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Yet Another Promise Broken.

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Gotta love Australians.

Jacob Sullum at Reason weighs in.

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Might even be purple. You never know.

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And about time, too. Bet they wish this could have worked 200 years ago.

Alvin Delisle is Mohawk. Pauline Labelle is not. They have spent a decade together, but are being forced to separate as their leaders have ordered all non-aboriginals off their lands in eastern Canada.

Cry me a river. They are not, of course, ‘forced to separate’; he could always move to wherever she’s going. Apparently his commitment is pretty shallow.

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The most effective way of preventing terrorist attacks, of course, is to prevent Muslims from getting on planes. This would appear to be an effective and politically acceptable method.

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A newlywed couple spent their wedding night in separate Cape Cod jail cells after the bride was arrested for trying to run over an old girlfriend of the groom, police said.

Well. There’s Massachusetts for you.

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The New York Times finally arrives at the party.

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Slate likes public schools. Of course, if parents didn’t have to pay for CRAP (Communist Re-education And Programming) public schools, they could afford to send their kids to private schools.

Jerry Pournelle is outraged.

I remember growing up in a land in which it was presumed that people were free to do things, and there were not silly laws about how much grass you must have on it. We don’t seem to live there any longer.

There are people in this world who want to control others. They tend to become public employees. Once they have some authority they want to go justify their pay, so they find things to enforce like an ordinance that says you have to have 40% green coverage on your lawn. This one actually got the householder to court, where he had to plead not guilty. Once this became public the silliness stopped, but who is going to pay for it all? And why is this redundant employee still being paid?

Darwin Award.

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Bryan CaplanIf we were starting from scratch, I agree that it would be great to scrap both “capitalism” and “socialism.”  Etymologically, capitalism does sound like a system of rule by capitalists for capitalists – and socialism sounds like a system of rule by society for society.  Since neither etymological suggestion is true, I wish the terms had never been coined.

As Sheldon admits in his talk, however, changing words is like changing currencies.  If they’re already widely accepted, you need a really good reason to abandon them.  Awkward etymology notwithstanding, I think the concepts of capitalism and socialism are good enough to keep using.
picks a nit or two.

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Imagine the ignominy.

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Hey, this is a serious issue.

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Well. There it is.

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Gotta love Australians.

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In this history of a single body of water, one sees a perfect example of the so-called Islamic Paradox that dates from the seventh century. For although the Prophet Muhammad took great pains to underscore the equality of all believers regardless of ethnicity, categorically forbidding any fighting among the believers, his precepts have been constantly and blatantly violated.

Under my theory this is perfectly predictable. Satan-inspired activities always have a high degree of internal friction and bickering. As the crime boss in Harlem Nights said, “How can you trust anybody in this organization? They’re all criminals.”

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The Danish machine called the SANOVO 6-32, aka the long egg machine, was first created in 1974 to produce “egg pieces approximately 20 centimeters long with a regular center of yolk surrounded by egg white of an even thickness.”

My, doesn’t that sound yummy. Think about it the next time you see, in a salad, what appear to be slices of hard-boiled egg.

The Other McCain weighs in on Frank Rich.

Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted.

Jeremy Wagstaff does some deep thinking.

We watch, read, scan and listen to news sources not only to discover information, but to discover, or confirm, the absence of information: the absence of news. Non-news.

We need to know, in other words, what isn’t happening because that way we can be sure that we’re safe. That we’re not about to be swallowed up by a tsunami, or a rate cut, or a virus.

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Demonstrating how Hollywood writers aren’t reticent about inserting gratuitous political points into prime time dramas, on last Sunday night’s (February 21) episode of ABC’s Brothers and Sisters, “Nora Walker,” played by liberal actress Sally Field, walked into her kitchen during a kick-off party for her daughter’s Republican senatorial campaign, and complained to another daughter, a son and his husband: “I can’t believe the three of you are in here drinking while the GOP is out there denying global warming.”

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The fundamental difference between the sexes.

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It doesn’t, and never has. The Navy and Marines show how air forces can be integrated into a traditional service to great effect. Having a separate air force just adds coordination problems between air power and surface power.

Since its founding, the Air Force has existed primarily to support its daring and chivalrous fighter and bomber pilots. Even as they are being displaced by new technology, these traditional pilots are fighting to retain control over the Air Force and its culture and traditions.

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How do I get a job like that?

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.