1984

How often have you heard this jive: "I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual"? The crunchy/neo/paleo-cons over at The Corner are doing a number on this New Age doubletalk.  Jonah Goldberg gets it off to a good start with this: On what grounds do they claim that, say, the story of Jesus’ Resurrection is an… Read more

Could y’all have picked a less auspicious day for La Gran Boicot? Update (2 May) Check out the photo below. These dumbasses never listen. Tip from Michelle Malkin. Update (2 May) If you’re a disgruntled Republican, weary of the GOP’s dithering about immigration enforcement, you might want to send them a G.W. Bush zero peso… Read more

This came up in the House of Lords last week: Perhaps the increase in prevalence of hyperactivity might be explained by sustained exposure to an unsupervised IT environment where only short attention spans were ever needed and where the child had no way of practising long periods of paying attention. Careful!  It’s only a small… Read more

"We were glad to be rid of her," said one administrative worker. "She talked about her country a lot and about human rights." Tip from Michelle Malkin. Read more

Dot Wordsworth has a delightful essay in the online Telegraph about English grammar: To use grammar inconspicuously well is like using the laws of aerodynamics to soar into the heavens. Language is the means by which we communicate the most brilliant ideas and touch hearts. It gets better, and finishes with a bang: To refuse… Read more

Arnold Kling puts a handle on our confrontational political philiosophies Under folk Marxism, the oppressed class has inherent moral superiority to the oppressor class — recall the quote which opens this essay. Class membership trumps individual character in determining moral standing. It should be no surprise that this belief could lead to tyranny and wanton… Read more

It’s now illegal to annoy folks on the internet, at least anonymously.  Of couse, if you’re anonymous, how could they catch you? Read more

London Police Sgt Leslie Turner was just awarded a $70,000 settlement for being over-promoted, then reassigned.  I suspect this sort of thing will occur more frequently.  It’s my major gripe about affirmative action–we haven’t come up with anything better in forty years. Tip from the effervescent Kim Swygert at Number 2 Pencil. Read more

First it was "deferred success," and now we have this.  I can’t wait to use it in a lecture. Tip from Transterrestrial Musings. Read more

MSN Spaces is not exactly a champion of free speech in China.  Follow up here, here, and here.  And check out Sheepdog’s pithy Photoshop editorial. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more