Christopher Hitchens isn’t very impressed with the New York Times theater critic’s latest blast at George Bush:
Now, “truthiness” is a laugh-word invented by Steven Colbert who (along with his friend Jon Stewart and the other heroes of Comedy Central) is the beau ideal of what Rich considers to be the ironic. In this book and in his regular column, he gives “truthiness” a workout whenever he can. He clearly wishes he had coined it himself, and he has kept it going for perhaps a touch longer
Clark Lindsey has updated his Commercial Space Timeline for 2007.
I mean, they are two digit numbers.
Like Instapundit, I’m unsurprised. The friends of those promoting global warming often do their cause little good.
Iain Murray comments on the latest IPCC summary:
…gone from the Summary is the icon of the Third Assessment Report
Matinee
Reason number 5,352 why Hillary probably is unelectable:
“I also want to send a message, if we ever do have to take more drastic action, to the rest of the world that we exhausted all possibilities,” said Clinton, who earlier rapped President Bush for refusing to engage Tehran.
Clinton’s remarks at the Marriott Marquis were met with little applause , and after she left the stage, several people said they were put off by the presidential candidate.
“This is the wrong crowd to do that with,” said one person at the dinner, noting the pro-Israel crowd wanted to hear tougher rhetoric.
Just to the north of me. Apparently several people were killed by tornadoes early this morning up in central Florida, and now there are tornado warnings for Titusville and the Cape. While it’s unlikely, if a twister were to hit the VAB, it could be a disaster for NASA. Of course, a hurricane is a much larger threat, due to the more comprehensive nature of it, but it’s certainly possible (and would be extremely bad luck) to get hit by a tornado.
Jane Galt wonders why she prays to a being in whom she doesn’t believe (and let me extend my best wishes, though not prayers, for the health of her dog). As I’ve noted before, I’ve never done this, or had an urge to, but perhaps I’ve never been under sufficient duress. On the other hand, I’ve heard that, in fact, there are atheists in foxholes.
It’s been…nice.
This is why I’ve never been a Republican.
Arnold Kling (with whom, among many others, I talked last weekend at the Conservative Summit) has an interesting post, though I’m not sure I agree with the taxonomy. I’ve never thought of myself as a conservative, and still don’t, really, but I agree with most of the principles he lays out in what he calls an Ideological Affirmation Task Force Request for Comment, or IATF RFC.
[Update]
OK, for the clueless commenters who insist not only that I’m a conservative, but (even more foolishly and laughably, as though they can read the minds of the masses) that everyone agrees that I am, with the exception of me, I’m sure that they can confidently tell me my positions on:
In other words, people who mindlessly call me a conservative, or “right winger” cherry-pick their litmus paper types to only judge me on the issues that they choose to, in order to declare my “obvious” conservatism. That’s why I have zero respect for their opinions in such matters.