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The Month Of The Natural Disaster
May ’08 has been a pretty rough month for the planet and its inhabitants, what with the volcanoes and tornadoes and cyclones and earthquakes, <VOICE=”Professor Frink>and the drowning and the crushing and the evacuating and the staaaaarving, glavin</VOICE>.
Jeff Masters has a roundup and some history, and some inside info on why the death toll in the country formerly known as Burma was so high.
Too Much Time On Their Hands
A blog devoted to things younger than John McCain.
[Via Geek Press]
Some Graduation Advice
From P. J. O’Rourke:
Don’t moan. I’m not going to “pass the wisdom of one generation down to the next.” I’m a member of the 1960s generation. We didn’t have any wisdom.
We were the moron generation. We were the generation that believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change everything — which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for the sex.
My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth’s resources of the weird. Weird clothes — we wore them. Weird beards — we grew them. Weird words and phrases — we said them. So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act weird, all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your tongues. Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize.
So now, it’s my job to give you advice. But I’m thinking: You’re finishing 16 years of education, and you’ve heard all the conventional good advice you can stand. So, let me offer some relief.
Read on. Some of it actually is good advice.
Some Questions For John McCain
From George Will:
You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will be beneficial because “then all we’ve done is give our kids a cleaner world.” But what of the trillions of dollars those measures will cost in direct expenditures and diminished economic growth–hence diminished medical research, cultural investment, etc.? Given that Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know?
You propose a “cap and trade” system to limit the carbon dioxide that many companies can emit. Is not your idea an energy- rationing proposal akin to Bill Clinton’s BTU tax?
He has more, not related to climate change.
The Difference Between Harvard And A Hedge Fund
Not much, apparently.
It really does make it hard to justify their tuition. They should be giving out, and paying for a lot more scholarships.
The Buck Stops…
I guess you just can’t get good help these days.
It’s a little frightening to think what his cabinet would look like.
Cocooned
Boy, if I held the cartoon views of conservatives and libertarians held by some of the folks commenting at this post, I’d be unable to call myself a libertarian, and I would look with new eyes at my (apparently) evil conservative friends whose first thought in getting out of bed in the morning (if not upon awakening) is “how do I screw the poor today?”
But fortunately, I get out occasionally.
A New Campaign Slogan
“Obama: Not As Elitist As John Kerry”
No Revolution This Year
Glenn Reynolds has a review of Ron Paul’s book