the game of life

A Florida legislator wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from official documents in the state.  Must be nice to have that much time on your hands. Read more

I like the way this guy thinks: ..a large portion of high-school seniors spend nearly 40 hours a week interacting primarily with other ignorant individuals. It’s almost as if we’ve made the study of stupidity a full-time job for them. Then, to remedy this, we stick our kids for six hours a day in front Read more

It’s good to have a basic understanding of the four fundamental schools of American politics defined by Walter Russell Mead: Hamiltonians, Wilsonians, Jeffersonians, and Jacksonians. Outdoor Life columnist Jim Zumbo apparently didn’t know that most gun owners are Jacksonians when he wrote an ill-advised column about "tactical" hunting rifles, calling them "assault weapons." Zumbo certainly Read more

"Blasphemy, at the end of the day, is an old trick." I just discovered Terry Moran’s Pushback blog at ABC News.  Check it out. Read more

Now I know I’m hot!  I’m out ahead of  Van der Leun, Lileks, and the New York Times!  Didn’t I tell you the country was being overrun with bastards? Read more

Apparently it’s more effective to stop worrying why you’re screwing up, and just stop doing it.  Morita therapy, anyone? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Milton Friedman’s revolutionary TV series, "Free to Choose," is online, in streaming video. If you’re going to goof off surfing the ‘net, go watch, and learn. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

WBCN shock jocks Opie and Anthony are boosting their ratings by afflicting the comfortable: they bussed a gang of homeless folks to the Short Hills Mall in Jersey and turned them loose–with gift cards–on a shopping spree. Now the Powers That Be are calling this "a sick and twisted exercise." Up yours, Mayor Merino. You Read more

The latest in a long line of trival studies suggests that vegetarians have higher IQs than us carnivores. Of course, many of these so-called self-identified vegetarians think chicken and fish are vegetables (I bet that question wasn’t on the IQ test). Hard-core, no-meat-eggs-or-milk vegans, on the other hand, have lower IQs (well, duh! Their mothers Read more

…amongst the animal liberationists.  Me?  I like vegetarians; I even eat vegetarian animals! Read more