Some thoughts on the shameful trial of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
The Bees
Sometime over the past few months or years, our house in California had become a haven for honeybees. They found a tiny hole in the flashing of the roof, and set up shop inside a wall, just below the ceiling of the living room. They managed to find a small crack inside, so once a day or so one would find its way into the house, which was obviously a problem for the tenants.
I got one ridiculous quote of nineteen hundred bucks (this included opening the wall, removing the bees, and restuccoing) to remove them, but I got separate quotes for bee removal and stucco replacement, which got the cost down to six hundred or so total. Anyway, the bees were removed today, and through the magic of the Internet and my tenant’s videocamera, you can watch.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, the video’s been taken down, at least temporarily. I think he wanted to reedit it. I’ll update if it gets uploaded again.
[Update about 8 PM Eastern]
OK, it’s back up and I’ve updated the links.
Drawing The Battle Lines
This will be the first major battle that the administration will face, and the opponents are mobilizing: No Stimulus.
Virus Alert
This thing looks pretty nasty. Make sure your Windows machines are patched.
Here Comes Socialism
Some cheery thoughts from Dick Morris.
Geez Louise, we had an awful choice in November.
Not Just A Theory
Here’s a useful web site for those people who claim that evolution is “only a theory,” an argument that’s so ignorant that it’s not even wrong.
Freedom Politics
A new web site. Can’t have too many web sites on this topic.
New Link Category
I’ve created a category called “Inadvertent Comic Relief.” It will contain links to sites that are serious, but hilariously and relentlessly stupid. The honor of the first link goes to perennial anti-military-space loon Bruce Gagnon. As an example, here he expresses his frustration that the Obama administration is going to do nothing to prevent those evil Anglospherians from colonizing the moon and terrorizing the moon people:
In Obama’s opening words he talked about the early vision of our “founding fathers”. He intends to remain loyal to the rich white men who dreamed of their own empire — one that would challenge England’s global power. An empire that would push the Native Americans from their land, ravage the Earth for its natural resources, and move overseas to terrorize and colonize people in Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Latin America, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and ultimately the moon in the sky.
End the madness.
[Update a few minutes later]
I’ve also added another of my favorite whacko conspiracy mongers — Elaine Supkis (who also happens to be L-5 Society founder Carolyn Meinel’s sister).
Ten Movie Cliches
..that should die. As they note in comments, he left out the Evil Corporation, and tired trope that businessmen are heartless monsters. I’ve written about the latter in the past.
Of course, if you got rid of all these cliches, Hollywood would pretty much be out of business.
And Heeeeeerrrre’s Barack
Is it just me, or did the announcer for the inauguration today sound more like Ed McMahon or a WWF announcer than a sober and somber master of ceremonies? The tone seemed quite inappropriate to the occasion, to my ear.