Month: November 2003

  • Bush has decided to repeal the steel tariffs that caught him so much criticism from all sides of the political spectrum. See my earlier comments on the tariff. Looks like the commies will have one less issue to riot about.

  • Turkey-day Photos

    I’m still in San Antonio, but the first of three photo sets is already up. Update: I’m back – and the rest of the photos are up. (The photos were selected and resized: full-size originals are here.)

  • No Comment

    The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling.

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    I’m leaving for a week to visit my parents over Thanksgiving. I leave you with a 1860’s political cartoon that would probably be un-pc today. (Found here.)

  • "Wage slavery" and other falacies…

    This post is mostly for my reference. I responded at a local forum in answer to some questions about the nature of wages and the effects of productivity improvements. I don’t have much experience debating economics (as opposed to capitalism) so suggestions are welcome…

  • What comes up….

    Did you ever wonder about that story of a penny dropped from a skyscraper on a pedestrian’s head? A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said. [The]bullet struck…on the top of the head and exited at…

  • Jews and Political Radicalism

    VodkaPundit: “I’ve always joked that Jews who don’t stay Jews end up as either communists or Objectivists.” How true. I have two compounding explanations for this: (a) For historical and cultural reasons, Jews are more educated and intellectual than the average citizen, so they are more included towards participating in two the dominant philosophical trends…

  • More Leftist Nonsense…

    Laurel mentions a panel at the University of Chicago’s “Center for Gender Studies” pushing for unisex bathrooms. I found these lines both hilarious and revealing: …many women’s restrooms have a caricature of a person in a dress on it. “Going into it implies that we are willing to be associated with that image. There are…

  • Sold Brides Endure And (Barely) Survive: To flee oppression, many North Korean women escape to marry Chinese men. Here are two tales of desperation.

  • Hillary in '04?

    Mike Mazza reports that Hillary’s filed a report with the FEC for the presidential vote in ’04. Could it be? I wouldn’t put it past her. May God have mercy on us all.