Heretical Ideas’ Alex Knapp has come up with some “fun questions for anti-globalization activists.” He writes: Are you bored? Attending a global economic forum? Want to pass the time by mocking the ignorance of white, middle-class college activists? Then why not ask them one or more of these following questions. Their answers will astound and amaze you! 1. What is a corporation? 2. If you’re opposed to the oil companies,

Go read Glenn Kinen’s post on the economics of the effigy business, which starts with this great line: “There is nothing like a Persian in heat.” Man, if we didn’t already have protein wisdom as our blog title, “A Persian in Heat” would win hands down…

Brian Doherty reports on the globalization debate in the latest Reason (print edition): According to the anti-globalization movement, the integration of the global economy is nothing more than a chance for the rich to fleece the poor. A recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research* finds that almost precisely the opposite is true: The best way to keep poor nations poor is to segregate them from

Hey, y’all! We’ve added a few new links to our Vintage Blogs list: “Grasshoppa Blog” (and won’t somebody please buy Geoff’s ad off for him?); “The Matt Yglesias Experience” (not the actual name, but hey, we dig it); and Sgt. Stryker’s “Daily Briefing” (which we thought we’d already linked to; whoops! — color us…er, plussed…?) Go on, check ’em out. It’s not like Instapundit’s goin’ anywhere…

Here’s a delightful cartoon from Arab News — a paper comprised of self-styled Arab “moderates.” Oh boy! Anti-semitism AND anti-Americanism! Why it’s two – two – two mints in one! The “conservative” Arabs, of course, fly airplanes into our buildings… [thanks to Matthew Yglesias for the link]

Well, duh… [here, check this out]

Hipster Blogger® Oliver Willis has lost his everlovin’ mind! After prefacing some recent comments with an assurance to his readers that he supports the U.S.-led military “conflict” against terrorism, Oliver then unfortunately veers off the high-road and runs flush into a salt dump at the corner of Delusion Street and Nofrickin’ Way. Evidently he bumped his head on the steering wheel. Check out this diluted brainjuice he lets drip onto

From just outside the Mile High City: “A 10-foot, 80-pound Burmese python wrapped itself around the neck of its owner Sunday so tightly he couldn’t breathe, police said.” “The 43-year-old man apparently died of asphyxiation, said Medical Center of Aurora spokeswoman Bev Husted-Petry,” The Rocky Mountain News reports. “Friends and neighbors identified him as Rick Barber.” It took seven firefighters and two police officers to uncoil the snake. The snake,

“A man with the world’s longest ear hair has had his world record officially recognised,” Ananova reports. “The Guinness Book of Records has sent the official certificate to B D Tyagi of Bhopal in India. “The hair sprouting from the centre of his outer ears measures 10.2cm at its longest point. “The record appears in the Longest Ear Hair category.” One question: “what the hell was this guy thinking?” —

Here’s an instructive excerpt from Peter Augustine Lawler’s Weekly Standard piece, “Does Human Nature Have a Future?” Bobos [bourgeois bohemians — or those who prefer comfort to truth, who prefer feeling good to being good] claim to be laid-back bohemian nonjudgmentalists on everything. Or almost everything: When it comes to the soul, they reject as repressive the morality of traditional religion, but when it comes to the body, they are