John Derbyshire, of all people, has an eloquent tribute to Bob Dylan. He’s mistaken about Mr. Bojangles, though–it was written by Jerry Jeff Walker, not Dylan.
Best. Typhoon Name. Ever
Ladies and gentleman, I give you Typhoon Longwang. It could pound Asia pretty hard. It may penetrate deep into the continent. Let’s hope it doesn’t result in another premature evacuation.
OK, so it’s a little juvenile.
Actually, it would have been better if they’d hung that moniker on this storm.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A comment from “Psychobunny” at Free Republic:
If this thing makes landfall in Puntang, the Weather Channel’s going to have to go Pay Per View.
[Update again]
And the hits keep coming:
Typhoon LONGWANG is still a small typhoon, but the clouds got more rounded and spiralled. It is forecast to keep intensification for the moment, and the typhoon gets more powerful if it starts to be bigger.
Caught In The Act
Some Japanese marine biologists have taken video, for the first time ever, of a giant squid in its natural habitat:
The team led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 26-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan’s Bonin islands…
…Mori said the giant squid, purplish red like its smaller brethren, attacked its quarry aggressively, calling into question the image of the animal as lethargic and slow moving.
“Contrary to belief that the giant squid is relatively inactive, the squid we captured on film actively used its enormous tentacles to go after prey,” Mori said.
“It went after some bait that we had on the end of the camera and became stuck, and left behind a tentacle” about six yards long, Mori said.
As a diver, I’m glad that they don’t often come near the surface.
No Dumb Deed Goes Unpunished
I don’t know what John McCain thought he would accomplish by agreeing to meet with Momma Moonbat, but I doubt if it was this.
They’re On The Other Side
Including some photo editors in the media, apparently. Zombietime provides some context for a photograph of a “peace” rally.
They’re On The Other Side
Including some photo editors in the media, apparently. Zombietime provides some context for a photograph of a “peace” rally.
They’re On The Other Side
Including some photo editors in the media, apparently. Zombietime provides some context for a photograph of a “peace” rally.
Loony
Thomas James investigates and dissects the moonbat space agenda.
[Late morning update]
A commenter asks what a “moonbat” is. Short answer is a leftist idiotarian. Here’s a picture of the subspecies barking moonbat, but google the word and you’ll come up with plenty of examples and more images.
Ummmm…OK
Dan Wiener wants to use space elevators to prevent hurricanes.
And if we could get them to lance volcanoes, Jonah Goldberg would probably get behind the project, too.
Still Crazy After All These Years
Or at least after one year. And maybe it isn’t crazy–just, mentally challenged. Mary Mapes still doesn’t get it:
Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Web sites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line.
This is the first hint of her cluelessness. The fact that she’d never heard of these sites before shows how insulated she was. Free Republic has been around for many years now, and was instrumental in bringing out many of the Clinton scandals. It’s one thing to say (as I’d expect a hard-core Democrat to) that they have no credibility, but to claim ignorance of their very existence?
They were hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative sites loaded with vitriol about Dan Rather and CBS.
Contemplate the possibility, Mary, at least for a moment, that said vitriol was justified and prompted by your vicious partisan hit pieces and shoddy journalism.
Our work was being compared to that of Jayson Blair, the discredited New York Times reporter who had fabricated and plagiarized stories.
Hey, this isn’t fair. At least Jayson Blair didn’t fabricate actual evidence. And of course, given that they’re “hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservatives,” there’s no need to pay any attention to what they say, right, even if they are smart lawyers, and that in the case of Charles Johnson, proprieter of Little Green Footballs and web site designer, he has forgotten more about typography than Mary is ever likely to learn or (on the available evidence) be able to comprehend?
All these Web sites had extensive write-ups on the documents: on typeface, font style, and peripheral spacing,
“Peripheral spacing”? I think that she means proportional spacing. This demonstrates again, just how little she has learned from this experience, when she doesn’t even seem to possess the reasoning skills to understand the arguments against her.
…material that seemed to spring up overnight. It was phenomenal. It had taken our analysts hours of careful work to make comparisons. It seemed that these analysts or commentators—or whatever they were—were coming up with long treatises in minutes. They were all linking to one another, creating an echo chamber of outraged agreement.
Maybe because they had facts and logic on their side?
I was told that the first posting claiming the documents were fakes had gone up on Free Republic before our broadcast was even off the air! How had the Web site even gotten copies of the documents? We hadn