I don’t know if this will help or hurt, but apparently, Rush Limbaugh said today that the only conservative on the stage last night was Fred Thompson.
First Airplane Made Out Of Lead?
Cessna is moving some of its production to China.
End The Circuses
Fred Thompson wants to have some serious debates. I doubt if anyone will take him up on it, though.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Mark Steyn is frustrated with Fred:
Every time I see a Fred policy plan, he seems to have by far the best ideas, and the necessary zeal for reform, on taxes, Social Security and much else. But every time you see him in these TV debates he has the listless air of a bored grandparent at a dreary school play.
…What’s the strategy here? Why does he have great ideas but no campaign?
Groundbreaking Research
This isn’t new, but I just ran across it. How hard is it to get laid via Craigslist?
It depends, and it’s about what you’d expect. And yes, men are pretty pathetic.
And no, I don’t think that these nerdy pickup lines will be very helpful, either.
Thoughts On Hatred
Similar to my own, from Joshua Zader:
As a libertarian-minded person, I
Progress Toward Biowarfare
Tim Oren has some worrisome thoughts.
And, unrelated, but from the same site, Joe Katzman says to short Google. They’re not tending to their knitting.
Thoughts On Objectivity
In both science, and journalism.
The notion that journalists are, or should be, or can be “objective” is perhaps the profession’s most fatal conceit. As Virginia Postrel says, what’s important is to be fair, something that they often don’t even attempt, as demonstrated by CNN and its performance in the debates.
Thoughts On Ron Paul
From Instapundit, about last night’s “debate”:
He’s just terrible, even when — which is often, once he’s off the subject of the war — I agree with him. His voice is too high, he can’t remember who the Kurds are, and he often comes off like a crazy old man in a bus station.
But that’s good news, in a way. Paul’s doing better than anyone expected. It’s abundantly clear that he’s not doing it on charisma and rhetorical skill. Which means that libertarian ideas are actually appealing, since Ron Paul isn’t. Paul’s flaws as a vessel for those ideas prove the ideas’ appeal. If they sell with him as the pitchman, they must be really resonating. I suspect Paul himself would agree with this analysis. Er, except maybe the bus station part.
I’m glad that someone else listens to this stuff, so I don’t have to.
Oh, and speaking of Ron Paul, check out the video over at Lileks’ place:
The likelihood of a candidate
“Puttering”
Apparently, I’m not doing enough of this:
“It was hard to believe at first,” said Marc Hamilton, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia and leader of the research team. He said the team didn’t expect to find a strong signal when they began researching what happens to fat when we remain seated. But the effect, both in laboratory animals and humans, turned out to be huge.
The solution, Hamilton said, is to stand up and “putter.”
Hey, but isn’t sex good, too?
Seriously, when I was at Rockwell (a decade and a half ago) I used to do a lot of MBWA (management by walking around). It was a big plant. These days, working from home, not so much. I’ve added an inch or two to my waist. I do stand a lot, schmoozing in the hallways, when I go to a conference, every couple months, but I also notice that it kills my back. I can walk for hours, but standing is miserable, at least at the end of the day.
What to do…?
“Puttering”
Apparently, I’m not doing enough of this:
“It was hard to believe at first,” said Marc Hamilton, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia and leader of the research team. He said the team didn’t expect to find a strong signal when they began researching what happens to fat when we remain seated. But the effect, both in laboratory animals and humans, turned out to be huge.
The solution, Hamilton said, is to stand up and “putter.”
Hey, but isn’t sex good, too?
Seriously, when I was at Rockwell (a decade and a half ago) I used to do a lot of MBWA (management by walking around). It was a big plant. These days, working from home, not so much. I’ve added an inch or two to my waist. I do stand a lot, schmoozing in the hallways, when I go to a conference, every couple months, but I also notice that it kills my back. I can walk for hours, but standing is miserable, at least at the end of the day.
What to do…?