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If, indeed, you ever knew it in the first place.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase “more money than sense”, doesn’t it?

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But that’s not the weird part.

In September Damien Hirst’s tiger shark in a tank, called The Kingdom, sold for £9,561,250 at Sotheby’s.

Which would you rather have?

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I often read about and hear about how designers must have the courage to speak truth to power and how political dissent is one pillar of patriotism. These are tenets I firmly believe in, by the way. But I also find laughable the way many designers think they’re speaking truth to power by creating or showcasing design examples of Leftist political dissent, in books, in magazines, and on personal websites and blogs. I’m struck by the vacuity of how anyone in the design community can believe it takes courage to do these things when there is zero chance of suffering any negative consequences for doing so.

Hey, only rubes believe that “speak truth to power” stuff.

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Well, that’s Communism for you.

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No doubt the hard-core cases will get the Comfy Chair.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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There is still some common sense left in Britain. Pity it isn’t more widespread.

The cause of the recession is easy to identify. Too many people borrowed too much money or, if you prefer, the banks lent too much money to people who could not afford to repay it. Eventually chickens came home to roost and the excess credit now has to be squeezed from the economy. Since the excess credit has been buying goods and services for years it is inevitable that reducing that credit bubble will cause fewer purchases and a downturn in the economy. Very simple. But why did banks lend too much to too many?

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Would we be eating Tyrolian-style pizza?

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Hey, let’s regress to the Democrat political machines of a hundred years ago. Yeah, that’s change you can believe in.

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What’s not to like?

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Bureaucracy — straining at gnats and swallowing camels since before recorded time.

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It’s not your grandfather’s Britain.

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The Ministry of Truth is alive in well in Britain — just as George Orwell predicted.

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That means that Bush was always Dick Nixon in a Clever Plastic Disguise. With results as you seen them.

This is what happens when the only choice you have is the lesser of two evils — you get evil guaranteed, just not so much as with the other guy.

And that makes this election especially depressing, because there’s no hope for the future; even if McCain wins, the next four to eight years are going to be shitty, unless John McCain has more “surprise” in him than I’ve seen any evidence for — and most of the “surprise” in McCain has been of the unpleasant variety.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, is hard core.

Hey, if it worked for Alexander and the Romans, it works for me. I only wish we had the guts to do it ourselves, as our fathers did over Germany and Japan, instead of bribing corrupt third-world gangsters with armies of illiterate peasant boys to do it for us while we strike moral poses and swoon in admiration of our own high-mindedness.

He hears from those who repent of their foolishness in attempting to work in the private sector:

What a fool I was. It was all a vast waste of time. Time that could have been better spent building up pension credits, leading to an even more munificent lifestyle!!!! Oh, it was fun while it lasted but, seriously, I should have been a mailman out of high school!! Like yourself, I have advised my grandchildren accordingly.

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

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A new EU naval task force will be unable to take tough action against Somali pirates because it must respect their human rights, its commander has admitted.

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God gave us the TSA because the Post Office quit being a sufficiently bad example.

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Didn’t work with cats, though.

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Romsey has the only productive fields for miles around in the once-fertile Makonde South district, 90 miles north of Harare. Now it is under threat from a local strongman, Chief Nemakonde, a strong supporter of Mr Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party, whose land grab is being supported by local government officials. He has already taken over five formerly white-owned farms in the district, all of which are derelict after his efforts at planting failed.

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 knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Presumably so people can go by and thank them for speaking truth to power.

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Let’s see, which legislators does the WASHINGTON POST think might be crooks: 8 Republicans, 1 Democrat.

Bias? What bias?

The Hog is relaxed.

When a government decides to take wealth from productive people and pass it around, it has to give itself new, unnatural powers in order to get the job done. It has to be able to locate wealth, and it has to be able to identify what it perceives as need, and it has to decide who deserves the money it has forcibly confiscated from working people. A small, limited government can’t do those things. To get those things done, the government will have to diminish our privacy and our property rights, and it will have to employ a lot of bureaucrats to stick their nose in our business and decide who gets what. A socialist America (truly socialist, I mean) will be like Cuba or any other socialist state. There will be boards and agencies manned by cronies of the chief executive, and they will funnel loot and power to their buddies before thinking about the public good. That’s how socialism works. Jesse Jackson has a history of going to meet CEOs and saying, “We have to get rid of this meritocracy.” That is literally the way he says it; no paraphrasing. Under socialism, government bureaucrats by the tens of thousands will be paid to say the same thing, as policy. When merit no longer determines compensation, other measures have to be used. And that means empowering bureaucrats to decide what the measures are, and to do the measuring. That’s the Obama plan.

The basic truth about modern American politics. Print that out on a piece of paper and tape it to the mirror you look into every morning.

When it comes to giving, observant Jews and Bible-believing Christians typically START at ten percent; that’s a baseline. And they make up a big portion of the “selfish” hordes that support John McCain. Obama doesn’t begin to measure up. Joe Biden is also incredibly stingy in this regard. So was Gore. So was Clinton. Then there’s Dick Cheney, who gives a colossal, multimillion-dollar portion of his income to charity. Bad, evil Dick Cheney. Giving more per month than the Obamas, Bidens, Clintons, and Gores do, combined, in a decade. Once again, I have to ask: isn’t he supposed to be greedy and full of hate? If he is, how come Al Gore’s giving amounts to a tiny fraction of one percent of Cheney’s? Pope Prius I is not living up to expectations.

The basic truth about modern American culture. Remember that one, too.

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What White Person hasn’t worried about protecting that all-important wine collection from the hazards of living on the Left Coast? Well, fret no more — WIRED is on the case.

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Reminder: Government is the problem, not the solution.

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“Deception research” sounds very much like an academic field just crying out for a grant proposal.

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Not only is this terrifically funny, but I’m fully prepared to believe that Tiger Woods can walk on water to hit a golf ball. He’s just that good.

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