the sort of thing that civilizations faced in times past — barbarians who do not share our values and are relics of an earlier and more primitive time, people who think it cooler to be pirates and slavers than to earn a living, people who don’t think twice about raping, torturing, pillaging, and murdering those to whom they’ve taken a dislike, etc. What we face is a pest control problem rather than a military problem. If you’ve got fire ants in your yard, you don’t declare war on them and call the Army; you call the appropriate professionals and get it taken care of.

Do read the comments and reflect on the fact that people that intellectually vacant have a vote that counts as much as yours.

Read it. It’s like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

Read it. And ask yourself: Does this represent an improvement, long-term? Is this anything even close to a united community?

Read it. Turns out that most of what people “know” ain’t so.

Read it. Many years, kid, many years.

Read it. Let’s hear it for sprawl.

Have you noticed how progs always make up derogatory names for people doing what they want to rather than what the progs want?

Read it. An eternal truth: People drive because it’s easier than walking.

Read it. More on the attempt to libel Rush Limbaugh.

One wonders sometimes how liberalism can survive, when its most cherished myths can be exposed as frauds in a matter of minutes.

Easy — they think that they’re smart and everybody else is stupid. This notion is proof against any counterexample, as Dan Rather illustrates very elegantly.

Read it. Wally is my hero.

Read it. I have an idea: Let’s cancel Illinois to avoid offending Americans.

Read it. I have a question: Why is this guy still in Congress? Why do Democrats cling to the status of The Crooked Party?

Read it. You’d better — you won’t hear it on the evening news.

Read it. Hah!

Apparently the New York Times has mucked with some of its RSS feeds so that the feed gives you the article title and a little blurb but there is no link to the actual article.

I suppose that this is designed to act as a teaser so that you’ll be moved to go to the paper’s site to find and read the actual article (and be exposed to more of their advertising).

I’m wondering how long it will take for someone to point out to them that the purpose of an RSS feed is precisely to avoid this sort of hunt-and-peck information-gathering (which is so last-century).

Expect to see a lot less mention of the New York Times here — and elsewhere, I expect.

Read it. When distressed, sue somebody — it’s the American way.

Somebody with the name “Dongmei Li” probably wasn’t born here, but is certainly successfully assimilated.

Read it. Sometimes biology does matter. The supposition here is that lower voice timbre in males is a marker for testosterone levels, the implication being that females select for the one in hopes of getting the other.

So far as I’m aware, nobody has bothered to ask some actual females about this — but, after all, are they really qualified to have an opinion on the subject, not being trained biologists or statisticians? Let’s get real….

Read it. Apparently the efforts to reduce consumption of fossil fuels are instead encouraging their use. What a surprise.

Read it. In most states there is a crime called “unauthorized practice of law”, which comes of someone who doesn’t have the requisite legal training, and who hasn’t passed the bar exam and been licensed, acting like an attorney — advising people for pay and  sometimes even attempting to represent them in legal proceedings. The basis for this crime is that people who aren’t trained as lawyers, and who haven’t demonstrated that they’re competent to act as attorneys, will do more harm than good, just like someone who hasn’t gone to medical school or been licensed as a physician trying to act like a doctor.

There ought to be an equivalent concept of “unauthorized practice of religion”, for people who have read a book or two and think that they’re now completely conversant with what a religion teaches and ought to practice. (Hm, wait a minute — that describes most Protestants….)

Read it. It’s like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

Read it.

 With no family members to encourage gifts to the original donor’s favorite causes, the banks and lawyers have wide latitude to remake the way the trusts operate and to decide which charities will receive grants. Banks can reduce gifts and grow the foundation’s assets, thus increasing their fees. At the same time, banks and lawyers stand to gain personal influence and prestige by selecting new charities.

Rather like gifts to universities. Or government in the hands of Democrats.

Read it. I guess the fact that Vista is a steaming pile of crap is finally getting through to the boys in Redmond. I smell a “New Coke/Coke Classic” moment here.

Read it. This deserves separate mention. It’s going to be a problem until people figure out how to handle it.

Read it. Lest we forget what this is all about.

There will be no peace in the Middle East until Muslims love their children more than they hate Jews.

Read it. Progress is being made.

Read it. Starship troopers, here we come.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. Now you can know faster than ever that you’re abnormal. Enjoy.

Read it. And take your time — there’s a lot here.

The problem with our old pal Mencius here — and his unwitting launchpad, Dawkins — is that they are like Euclidean geometers working in a non-Euclidean world. Since the Existence doesn’t match their assumptions, Existence is therefore wrong. The flaw in this ought to be obvious.

But it’s fun watching them sweat. I could do it all day.

Read it. Unfortunately, a knowledge of basic economics is not a requirement for any job that I know of — including economics, as Paul Krugman demonstrates pretty clearly.

Read it. Were I running for President, I’d be embarrassed to have such people as supporters.

Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it. Surprised to see something like this in the New York Times.

It turns out that there are rules governed by physics to explain why the best distance runners look so different from the best swimmers or rowers and why being big is beneficial for some sports and not others.

Imagine that. Whoda thunkit?

Of course, I wouldn’t want to be in this guy’s shoes when the feminists get through with him. He’ll be facing three to five as Hillary’s towel-boy.

Read it. No, no, it’s not what you think — Jimmy Carter doesn’t come up.

Read it. We have the technology to fix our education crisis — but we have to clear away the obfuscators first.

Read it. A bizarre subspecies examined.

Read it. Insight into the souls of those who read the New York Times.

Read it. Never been to Disney World. Don’t plan to go there. Heard good things about it, mostly from people whose tastes differ from mine.

Read it. All my illusions, shattered.

Read it. The progs’ OCD with respect to “race” never ceases to amaze me. 19th-century European aristocrats weren’t this bad.

Read it. Of course, if journalists could understand statistics, they could get a real job.

Read it. Well, most of them sound like you’re gargling with your mouth full.

Read it. Language is a wonderful thing.