Not So Fast

interviews Milton Friedman.

Star Trek and bashing communism. All in one post! What a country!

via Inoperable Terran

has a point.

* And why is everyone down on punch card ballots because they’re more prone to voter error? Voter error is just God’s way of making sure that people too dumb to follow simple instructions are not the ones deciding the future of our nation.

Canada can’t even sell drugs right.

via DrudgeReport

Blogger symposium about the California Recall, with an actual Californian, over at Right Wing News.

See what Google has to say about Instapundit. Heh.

Fill in the blank for other famous or semi-famous people and places and things. Great fun for the family. (Don’t do John Ashcroft. It seems he’s not well liked.)

The sculpture of a winged pig, weighing more than 7,000 pounds, was carved out of the equivalent of 26,666 bars of Ivory soap.

It may not fly, but it’ll float.

That’s entertainment?

via Fark

MIT want its athletics taken more seriously.

“We get no respect. People just think we’re a bunch of geeks.”

It has even buffed up its Beaver mascot, making it a little fiercer-looking and accompanied by a new slogan, “Fear the Engineers.”

The Engineers so far have inspired anything but fear in the hearts of their opponents. The school’s football team was 4-5 last season in the New England Football Conference. The baseball team was 1-26 and 0-12 in conference play.

I wonder why?

Legislating Christianity out. No, not in America, in Indonesia.

Over at Scrappleface and Joyful Christian. Quit wasting your time here and go read something intelligent.

Mark Steyn talking common sense.

Electronic devices wreaking havoc on airplane electronics. I always thought they were joking when they made that announcement.

via Slashdot, who bring up the oh-so-comforting thought of terrorists using this to crash planes with the flip of a switch.

When another religion shows more sense than many Christians.

Here.

You might as well carry a roll around with you. Go get one now. Ready, go.

I’ve got errands to run this morning, check the links to your right for news and information.

UPDATE: Never mind, slackers have freed up my day by setting everything back.

Until the Alliance notices Gwyenth Paltrow claimed to be a hobo-whacker? Will they make the connection?

Being an employee myself, I respect an employer that is willing to stick up for his employees.

“Dalton McGuinty,” the statement said. “He’s an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet.”

Conservative Leader Ernie Eves blamed the release on a staffer who apparently “had too much coffee this morning … too much time.”

But he refused to retract the statement.

No matter how weird they are.

via, naturally, Dave Barry’s Blog

This editorial has a good point, I think. The actual article is at Jerusalem Post (registration required, you’re on your own).

He’s a smart guy.

Part II. (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics) Do you know why Gore is doing well? Because he’s not saying anything.

“These results are stunning, considering that Al Gore is the only potential candidate who’s been out of the limelight since last December,” says Draft Gore Chair Monica Friedlander.

If he were to come out and give us his views on say, Iraq, I bet he would nose-dive.

Even Instapundit has joined the Alliance in the battle against, er, Instapundit. Heh.

From the Times of India:

The US “is teetering from its wounds in Afghanistan and Iraq”, his deputy claimed. “What you saw until now are only the first skirmishes — the true epic has not begun.”

Meanwhile the Europeans invent the Cone of Silence. Except it’s even more impractical than Maxwell Smart’s. I’m sure there’s a lesson in this somewhere.

The Japanese always get the cool stuff first.

Picture, in Japanese.

via SlashDot

To appear on Abu Dhabi TV.

Stranded, this dude macgyvers his cellphone with camera batteries and a band-aid. He should have known ALWAYS BRING DUCT TAPE. And as we learned from this story, ALWAYS GET A FISHING LICENSE. Whether you go fishing or not. It might save you a few bucks.

Actually not, but I thought so when I first glanced at the date. Stupid metric time. Anyway, I can’t figure this out. Maybe it suffered in the translation.

Johnny Cash and John Ritter. Wow.

Freaks and weirdos.

China may have gained access to classified info from spy plane. No, they were just hanging on to it because they wanted us to friends with them.

Over at Sgt. Stryker’s. For further reading on this, go to the best, Francis Shaeffer. Granted, I have some friends who would say Ravi Zacharias (book) is better, but they’re wrong.

and stolen from Fark:

I heard that!

Dave Barry. The Telemarketers. Can there be peace in our time?

From the Telegraph (registration required):

Its [The Pentagon’s] research arm recently solicited bids for a new breed of space-based unmanned hypersonic bombers, capable of taking off from American soil and striking targets on the far side of the globe within two hours, without waiting for permission to use bases, or for overflight rights.

The ultimate aim is to leave America’s enemies in fear of a strike from a clear blue sky at any second or, in the Pentagon’s words, “to hold adversary vital interests at risk at all times”.

Asking a lot of questions.

Scott’s been funny lately, but I assume you visit my links to your right, so I haven’t been pointing it out. In case you forgot:

The producer hinted that Nightly News anchor Peter Jennings may personally “run some guns” from Canada into Detroit later this year.

