Is Windows Vista Microsoft’s New Coke?
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Secret Ballots
If anyone wonders why I refuse to call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party, here’s Exhibit A. And the name of the act (as is often the case in such things) is positively Orwellian.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Secret Ballots
If anyone wonders why I refuse to call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party, here’s Exhibit A. And the name of the act (as is often the case in such things) is positively Orwellian.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Secret Ballots
If anyone wonders why I refuse to call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party, here’s Exhibit A. And the name of the act (as is often the case in such things) is positively Orwellian.
Tower Of Babble
Is a space elevator a sign of the end times? Will it bring forth the anti-Christ?
I report, you decide.
[Via that well-known persecutor, Brian Dunbar]
Good News On The Culture Front
Is rap going the way of disco? We can only hope.
True Leadership
Thomas James, on scamming corporate executives with touchy-feely seminars.
The Top Five
Computing technologies that are hot for ’07.
Eighteen To One
That’s the ratio of potty words on “left,” as compared to “right” blogs. Based on my own reading of both kinds, it doesn’t shock me. I wonder if it says something about relative emotional maturity?
Doing Well By Doing Good
Gore’s hypocrisy is apparently even greater than we thought. Bill Hobbes explains.
And I agree with him (and Glenn Reynolds) that there are lots of non-GW reasons to reduce our use of fossil fuels. When the enviros get serious about this, and stop looking for excuses to abandon technologies, and run our lives through watermelon social-control schemes, there will be lots of solutions, including nuclear ones.
[Late-afternoon update]
Some interesting thoughts on Al Gore’s motives:
If he believed what he was saying on its own merits, then he would be behaving differently. Since his behavior and his rhetoric do not match, we learn something about him: that there is likely some other motivation for his policy preferences.
Those policy preferences – limit carbon, mandate the use of certain technologies, restrict land use, etc. – all seem to entail increasing governmental control over the economy. Mr. Gore