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Good morning, everyone. Here’s your morning laugh - And Then Buffy Staked Edward. The End.. In video, now. Also, a trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's latest film, Ponyo.
If audio is your thing, imagine 89 trombones, a soprano, and an organ all playing and singing in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum.
And, talking my profession yet again, how sad is it that five schools in one area ranked in the top 100 list of Newsweek and all five of them are having their school librarians reassigned to being classroom instructors? The libraries will stay open, staffed by assistants and techs, but the librarians will become teachers. This is a cost-cutting move, and as it should, the people affected by it are raising hell.
Internationally, on Iran, a rather depressing but likely true opinion - all the Twittering and blogging in the world will do nothing to fix the situation in Iran if no real action follows it. The totalitarian regime continues and the repression happens. If, say, the world decided they weren’t buying Iranian oil for a bit, then we’d see things happen, but that’s not a likely thing, either. The thing that happens is rescinding of invitations for Iranian diplomats to celebrate American holidays. Even after we had contacted Iran and expressed hope of improved relations. Although this isn’t pessimism for everyone. Mr. Ibrahim sees the Iran rebellion as part of a larger trend toward freedom. One thing is certain - like Calvinball, you can't play Iranian politics the same way twice after this one.
Mixing art and disaster, pictures of the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bomb drops, from those who experienced it firsthand.
Domestically, The General has the true account of the missing Governor Sanford, thinking that the ides of him having left to go hiking on the Appalachian Trail for days, including a coincidence with Hike Naked Day, is just a cover story for his real work. As it turns out, the hiking story is a cover, the governor was in South America destressing. Okay, he was doing more than that. In fact, the governor was seeing a mistress in Argentina. Score another one for Republican Family Values.
The Obama climate person rejected calls for reduction in carbon emissions at a summit. And the left hand knows not what the right is doing. Good for charity, bad for politics. At least now we have rules about how to count jobs created or saved by the stimulus.
A proposed ban expansion on importation of knives may include folding knives that are openable with one hand, which would potentiallu make most outdoorsmen utility knives illegal to import into the country and carry between states, according to critics of the rule change.
A heartwarming story for you, about a woman who will be attending Harvard in the fall, having graduated from her high school with a just-under 4.0 GPA and no permanent residence for much of her educational life.
In the opinions, Investors Business Daily uses Medicare as the example of how any public health-care option will never be able to achjieve cost-cutting, as Mr. Sklar hopes for a reasonable take from the administration on what is really needed to reform health care, including an aggressive obesity-reduction campaign and smaller practices of medicine, more people are starting to blame economic trouble on Obama policies, as time continues on enough and emergency measures like the stimulus do not produce the immediate results most Americans expect, compounded by the continued insistence that the President is running companies, planning on bank nationalization, and will be utterly at fault if things collapse again, more focusing on the firing of the Inspector-General, with Mr. van Spakovsky claiming insufficient reasons have been given, according to the law that requires those reasons, leading also into the request for a Congressional hearing by the fired IGsome worry that the reforming Colombia is facing a potentially allied set of nations against them because they are U.S. friendly, and a call to let the nuke power people shine and grant us clean power using updated reactor designs that generate much less waste and proliferation by removing and reducing the barriers from the regulators.
Oh, and the other foreign powers in the Iran matter - the ones supposedly supporting the current regime.
Making a solid point, the WSJ notes the paradox of Mr. Frank declaring that lax standards got us into this mess, and then encouraging laxer standards for condo lending. Uh, consistency check, please?
Making it tough to just award one bit of flaky pastry, Ms. Riley asks whether tenure has outlived its usefulness, since schools need to save money and tenured professors are all just cookie-cutter liberals, anyway, so actually making it so they can be fired if the school has to save money or if they want to shake up the ideology (or force profs to do ever more research, instead of letting them focus on teaching, if they want to) is a good thing.
Jennifer Rubin wants to know why the Obama administration is putting a booth out at an Islamic conference, because the sponsoring organization are clearly terrorists based on unindicted namings and their ties. You know, the conference that the society is putting on to engage interfaith dialogue, and that Rick Warren will be attending. Nothing like using the “guilty until proven innocent” standard, which is doubly hard because they’re Muslims.
Mr. Greenberg thinks the current recalcitrance by the world to step in and stomp on Iran has echoes of previous times, when the world refused to assist those who wanted to break away from Communism, and who are now revered as heroes in their country for having resisted. He suspects the same fate for those who are in Iran now, that they will be killed now and then buried later when Iran breaks free of its current repressive regime, and insinuates cowardice on the part of Americans and others who aren’t trying to make this revolution be the one that counts. The comparisons to Russia under Gorbachev are starting to come out... if that’s the end result, huzzah, huzzah.
In second place, over that trio of bronze offerings, The WSJ opines about the Padilla lawsuit, starting in good territory (what if it happened to your guys?) before wandering off into places about how Mr. Padilla did have his rights and they were never violated, the terror prosecutors should go after the people at the top, not the middle, and that the real strategy is to bankrupt the people who indicated torture was a good and legal idea, because they haven’t been able to get anyone to actually prosecute.
