Steve Sailer makes the snarky remarks so that you won’t have to.

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A good regressive can find identity politics in the most unlikely places. It’s a gift.

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Everybody wants good health care, but nobody wants to pay.

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Shel Silverstein, of course, is the writer of the famous “Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh”. (And, of course, “The Cover of the Rolling Stone”, of which you might actually have heard.)

It’s still a stupid idea to give a kid an odd name unless there’s a very good reason, like cash-in-hand.

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Would that the CIA were as effective as these eco-freaks.

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Soon to be a major motion picture, I have no doubt.

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Truth is the first victim of modern narcissistic autobiography.

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Where is Marty Feldman when you really need him?

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 If you plan on spending  part of your weekend with a white person, it is strongly recommended that you purchase a jacket or some sort of “high performance” t-shirt, which is like a regular shirt but just a lot more expensive.

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Is it ‘offensive’ to hit too close to the sensitive weak spot of Democratic race-preference ideology in a Democratic primary? I guess.

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I certainly plan to.

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How badly do you have to suck as a Senator to be behind Al Franken, even in such a pinko state as Minnesota?

Jerry Pournelle has an interesting essay on the subject.

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Splitting hairs for fun and politics.

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A reminder that these people are not our friends, just sucking up to us because they’re afraid of our common enemies.

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What we really need is an organization of Islamophobes to fight Islamic Jihad. It’s notparanoia if they’re really out to get you.

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

On the other hand, watching a 9-year-old bump open a lock in less time than it takes with the key is kinda scary.

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And the hits just keep on comin’.

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A good question.

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Eeewww.

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Rather harsh treatment for the guy who brings unseasonably cold whether wherever he goes.

I’m sure you’ve seen the classic picture from Time magazine of AlGore crouched in his lair, grinning like a loon at his three 30″ monitors (Macintosh, of course; must be avant garde), just like a 60-year old “my toys are cooler than your toys” geek. I’m sure he’s getting all that electricity from solar panels on the roof and wind turbines like Ed Begley’s.

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I especially like this one:

3. Form a group. This is important because a group always starts with one person. However, if you cannot find another reliable person – be your own group.

Sounds like an Army recruiting slogan, doesn’t it?  And then there’s this one:

4. Find out where you can purchase weapons, especially small ones that can be easily concealed. Buy as many as you can, but not more! Keep [the weapons] hidden… Do not take them out [of their hiding place] under any circumstances, until it is time…

Now we’re getting into NRA territory. And this one:

5. Stay away from demonstrations… Know that demonstrations are held for one purpose only: in order to give citizens the feeling that they have done something significant, when [in fact] they haven’t. The only exception is violent demonstrations, which provide an opportunity to use the weapon…

Kind of shoots the entire Democrat party in the butt, doesn’t it?

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Now there’s an argument worth having.

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Steve Sailer has an interesting illustration of how combining one silly notion (identity politics) with an entirely silly career path (sociology) makes for entertainment for the rest of us.

I have spent my life studying the pictures and symbols of racism and slavery,…

And there’s his problem right there.  If you only have a hammer, problems tend to look like nails; if you spend your life studying racism and slavery, you’ll find it crop up in the most unlikely places. That’s why they warn med students not to get too excited when they think they’re developing the symptoms of every new disease they study.

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And I might win the lottery.

You might not think it but Reuters used to be a news agency.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

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Except that the other Arab countries don’t want them either.

Would you?

The question answers itself.

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Records also show that Jessie Dotson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1994 and spent 14 years in prison. He was released from prison in January.

It always astonishes me that opponents of the death penalty can sleep at nights.

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Things you don’t even need to read it to know:

1. He’s got a book coming out.
2. He wouldn’t have gotten any mention at all if he were supporting what he’s now condemning.

There are some situations for which the word “meretricious” is clearly appropriate.

Also the word “whore”.

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Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.

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Well, yeah. All they read in the papers and see on TV is how shitty the economy is getting. Cry wolf long enough and people start barring the door.

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Takeaway bite:  “For months, teams of journalists and academic researchers dug into the workings of all 50 states and graded them….” Can you think of a more chattering-class mentally-masturbatory proceeding?

Were they using corporate CEOs or Army generals — you know, people who actually have to do this crap day-to-day — it would be impressive. As it is, it is merely sad.

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Hillary just can’t win for losing.

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One in the eye for John McCain.

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Europeans are discovering what Republicans have always known: The foundation of the modern Democratic platform is to sacrifice any possible foreign policy interest, ours or any ally’s, for the sake of gaining and keeping domestic political power.

Thanks, guys.

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This is such a classic example of east-coast Brahmin thumb-sucker “journalism” that it ought to go under glass at the National Bureau of Standards. When AlGore writes down his dreams for his shrink, this is the sort of thing he would write.

Lest anyone think that I’m harshing the mellow of a Real Farmer, the author is identified at the bottom of the piece.

The writer is a food and society policy fellow and director of Appalachian Sustainable Development.

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This activation sucks dead bunnies.

And there you have it.

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An excellent question, to which I have yet heard no good answer.

To quote my old boss in the ’76 Reagan campaign, Larry Uzzell: “The next four years are going to be a disaster, and we’d rather they were a Democrat disaster than a Republican disaster.” And Jimmy Carter stepped up to the plate and provided us with one — and gave us Reagan.

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The Washington Post begins by assuming what it ought to be proving, and it goes downhill from there.

 THE ABSENCE of competitive congressional districts takes a toll on the political process.

Why? They never say.They just state it as if it were a law of nature. But it’s exactly wrong.

What is the purpose of a representative in a representative democracy? Is it not to represent the interests of his (or her) constituents? Of course it is.

Consider this: Is a Congressional district tailored in such a way that the vast majority of its population likes and will vote for the incumbent more or less representative than one in which the incumbent barely squeaks by (and thus can be said to truly represent only half-plus-a-smidge of the people in his district)? I suggest that it is.

An election is not a basketball game, in which it is more exciting when one side wins about half the time and the other side the rest. The goal of an election is to put the candidate in who best represents the majority of the people in the district. An ideal election would have the candidate (in a free and fair election) winning 100% of the vote, thereby signifying that every voter in the district preferred him to his opponent. And yet the Post and the other members of the chattering classes would react to such a result with horror.

Why? Because they haven’t any better notion of the objective of a representative democracy than a slug does. They just want a fight — prefereably a cliff-hanger — because it’s more interesting (and is a lot more fun for “journalists” to cover). And it sells more newspapers.

Think about that next time you hear the pot-thumpers complain about “uncompetitive” elections.

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A useful discussion of why the Democrats are wrong on foreign policy.

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It is not a pretty sight.

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And the sooner they realize it, the sooner they’ll get better at it, and we’ll all beneift.

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I wonder whether we could combine this with the paint-ball firing robot.