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Be the first on your block.

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In the Old Days, we called it “not paying attention” and it got you whacked.

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And chill out.

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“Progressives” have been unsuccessful at making poor people unpoor. They have been very successful, however, at more evenly distributing Underclass criminality.

While crime rates in large cities stayed flat, homicide rates in many midsize cities (with populations of between 500,000 and 1 million) began increasing, sometimes by as much as 20 percent a year.

Memphis demolished its first project in 1997. The city gave former residents federal “Section8” rent-subsidy vouchers and encouraged them to move out to new neighborhoods. Two more waves of demolition followed over the next nine years, dispersing tens of thousands of poor people into the wider metro community.

Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe (“He has a better imagination,” she said). Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.

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That would be amusing.

Yaakov ben Moshe points out that Hamas has a plan that very carefully games the “international community”.

Here is a chilling formulation of something you already know to be true.

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Rather like environmentalists, in their own way.

Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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No mention of whether polar bears found them annoying. Probably just as well.

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

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Now there’s a White People’s job if ever I saw one.

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“But that trick never works!”

Be the first on your block to get in on the ground floor of this historical political opportunity.

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Foreigners. They never disappoint.

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Megan McArdle explains it all to you.

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Like watching a snowman melt in the sun.

The art of bespoke tailoring began on Savile Row

Savile Row tailors lose fight to preserve the term ‘bespoke’

Savile Row tailor Richard Anderson: bespoke must mean bespoke

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This could be huge.

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This post grows out of a conversation I had recently with someone who deals regularly with graduate students. I was relating an exchange I’d had with an interviewer, a PhD economist, who’d asked me about my MBA. “Well, while I was getting it, I thought I knew everything,” I told him. “Sadly, that turned out not to be the case.”

The interviewer laughed. “Everyone thinks they know everything when they’re in graduate school.” He paused. “You’re lucky you got over it. A lot of people never do.”

To judge from the number of people who think that their PhD makes them an expert in, well, everything, he’s absolutely right.

Remember that next time you think that someone with an advanced degree is thereby entitled to some special deference. If they know more than you, then can demonstrated it; if they can’t demonstrate it, then they don’t know more than you.

And that goes double for people who try to pretend to expertise outside of the field of their training.

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An economist looks at gas prices. Apparently, it’s mostly the government’s fault.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Mexico has a justice system? Who knew?

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Basic political equation: Corruption = Democrat.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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I especially like the map.

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We could use those over here.

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At every step of her career, race has been central to her own identification and upward mobility. Judging from the quality of thinking and writing exhibited in her Princeton thesis, Michelle would not likely have been admitted to Princeton (and later Harvard Law) had she been white. And of course affirmative action opened up jobs, first in a prestigious law firm and later as the vice president of community affairs at the University of Chicago medical center-earning $300,000 a year.

In other words, everything she’s gotten in life has been because of her skin color rather than any personal merit.

In that she is the perfect partner for her husband, who wouldn’t even have been considered for the Democratic nomination, much less the Presidency, were it not for his skin color.

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This is where affirmative action gets you.

Just think: Vote for Barack Obama, and we could have this kind of fun in America.

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The council said it wanted the cottages to be the same colour because they used to be part of a single building.

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. In fact, if you belong to a Nazi Home Owner’s Association, it already has.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

My concern, since 2001, is that more gay men would be interested in getting married (i.e., in a theatrical ceremony) than in being married (i.e., sexual monogamy). We’re talking about some awfully flamboyant folks: Gay Pride parades could more honestly be renamed Gay Narcissism parades.

Tim Blair reveals the sordid truth about polar bears and journalists.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who know what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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And lots of people, through some sort of tragic congenital failure, actually enjoy gardening.

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The aliens have a sense of humor. “Hey, let’s have some fun with these guys.”

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“This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.

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Much the best thing I have ever heard about Barack Obama.

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Talk about hard time….

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Arnold Kling is always worth reading.

Megan McArdle explains it all to you.

Correlations are, at best, suggestive. They are not by themselves evidence–nay, not even if you cross your arms, scowl at your opponent, and say “Well, then give me another explanation for this astonishing correlation!” Until you’ve got something better than a simple correlation, the burden of proof remains upon you.

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Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Apparently any labs doing the tests need to get both state and federal certification and can only do tests based on a physician’s recommendation.

Because it’s California, of course, where it’s legal to buy and use a controlled substance like marijuana but illegal to take a peek at your own genetic makeup.

Statism is on the march on the Left Coast.

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Monica Davey reports that, since January, a grand jury in Sedgwick County has been meeting to investigate whether the clinic belonging to Dr. George Tiller (pictured), Women’s Health Care Services, has illegally performed second- and third-trimester abortions. Their deliberations are scheduled to end next month.

Democracy. What a concept.

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Of course, the way I get around that is by not watching television. Just sayin’.

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Funny how socialists turn out to be the worst money-grubbers of them all.