God Laughs. Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday – the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session.
Journalistic Apostates. (via Ace) “Barack Obama’s campaign made a few last-minute changes on the campaign plane and oddly enough, all of those left without chairs were from papers that endorsed John McCain.”
Joe the Plumber vs. Aunt Zeituni. Joe gets the State of Ohio digging into his life while the press wrings its hands over Auntie Z’s privacy. Mark Steyn comments on the double standard:
So when John Conyers gets huffy about “leaks”, is it even possible to “leak” that someone’s a “fugitive”? When regular boring US citizens are fugitives, they get pasted up on Post Office walls and written up in the papers. And, in the event that someone discovers that the guy on the lam is holed up at 27b Elm Street, there’s not usually a wave of outrage on the appalling breach of the fugitive’s privacy rights.
If I were Joe the Plumber, I’d ask Aunt Zeituni if I could move in. It’s his best chance of a quiet life.
Duller than Fiction. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin said fantastic space science fiction shows and movies are partly responsible for the lack of interest in real-life space exploration among young people. SF Signal has commentary here.
Wisdom. “Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.” – Infantry Journal (via BurtonBlog)
Comments on this entry are closed.