Two years ago today, I was asleep on the floor of my sister’s Georgetown apartment. I was visiting our capital, something I’ve always wanted to do. Monuments to freedom and our founding fathers, the Smithsonian, that sort of thing. Having ignored the phone that kept ringing, my sister finally answered it, jabbered something at me and there on CNN it was. Later I wandered down to Key Bridge to snap some photos of the smoke rising from the Pentagon.

Being far from home and friends added a layer of incredulity to the day. I would have given anything to be home and at the same time, I’m glad I was there. It gave me a completely different perspective than I would have had from 2500 miles away. And I was shocked by my friends when I did get home, they just didn’t understand because they weren’t there. I can’t really fathom what people that live there and in New York went through. So, since we can’t kill the bastards that did this, let’s make sure it never happens again.

Pope frail and weak. Yet, he keeps on going and going. Like the Energizer bunny, but in Latin.

In the deep-fried (DF) wars, DF Oreos go head to head to head with DF Twinkies and DF candy bars. My taste buds are the absolute and final judge. There are no appeals.

The DF candy bars come out on the bottom, heavy and super-rich it’s hard to get through one. DF Oreos are creamy and vaguely chocolatey. DF Twinkies are very similar, creamy with a hint of Twinkie flavor.

More testing is indicated as I can’t decide between the Oreo and the Twinkie. I’ll take either one, any time. Except right now, I’m sorta full.

How mankind got along so many centuries. People blithely eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with no regard for the allergies of others. I bet that’s the real cause of the Plague.

I got my first permalink ! This is the first step in my grand master plan to take over the world!!! (And possibly Mars, if my operatives make it there intact.)

Reacts to protestors at his speech:

Rumsfeld, watching from below, turned back to his audience and said: “Well, now.”

UPDATE: More on Rumsfeld and his detractors (not the idiots in the balcony, other ones).

via The Corner

The key is B-flat.

via Fark

This guy would be in jail, no doubt.

It’s showing.

via Instapundit

Talk about your boring news days. Well, it’s today, so far. So, here’s some stuff to go buy. Stephen Lawhead’s Byzantium. Or Empyrion. Both are a good weekend read. I prefered Empyrion, but that’s just how I feel about it. Take your pick.

Might as well start now. They’re gonna sue all 4 million or so file-sharers.

via Instapundit

Opus to make a comeback.

Dave Barry vs. The Telemarketers.

Suing Boeing, NY city, and the Port Authority for 9/11.

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Under the new program, the airline will send information about everyone who books a flight to the TSA, including full name, home address, home telephone number, date of birth and travel itinerary. If the computer system identifies a threat, the TSA will notify federal or local law enforcement authorities. The agency has not indicated the number or type of personnel needed to oversee the program.

The TSA will check each passenger in two steps. The first will match the passenger’s name and information against databases of private companies that collect information on people for commercial reasons, such as their shopping habits. This process will generate a numerical score that will indicate the likelihood that the passenger is who he says he is. Passengers will not be informed of their color code or their numerical score. The second step matches passenger information against government intelligence combined with local and state outstanding warrants for violent felonies.

So, the tin-foil hats weren’t so far off, eh?

via DrudgeReport

This is just wrong.

On immigration.

Girls call sheriffs cell phone *twice* wanting to buy marajuana.

“Not only did they do something wrong, but they should have been in school,” Amazi said.

metricsucks.com

Spider Robinson on the state of Science Fiction and why no one has grand dreams of the future anymore.

Incredibly, young people no longer find the real future exciting. They no longer find science admirable. They no longer instinctively lust to go to space.

He has a point. Just try finding a good SF book these days.

via Slashdot

Will this long-accepted acoustic truth stand against science? Find out here.

Protests over proposed coffee tax. They already pay 8% sales tax. Crazy Washingtonians.

I love this line:

In this city where fancy coffee is a way of life….

Them gole durn fancy coffees. We don’t need no fancy I-talian roasted Sumatran blend. Why here, it’s Folgers or nothing.
via Instapundit

New attacks, blah, blah, blah. Eradicate memory of 2001, blah, blah, blah. Ranks have doubled, blah, blah, blah.

What are they gonna do, bleed on us?

We’ll bite your kneecaps…

You’re a loon!

Debate ends in brawl in Azerbaijan.

IBM WINS!

via DrudgeReport.

Nifty.

Via the super-smart and ultra-cool Volokh Conspiracy

The proliferation of acronyms and it’s implications on freedom.

Don’t forget: Acronym Finder

Joyful Christian has a new home. It’s not quite unpacked and ready for company yet, but go visit.

Duh, it’s Friday!

By any fair token, the losses after 9/11 have been nearly all our enemies — human, material, and psychological — from bases in Afghanistan to entire nations. Yet such is the extent of our power that al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Baathists alike sorely feel that they are losing a war, while Americans attuned to the new fall season sitcoms are breezily oblivious that they are winning it.

