Polly Toynbee – kind of a British Barbara Ehrenreich with a lot of Old Oxonian mixed in – has an intriguing column in today’s UK Guardian arguing that the persistent declaration of The End Times is wrong, that in fact “this is the golden age – so far.” The article is focused on the UK, [...]
Archive for December, 2005
The Glass Half Full
Posted in Culture, Economics, General, Politics on December 30, 2005 | 8 Comments »
Mistakes Happen
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on December 30, 2005 | Comments Off
Even at the NSA: The National Security Agency’s Internet site has been placing files on visitors’ computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them. … Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the [...]
You're Grounded Until You're Thrity
Posted in Iraq on December 30, 2005 | Comments Off
You know, I admire this kid’s sense of purpose but I hope he develops some brains pretty quick: The next trimester his class was assigned to choose an international topic and write editorials about it, Hassan said. He chose the Iraq war and decided to practice immersion journalism there, too, though he knows his school [...]
Ten Worst Americans
Posted in Culture on December 30, 2005 | Comments Off
This is a kind of fun meme I first saw at Crooked Timber. Mine are as follows, in no particular order: John C. Calhoun It is tempting to pick Jefferson Davis, but Calhoun was the public intellectual heavy weight behind the fraudulent “states’ rights” arguments in favor of neo-aristocracy and slavery. J. Edgar Hoover Perhaps [...]
O Canada
Posted in Bloggin, Travel on December 30, 2005 | 2 Comments »
I’m off to the Great White North (specifically, Toronto) for New Year’s, and will likely not blog at all. According to at least one of Say Uncle‘s commenters, I’ll be in great danger there (even greater danger than if I were in Baghdad!) because I won’t be allowed to carry a handgun with me wherever [...]
An Observation
Posted in Bloggin, General on December 29, 2005 | 26 Comments »
While Kevin T. Keith (henceforth “KTK”) is far more likely than the original Kevin (henceforth “Kevin”) to use the sort of inflammatory language and name-calling that characterizes what Right Blogistan would call “the loony left(tm),” it is my general belief that Kevin is actually farther left, politically speaking, than KTK. Discuss. UPDATE: I found this [...]
The Limits of Math
Posted in Books, Writing on December 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Statistics cannot yet predict best sellers, thank God: A group of statisticians has laboured for months to crack the secret of producing best selling novels – only to find that under their formula The Da Vinci Code should have been a flop. This year’s runaway bestseller should have had only a 36% chance of reaching [...]
What Journalism Looks Like
Posted in Media on December 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Keith Obermann destroys John “War on Christmas Wrong Religions” Gibson.
A Sign of Hope?
Posted in Health, Politics on December 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Maybe: “We are working together with the Palestinians and the Jordanians. We met with the Jordanians on the King Hussein Bridge. Also, there was a meeting with Palestinian officials from the Ministry of Health including the veterinary services in Beit El in Ramallah. The Jordanians suggested a tripartite meeting which we will organize within a [...]
Oh – They're the Good Racists
Posted in Culture, General, Politics on December 29, 2005 | 9 Comments »
There’s some sort of dustup going on at the NRO Corner over just how much racism was acceptable in the GOP’s “Southern Strategy”. John O’Sullivan explains that the GOP actually ended racism and saved the Civil Rights movement by opposing it, while only pretending to be racist in order to attract the backward elements into [...]
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