Mark Steyn on Islam and the West. From “It’s the demography, stupid,” The New Criterion [reprinted in OJ]: […] The challenge for those who reckon western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the west. One obstacle to doing that is the fact that, in the typical election campaign in your advanced industrial democracy, the political
January 2, 2006
January 2, 2006
A relatively short list – in no particular order – of underappreciated (or largely forgotten) movies you might try for 2006
Your mileage may vary.
January 2, 2006
Plans (UPDATED)
I’m going to take it easy today—play with the kid, watch a few Bowl games—but in the meantime, allow me to point you to Glenn Greenwald (and co.’s) latest, which charges me with being a mindless Bushbot (“the wingnut’s wingnut” who “hates the first amendment,” according to his commenters) because I simply will not see the light and just admit, as Chuck Hagel, William Safire, et al, have already admitted—that
January 2, 2006
red pills found behind the sofa cushions, prolepsis 11
Using state of the art nanotechnology, it takes a team of six agency surgeons —none of whom officially even exist, I’ve since learned—roughly fourteen hours to resuscitate and repair a certain sea monkey “asset,” whose drunken new year’s eve skinny dipping adventure ended when an escort named Laci, freshening up a batch of Cuervo 1800 frozen margaritas, unwittingly hit the ‘puree’ switch. I’ll miss Laci, for what it’s worth—not least
January 2, 2006
“Iran: Europe wanted to complete Holocaust”
From the AP / YNet: Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said Nazis’ attempt to eradicate Jews in Holocaust was a ‘myth,’ now charges that European countries sought to complete genocide by establishing Israel, a Jewish state in the midst of Muslim countries Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said the Nazi attempt to eradicate Jews in the Holocaust was a “Myth,†has now charged that European countries sought to