Read it. I’m sure this says something profound about our culture, but I’m too lazy to figure out what.

Since the 19th century, gray squirrels, an American import, have been overtaking Britain’s native red squirrels and claiming their territory.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Read it. Of course, it means that from now on dictators will have to be pried loose with automatic weapons, with a corresponding loss of (perhaps innocent) lives. But the goo-goos never count other people’s lives as being worth as much as their own self-righteousness.

Read it. Much like Democrats with tax cuts, certain primitive tribes appear to lack any concept of “number”, to the point where the don’t even have words for it.

Read it. This is what passes for political thought on the left these days. Apparently, as with candy in the fourth grade, we can’t have any unless we brought enough for everybody. Unless we can spread perfection everywhere, we should give up attempting to spread perfection anywhere. A classic case of making the best the enemy of the good.

Read it. Pity the poor New York Times. Whenever they find a real juicy atrocity, it just turns out to be an illusion. What’s a good anti-American newspaper to do?

Read it. I shudder to think. Might have to work for a living.

Read it. And this comes at a time when the college credential is becoming more and more central to success.

Of course, college and university administrators insist they aren’t actually using quotas when in fact they are, as O’Connor’s decisive opinion in 2003 invited them to do. The result is that one indispensable requirement for being a college or university administrator is intellectual dishonesty. You have to be willing to lie about what you consider one of your most important duties. So much for open inquiry and intellectual rigor.

Read it. Kid looks like he could use a good smack in the mouth, doesn’t he?

Read it. Shamble, Al, shamble.

Read them. In your copious free time, of course.

Read it. This makes an extraordinary amount of sense, and hence has no prayer of being implemented.

Read it. Christopher Hitchens at his best.

Read it. And ponder.

Read it. Hah! You think that those blister-pacs were impossible to open now? Just wait!

Read it. Aw, it’s so cute. Of course, anyone who has reached puberty will refuse to ride in one, but there it is.

Read it. Why you can’t expect real information from a journalist.

Journalists write stories. The best stories have villains and victims. The villain-victim framework is often ill-suited to capturing economic phenomena.

Read it. Is music destined to be free? (Only your hairdresser knows for sure — and she’s busy listening to her iPod….)

Peggy Noonan. Always worth reading.

Read it. What, no free school for illegal immigrants at American taxpayers’ expense any more. Outrageous!

I guess enforcement works; it just takes a while.

Read it. It’s not your daddy’s Army any more.

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

Read it. This illustrates why “a conservative” and “conservatism” are meaningless terms.

Read it. Where can I find one of these?

Couple this with the retail store-space clinics that are opening up….

Read it. I guess Blackwater’s “mercenaries” are doing jobs that Americans won’t do.

Read it. Religion of peace. You betcha.

Read it.  Brought to you, of course, by Air America — in the little time it has left.

Read it. Well, we’ll see. I usually don’t rush to believe what I read in The Guardian.

Read it. And be careful what you wish for.

Read it. Bean counters in the service of silly ideology.

As a rule, the concept of hate crimes bothers me. I have trouble understanding why a criminal deserves a worse punishment because he or she is thinking a specific hateful thought than a person who commits the same crime who is not thinking that same specific thought. The legislating of which hateful thoughts are worse than others is another concept that bothers me.

Well, it bothers me too. Hate crime? As opposed to what, a love crime? Please.  But that’s not the weird part.

Once again, officials are trying to figure out what people are thinking at the moment when they commit crimes. If a Sunni bandit kills a Shia merchant for money, is it a “sectarian” or “hate” crime? What if the same bandit kills the same merchant while screaming “die, apostate, die”? Is it a “sectarian” crime if he stabs the victim, but not if he shoots him?

Your tax money is paying for this nonsense, people.  Enjoy.

Read it. Markets work, whether you want them to or not.

Read it. A very good write-up.

Read it. SteamPunk for the masses. Just add some brass fittings, and you’re all set.

Read it. We have the technology.

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

But it would sure solve the “global warming” problem. Look for it in AlGore’s next book.

Read it. Sure, it’s primitive, but so was the telephone and the radio when they started.

Read it. A lot of the conventional wisdom and old-economy assumptions about how markets for easily distributable and replicable goods work is being blown out of the water by people who “do it wrong” and make money at it. We live in an exciting time.

Read it. Welcome news.

Read it. I’m surprised to see no reference to crime control in the article. Any police department would pay big bucks for such a system, if reliable.

Read it. A little nibble here, a little nibble there….

Steve Sailer talks about American culture. I know that will come as a surprise….

Read it. Sounds like a plan. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Read it. Of course, if “conservatives” had done this sort of thing to progs, there’d be a firestorm in the press and much blathering in Congress.

Read it. Ward Churchill the zombie.

Read it. Steve was a couple years behind me at Yale, and a very bright and personable guy. His father was Guido Calabresi, a professor at Yale Law, so I suppose it’s the family trade.

Read it.

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

Read it. Ah, the good old days.

Read it. Not very, apparently — although that doesn’t surprise me, since I studied it as an undergraduate.

Read it. That would explain a lot.

Read it. Go, Fred.