Thanks to whoever bought new struts for their car, and the Wii stuff (and others) through my Amazon link. Every little bit of income helps these days.
Nobel-Prize Winning Novels
Will they change public attitudes on global warming?
I predict no. I suspect that most people who read that kind of thing are have already drunk the koolaid. This is lunacy, really:
“A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which tells the story of people connected by the music business, bounces back and forth over time. When it flashes forward two decades, it shows a world that has been altered by climate change. Trees bloom in January. A February day hits 89 degrees.
No one is predicting those kinds of changes that fast. All this does is destroy their credibility.
Though it would be nice to get people reading this book
Didn’t They Make Some Movies About This?
Robots evolve to protect their own.
And so it begins. And wasn’t Skynet supposed to be activated a couple weeks ago?
The Latest From The Loony Bin
Yeah, let’s let these nutbags have nukes:
Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being “magicians” and invoking djinns (spirits).
Ahmadinejad may be a short timer, but it’s unlikely he’ll be replaced by anyone sane.
Hey, Mr. “Most Transparent Administration In History”
How about releasing the order to take out bin Laden?
If it exists, that is.
Also, a tale of two speeches — one from a narcissist, one from…something else.
Lanny Friedlander
RIP. Like other Reason devotees, I had never met him or even heard of him, though I’m sure that my friend Bob Poole, who took over from him, must have known him. As Virginia Postrel notes over at Facebook, this is probably the most coverage that the New York Times has ever given Reason magazine.
Who We’re Really At War With
It’s always been the ISI. Letting Pakistan get nukes was a strategic blunder of the first order.
[Update early afternoon]
Mark Steyn: The wages of weakness.
It’s futile to be fighitng in Afghanistan when our enemies there are merely puppets of the real problem across the border.
Bin Laden’s Impenetrable Network
…was penetrated.
It’s good to know that, amidst the TSA follies and other stupidities of the past decade, some people in the government were doing some things right.
Paradise Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Zarkawi has a new roommate. Iowahawk has the lurid (and profane) details. I need a category for really dark humor.
Lara Logan
…and the Muslim rape culture. This is a very politically incorrect article.
And in related news, here comes the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This may be playing out as Israel’s nightmare.
[Update a while later]
Will the Muslim Brotherhood succeed where bin Laden failed? As Michael Totten writes, “The gradualists–not moderates, but gradualists–in the Brotherhood do have a greater chance of success. Unlike the vicious psychotics of Al Qaeda in Iraq, they won’t alienate their soft supporters until it’s too late.”