Remember Lileks’ question? How many good men would eat the barrel in the next few years to make the sound go away?
A despondent FDNY paramedic hung himself last Friday.
Remember Lileks’ question? How many good men would eat the barrel in the next few years to make the sound go away?
A despondent FDNY paramedic hung himself last Friday.
On the nanotech front, IBM has developed an extremely dense data-storage medium.
Imagine several DVDs in something the size of a sugar cube, or a 10GB cell phone.
[via Geek Press
Speaking of which, think good thoughts for Paul and Diana Hsieh, who are in the path of the Hayman fire in Colorado.]
Jane Galt and Mindles H. Dreck have discovered the ultimate resource for economics groupies.
Wow. Even the San Francisco Chronicle says that Davis is in in big trouble.
Canadian Murray Soupcoff doesn’t have much hope for enlightenment from the Joint Congressional Committee investigating intelligence failures leading to September 11. They seem to think that history began on January 20, 2001.
Mark Steyn says that, as dumb as the terrorists were, the bureaucracy was even dumber. It had to be one of the easier pieces for him to write–all he had to do was lift it right from the news reports.
Maybe a few of them have woken up, now.
This is a good week for North Americans to see flyovers of ISS and Shuttle.
A French “anti-racist” group is attempting to prevent the publication of Oriana Fallaci’s latest book, claiming that it’s “anti-Muslim.”
Can we please just drop the word “racism” from the English vocabulary? It’s lost all useful meaning.
You know, when Eleanor Clift, Joe Conason, and other Bubba derriere smoochers were saying that the stories about White House vandalism were just a vicious, lying smear campaign against the sainted Clintons?
Well, of course, nice guys always finish last. The Bush Administration tried to downplay it as part of the “new tone,” but outraged Democrats were demanding an apology.
And of course, as usual, the reality is that the stories were true.
You know, when Eleanor Clift, Joe Conason, and other Bubba derriere smoochers were saying that the stories about White House vandalism were just a vicious, lying smear campaign against the sainted Clintons?
Well, of course, nice guys always finish last. The Bush Administration tried to downplay it as part of the “new tone,” but outraged Democrats were demanding an apology.
And of course, as usual, the reality is that the stories were true.