…and maybe Americans, too.
[Update a few minutes later]
An offer you can refuse.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Set-Aside Boondoggle
How much longer can we afford this nonsense?
A One-Term President
Obama’s poll numbers aren’t looking very good. This was interesting:
Just one group has stuck with Obama through it all. In ’08, he won 58 percent of people with graduate degrees. Now, he’s at 59 percent. It appears that academic types will be with Obama always, but they’re not enough.
They, of course, will claim that this is evidence of how uneducated and stupid the populace is, to no longer recognize the brilliance of The One. I see it as evidence of the worthlessness of most graduate degrees, and much of academia. Let’s pop that bubble, so they can experience the economic disaster that the rest of us have, as a result of their collectivist policies.
It’s Black Friday
At Amazon
Shut Up And Bend Over
So sayeth newspaper editorial boards to America. I particularly like the advice that we should be protesting against the airlines add-on fees.
A Little Thanksgiving Cheer
…from Iowahawk. Though this seems more like a Middle-West negotiating breakthrough than a Middle-East one.
The Pilgrims
…and property rights. How our ancestors became prosperous.
Plus, three centuries of Thansgiving.
And here’s the recipe for my Thanksgiving dressing (probably too late for you to procure ingredients, though, sorry), which I’ll be making today. While watching the Lions embarrass themselves. Again.
[Friday morning update]
The lost lesson of Thanksgiving, from John Stossel.
Time To End The Education Bubble
Should we make college more expensive? I agree with Glenn’s reader. Ending subsidies would actually reduce costs, and focus academics on the people who should really be in college. But it’s going to be very hard to break the back of the politician/media/academia industrial complex. But if any time is one to do it, it’s one of fiscal austerity on the part of the government. If we can defund CPB/NPR, that would be an indication that it’s time to go after this.
I Want To Do Apollo Again
A typical conversation in the space blogosphere.
[Update late evening]
OK, I ended up just redoing it. Try it now.
[Late evening update]
I’ve uploaded a Youtube version.
Did Stalin Commit Genocide?
…and does it matter?
I think the answers are yes, and no. This artificial distinction between “genocide” and the mass murder on a grander scale by Stalin, Mao et al is just a means to distract from the fact that Hitler was not the worst man in history, and that his depredations were actually typical of the left.