Drudge says that David Brock has been committed to a mental ward.
More Blustering From Cyclops Omar
Our favorite homeless mullah says that they’re just waiting for a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles, and then they’ll chase the infidels out. There was no discussion as to whether or not he was still living in his car. Maybe it’s been repossessed.
Tenet Out, Woolsey In?
If this happens, I’ll know that the Administration is serious about fixing our intelligence problems.
Messiah Complex
Robert Musil is appropriately brutal on Senator Jim “Benedict Arnold” Jeffords’ recent bout of megalomania.
Set Bemusement Level To “Stun”
A guy in California has actually patented a phaser that can stun from a distance. The UK defence forces are interested.
[Update at 2:57 PM PDT]
I should add, that I don’t think it will work. The ability to transmit a charge through such a “tunnel” has been demonstrated, but I think that it’s unlikely that it would reliably “stun” an individual. It would need a lot of power, which means a heavy battery pack, and even then, the effects on human physiology would be unpredictable. It might render him unconscious, it might kill him, it might make him mad. Life’s not like the movies…
Set Bemusement Level To “Stun”
A guy in California has actually patented a phaser that can stun from a distance. The UK defence forces are interested.
[Update at 2:57 PM PDT]
I should add, that I don’t think it will work. The ability to transmit a charge through such a “tunnel” has been demonstrated, but I think that it’s unlikely that it would reliably “stun” an individual. It would need a lot of power, which means a heavy battery pack, and even then, the effects on human physiology would be unpredictable. It might render him unconscious, it might kill him, it might make him mad. Life’s not like the movies…
Set Bemusement Level To “Stun”
A guy in California has actually patented a phaser that can stun from a distance. The UK defence forces are interested.
[Update at 2:57 PM PDT]
I should add, that I don’t think it will work. The ability to transmit a charge through such a “tunnel” has been demonstrated, but I think that it’s unlikely that it would reliably “stun” an individual. It would need a lot of power, which means a heavy battery pack, and even then, the effects on human physiology would be unpredictable. It might render him unconscious, it might kill him, it might make him mad. Life’s not like the movies…
Libertarian Slaveholders
Do debating tactics get any more confused, sleazy and odious than this?
A slave owner in the antebellum South thought that blacks were not human beings, and he resented like hell an abolitionist telling him that he had to treat a black like a human being, and it was his principled view that that wasn’t the case. And you had to fight a civil war and basically use the state to enforce the notion that all men are created equal, and that blacks were as fully human beings as whites were. So there are times that that libertarian model just doesn’t work very well.
So, Fukuyama claims that libertarianism, a belief in the sovereignty of the individual, would have defended slavery? Francis, get a clue. Slavery was a failure of statism–in which laws were passed that made it legal for one man to enslave another. This was as far from libertarianism as it’s possible to get.
Comments like this make it hard to take anything he says about ethics or morality, on the subject of cloning, or anything else, seriously.
Nanny Statism
I’m not normally really big on labor actions, but I hope that the airline pilots strike over this stupidity. My only consolation is that it would probably be even worse if Gore were president.
Moving On Up (Part II)
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