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January 31, 2007

In the Future

. . . everyone will be Hillary Clinton for 15 minutes.

I plan to throw every lamp in my house, BTW.

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So.

Tori Amos, or Kate Bush?

I'm, um, agnostic.

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Whoa.

Now he's messin' with the crew at Johns Hopkins.

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Oh, Those Brits.

They really put the kids at UCSB to shame.

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The Cotillion Girls

. . . have been comparing notes on who is and isn't a dirty old lady.

The stats aren't all in yet, but it appears to be a 50-50 split between those who vote "yum" and those who perceive the pic linked above to be "gross."

The marriage of a woman, earlier in her life, to a slender man appeared to be predictive of potential child-molesting sensibilities.

Oh, and . . . sometimes, when we're not talking about sex or margaritas, we discuss politics. Sometimes.

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Are Americans Really

. . . that car-happy?

Well, I am. But in my case it's genetic.

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January 30, 2007

John McCain:

voted most unpopular.

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Strategy Page

Has a list of the top ten myths about the war in Iraq.

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January 29, 2007

I'm Back. Sort Of.

After a stressful family weekend, I'm catching up around the house and the office.

Blogging should pick up toward the end of the week, but next weekend is also a big family fandango (cousins this time, instead of the nephews we hosted this past weekend).

So hang in there. And visit a lot, even though I won't be posting. Just because I'm not blogging doesn't mean I won't be obsessively checking my traffic, you know.

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January 26, 2007

The Best Argument for Hillary

Right here.

Of course, if the GOP nominates McCain, I won't have much of a choice, unless it's a protest vote for the Libertarian candidate. And that's not out of the question, either.

But perhaps it's time to be a real CUNT.

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1 I agree that the hat trick is necessary for them to actually do something, but I don't think it is sufficient. Iran will view a Democratic presidency as a green light to do whatever the hell it wants, and a Democratic White House will do absolutely nothing about it until Iran actually uses a nuclear weapon against somebody.

Posted by: John at January 26, 2007 04:46 PM (L4Ero)

2 Mark Steyn says it better than I would have: http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2007/01/narcissism-and-politics-of-personal.html "ThereÂ’s a world of difference between the politics of personal destruction and the geostrategic kind. Beating up breast-cancer survivors is no indication youÂ’ll do the same to Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-Il."

Posted by: Bob at January 26, 2007 09:47 PM (2tBSJ)

3 Why not just vote them out of office entirely and let them run our schools and all the legacy media? Then we can cancel our subscriptions and never hear from them again. Oh, and help our children drive their teachers totally insane. Well, more than they already are, anyway.

Posted by: Darrell at January 26, 2007 10:01 PM (gYyMl)

4 and let them run our schools and all the legacy media? Uh...don't they do that already?

Posted by: Darleen at January 27, 2007 08:36 AM (x/ea7)

5 Yes. Until we stop enabling them. If you give them the White House, they will have the Presidency, the Senate, the House, the Judiciary, the media(including entertainment), and our schools. Stop trying to give them something to "come aboard." We've already given them the whole ship. We should have opened up a second front against the Left that supports terrorism instead of "teaching' Repubs a "lesson" by staying home. Any good coming of that? What makes it out of the media's news spinner? Sure, the altmedia tells you about the Dems takng off their first Monday in power to see the Ohio State/Florida Gators play when the Dems are running their "100 Hours of magic" promotion. But who really heard it except the choir?

Posted by: Darrell at January 27, 2007 10:11 AM (y7VwW)

6 This is perilously close to the line between a good joke and a terrible idea.

Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at January 28, 2007 07:22 AM (ZaM5Y)

7 no shit, I would vote for the devil himself before Hillary. Even if he is sleeping with Saddam Hussein.

Posted by: caltechgirl at January 29, 2007 11:33 AM (/vgMZ)

8 OUCH, a harsh word there. Glad you said it not me ( I am already sleeping on the couch) The truth be told as a protest Republican and conservatives alike are to blame by not voteing this last election. Now that the progressive , enlightened thinkers are in power can we really afford to let them have a home run with the white house? The 2008 election is a must for not just conservatives but moderates alike to put a voice for the people back in washington. It is these enl;ightened thinkers who are passing laws and statutes limiting free speach and liberties. They webt after large tobacco, now it is the fast food industry, and capitolism as it relates to talk radio. (NPR conservative? not even). The voice of common sense has to be brought back. That means if you have to be a c^&% to do it, then do it.

