“…it would look just like the dog that Obama ate.”
This is the gift that keeps on giving.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Random Thoughts
“Obama ate a dog” edition. This is like a permanent employment act for people like Jim Treacher and Frank J. And of course, the inevitable Dogs Against Obama web site.
[Late morning update]
Just when did the presidents stop eating dogs? Treacher’s having way too much fun with this.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why Barack Obama identifies with the dog eaters. The rest of us are just bitter, clinging to our provincial American cuisine.
Facebook Likes
Some advice from The Oatmeal.
Spacefaring
Is space more like seafaring or aviation? It started out like the latter, but the former is a better model once we actually get serious about it.
[Update a while later]
Meteor craters, dinosaurs and spacefaring.
Actually, while I do think it’s a federal responsibility to keep an eye out for impactors, it’s not clear that it’s NASA’s job. It’s one of the things we need a Space Guard for.
A Sharp Rise In Retractions
And they wonder why conservatives and other sensible people don’t have faith in scientific institutions. As Glenn notes, all the government funding leads to corruption, and not just in the climate-change industrial complex.
Who’d’ve Thunk It?
The Titanic was real? I never fail to be amazed at some peoples’ willingness to profess their ignorance in public.
Derb And Discourse
A long, but thoughtful post on the “racism” of John Derbyshire.
I continue to wonder if they cancer treatments have impaired his judgment.
Charles Stross On Amazon’s Business Model
In which he ignorantly bashes libertarians:
I’m not going to lecture you about Jeff Bezos either, although I do want to note that he came out of a hedge fund and he’s ostensibly a libertarian; these aspects of his background make me uneasy, because in my experience they tend to be found in conjunction with a social-darwinist ideology that has no time for social justice, compassion, or charity. (When you hear a libertarian talking about “disruption” and “innovation” what they usually mean is “opportunities to make a quick buck, however damaging the long-term side effects may be”. Watch for the self-serving cant and the shout-outs to abstractions framed in terms of market ideology.)
Emphasis mine. Jonah Goldberg, hit this guy with a cluebat.
Salvation
I just got an email from Kim Kardashian that her celebrity stylists are going to pick out my shoes for me. I’m so excited that I haven’t even responded to her email yet. I may remain in that state of excitement for quite a while.
The Old Left
…are the new squares.