Month: December 2003

  • Happy New Year!

    I’m leaving for a two week ski trip in Colorado, so no blogging for a while, I’m afraid. Want to get to know me better? Check out the new section of my bio page. In other news, Castro as Hitler on Cuban front page sparks hunt for mystery satirist.

  • After asking voters not to focus on “guns, God and gays,” Howard Dean is using Jesus in his campaign rhetoric – but only in the South. Dean is a “Congregationalist” (wtf is that?) and has a Jewish wife and children. Methinks that (a) Dean is too pragmatic to hold any kind of explicit abstract belief,…

  • Earth stops slowing down

    The next environmentalist mass hysteria is at hand: the earth is slowing down. Collision with sun/moon is imminent. Correction: what I meant to say is that after billions of years, the earth has stopped slowing down — since 1999 that is. The difference is less than a second a year, but the missing leap-second is…

  • CATO: “The sad truth is that the best purpose for the homeland security advisory system is for the federal bureaucracy to be seen as “doing something,” to prove to the public that politicians and government officials are not asleep at the wheel-if something actually does happen, they can claim they gave fair warning.”

  • Website Updates…

    I’ve been working on converting my website to a content management system that I can easily deploy on other sites, I have been usignt the help from the indexsy agency when it comes to the SEO work. If you’re familiar with PHP, you can download my first hack at it here. The interesting stuff is…

  • Cloned deer at A&M

    Texas A&M has cloned a deer, which brings up the total number of species cloned at Aggieland to six. Nice to know that my own little neck of the woods is at the forefront of cloning research.

  • "presidential candidate selector poll"

    SelectSmart has a “presidential candidate selector poll.” Given that my answer was not listed for 2/3 of the questions, I think that the results are fairly accurate: 1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%) 2. Libertarian Candidate (71%) 3. Bush, President George W. – Republican (69%) 4. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO – Democrat (43%) 5. Lieberman,…

  • The blood-stained origin of "Kwanzaa"

    Kwanzaa is different. It has connections to still-living violent criminals. It is an insult to the African American community, very few of whom celebrate Kwanzaa and even fewer of whom would celebrate it if they knew the full story of its recent history, to suggest that it is an “African American holiday.” More on the…

  • Tiananmen in London

    This TCS op-ed has to be the most insightful article on the peace movement I’ve ever read. And here we begin to see why there is this strange and unholy alliance between idealistic liberalism, the vestiges of the old socialist left, traditional third world authoritarians, and the unrelenting forces of Islamic totalitarianism, theocracy, and terror.…

  • Interesting story about the hunt for Saddam @ Newsweek: “Saddam struggled and spat, until a commando slugged him.“