My thoughts on the deficiency of public education (and education in general), over at PJM.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Hoist On Their Own Petard
The PC police are going after NPR. Delicious.
The Martingale Strategy Of The Left
It doesn’t work any better with social change than it does with games of chance. With leftism, the coin never comes up heads.
And David Solway writes that we shouldn’t rely on the children of the left to run our affairs.
Birds Of A Feather
Iowahawk has the transcript of the meeting between the “progressive” bloggers and the president. But remember, he’s a moderate!
It’s pretty funny (as would be expected).
Building Confidence In Climate Models
Thoughts on verification and validation from Judith Curry. With the usual nonsense about “denialists” in comments.
Dispatch From Another Planet
On the fortieth anniversary of Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau provides an interview that inadvertently reveals why the strip hasn’t been worth reading for years:
Believe it or not, Obama’s very tough for business. The contradictory characterizations of him as fascist or socialist only serve to confirm the truth—he’s a raging moderate. And satirists don’t do well with moderates, especially thoughtful ones. In addition, Obama rarely makes gaffes and has no salient physical or temperamental features. And sinking popularity isn’t a critique. Even SNL’s main rap on him is his unflappability, hardly a vice in a world leader.
Even ignoring the absurdity that being a fascist and being a socialist are contradictory, where to begin? “Rarely makes gaffes”? Is he kidding?
British Career Women
There is something very strange going on here. I think that it’s probably a result of the increasing secularization of British (and European) society, in which the traditional religions have made themselves increasingly irrelevant.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mohammed (in its various spellings) is now the most popular boy’s name in Britain.
Uh oh.
Misnomer
Is there a more inappropriately named woman in the world than Joy Behar?
This Doesn’t Surprise Me At All
If the whole Senate were up for grabs, the Republicans would have a filibuster-proof majority. I can even imagine a veto-proof one. But that’s not how the Senate works. Flushing the rest of the turds will have to wait another two and then four years. And of course, a lot can change in two and four years.
Bear Stearnes Economics
It sure isn’t Keynesian. That restraining order can’t come soon enough.