That’s the kind of armband I’d like to wear, particularly around these clueless celebrities, whose well-meaning nostrums, as Stephen Pollard points out, would only further entrench poverty.

[Via David Carr]

That’s the kind of armband I’d like to wear, particularly around these clueless celebrities, whose well-meaning nostrums, as Stephen Pollard points out, would only further entrench poverty.

[Via David Carr]

That’s the kind of armband I’d like to wear, particularly around these clueless celebrities, whose well-meaning nostrums, as Stephen Pollard points out, would only further entrench poverty.

[Via David Carr]

The French are already privately admitting that the EU vote will lose.

If the Dutch vote it down as well, how long before they decide they want the guilder back?

[Update a few minutes later]

Mark Steyn has further thoughts (registration required).

This article about a poll indicating that the vast majority of so-called historians have already judged the Bush presidency a failure doesn’t give one confidence in the profession of history instruction.

No, academia isn’t biased at all…

Howard Dean’s going to be on Meet The Press this Sunday.

George, one of your progenitors in Hollywood once said, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.”

”The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.

Yes, I’d say unbelievable is exactly the right word.

”On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons,” he added.

Of course, most lousy directors and hackneyed script writers think they’re brilliant, profound and insightful.

I’ll probably go see the movie, but only for the special effects, which is all that Lucas was ever really any good at.

Rich Lowry describes the current state of the idiotic war on pot, and the continuing idiocy of John Walters. You’d never know that there’s a real war on, with stuff like this going on.

Jacques Chirac has managed to stay out of jail for a decade now, by continuing to be President of France for that period. It’s about his only significant accomplishment in the office.

For those interested, Iain Murray seems to have it covered.