1984

Happy Administrative Professionals’  Earth birth day. Read more

Calling for large-scale government solutions is a triumph of rhetoric over economics and systems engineering. Tip from Muck and Mystery. Read more

If poorly-fitting clothes, too-tight seats, and a myriad of health risks weren’t enough, now all us bigbutts, roly-polys, Buddhas, and spare-tire carriers now get saddled with cosmic guilt: Obesity contributes to global warming.  I’m going to bury my shame in a jelly doughnut. Read more

Glenn Reynolds said it best: "When the people who say it’s a crisis begin to act like it’s a crisis, then I’ll start to believe it’s a crisis."  Carbon footprint, my a$$. Update (14 May).  "Horrified!" Read more

Orson Scott Card takes the global warming crowd to the woodshed. Tip from James Hudnall, who I suspect wouldn’t pee on a burning globalWarmer, even after finishing a pitcher of beer. Read more

…by that master of post-modernism, James Lileks.  "Softness" was only a disguise for authoritarianism and repression.  So that makes "squeeze the Charmin" a code-phrase for….? Read more

  Ain’t the free market sweet? Read more

Marx lied, and a 100 million died for his pernicious ideology…and now we find out it was influenced by a skin disease? Update (31 October).  BUT WAIT!  It gets worse!  Turns out Hitler was zooming around pumped to the gills with strychnine, atropine, and speed, all in a vain attempt to control his flatulence.  Tip… Read more

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. –George Orwell Read more

John Derbyshire cracks me up: We should note, however, that English spellings like "dge" for the voiced common affricate and "oo" for the long form of the close back round vowel, are demeaning and hurtful to persons of aboriginality.  The approved spelling is now "didjeridu." Read more