I suspect that the phrase is an oxymoron, sort of like “French victory.” Anyway, if anyone would know how economically crazy the French are, it would be Veronique.
[Wednesday afternoon update]
I’m shutting down comments on this post, because it seems to have become a spam magnet.
This is a great ad for Murtha’s district.
Mark Steyn, on the decline of democracy in the UK:
So much for those Yank-style televised leaders’ debates only a couple weeks back. Instead, Britain will end up with a leader who didn’t participate in the leaders’ debates, presiding over a coalition that wasn’t on the ballot, implementing a platform no party ran on, yet committed to transformative electoral reform for which there is no mandate.
But other than that, it’s a great plan, and system.
[Update a few minutes later]
Five reasons a Labour/Liberal government will collapse.
[Update a few minutes later]
Looks like the deal has already fallen apart, and Cameron will be the next PM.
A couple of people have emailed that he died.
Sorry for his friends and family, but all I can do is shrug. I was never into his art, or fantasy in general.
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For those who do care, this is probably a useful site.
Alan Boyle has the latest.
I have some thoughts over at AOL News today on the political uncertainty of the human spaceflight program.
“Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”
[Via Ruth Waytz]
…but we finally got a Cold-War victory parade. Of course, the fight against fascism/socialism in general remains never ending. It’s a fight against human nature.
This is interesting. A seventeen-year-old girl who has the biological age of one year old. The question is, how does development relate to aging? What will happen to her in another forty or fifty years? It would be nice to not have to wait that long to discover the secret. And of course, it’s tough luck that she didn’t get stuck in a seventeen-year-old’s body.
…of the welfare state. When something can’t continue, eventually, it doesn’t. They’re running out of other peoples’ money.