Read it.

Read it. “Mainstream” libertarians (now there’s an oxymoron for you) try to square the circle of having a candidate who’s a fruitcake.

Or: Why most libertarians aren’t Libertarians.

Read it. Impossible to say, really.

Robert Novak pulls the trigger.

Read it. You know it had to happen.

Read it. Well, maybe because Muslims (unlike Communists) are nutters? That’s just a theory, you understand.

Read it. I’m waiting for somebody to document a case of Arabs not lying like rugs.

Read it.

Read it. I wonder whether that trick works on spam comments too?

Nobody told me, before I started this blog, that the chief expense is tracking down the people who put spam links in the comments and then paying someone to go break their fingers. It can add up.

Read it. And take it to heart.

Read it. And don’t say we never tell you anything useful.

Sometimes Steve Sailer comes up with some pretty scary stuff. Tell the truth: Would you want to breed from any of these people? I am not optimistic about our species.

Read it.

Read it. I don’t even have to say anything, do I?

Read it.

The Iowa landscape is a patchwork of corn and soybean monocultures, with about as much biodiversity as a bachelor’s refrigerator.

Now there’s an image you won’t get out of your head very soon.

And corn plays a starring, and nefarious, role in a recent book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which author Michael Pollan reveals that, at the molecular level, Americans have ingested so many corn-derived substances that we are essentially walking corn chips.

And what’s so bad about that? (Read the book, by the way; it’s fun.)

Read it. Saudi Arabia is exporting their jihadi problem to Iraq just as Mexico is exporting its poverty problem to the United States. In both cases America is left paying the tab. And people wonder why I’m so grumpy.

Read it. Wonder what would happen if Israel ever decided to quit doing the heavy lifting for the free world?

Read it. Actually, the three words I have for the next President are Cut Government Spending. But I suspect that, whoever he may be, the next President is more likely to listen to David Broder than to me.

And that tells you pretty much all you need to know about American politics.

Read it. John McCain has a lot to answer for.

Read it. Perhaps that’s why we were losing when he was in charge. Ya think?

Read it. Mainly because nobody wants it.

I love that conceit, “sets aside”. From what? Are there developers just chomping at the bit to build condos there?

Read it. Apparently Amazon delivery dates are set based on how much they expect to make from you in the future. I thought that Congress had developed this over a century ago.

Read it. Hint: No.

Read it. I knew it was good for something.

Read it. And place your bets on how long they last before getting stolen. Whoever came up with this bright idea never tried to put out solar-powered sidewalk lights in front of his home.

Read it. Business models are mutating like nobody’s business. It’s a great time to be alive.

Read it.

This was sent to me by a Unitarian, so It’s Not My Fault.

Highly recommended.

Read it. I told my wife that AT&T was run by Stalinists, and she didn’t believe it. This is the proof I need.

Ruth Marcus demonstrates the remarkable propensity of those on the left to shoot their own wounded.

Read it. Sometimes the system works to make things better, even when it’s designed to make things work.

That’s not on his copy, of course.

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

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

John Stossel points out that Thanksgiving is about showing how socialism doesn’t work.

Read it.

 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he called the pro forma sessions because the Bush administration had informed him the president would be making recess appointments during the current congressional layoff.

What a great way to ensure that they never tell him about it beforehand again. Way to go, Harry!

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Read it. Me, too, although I would still prefer Taft.

He is not known for any significant legislation, any major treaties, or for starting any wars.

Not quite in Calvin Coolidge’s class, but up there.

Read it. I’m from Indiana, so I don’t have an accent — accents are what Other People have. Don’t believe me? Listen to the evening news. They all talk like us.

Read it. They might could.

Read it. Think it’s about saving the planet? Nope, it’s about raking in the bucks.

Read it. Never had this problem with Western Electric.

Read it. Why must everyone pick on Shatner?

Read it. Oh, this could be really fun.

Some academic disciplines are more bogus than others: Women’s Studies is not Mathematics. But as far as I know, no one has tried to quantified these differences.

Rod Dreher has some inconvenient truth.

Thomas Sowell is always worth reading.

Read it. I’m SO glad I don’t live in Britain.

Read it. Lesbians are disliked more than Muslims. Does that seem right to you?

Read it. Of course, if they’d tried this during World War I, or even World War II, they’d be behind barbed wire.

Read it. Makes you wonder what all the heavy breathing is about.

Read it. A depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep.