Sorry for the light posting, but I’m deeply immersed in a proposal, and won’t come up for air until later this week.

Have a happy and safe celebration, and a great anno nuevo.

Here’s a good (posthumous) article about an unsung hero in modern military high-tech tactics and strategy–John Boyd.

This is beyond stupid.

An entire terminal at San Jose International airport was evacuated because a man was found there without a ticket.

Seems appropriate somehow. The article neglects to mention that the full name of that airport (named for its former local congressman) is the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.

China just launched the fourth test flight in the Shenzhou series.

They claim success, and it’s one more milestone toward their stated goal of establishing a manned space program. I don’t find it of any concern, and actually wish them well, considering that they’re operating in the old paradigm. It will be a program for prestige only (as ours mostly is), not one that will make any great strides in space.

I’ve heard of black panthers, and white tigers, but never a black tiger.

Al Franken (to paraphrase his (in)famous book, I say that “Al Franken Is A Buck-Toothed Moron”) was a member of the roundtable on “This Week” this morning (another sign of its continuing deterioration). As Instapundit notes, one of his comments was that: “We live in an America where the number one rapper is white, and the number one golfer is black.”

While I understand his point, and it makes for a nice soundbite, it’s not true, and it points up the absurdity of our continued national focus on race.

While Tiger may be more “black” than Trent Lott, he doesn’t consider himself to be so at all. As Radley Balko pointed out, one of the refreshing things about him is his refusal to play the race game. He’s not a black golfer, or even a black-asian golfer–he’s just a good golfer, probably the best in the world.

I look forward to the day when it’s no longer useful or interesting, to anyone, to hyphenate people based on their ancestry to make political commentary.

To borrow James Taranto’s catch-phrase. It seems that there was an Arab connection to the Chechen bombing.

I’m shocked, shocked.

To borrow James Taranto’s catch-phrase. It seems that there was an Arab connection to the Chechen bombing.

I’m shocked, shocked.

To borrow James Taranto’s catch-phrase. It seems that there was an Arab connection to the Chechen bombing.

I’m shocked, shocked.

The US embassy is withdrawing personnel from Venezuela. Expect the usual leftist suspects to again accuse us of fomenting a “coup” against an anti-democratic dictator.

No, not them. The ones out west.

The amusing thing is that the Canadian military is so ineffectual right now, that there’s nothing Ottawa could do about it, and it’s unlikely that they’d be able to raise an army to do so, given the prevailing attitudes. It could cause a cascade in which most or all of the western provinces break off.