Archive for: June 2009June 30, 2009
Lakoff’s unexpected triumph [Darleen Click]Chris ReedLast year, I wrote a post about UC Berkeley linguist George Lakoff, who became a Democratic Party guru a few years back when he wrote essays arguing that the main reason Democrats were then in the doldrums was … Treason [Darleen Click]Couldn’t the NYTimes have left Paul Krugman behind the Select curtain? So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from … Odds [Darleen Click]I recall the plot of a short story centered on the premise that one year no one died. A weird statistical anomaly where there were no accidents, no murders, no dying from disease or famine or anything. Then, after a … June 29, 2009
Envy [Darleen Click]Military coup in Honduras? Not reallyYesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, … Nature experiments [Darleen Click]Anonymous Swedish parents decide to raise their child genderless, or well, until the young thing decides for itself A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is … June 28, 2009
The definitive example of chutzpah … [Darleen Click] UPDATED… is the man convicted of murdering his parents pleading for mercy because he is an orphan. Michael Stickings comes in a close second. via Ed Morrissey comes the story of a 14-week premature, 2 lb 4 oz baby … Sunday afternoon musing [Darleen Click]12:45 pm, 90 degrees and the guy in the cowsuit outside the Chick-fil-A is not waving at the passing traffic with much enthusiasm. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere about Congress and Obama’s plans for us all, but right now the … June 27, 2009
The powers that be [Darleen Click]
Mr. … June 26, 2009
Cap-and-trade bores you? [Darleen Click]
I’m 55, my late grandparents born in the infant years of the 1900’s and my … Oh fer the love of … GROW UP [Darleen Click]Whether or not SC Gov. Mark Sanford resigns is a matter for that state’s citizens and if they consider his using state funds for a private matter serious enough for resignation. His adultery in and of itself is not … |
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Any person, and I mean any person who advocates for “green” energy while rejecting nuclear is a fraud. A lying, misanthropic, baby-hating Luddite.
