For Hezbollah. At least according to the editor of the Arab Times.
And don’t expect Israel to let up. Even much of the Israeli (formerly) anti-war left now understands that they are literally in a fight for their lives.
It’s A Quagmire!
For Hezbollah. At least according to the editor of the Arab Times.
And don’t expect Israel to let up. Even much of the Israeli (formerly) anti-war left now understands that they are literally in a fight for their lives.
It’s A Quagmire!
For Hezbollah. At least according to the editor of the Arab Times.
And don’t expect Israel to let up. Even much of the Israeli (formerly) anti-war left now understands that they are literally in a fight for their lives.
Conflict Of Interest?
Clark Lindsey has some thoughts on John Kavanagh’s thoughts about NASA’s potential conflict of interest in COTS/Constellation (at least as currently formulated). I might have some thoughts, too, but not today. Perhaps this weekend or next week, after I get home to Florida (where it now looks unlikely that we’ll get any severe weather soon).
Big Mac Versus Creamery
Jonah Goldberg has an interesting political theory about dairy states.
Two possible partial historic explanations (i.e. guesses) come to mind. First, the sorts of people who historically went into dairy production were Scandinavian socialist types while the people who went into meat production were Scotch-Irish cowboy types.
Two: Perhaps dairy regulation occurred a lot earlier than meat regulation. This generated a culture of state-intervention and therefore a politics to match (or vice versa). Dairy also seems to be more about small-farmers and lots of labor, making it more prone to Populist appeals, while meat is run by wealthy ranchers and rugged cowboy types who have a more leave-me-alone ideology.
There’s also a more metaphorical – i.e. b.s. – theory: dairy is nurturing. It’s about sustainability. Dairy farmers can afford to fall in love with their cows. Making cows into steak, handburger and wallets requires more tough-mindedness. Dairy is soft America. Meat is hard America. Or Something Like That.
Finally, Gender Equality
DeBeers won’t be happy to hear about this:
Diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace.
Works for me–I think that diamonds have been one of the biggest scams ever foisted on mankind. But how about an LCD?
The End Of Childhood
They only arrested them and threw them in jail? Why didn’t they simply hang them from the tree? After all, trees are much more important than children.
Bulls Eye?
Has anyone noticed that the leftist trolls who have been infesting the place recently haven’t had much to say about Lileks’ latest screed?
Space Fashion Update
Here’s a link to the show at Utube.
Delousing
Does anyone know if there’s way to get Moveable Type to display comments on a certain date, or some other script that would do that, and allow their deletion? Somehow I was hit with many hundreds of comment spams back on May 5th of this year, and they apparently came in so fast that MT didn’t even send me email notifications of them. I’ve been looking at old posts, and they’re infested with them. Furthermore, they aren’t even blacklistable–the URLs are nonsense strings of characters (what was that all about, other than pure vandalism?).
I’ve been going through and deleting them as I find them, but it would take a long time to look at every one of thousands of posts. It would be nice to just see comments that were posted on that date. I’m sure that it would be possible to write such a script, but I’m wondering if one exists.