The resolution of the shooting incident in Virginia today raises the question:

What if Columbine had happened post 911?

A lot of bloggers have been discussing Justin Raimondo’s little anti-blogger rant today (no, I’m not going to grant him the dignity of a link). Most were apparently previously unfamiliar with him. I’ve seen his stuff for years, because it’s often posted over at Free Republic by Buchanan types, (which is a great site for picking up interesting stories, if you can avoid getting caught up in the gay-bashing, war-on-some-drugs, and evolution threads–this site would be less interesting, assuming that’s possible, if I didn’t browse over there a few times a day…).

Justin actually did a little drive-by shooting at this site the other day, though I didn’t mention it at the time. And I, like many other bloggers, got the little email ad from his site pointing me to his diminutive stomping of feet.

I’ve never read anything by him that resulted in any sense of enlightenment afterwards. And I’m not even going to bother to dignify his ravings by responding to them specifically. My advice is to ignore him, which is what he hates more than anything. I probably shouldn’t have even killed this many electrons over it.

Reader Steven Parsons helpfully provides me with a URL that has lots of “chemtrail” links, if one does a site search. Here’s a representative example.

Bear in mind that this site has ads for magnetic sleeping pads and EMF protection equipment (doesn’t state whether they are of tinfoil or other material). It also has discussions on sightings of other rare items, like ET-mobiles, cattle mutilations, crop circles, and economically-literate Democrats.

Well, OK, actually, that last was a little joke. No one’s ever even reported a credible sighting of one of those…

The hamlet of Punxsutawney, PA has stepped up security for their traditional annual spring-prognosticating ceremony on Groundhog Day, featuring famed whistle-pig Punxsutawney Phil. I guess you never know where those evil ones will strike next…

When we can’t torment large rodents without armed guards, the terrorists win.

The hamlet of Punxsutawney, PA has stepped up security for their traditional annual spring-prognosticating ceremony on Groundhog Day, featuring famed whistle-pig Punxsutawney Phil. I guess you never know where those evil ones will strike next…

When we can’t torment large rodents without armed guards, the terrorists win.

The hamlet of Punxsutawney, PA has stepped up security for their traditional annual spring-prognosticating ceremony on Groundhog Day, featuring famed whistle-pig Punxsutawney Phil. I guess you never know where those evil ones will strike next…

When we can’t torment large rodents without armed guards, the terrorists win.

The Democrats’ attempt to make hay out of Enron at the Republicans’ expense isn’t working, according to the latest Gallup poll.

The Democrats’ attempt to make hay out of Enron at the Republicans’ expense isn’t working, according to the latest Gallup poll.

The Democrats’ attempt to make hay out of Enron at the Republicans’ expense isn’t working, according to the latest Gallup poll.

NASA seems to have “overlooked” a little over a half billion in taxpayer funds. Chairman Sensenbrenner wasn’t happy:

“I’m deeply disappointed that the agency that could send a man to the moon now can’t even balance its books to the nearest half-billion. Inattention to details such as using English or metric units, or making $590 million accounting errors indicate significant management problems continue to bedevil NASA.”

Of course, it’s not like NASA accounting disasters are news, but what was really interesting and topical was this little tidbit:

The error, detected by the House Science Committee, went unnoticed by auditors at Arthur Andersen LLP, the independent accounting firm hired to examine the space agency’s financial books.

Yup, look for the Big Five to become the Big Four any day now…