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November 18, 2011

Radio appearance

I’ll be on DaTechGuy’s program on WCRN in MA tomorrow morning at 10:45 am ET or thereabouts. Instapundit will be on immediately before me, probably talking about invisible cloaking, or how one day we’ll be using nanobots to fast-broil our Thanksgiving turkeys and mash our potatoes or some such. For my part, I’ll be talking about Occupy Denver’s attempt to force their way into BlogCon11 — and the fallout from

protein wisdom, if only for a moment, returns to his whimsical roots

Have you ever imagined yourself a winged creature, able to soar above the mass of humanity going about its day oblivious to the heights to which you’ve so gloriously and remarkably climbed? Because I have. And it always ends with my taking a cluster of birdshot to an area just below the ribcage, then falling stupidly into some field, where a dog fetches my carcass in its dumb mouth before

"Federal Spending Without & With Sequester Cuts Federal Spending Without & With Sequester Cuts"

That $1.2 Trillion Boehner and the boys were hoping to “cut” to save the US economy from a credit downgrade — necessitating an agreement with the Democrats to form a SuperCommittee everyone knew wouldn’t and couldn’t possibly work (and even if it did, it would benefit the Dems, who’d get defense spending cuts and non-recipient cuts to Medicare, which they could then blame on the GOP)? Well, here’s what it

The center is not holding

Holy Crony Baloney, Batman! Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management, It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures

The FDA: saving us from the perils of things that look like smoking

Honestly: if we don’t begin a serious pushback against these federal agencies — that is, get them back to focusing on their mandates at a macro level — then pretty soon, and by bureaucratic momentum alone, there will be nothing left that is unregulated, and few individual pleasures freely chosen that are legally permitted outside of some sort of vague social consensus that agrees to them. For the time being.

Irony alert: Citing "privacy concerns," YouTube threatens removal of my "Occupy Denver" video shot at BlogCon11

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! A brief re-cap, because this kind of move from Google, YouTube, et al., perfectly encapsulates how media is able to manipulate messaging in this country — be it through left-friendly media providers like Google, or by way of the legacy media, whose lovingly romanticized depictions of the various “occupy” fiascos has quite intentionally covered-up the intellectually vapid complaints of the protesters themselves. There’s a

WaPo "conservative" Jen Rubin: the establishment GOP's hired pimp?

So suggests Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator. Me, I’m more cynical still: I believe erstwhile Berkeley liberal Jen Rubin never really changed her political stripes, that she is a 911 Republican (that is, a liberal hawk) at best, and at worst, she’s a plant, a house slave, a legacy media-approved left-centrist advocating for “sane” conservatives who can be readily identified by their willingness to reject conservative principles and pander

"VP Attends Closed Door Meeting on Transparency"

Presented solely for the delicious situational irony. From Biden’s schedule yesterday: At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press. And to hammer home that delicious situational irony of which I wrote:

The white trash wisdom of the tundra

Or, “how a state school snowbilly presumes to take Congress to task — as if she has the requisite education and pedigree to dare do so! — for the culture of self-servitude and corruption that is driving Americans of all political stripes to question just how we came to have a permanently entrenched political ruling class in what is supposed to be a representative republic.” Sarah Palin, WSJ: Mark Twain

I've got myself a Tebow hangover

I blame Jesus. **** update: and also that 20-yard game-winning TD run — the longest TD run by an NFL quarterback to win a game with under a minute to go in the history of ever.