Posted by: CarpiJugulum at January 29, 2007 12:00 PM (tMx0N)

9 I say let them have it all: Make Carter the ambassador to Iran, deep six the Patriot Act, pull out of Iraq in ten minutes, give Kim Jong Il more plutonium. If Nancy and Hillary have the reigns, they won't have Bush to kick around anymore. Perhaps then voters will see just how vapid and vacuous their public policy is. Remember: Carter won on the heels of Nixon's resignation. Under those conditions, the Dems could have nominated an Inanimate Carbon Rod (Google The Simpsons, Inanimate Carbon Rod) and it would have won. In the same vein, voters will be sick of Pelosi and Clinton. My main concern is this: Will there be any unabashedly conservative Republicans to clean up in '12 or '16?

Posted by: RightWingConspirator at January 30, 2007 05:33 PM (X/sYh)

10 I should have written "...voters will be as sick of Pelosi and Clinton as they were of Carter in 1980".

Posted by: RightWingConspirator at January 30, 2007 05:39 PM (X/sYh)

11 Are you prepared to wait twenty years to undo the damage caused by a Leftist executive/legislative/judicial hat trick? Carter's State Dept. hires/judicial appointments still linger(though most have retired). Clinton's are years away from doing us the favor of going away. Clinton's/Carter's State Dept. 'homies" were the ones that foreign governments called Newt about. They were out to try and sell the Iraqi invasion--but told everyone NOT to vote for the UN resolution. The damage lives on for many years. Do you really know what global warming is really all about? It is a way for the UN to tax Americans directly. Period. We should make the next President of the US sign a binding oath NOT to go along with this nonsense. The ACTUAL temperature change since 1850 is about 1 degree C. Trivial, considering the prior period was named "The Little Ice Age." And that had nothing to do with what they put in their drinks! Where do we see dire changes? In computer models. In computer models that have vastly OVERSTATED temp. change for twenty years now. I wouldn't fret unless I lived in one of those models. . .

Posted by: Darrell at January 30, 2007 09:23 PM (icgFS)

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The Thing About That Rand Chick

. . . is that she seemed awfully didactic in her fiction. Or perhaps I'm mistaken?

Brad and Angelina as Objectivists? Color me surprised, though I've always respected Pitt for several reasons. One of them: some years ago, when asked his opinion on China, he demurred, explaining that people shouldn't really be too impressed by whatever political philosophy he managed to muster up: "I'm a grown man who wears makeup."

H/t: Heathcliff of the spreadsheets.

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Nibras Kazimi

. . . suggests that—contrary to appearances—we are at the "tipping point" in Iraq:

Sadly, it took many thousands of young Sunnis getting abducted by death squads for the Sunnis to understand that in a full-fledged civil war, they would likely lose badly and be evicted from Baghdad. I believe that the Sunnis and insurgents are now war weary, and that this is a turnaround point in the campaign to stabilize Iraq.
Still, major bombings will continue for many years, for Al Qaeda will remain oblivious to all evidence of the insurgency's eventual defeat. The Baathists, and jihadist groups like Ansar al-Sunna, the Islamic Army of Iraq, and the 1920 Revolution Brigades, may be collapsing due to aimlessness and despair, but Al Qaeda still enjoys the clarity of zealotry and fantasy. Right now, they are arm-twisting other jihadist groups to submit to them and are also taking credit for the large-scale fighting that continues in Iraq.
Al Qaeda will continue the fight long after the Iraqi battlefield becomes inhospitable to their cause, and they will only realize the futility of their endeavor after they are defeated on the wider Middle East battlefield and elsewhere in the world.

Via Insty.

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There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

. . . well, right now.

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January 25, 2007

Greg Gutfield

. . . on how to recognize patriotic terrorists.

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Jonathan Rauch Rawks!

Here he is on what is to be done about gay marriage.

He may not change your mind, but he will challenge you.

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1 If he wants to change my mind, he needs to avoid oversimplifying the issue in the first paragraph of his essay.

Posted by: John at January 25, 2007 02:43 PM (kAzFZ)

2 I beg your pardon, LMA, he does not rock. He completely omits the original basis of marriage. Marriage began first as a cultural (and later legal) framework for the protection of the rights of children and childbearers. It has somehow morphed into an expansion of rights for people who only want to live together. The only requirement today is that they be of opposite sex. We have already read the plan of the Canadian progressives, first to make any kind of union legal, and then to do away with the entire thing as unnecessary. I'm not making this up. (I'll find the link later, in the meantime, google is your freind.) So, the people fighting for gay marriage are the (unwitting?) pawns of those who want to do away the entire thing. Why bother? -Bob p.s. i've been quite amused by the recent "gay divorce" horror stories. be careful what you wish for ...

Posted by: Bob at January 25, 2007 06:07 PM (2tBSJ)

3 You can get enough here to find the rest yourself. http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200602030805.asp -Bob

Posted by: Bob at January 25, 2007 06:37 PM (2tBSJ)

4 Come on, now, Bob: you're oversimplifying a bit. For many centuries women were regarded as the possessions of their husbands. I understand that you're pointing out marriage (theoretically) prevented the man from deserting the women he impregnated and all the issue therefrom, but to say it was ALL about protecting women and children is a bit much.

