Read it. I believe Asimov wrote about this in on of his Foundation novels.

Read it. Note that the only people complaining about this are journalists.

Perhaps we could juice up the numbers by offering a bounty.

Read it. A proper gentleman is shaved by his valet, of course, not by some grubby tradesman.

Read it. And this discussion is happening on the pages of the Washington Post.

I wonder what it’s like to live in a country where law enforcement and intelligence agencies actually have a clue?

And your tax dollars are paying for all this. Enjoy.

Read it. Where Jonah Goldberg finds this stuff I have no idea.

Read it. No, I don’t understand it either. But it sounds important.

Read it. This is actually a very clever idea.

Read it. In case you didn’t have enough to worry about already.

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

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

I wonder when the people of the world are going to wake up to the fact that the UN is just a sort of international Tammany Hall?

Read it. And ponder that there is no conceptual difference between this and what Democrats want to do to your wallet through taxation. “Well, we think it would be more useful doing something else, so we’ll just take it.”

Read it. Once again, a case of the world turned upside down — or, at least, it’s upside down from the viewpoint of the current mythology.

Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post reacts to the Saudi woman who was sentenced to be whipped after getting gang-raped.

“A court in country X sentenced a black man who had been severely beaten by white men to six months in jail and 200 lashes.” How would you react if you read that in a newspaper?

Presumably not with the sort of well-after-all-that-is-a-different-culture vaporings that permeate the People of the Crust.

This, from a colleague of my wife’s:

I got depressed last night so I called a hotline.

I was connected to a call center in Pakistan.

I told them I was feeling suicidal.

They got all excited and asked whether I could drive a truck.

Read it. And, of course, that’s the most important issue of the day.

Read it. This is very interesting. I would not have thought that people in 1967 could be that prescient.

Read it. An interesting perspective. I must confess that I have no clue as to how one would go about doing a “search” in an ideogrammatic language, but I suppose there must be some way of doing so.

Which brings up another thought: Since Chinese characters are ideograms rather than syllabary, it ought to be possible to read and write “Chinese” without actually knowing one of the (mutually unintelligible) “Chinese” dialects. Hmmm.

Read it. While AlGore postures and the socialists attempt to return to a pre-industrial world, there are some who are actually trying to solve the problem.

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

Read it. Perhaps doctors aren’t as knowledgeable about the practice of medicine as they’d like us to believe.

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Read it. Perhaps because the Left thinks of serial killers as victims and thus objects of pity, whereas it reacts to “vigilantes” (i.e. anybody attempting to defend himself against, say, a serial killer) with shock and horror?

That’s just a guess, of course.

Read it. Is reading dead? If you think so, what are you doing here?

The unspoken assumption of this article (and who would think anything else of the New Yorker?) “reading” means “reading literary fiction”, in which (of course) Brahmin rags like the New Yorker have a natural interest.

But the reading needed to operate computers is in fine shape; in fact, the Internet has led to a great revival of reading among those who would otherwise be sitting slack-jawed in front of the Toob.

Read it. It’s good that we have these things to get all of the flakes in one room where they can be identified.

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Read it. Market incentives work, even in the most unlikely places.

Read it. The one talent Muslims seem to have is the ability to wind up the usual useful idiots like a cheap watch.

Read it. Just in case you were wondering where your money is going. I know I was.

Tyler Cowan makes his pick.

Read it. Your future, if we keep on the way we’re going.

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Thomas Sowell hears the sounds of chickens coming home to roost.

Read it. Millions for earmarks, but pocket change to control illegal immigration. Thanks, Democrat Congress.

Read it. Statism creeps in on little cat feet….

Read it. It has bipartisan support, so of course it will go nowhere, because it doesn’t favor an identifiable interest enough to build a constituency to ensure funding. (Except the common good, of course, but you see how few are interested in that.)

Read it. More fun Language Log.

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Rod Dreher shows up every now and then to give us his views.

Read it. More preposition week at Language Log.

Read it. It’s apparently preposition week at Language Log.

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

Guess there’s really no reason to keep those poor fellows locked up in Gitmo, is there? I’m sure they’ll go straight once they get out.

Read it. This would be a useful thing. But a mug of hot tea or cocoa is just as effective and a lot more social.

Arnold Kling critiques Mencius Moldbug.

Read it. The primary defect of the common lefty trope “No blood for oil” is that if we wanted the oil we could just pay for it; no blood is required. That was certainly the case with Saddam’s Iraq — if it had really been “all about oil”, we wouldn’t have invaded, we’d have just ended the sanctions and bought to oil.

Read it. Oh, the lies these newspapers tell.

Israel only borders Gaza on two sides.

One side is ocean, and there is no naval blockade. Nothing of value comes in there because the “Palestianians” can’t be bothered to engage in commerce like other people.

One side is Egypt, a fellow Arab nation. What are they doing to help their fellow Arabs, their fellow Muslims? Not a damned thing.

The reason Gaza is “reduced to beggary” is because they are by nature a bunch of beggars, and Israel is quite properly refusing to continue handouts to people who turn right around and murder Israeli women and children. It’s just that simple.

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Read it. And place your bets.

Read it. Just doin’ that “religion of peace” thing.

Yaacov ben Moshe speaks.