Month: November 2010

(Via Say Uncle) Take this quiz and see if maybe the ADA applies to you, too. (I scored a 15.) Me…Aspergers? There’s a surprise, Sparky.

Sure you don’t–unless you want to count on your reflexes and luck.

Moscow on the Catawba (also known as Charlotte, NC) wants light rail/mass transit/other expensive but under-utilized feel-good modes of transportation. However, “the current half-cent sales…

(Via Timebomb 2000) Hitler gets the election results.

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner says he wants Republicans to rebrand but keep the global warming committee devised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and maligned by…

Republicans are making some big promises to try to lure West Virginia Senator-elect Joe Manchin to cross the aisle. Aside from his pick of committee…

The presidential commission investigating the massive Gulf oil spill has found no instance where a decision deliberately sacrificed safety to cut costs. Fred H. Bartlit,…

(Via the Drudge Report) The Democrats are evacuating DC…

To watch. I wish I had gotten to it sooner, so I could have made this post sooner. Some people don’t like Glenn Beck. Some…

I’m still shaking my head over yesterday’s visit to one of the local gun stores. I don’t go to often these days; a kid in…

That subject, along with a dissection of the latest unemployment numbers, are the topics of the latest Thoughts From the Frontline newsletter from John Mauldin.…

(Via Chaos Manor) The environmental and human price paid by the Chinese for their economic miracle. A little something to think about the next time…

Today is Guy Fawkes Day! In memory, here is the entire (and as Wikipedia notes, politically incorrect) poem that commemorates this day: Remember, remember the…

(From Facebook) On election day, an anonymous statist decided to call us all “RACIST!!!” one more time. You know, in case we had forgotten about…

(From The Email List That Must Remain Nameless) Bring it on, Ben: take us that much nearer to the denouement of 100 years of US…

“…jackass party was beaten like the proverbial rented mule.” “Apparently the folks in California were too stoned to remember to legalize weed.” “2008: Yes, we…

Not when a local paper reports on a checkpoint where only 2 arrests were made for drunk driving but 36 other citations were issued. And…

(Via the Drudge Report) Now that the GOP has the power to block if not control the legislative process in Washington, the Democrats warn them…

Boy howdy did you remember! Incumbents across the country have been voted out, and in the US House a new sheriff has come to town.…

Go vote the bastards out. All of them.

Would anyone want to buy stock in a company that was, IMHO, stolen from it’s original owners? Yes, I know the answer. “Yes,” because investors…

Karen De Coster leads us to the Investors Business Daily and their conclusion that the latest People’s (Green) Car is a fraud. This unGreen ride…

(Via The Register) Aviation enthusiasts in The Country Once Known as Great Britain refuse to believe that the last airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber should be…

Ars Technica has an interesting article that points out, yet again, exactly how government regulation needlessly stifles business innovation, this time in the case of…