Because he’s good at publicity, many are aware of David Horowitz’ Damascine conversion from red-diaper baby to conservative gadfly, but this morning’s Insight has an interview with Ronald Radosh, a formerly leftist historian who has seen the light as a result of his experiences and research (including his book on the Rosenbergs).

Good for a read, particularly his description of the radicalization of academia, most particularly in the English and History departments–a situation with which many parents are too unaware as they send their kids off to college for their political reeducation/indoctrination.

He also mentions what a hive of leftists the historical societies have become, particularly pertinent in the situation with Michael Bellesiles shoddy (and probably biased), if not outright fraudulent scholarship on gun usage in America.

My, my, if we are to believe this article in the Tehran Times, the House of Saud really is getting a little nervous. They (specifically Prince Abdullah) claim that the US is saying bad things about the Saudis not because we are fighting terrorism, but because we “hate Islamic countries.”

Well, no, “Prince” Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, we don’t “hate” anyone. But “Islamic” regimes who foment hatred against the west, and support Islamofascists and their Islamakazi minions in their unjustified and unjustifiable war against western civilization, and who oppress their own people, and have no regard for, or gratitude to, the superpower who pulled their sorry butts out of the secular fire of Iraq a decade ago, can expect to have a short half-life under the current situation, particularly after giving such nonsensical interviews to the Tehran Times…

And we aren’t “hostile to Islam.” We are, however, extremely hostile to Islamofascists who are unjustifiably hostile to us. You might want to take a little lesson from what happened to your erstwhile colony up there north of Pakistan, if you’re interested in your future prospects, assuming that you don’t change your tune dramatically very soon.

Professor Reynolds has an iconoclastic, but hopefully-to-soon-become-mainstream and correct viewpoint of Second-Amendment rights (i.e., they really do exist).

Read it.

Here’s another Christmas shopping site for the bin Laden hater in the family (and no, I don’t get commissions). This bin Laden voodoo doll is a good way to get rid of your feelings of rage against the Islamakazi-in-Chief. Poke him, stomp him, grind out your cigarettes on him, dress him in a little head-to-toe burqa and play Brittney Spears albums to him…

According to Reuters, Intel has achieved a huge breakthrough in transistor density and speed. They call it “terahertz” technology (hint, the current technology might be similarly dubbed “gigahertz” technology–“tera” is a thousand times faster…). Apparently, it solves two of the problems that have been facing designers as they attempt to put ever more transistors on a chip–power consumption (how to run your desktop supercomputer without your own personal power plant) and heat generation/rejection (how to dump all that power into your supercomputer without having a China Syndrome in your home office).

Going by history, many of the most interesting potential applications for this are probably unpredictable, but some of the mundane guesses are real-time voice/face recognition, and total computer communication via speech/listening (“Look, Ma! No keyboard or mouse!”). It will also make it easier to both crack encryption, and to create more uncrackable ciphers.

I can also imagine much more realistic computer graphics and virtual-reality gaming. Moreover, with the development of cheaper full-body VR suits (and I do mean full body), I imagine that virtual sex will also be a killer app…

According to Reuters, Intel has achieved a huge breakthrough in transistor density and speed. They call it “terahertz” technology (hint, the current technology might be similarly dubbed “gigahertz” technology–“tera” is a thousand times faster…). Apparently, it solves two of the problems that have been facing designers as they attempt to put ever more transistors on a chip–power consumption (how to run your desktop supercomputer without your own personal power plant) and heat generation/rejection (how to dump all that power into your supercomputer without having a China Syndrome in your home office).

Going by history, many of the most interesting potential applications for this are probably unpredictable, but some of the mundane guesses are real-time voice/face recognition, and total computer communication via speech/listening (“Look, Ma! No keyboard or mouse!”). It will also make it easier to both crack encryption, and to create more uncrackable ciphers.

I can also imagine much more realistic computer graphics and virtual-reality gaming. Moreover, with the development of cheaper full-body VR suits (and I do mean full body), I imagine that virtual sex will also be a killer app…

According to Reuters, Intel has achieved a huge breakthrough in transistor density and speed. They call it “terahertz” technology (hint, the current technology might be similarly dubbed “gigahertz” technology–“tera” is a thousand times faster…). Apparently, it solves two of the problems that have been facing designers as they attempt to put ever more transistors on a chip–power consumption (how to run your desktop supercomputer without your own personal power plant) and heat generation/rejection (how to dump all that power into your supercomputer without having a China Syndrome in your home office).

Going by history, many of the most interesting potential applications for this are probably unpredictable, but some of the mundane guesses are real-time voice/face recognition, and total computer communication via speech/listening (“Look, Ma! No keyboard or mouse!”). It will also make it easier to both crack encryption, and to create more uncrackable ciphers.

I can also imagine much more realistic computer graphics and virtual-reality gaming. Moreover, with the development of cheaper full-body VR suits (and I do mean full body), I imagine that virtual sex will also be a killer app…

California State Senator Ray Haynes has a nice little rant today on the (deliberate?) refusal of our public school system to educate people on basic economics and government. He’s basically correct, though he left out a few concepts, and there are probably many people who would testify that the marginal utility of Krispy Kreme doughnuts never goes negative…

Kudos.

Speaking of on-point propaganda, consider this action toy for Christmas…

Profound condolences to Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, whose father-in-law died last night.