Jonathan Last is shocked to discover that gun owners are not only human, but they’re, well…good people.
And I’m shocked to discover that the editor of the Weekly Standard on-line is shocked by this. This, to me, is simply evidence of how pervasive anti-gun hysteria is in our culture.
Jonathan Last is shocked to discover that gun owners are not only human, but they’re, well…good people.
And I’m shocked to discover that the editor of the Weekly Standard on-line is shocked by this. This, to me, is simply evidence of how pervasive anti-gun hysteria is in our culture.
And now for something completely different.
What would we do without the Internet?
This guy is collecting euphemisms for “penis.” He has quite a list.
Now, all we need is an equivalent collection from Down Under for vomiting (e.g., technicolor yawn, talking to the toilet, etc.).
[Thanks to Paul Hsieh at Geek Press, who has an amazing ability to dig up wild and wacky stuff like this.]
And now for something completely different.
What would we do without the Internet?
This guy is collecting euphemisms for “penis.” He has quite a list.
Now, all we need is an equivalent collection from Down Under for vomiting (e.g., technicolor yawn, talking to the toilet, etc.).
[Thanks to Paul Hsieh at Geek Press, who has an amazing ability to dig up wild and wacky stuff like this.]
And now for something completely different.
What would we do without the Internet?
This guy is collecting euphemisms for “penis.” He has quite a list.
Now, all we need is an equivalent collection from Down Under for vomiting (e.g., technicolor yawn, talking to the toilet, etc.).
[Thanks to Paul Hsieh at Geek Press, who has an amazing ability to dig up wild and wacky stuff like this.]
As he promised, Brink Lindsey has come quickly up to speed on the asteroid question. It’s a good survey of the problem with some good recommendations, and I appreciate his commendation of my knowledge, but there are many who both follow this issue, and are more knowledgeable about it than me. I’ve just been fortunate enough to have a venue (here and Fox News) to sound the trumpet. Now that Brink has taken up the cudgel, we can make some serious public-policy progress.
(And I don’t know whether or not I’m smarter than Jay Manifold or not, but again I appreciate the thought and I doubt that I know more about this particular issue than he does.)
He makes one other point.
One final thought: I think it’s interesting that the enviro’s haven’t gotten hold of this issue. They’re suckers for apocalyptic scenarios, and asteroid or comet impacts offer real and plausible threats of ecological catastrophe. So why aren’t the greens all over this? Their apathy would seem to be solid evidence for the proposition that the environmental movement is often motivated more by hostility to technology and markets than by love of nature. Because here’s a threat to nature that can’t be laid at the doorstep of capitalism, and that can only be addressed by more technology. As apocalypses go, this one’s no fun at all.
Well, actually, it’s not really a threat to nature, since it is nature. If you’re a Deep Eke, there’s no problem with a natural event wiping out species wholesale, befouling the air and water, devastating vast expanses of the planet–that’s, after all, by definition, natural.
It’s only evil, and a thing to be battled, when we do it.
Never mind that we’re a part of nature ourselves…
So that’s where he is. Apparently they’ve been harboring him in British Columbia.
A middle-eastern-looking man with a credit card in the name of “Osama bin Laden” used it to steal gasoline in Vancouver.
He was driving a Jag. No word as to whether or not Mullah Omar was with him, or if he was living in the car.
[Via Reason Express]
The renowned satirist, Iowahawk (aka David Burge) emails:
To honor Earth Day and Al Gore’s latest enviro-gibberish, I dusted off this moldy oldie for you…
Gore Attacked By Angry Muscle Cars
And he further threatens:
BTW, I’m gonna do the blog thing soon; more of an archive of old stuff like this. I’ll let you know when it’s up.
You don’t scare us, Burge.
You will be assimilated. We told you that resistance was futile.
They’re making a biopic about John McCain.
They’re talking up Ed Norton, Jr. for the lead role. My suggestion is in the title. What’s yours?
I’d heard budget rumors about this a few days ago, but now Space.com has a story on it. NASA is terminating the office that monitors space debris.
