The always-solid Belmont Club, pondering the newly segregated Sarajevo, captures my unease with multiculturalism: Maybe the real threat to multiculturalism are the demagogues who see identity p...
Its always so gratifying when you can say “I told you so”, especially when you have an appellate court backing you up. As I noted a month ago, it seemed to me there were serious questions a...
I live about twenty miles from the polygamist ranch near Eldorado, Texas, and my office is about three blocks from the courthouse where the child welfare case(s) are being handled. A few observat...
While I’m linking to what is probably common knowledge here at Samizdata, let me throw in a link to Iowahawk’s new Canterbury Tale for Bishop Rowan. In the unlikely event you haven’t seen t...
I had run across some of David Wong’s work in the past and really enjoyed it, so I was delighted to find his home base at Pointless Waste of Time. He is one smart, funny guy. Browse around, but...
Whilst roaming the interweb and dozing through meetings, I have collected the Iron Laws of Human Behavior: 1. You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish. 2. The less you kno...
…to discover that carbon management and carbon credits are scams. As for the carbon offsets so beloved of our elite Gulfstream Greens: Companies and individuals rushing to go green have bee...
The Iranians have just committed yet another violation of the Geneva Conventions: publicly displaying the British sailors they captured last week. This makes the third violation of the Geneva C...
The invaluable Belmont Club points out the double standards of the "anti-war" side. Captain Ed notes that Iran has blatantly announced it is going to violate the Geneva Conventions, but no one ...
Quick, which has a smaller total impact on the environment? Well, you know if the answer was the Prius, I wouldn’t be posting this. Dog bites man, and all that. It turns out that, factoring...
In what amounts to a shocking admission that the “science” supporting anthropogogenic global warming is anything but settled and supported by data, we find that post-modernist thinking has be...
I have always had a soft spot for Camille Paglia. I am not sure how much I agree with her (on a number of issues, not at all), but I always find her entertaining and stimulating. You do not often...