It’s long, and too much there to pick out a quote, but worth the read.
As I’ve noted before, Marxism is not a discipline, or even an ideology, really. It’s an attitude founded in envy and a grasping for power. Simply put, if you believe your judgment of someone else’s need to be superior to their own, and are willing to enforce it at the point of a gun, you are a Marxist. And that attitude describes a large majority of Democrats, and far too many Republicans.
A great piece on the general irrationality about them, and the history. I find most interesting (and new) the point that the main benefit of posting a speed limit was not to slow the fastest down, but to speed the slowest up. More people need to understand that it is not absolute speed that is dangerous, but relative speed. When I was young, in Michigan, before Nixon’s double-nickle stupidity, the freeway signs had both a maximum and a minimum: 70/45. That was back in the days when older cars weren’t as safe or reliable at higher speeds. Today, I’d make it more like 80/60.
I’m also glad that they (as I always do) pointed out what a problem a lack of lane discipline is. If they’d give tickets for hogging the left lane, instead of speeding, traffic would flow both more smoothly and more safely.
…is a misnomer. It’s more akin to the sacking of Rome by barbarians. There is nothing civilized about Islamists.
[Update a few minutes later]
Wrong link before, but fixed now, sorry.
…one block at a time, through crowdsourcing.
A dozen things you probably didn’t know about it. Note the comment about weightless gestation and birth.
Probably safe for work, but you might want to avoid if you’re pregnant.
Judith Curry, on a neglected field.
…but I’m afraid I’ll be oppressing women.
Heh. Heather strikes again.
A lot fewer than you’d think from watching teevee.
Remember when Romney made Obama look dangerously foolish?
Unfortunately, as Glenn says, the real problem is the dangerous foolishness of the low-infos who elected and re-elected him.
Don’t feel sorry for him. He’s obsessive and dangerous.
Yup.