Read it. OF COURSE everyone in Washington, D.C., is interested in the status of cows in the Sudan. It’s not as if there’s anything going on in the United States that deserves coverage. Anyway, it’s a core principle of Transnational Progressivism that “news” in one place is just as important as “news” in any other place — “news” being here defined as something unknown to the average inhabitant of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a bar so low that no tidbit of human knowledg need feel in danger of exclusion. Hey, we’re all about inclusion; Sally Quinn said so.

Read it. You, too, can participate in the modern movement to prolong dependence and fecklessness among the Underclass while at the same time providing employment for like-minded People of the Crust whose goal in life is feeling good about themselves instead of, you know, solving a problem.

Give until it feels good — remember, over 700 agencies across the Washingto region are trusting in your gullibility; do not let them be disappointed, or the angels (not that we believe in angels, necessarily, but angels serve as an excellent metaphor for the ebullient outpouring of human compassion and, hey, we’re all about metaphor) will weep for you.

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

It’s also an excellent example of how even a sect that attempts to preserve the outward forms of Christian worship eventually wanders all over the map and comes apart once it is severed from the living tradition of the Church. Sad, but there it is.

Read it.

 What’s amazing in this case is how the White House has allowed intelligence analysts to drive policy.

And that says pretty much all that needs to be said about the Bush administration generally. One of these days we may actually get a Republic President (or even a Democrat one, although that’s hardly likely) who understands that (a) the bureaucracy is not your friend and (b) they need to be stepped on, hard. I just hope I live to see it.

Read it. I’ve always been a sucker for artist’s renderings of vehicles that have no chance of seeing actual production.

I especially like this bit: “Road vehicles offer personal freedom and door-to-door travel; yet they cause unacceptable congestion and pollution.” Unacceptable to whom? Not unacceptable to the people who use them, or they wouldn’t use them. Unacceptable to the People of the Crust, perhaps. Unremarked here is that the congestion is the fault of governments who control the roads yet won’t expand them so as to eliminate congestion. Also unremarked is that breathing modern car exhaust is safer than breathing the air in places like Los Angeles fifty years ago; reducing congestion, for example, would decrease the amount of time cars spend traveling at inefficient low speeds on the highways, and nuclear power would reduce the amount of coal and oil burned for “clean” electric power. We have the technology to solve these problems, it’s just that the People of the Crust are too busy pursuing their political agenda to get with the program and use what we know to fix what we can fix.

Read it. Well, it’s not really the Magna Carta, but rather a later confirmation of the Magna Carta, but it’s still pretty cool.

Read it. Quite a bit, it would seem.

Mickey Kaus has his own unique perspective on the Mitt Romney speech.

Read it. We have the technology — the question is, do we have the will?

David Friedman gets down with his home-b0ys.

Read it. The toys are nice — when they work.

Read it. Just stupid, I guess. I haven’t given a dime to Yale since I graduated, and I sleep well at nights. Of course, if they didn’t do their best to produce 6,000 new Communists every year, I might feel differently.

Read it. And watch the videos.

Read it. More sanity than one usually expects to see from a techie.

Pogue. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it. Lest you think it’s all sweetness and light around here.

Read it. Well, the worthwhile of us do. As for the rest, hey, some people eat okra.

Read it. Well, the worthwhile of us do. As for the rest, hey, some people eat okra.

Read it. I was particularly struck by this passage: “We saw a great deal of interest in these donors providing their children with philanthropic budgets to give money on their own”.

Now, consider: By doing that, what are you training your children to do? Give their own money to those less fortunate? I suggest not. I suggest that they are training their children to underwrite their own momentary sentimentality with money that they did not earn but which came from someone else.

No wonder the children of the People of the Crust grow up to be such tax-and-spenders.

Read it. And there was much rejoicing.

Is there no nook or cranny of American life that some Democrat will overlook having the federal government regulate? Apparently not. And the Washington Post is there to cheer him on.

Read it. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Our boy Mencius Moldbug has a facility for sarcasm that I find somewhat inspiring. I find the concept of the “Social-Justice Badger” quite intriguing.

An intellectual crackhead is anyone who happens to be engaged in the generation, incubation, or dissemination of intellectual crack. Intellectual crack is any nonsense that is widely and confidently believed by a large population of full-grown adults.

And who could argue with that?

Read it. And who could blame them?

No link, because I agree with Christopher Hitchens — this is of NO SIGNIFICANCE outside of Omaha, Nebraska, and the fact that national news organizations are paying all this attention to it is merely an indication of how far our culture has degenerated.

Read it. Well, when they quit being a computer company and turned into Best Buy without the refrigerators, the writing was on the wall.

Read it. And you clowns are paying for this. I hope you’re happy.

Read it. Yeah, but you’re not supposed to eat fried food, so where is this “used cooking oil” supposed to come from? McDonald’s?

Read it. Cops are salivating.

Read it. You will of course remember the famous scene in the first Michael York Three Musketeers movie.

Read it. No home should be without its own network server.

Read it. The second part of David Friedman’s disquisition on home-schooling his kids. Thinking of educating your child outside of a government factory school? We have the technology.

Read it. It is an indicator of how clueless the Washington Post is regarding religion that it would claim that China “ordained” a Bishop.

Read it. One of the few theoretical discussions I’ve seen on the subject.

Read it. Wisdom from John Stossel. “No one washes a rental car.”

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. David Brooks attempts to explain what’s going on in China.

Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army.

And that’s not the strange part….

Ross Douthat has an interesting perspective. Apparently it’s a struggle for market share.

Read it. The iron laws of economics makes socialized medicine a joke. Markets work even when you don’t want them to.

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked. You’d think they were the New York Times.

Read it. Experts explain the weasel-words endemic to “intelligence” estimates. As if anybody gave a shit other than the people busy covering their asses. Your tax dollars at work. Enjoy.

Read it. Guess this is a prelude to a stirring campaign to federalize another local issue. GOD FORBID that we should have different local policies concerning regulation of … carnival rides?

*sigh* And you guys are going to wind up paying for this crap. Hope you’re enjoying it.

More handwringing here and here, if you can stand it.

Read it. And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one. Guess the concept of “in loco parentis” has been replaced by the concept “under constant surveillance”. Hope they feel better.

As it stands, the university has yet to see the Rave Guardian technology used in situations other than false alarms, but a 32-member police force is kept on staff in case any future calls prove legitimate.

Well, that’s a relief….

Read it.

Read it. That’s if you care at all. Personally I have no plans to take advice from ABC News, no matter what the subject, but that’s just me.

Read it. A lot of inconvenient truth here.

Read it. Not something you normally spend much time thinking about.

Read it. And take your pick. Not a libertarian? Fie upon you then.

Read it. If it weren’t for the government, the enviro-wackos, and certain special interest groups, these would be supplying our electricity, our air and water would be a lot cleaner, and the Arabs would be back herding goats.

Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it. Like the Communists, Muslims have no problems with recruiting criminals.

Read it. I would say your parents, but that’s just me.