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 26, 2007 01:17 AM (0CbUL)

5 LMA, I didn't say it was _ALL_ about protecting women and children, I said it began as such. It is as if Rauch is explaining the game of baseball and starts at second base. You can't steal first base. -Bob

Posted by: Bob at January 26, 2007 10:51 AM (2tBSJ)

6 I really don't have much problem with same-sex marriage except for one thing: Please keep your sex lives to yourselves and don't force your view of it on me and, especially, on my children. The homosexual "lifestyle" is not something that needs to be in our schools.

Posted by: John at January 26, 2007 11:09 AM (lO8Xg)

7 When, Bob? When was that magical moment at which marriage was only about protecting women and children? Because to me in the very beginning it appears that marriage was about men owning women as much as "protecting" them.

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 26, 2007 01:14 PM (0CbUL)

8 LMA, It appears I've touched an emotional nerve. I can't reason against emotion. It seems to me that owning other people is called slavery. Since slavery was also in place at the advent of history, why would it have been necessary to have two forms of slavery? Marriage has always -- from the very beginning -- established the property rights of heirs and survivors. Ownership, or slavery, has specifically "dis-established" the rights of the owned parties. Most concubines were slaves, they were not generally referred to as wives. Their children were sold. As far as being "magical" is concerned, i have difficulty with that notion. Marriage out of affection is a fairly recent development and primarily exists in westernized cultures. Arranged marriages are hardly magical for many of the participants. Since they were arranged by parents with ulterior motives, the corruption of the "magical moment" with ulterior motives was probably immediate, if not sooner. -Bob

Posted by: Bob at January 26, 2007 02:34 PM (2tBSJ)

9 So maybe women had some input in this marriage thing from its inception? Could it have been a "social contract"? I agree to do this in exchange for this, this, and this. . .Hmmm. What a novel idea! Putting the weight of law and the courts behind it just made it all work out as agreed upon. I"d be more eager to vote for same-sex marriage if the feminists in the 60's hadn't suggested gay marriage as the first step to ridding society of all marriage. Since marriage is just a contract, what is wrong with creating individual contacts that convey all the same rights? Lawyers in major cities have been putting together standardized packages that do just that for years. And for as low as $200-300. Fine. If you must, go with civil unions where the packages are created by the State. I'll even let you call it "marryage" like in that movie "Pursuit of Happyness." But, that's it.

Posted by: Darrell at January 26, 2007 10:00 PM (gYyMl)

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Glenn Reminds Us

. . . to crunch the numbers on alternative fuels.

The point about oil-producing countries is very good: most of them will let the price of crude ease down when they sense that we are getting serious about alternative energy sources for our cars.

Hybrids and biodiesel both sound promising. Ethanol—at least, when it's made of food-grade corn—still makes me uneasy, and I can't quite say why: the idea of turning food into fuel for cars just sounds backward to me.

But anything we can do to bring production of energy inside the States is a beautiful thing.

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January 24, 2007

The State of the Union

Yeah, I missed it: I was working tonight (well, last night—it is after midnight). So,

1) How are we doing? I mean, the Union? Still holding up okay? Starting to get shabby after 225+ years?

2) How did Bush do on the speech? I hear he sucked less than usual with that large a crowd.

3) Where's the best video? (No, I am not going to go downstairs and watch TV just to get a recap on Fox or whatever. I'm going to bed.)

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The Also-Rans in the Hybrid Race.

It looks like Saturn is developing a hybrid, after all: Attila the Hub mentioned this to me, and I assumed he'd somehow gotten it wrong. Because I know everything, you see: surely I would have known that.

The GM idea of plugging in the car into a regular outlet is intriguing, but it seems to me that feature is only useful if the car can run entirely without gasoline—if the battery can carry the entire load from time to time.

The Business Week article glosses over the fact that Ford got into the hybrid game before GM did, but it makes a good point about how Ford's Escapes and Explorers get better gas mileage than Toyota's comparable vehicles.

Even with gas prices going down, I just don't think people are in the mood to pay a lot for gasoline: it's something the right and the left can largely agree upon these days.

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Hitchens

. . . comments on Mark Steyn's America Alone.He grants Steyn's general argument, though he brings a bit more nuance to the discussion, along with that athiest liberal perspective that's been missing in so many quarters.

And that lovely, lovely mind of his.

Insty turned me on to this one. I go to Steyn's digs multiple times a week, but I do neglect Hitchens a bit. No more: Hitchens really is what I took Sullivan for several years ago. He's a truly independent thinker, and an important voice.

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January 23, 2007

DataBase Programs?

I'm looking for a good contact-management program that will run on a Mac. This is for a home-based business, so it doesn't have to be super-powerful: we're talking hundreds rather than thousands of companies.

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