No, not asteroids–it’s things like tools, and payload shrouds, and loose screws, and flaked-off paint, and the results of the occasional satellite explosion. This is a very real problem–as the article points out, we often have to change out windows or thermal-protection tiles in the Shuttle Orbiters because of strikes from these things–at differential velocities of thousands of miles an hour, a paint chip is like a bullet.
They may restore funding, and I wouldn’t be shocked if this turns out to be a “Washington Monument” threat (you, know, like when the government is threatened with a budget cut, they pull out some popular thing that they’ll threaten to cut, to fend off any cuts at all). It might be just part of the overall agency posturing to defend as much of their budget as possible, by threatening cuts in vital programs (while ignoring internal pork and hobby shops).
We’ll just have to see how it all plays out.
There’s an eminently sensible (and timely, considering the recent anti-globo funfest in DC) column in today’s Times of London by Mick Hume (presumably not closely related to either David or Brit) on the reflexive anti-Israeli posture in much of the west.
Attacking the Israelis has become a way to vindicate any petty prejudice. It unites my German friend?s right-wing grandmother, who has waited 50 years for an excuse to criticise ?the Jews?, with left-wing protesters who imagine that the Palestinian struggle is on a par with them vandalising a burger bar.
Sympathy with the terrible plight of Jenin is no reason to endorse the anti-imperialism of idiots. Populist anti-Israeli rhetoric is cheap, but offers no solutions to the long-suffering peoples of the Middle East. And climbing on the backs of the victims to strike moralistic postures is just, as the diplomatic French might say, merde.
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
Now the headline is “Brutal, Yes. Massacre, No.”
“Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians… Shooting handcuffed prisoners… Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted…”
These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel’s recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by the British authorities to combat Palestinian Arab terrorism in Jenin and elsewhere in 1938.
That’s the fascinating beginning of an article in the Jerusalem Post, that describes how there are no new things under the sun.
All of this anti-semitism and Muslim rioting in France is taking a political toll. As reported in Le Figaro, there was an electoral shocker there yesterday. Chirac came in first, but Le Pen came in second, ahead of Jospin. There will be no socialists in the runoff. For those who are French-language challenged, here’s another version of the story in English.
It’s going to be a very interesting (and perhaps violent) run-off.
The always-dependable (when it comes to spouting imbecilities) Richard Reeves sends in a missive from whatever planet he inhabits–it’s clearly not this one. The basic theme is that Mr. Bush is not up to the job, and that he will therefore be a one-termer.
It’s so full of chocolaty stupidity, I hate to excerpt it, but I will anyway. Fortunately, it’s short. His talent (as it were) is such that he manages to pack a whole universe of idiocy in a very brief bit of mental flatulence.
This was a day in the life of the president of the United States, Thursday, April 18, 2002:
Well, it seems to me that things have been a lot more peaceful over there in the past couple weeks. At least no more Israeli bat mitzvahs have been interrupted by murderers disassembling themselves.
No, he’s only given to flamboyent language when the subject is Israel. When it comes to Arafat, and his bomb factories, and his exhortations to murder, and his booby-trapped refugee camps, and his unending lies, and his general violation of every single tenet of the Oslo agreement for which he won his Norwegian peace prize, our Norwegian friend seems to have lost his tongue.
Yes, Richard. This is war. And even if weren’t, people are often killed in training (typically a couple dozen per year in each service, I believe). It is tragic, but these are real weapons, with real explosives, and sometimes things happen. It’s not a good day for a President when they do, but it’s certainly not a challenge to his presidency.
Incompetent? He seems to be pretty competent at retaining power, like most thugs. And I didn’t hear Mr. Bush say any such thing, but then, as I say, Mr. Reeves lives on a different plane of existence.
From there he drifts off into total incoherence and irrelevance. And when I get to the end, I still don’t know why Bush will only serve one term.
Leftist Robert Kuttner is concerned that his side is losing. He should be.
He still holds out hope (based on an extremely flawed analysis) that the trend can be reversed.
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And Their Knuckles Didn’t Even Drag That Much
by Rand Simberg on April 23, 2002 at 7:51 amJonathan Last is shocked to discover that gun owners are not only human, but they’re, well…good people.
And I’m shocked to discover that the editor of the Weekly Standard on-line is shocked by this. This, to me, is simply evidence of how pervasive anti-gun hysteria is in our culture.