Archive for August, 2009
Well, That’s Kind of the Point of Cap and Trade, Isn’t It?
I’m fairly sure this is not a bug, but a feature. The House-passed climate change bill, if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take billions of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement. Now-obscure federal agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [...]
What Has the President Really Given Up on Health Care? Not Much At All.
You know, it may well be that Sarah Palin controls the world from her Facebook page. As Sissy Wills notes, Palin engaged Obamacare in two places — “death panels” and the public option — and on both of them, the Obama administration has folded. Or have they? From what I’ve seen, the administration has fairly [...]
A Blur in Yellow and Green
Holy crows, this is fast. That was Usain Bolt running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, a new world record. The old record, which Bolt set at the 2008 Olympics was 9.69 seconds. To compare, the man who finished second in that clip, Tyson Gay, came in only .02 seconds slower than the old record and [...]
A Little Musical Toy Interlude, Plus Movie Trivia!
Prompted by this tweet from my Twitter friend @duchess_rebecca about some of her favorite childhood movies, I found this: There is some neat trivia involved with this movie as well. See if you can figure out who played the toymaker (the guy dressed in brown who you see at the beginning of the clip). Folks [...]
Just So We’re Clear, I Like Guns.
I’m sure there are people who would see this picture and immediately look around for someone to apologize to. I’m not one of them, though. Charlton Heston pretty summed up my personal philosophies a long time ago — on guns and damned dirty apes. Also, Good Lord is theblogprof an enormous man!
AstroTurfing: What It Is and What It Isn’t.
I’ve noticed there seems to be some confusion in the MSM and elsewhere about the meaning of the word “AstroTurf” when used to describe the town hall meeting protests we’ve been seeing the past couple weeks. I’ve seen the word used to describe everything from bussed-in ACORN members to ad-hoc gathering organized by ordinary folks [...]
Private Innovation Strikes Again!
This looks like it could be a pretty big deal, especially for people intertested in looking at bankruptcy filings (think that might be important with the current economic situation and this adminstration’s penchant for corruption?). Access to the nation’s federal law proceedings just got a public interest hack, thanks to programmers from Princeton, Harvard and [...]
Take a Little Humor Test, Republicans
Here’s an interesting question: And speaking of “issues,” let’s have an informal poll. Please read the following statement aloud: A major problem of the Republican Party today is that in recent years the GOP has attracted too many humorless self-important blowholes who take everything literally and who only want to talk about “issues.” Do you [...]
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