1. Tom Elia says the Left is coming unhinged. In other news, oxygen is important to humans, certain rocks make excellent paperweights, and Michael Moore is hungry.
2. A very good cause. Please, click over, read, and then do what you can to help him out.
3. Post-July 4 reflections on freedom, from Mac.
4. Patterico finds the LA Times engaging in a bit of peculiar math in the service of a rather dubious bit of revisionist history. In other news, food fuels the human machine, many birds show a gift for flight, and Michael Moore is still hungry.
5. Martha Stewart’s prison nickname? M-Diddy. Which, I don’t seem to remember her mentioning that before.
Also, it seems M-Diddy learned how to fight the power (h/t Sean H).
6. Via Craig C, the Gateway Pundit asks if Time is aiding the Islamists.
7. The University of Oregon calls it “cultural competence in hiring.” But some professors in the math and sciences at the University are calling it anti-freedom and likening it to Soviet era reeducation camps (via Stephen Meyer). for his part, protein wisdom has spent the last decade or so calling it totalitarian, and making arguments that the “diversity” movement in the academy—and its concomitant seepage into the arena of public policy—is single most serious threat to the founders’ idea of America. More here.
8. Norman Borlaug: Greatest man in history? Mark in Mexico thinks so. Interesting read, with accompanying video.
9. David Horowitz and Michael Medved goad a Nation contributor into admitting he’s pulling for the insurgency in Iraq. But of course, this just makes him an uberpatriot.
10. If, hypothetically, one were to eat a bag of brats and an entire deep dish blueberry pie over the course of 35 hours, how many hypothetical pushups / crunches would this hypothetical glutton need do to work off the damage to his or her abdomen / thighs / chin(s)? Anyone?
1000 push-ups, 500 crunches. Trust me, I’ve done “research” on this…
Depends. Was there any ‘purging’ done?
TW – her. Almost canny.
I don’t know about crunches and pushups but I do a little bit about the old Nautilus stationary bike. Saddle up about 6 AM tomorrow morning and you can probably be finished at around 9 PM. Piece o’ cake, or, in your case, pie.
In the words of a creepy animated bespectacled owl, “Ah-one, ah-two, ah-three.”
Jeff,
Your link to Whittle (while interesting and still very relevant) is to a piece written in March of 2003.
Oops. Trusted an emailer. Replaced that with a link to Mac’s place.
Six crunches and 14 push-ups, provided between each repetition you had 2-3 vigorous thrusts of the ol’ lipo-wand by an accredited plastic surgeon.
It’s more fun than it sounds—really. Thrusts…mmmMMMMmmmm.
Hmmmm….
How big a bag? And was it a real, or one o’ them fake blueberry pies?
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
Thankee sai.
I can testify that you can eat like that and just get a little bit bigger every 35 hours – for at least 48 years.
Shouldn’t have been M-Diddly?
that, THAT!!
It’s nice to see that Professor Borlaug is finally getting the recognition he so richly deserves. He is truely one of the greats of history, and that is NOT an exaggeration.
Here is a link to a Reason magazine interview.
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Just start pushing, Private.
I’ll let you know when yer done.
The link to the Horowits/Lazare debate was key. I think that outlines the real problems that the majority of people in the US have with the Left. It’s fine to oppose the war, but when the philosophy of your position supports the enemy and you don’t even know it until someone draws you the picture, that’s a problem. Unfortunately, that philosophy is spread indirectly by the various media outlets.
The Left killed my gardenias and bought up all of the generic paper towel rolls that were on sale, 3 for 99 cents!
Don’t even try to suggest Michael Moore-on ate only one bag of brats and one blueberry pie.
Jeff:
OK, you believed an emailer and I believed you, so in a fit of coincidence I posted a passage from the essay <a href=””>along with a picture I took of the battlefield</a> around the time the essay was written.
I recall standing at The Bloody Angle, trying to imagine what happened there, and it seemed not merely difficult, but impossible. Just up the road there’s also a little sheltered clearing about 30 feet in diameter, just off the side of the road, that was Grant’s HQ during The Wilderness, and you can almost see him sitting on a log making plans not only to win that battle, but to turn south and chase Lee once the thing had run its awful course.
So anyway, the mistake provoked me to read an essay I had missed. Not that I’d missed the parallels between those times and these.
Shoot, forgot to paste the link to the picture. Here it is:
http://demosophia.typepad.com/IMG_0728.JPG
Like Bill says, it looks like the backyard of a highschool.
Cool, thanks!
Norbizness—Heh.
Yeah, I know. I’m not trying to soil the reputation of the entire left. That was just the name of the link, and I was too lazy to properly qualify / disclaim / cover my bases / assert my thoughtful bona fides.