Things are not as bad as they seem in the Middle East.
All posts by Rand Simberg
The Science Of Homosexuality
An interesting overview over at New York Magazine.
It’s long been obvious to me that homosexuals (and heterosexuals, as I am) are born, not made. What I did find interesting was the notion that women may not have an inherent sexual orientation, or at least one not as clearly delineated as that of men. It certainly jibes well with my own observations. But I’m skeptical that there’s no such thing as a male bi-sexual.
Losing The War
That’s what Newt Gingrich says that western leaders are doing.
I also notice that he’s now calling it by its proper name–World War IV, rather than World War III, which was the Cold War.
Quiet In The Tropics
Will it be a gentle hurricane season? Well, I obviously hope so. We’re almost a month into it, with just two minor storms, and it does look like things are going to stay calm for another month. But the peak of the season is still a couple months off, so I don’t think it’s safe to draw any conclusions yet.
Of course, I fearlessly predict that regardless of how many hurricanes there are–more, fewer, or the normal amount–some will attribute it to SUVs, and claim that it’s evidence for climate change.
Body Snatchers
An interesting (albeit slightly disgusting) article on parasites. And no, we’re not talking about trial lawyers.
Yawn
Socialism is inherently boring, which is why its main enthusiasts are
bores themselvespeople with high boredom thresholds, like professors and politicians.
Heh, indeed.
Now That’s Data Flow
It looks like Alan Boyle has been having a good time in France. Today he writes about the grid, at CERN.
Now That’s Data Flow
It looks like Alan Boyle has been having a good time in France. Today he writes about the grid, at CERN.
Now That’s Data Flow
It looks like Alan Boyle has been having a good time in France. Today he writes about the grid, at CERN.
“Rage Boy”
…and the cowed. Christopher Hitchens writes about the supine west:
This mental and moral capitulation has a bearing on the argument about Iraq, as well. We are incessantly told that the removal of the Saddam Hussein despotism has inflamed the world’s Muslims against us and made Iraq hospitable to terrorism, for all the world as if Baathism had not been pumping out jihadist rhetoric for the past decade (as it still does from Damascus, allied to Tehran). But how are we to know what will incite such rage? A caricature published in Copenhagen appears to do it. A crass remark from Josef Ratzinger (leader of an anti-war church) seems to have the same effect. A rumor from Guantanamo will convulse Peshawar, the Muslim press preaches that the Jews brought down the Twin Towers, and a single citation in a British honors list will cause the Iranian state-run press to repeat its claim that the British government