Political Commentary

What A Maroon

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I think that if you look in the dictionary under “sanctimonious twit,” you’ll see a picture of this guy. I found the link in comments at this post which describes the sad state to which the Harvard Law Review has fallen (at least, I’m assuming that it was once much better).

Boy, as a commenter said, I’m sure glad that people associated with it don’t go into politics…

[Update a few minutes later]

Geez. He’s continuing to defend the stupid essay on a blog dedicated to the subject.

As someone else at Volokh’s place said, why does he have both kidneys? He’s guilty of murder because he hasn’t donated one.

Business, Economics, Technology and Society

Revenge Of The Jedi

The browser wars return.

This particularly caught my eye:

Firefox 3.0, for example, runs more than twice as fast as the previous version while using less memory, Mozilla says.

The browser is also smarter and maintains three months of a user’s browsing history to try to predict what site he or she may want to visit. Typing the word “football” into the browser, for example, quickly generates a list of all the sites visited with “football” in the name or description.

Firefox has named this new tool the “awesome bar” and says it could replace the need for people to maintain long and messy lists of bookmarks. It will also personalize the browser for an individual user.

“Sitting at somebody else’s computer and using their browser is going to become a very awkward experience,” said Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.

Sounds like a market opportunity to me. I have a few ideas about how to solve it.

General, History

Memorial Day

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I’ve been busy working on an article, and finishing the gutters (all done now except strapping the downspouts, because the straps I got are too short), so no posting today. But I did want to note the history of the holiday, for those unaware. Unlike Veteran’s Day, it’s not a day just for remembering war dead, but dead loved ones in general. I remember as a child that my grandmother would always go up to her home town of Beaverton, Michigan (sometimes stopping by on the way home from our cottage by Houghton Lake) to put flowers on her husband’s (my grandfather, who died when I was six) grave.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

I’d Buy One

I think that a bumper sticker that said “I’D RATHER HAVE BUSH’S THIRD TERM THAN JIMMY CARTER’S SECOND” would be a hot seller, assuming that Obama is the nominee. Note, contrary to convention wisdom, I still don’t assume that. There’s this little thing called a “convention” coming up that will determine that.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

I’d Buy One

I think that a bumper sticker that said “I’D RATHER HAVE BUSH’S THIRD TERM THAN JIMMY CARTER’S SECOND” would be a hot seller, assuming that Obama is the nominee. Note, contrary to convention wisdom, I still don’t assume that. There’s this little thing called a “convention” coming up that will determine that.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

I’d Buy One

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I think that a bumper sticker that said “I’D RATHER HAVE BUSH’S THIRD TERM THAN JIMMY CARTER’S SECOND” would be a hot seller, assuming that Obama is the nominee. Note, contrary to convention wisdom, I still don’t assume that. There’s this little thing called a “convention” coming up that will determine that.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

“The Sun Sets”

…finally, on the British Empire.

Strange to witness one of the oldest and most successful of nations commit suicide without even being aware of what it’s doing.

Strange indeed. And very sad.

[Update, a few minutes later]

You know, if the Saudis wanted to spend their money building Muslim hospitals in the UK (just as the Catholics have their own hospitals in the US), complete with restrictions as to how much hygiene is required on the part of the nursing staff, per sharia law, who could object to them orienting the beds in whatever direction they wished? The only people who would suffer would be the Muslims stupid enough to use their services.

But instead, because Britain, with its NHS (and other programs) has become a welfare state, it’s a lot cheaper for them to spend the money bribing MPs to institute such nonsense in the public hospitals, so they can save their money for funding madrassas that encourage people to bomb the Tube.

This would seem to have parallels to the public school system, and the battles over what kind of “science” to teach in science classes. It is an intrinsic pitfall of state-supplied health and education. Not to mention other vital needs.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

“The Sun Sets”

…finally, on the British Empire.

Strange to witness one of the oldest and most successful of nations commit suicide without even being aware of what it’s doing.

Strange indeed. And very sad.

[Update, a few minutes later]

You know, if the Saudis wanted to spend their money building Muslim hospitals in the UK (just as the Catholics have their own hospitals in the US), complete with restrictions as to how much hygiene is required on the part of the nursing staff, per sharia law, who could object to them orienting the beds in whatever direction they wished? The only people who would suffer would be the Muslims stupid enough to use their services.

But instead, because Britain, with its NHS (and other programs) has become a welfare state, it’s a lot cheaper for them to spend the money bribing MPs to institute such nonsense in the public hospitals, so they can save their money for funding madrassas that encourage people to bomb the Tube.

This would seem to have parallels to the public school system, and the battles over what kind of “science” to teach in science classes. It is an intrinsic pitfall of state-supplied health and education. Not to mention other vital needs.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

“The Sun Sets”

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…finally, on the British Empire.

Strange to witness one of the oldest and most successful of nations commit suicide without even being aware of what it’s doing.

Strange indeed. And very sad.

[Update, a few minutes later]

You know, if the Saudis wanted to spend their money building Muslim hospitals in the UK (just as the Catholics have their own hospitals in the US), complete with restrictions as to how much hygiene is required on the part of the nursing staff, per sharia law, who could object to them orienting the beds in whatever direction they wished? The only people who would suffer would be the Muslims stupid enough to use their services.

But instead, because Britain, with its NHS (and other programs) has become a welfare state, it’s a lot cheaper for them to spend the money bribing MPs to institute such nonsense in the public hospitals, so they can save their money for funding madrassas that encourage people to bomb the Tube.

This would seem to have parallels to the public school system, and the battles over what kind of “science” to teach in science classes. It is an intrinsic pitfall of state-supplied health and education. Not to mention other vital needs.

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