They give and give and give. But if this works anything like illegal alien amnesty, there will be another one in a few years. So don’t sweat it. Of course, by then it’ll be the MPAA doing it.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs failed to show that the fast-food chain misled consumers into believing its food was nutritious and part of a healthy diet.

McDonalds should take that defense and run with it.

via Inoperable Terran

Maybe fox hunting wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Smoking ban at the UN not such a hit.

I think Adobe better watch out. “Photoshopped” as a verb is becoming more and more prevalent. I wonder if it’ll end up like “jello” or “kleenex”.

Universal Music to drop price of CD’s to something reasonable.

via Drudge Report

Realizes he is getting paid to legislate, returns home.

via Fark

It’s sorta a flypaper/domino theory.

But apparently not.

At the Florida prison where he will die by lethal injection today, Paul Hill told a press conference: “I expect a good reward in heaven. More people should act as I acted. You don’t need permission to defend your neighbour.”

He’s in for a shock.

Here’s a hint: if you’re gonna steal £2 million, don’t spend it on noisy, annoying birds that are going to outlive you. That’s just dumb. To coin a phrase, an investment that eats is not an investment.

Who do slashdotters hate worse than Bill Gates? Spammers. And boy, do they ever.

Indeed.

Which part of illegal is confusing these people? Il-legal. Not legal. And if they weren’t in the country, they wouldn’t be driving around without insurance, now would they?

Particles and things. Good luck with it.

Best of the Web is back!

I’ve been worrying about this since I was twelve.

It could happen! I saw it in a movie once. But a giant asteroid could hit earth. Which almost goes without saying, but CNN is having a slow news day apparently.

Much work today. I suggest visiting the links on the sidebar. More later. I hope.

Dave Barry says:

So what does the public care about right now? Telemarketers. The public hates them. It hates them even more than it hates France, low-flow toilets or ”customer service.”

Do you know why Toyota’s sell so well? They’re super-reliable and if you take care of them you can get 300,000 miles from them. Other car makers may want to consider doing something like that. Just a thought.

Lebanon, hotbed of terrorist enterprise, can’t find it in it’s heart to kill a stinking lizard. Just shoot the thing.

The Volokh Conspiracy has interesting thoughts on religious and secular law.

Renegade minks kill farm animals. Animal “rights” activists say it proves that farm-raised mink can survive in eco-system. Apparently animal “rights” activists don’t know what an eco-system is.

Israel has plans to take out Iranian nuclear power plant. Seems smart.

via LGF

17th Century Puritan’s diary code broken. It’s more interesting to me that they have people are expert in 17th century shorthand.

Socialized medicine. It’s good for everyone. Sorta.

And why stoning people (with rocks) is a bad sign.

VDH.

Online privacy shot.

via Inoperable Terran

Heh.

UPDATE: Darn.

It might be illegal later.

No really. My last vacuum cleaner went kaput a while ago, so a robotic one would be an ideal replacement.

Eco-terrorism and market forces.

via Instapundit

I’m not saying I’m old, but…Pacman, c’mon everyone knows that one.

Mars Attacks!

They have too much free time and too many bugs in New Jersey.

via Dave Barry Blog

Iran has weapons-grade uranium.

As California gives Florida a run for its money in the wackiest state of the union, Florida’s legislature has come up with a LAN tax. This ought to be great.

via Slashdot

At least for me: www.acronymfinder.com. You too can find out what FUD stands for.

AOL blogging as told by Scrappleface.

Excellent.

Judge Myron H. Thompson of the Federal District Court, who has been presiding over the case, said that Roy’s Rock is “nothing less than an obtrusive year-round religious display.” So it is; but obtrusive year-round religious displays in state courthouses are prohibited in the Constitution… where?

UPDATE: I just reread it. You must read it. Go.

I was sick today. Since I have work to do, though, I took the little red pills and feel much better now, thanks.

On the absolutely incredible French heat wave death toll.

Coming to Cartoon Network. I love this country.

Beatle trivia knowledge necessary to get into Britian?

NY Times shuts down computers.

Which worries me about the future of his alliance. Make sure you read the comments or you’ll have no idea what I’m talking about.

Abu Bakar Bashir, the Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of leading the terrorist group blamed for the Bali bombings, broke down in tears yesterday and warned judges at his treason trial that they would “go to hell” if they convicted him.

There’s more.

People will never be surprised by the amount of money I have. Unless it’s by how little it is.

I, for one, would not strap a machine on that was named HAL. Although, other than that, it looks like a great idea.

It’s the wrong trousers, Grommit! And they’ve gone wrong!

via Slashdot

Extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers coming to a theatre near you. Possibly. In December. This is awesome. It better come to Spokane.

via Slashdot

Everything running well? Here’s some fun tweaks to try. I make no promises or guarantees. Backup your registry.

Victor Davis Hanson. Go now.