But, because opinion columnists still can’t hold a candle to actual representatives, Ron Paul accusses President Obama of wanting to bring about an economic collapse, based on the spending of the Congress and the additional credit line extended to the IMF.
On the positive side, though, Mr. Kaku looks on with interest at the new space race, and wonders if some old treaties about who can own space need updating and renegotiation.
In technology, Microsoft is apparently going with what's worked for them and using the Word HTML engine to render Outlook e-mail, irritating a significant number of Twitter users, and probably others. Similar failures include the mosquito device that emits a high-pitched noise to drive away loitering teenagers. Other tech includes MIT using equations based on explosion ripples to model, and then hopefully eliminate, phantom traffic jams (the kind where you get through them and discover no evidence of all to explain the slowdown), a new T-Mobile Android-based phone, interpreting the Fermi Paradox to indicate large-scale galactic civ is unlikely, instead of Humes being alone in the universe, ground broken on a lab that will be the furthest underground to this date, and continuing to develop chemical "noses" that can detect the presence of cancerous growths.
Last for tonight, put on your tinfoil hats and read the supposed proof that the moon was capable of life, based on a carving supposedly made hundreds of thousands of years ago and brought back by astronauts.
And then grab your Darwin Award nomination for the girl who dropped her laptop in the bath tub, electrocuting herself and removing herself from the gene pool.
If audio is your thing, imagine 89 trombones, a soprano, and an organ all playing and singing in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum.
And, talking my profession yet again, how sad is it that five schools in one area ranked in the top 100 list of Newsweek and all five of them are having their school librarians reassigned to being classroom instructors? The libraries will stay open, staffed by assistants and techs, but the librarians will become teachers. This is a cost-cutting move, and as it should, the people affected by it are raising hell.
Internationally, on Iran, a rather depressing but likely true opinion - all the Twittering and blogging in the world will do nothing to fix the situation in Iran if no real action follows it. The totalitarian regime continues and the repression happens. If, say, the world decided they weren’t buying Iranian oil for a bit, then we’d see things happen, but that’s not a likely thing, either. The thing that happens is rescinding of invitations for Iranian diplomats to celebrate American holidays. Even after we had contacted Iran and expressed hope of improved relations. Although this isn’t pessimism for everyone. Mr. Ibrahim sees the Iran rebellion as part of a larger trend toward freedom. One thing is certain - like Calvinball, you can't play Iranian politics the same way twice after this one.
Mixing art and disaster, pictures of the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bomb drops, from those who experienced it firsthand.
Domestically, The General has the true account of the missing Governor Sanford, thinking that the ides of him having left to go hiking on the Appalachian Trail for days, including a coincidence with Hike Naked Day, is just a cover story for his real work. As it turns out, the hiking story is a cover, the governor was in South America destressing. Okay, he was doing more than that. In fact, the governor was seeing a mistress in Argentina. Score another one for Republican Family Values.
The Obama climate person rejected calls for reduction in carbon emissions at a summit. And the left hand knows not what the right is doing. Good for charity, bad for politics. At least now we have rules about how to count jobs created or saved by the stimulus.
A proposed ban expansion on importation of knives may include folding knives that are openable with one hand, which would potentiallu make most outdoorsmen utility knives illegal to import into the country and carry between states, according to critics of the rule change.
A heartwarming story for you, about a woman who will be attending Harvard in the fall, having graduated from her high school with a just-under 4.0 GPA and no permanent residence for much of her educational life.
In the opinions, Investors Business Daily uses Medicare as the example of how any public health-care option will never be able to achjieve cost-cutting, as Mr. Sklar hopes for a reasonable take from the administration on what is really needed to reform health care, including an aggressive obesity-reduction campaign and smaller practices of medicine, more people are starting to blame economic trouble on Obama policies, as time continues on enough and emergency measures like the stimulus do not produce the immediate results most Americans expect, compounded by the continued insistence that the President is running companies, planning on bank nationalization, and will be utterly at fault if things collapse again, more focusing on the firing of the Inspector-General, with Mr. van Spakovsky claiming insufficient reasons have been given, according to the law that requires those reasons, leading also into the request for a Congressional hearing by the fired IGsome worry that the reforming Colombia is facing a potentially allied set of nations against them because they are U.S. friendly, and a call to let the nuke power people shine and grant us clean power using updated reactor designs that generate much less waste and proliferation by removing and reducing the barriers from the regulators.
Oh, and the other foreign powers in the Iran matter - the ones supposedly supporting the current regime.
Making a solid point, the WSJ notes the paradox of Mr. Frank declaring that lax standards got us into this mess, and then encouraging laxer standards for condo lending. Uh, consistency check, please?
Making it tough to just award one bit of flaky pastry, Ms. Riley asks whether tenure has outlived its usefulness, since schools need to save money and tenured professors are all just cookie-cutter liberals, anyway, so actually making it so they can be fired if the school has to save money or if they want to shake up the ideology (or force profs to do ever more research, instead of letting them focus on teaching, if they want to) is a good thing.
Jennifer Rubin wants to know why the Obama administration is putting a booth out at an Islamic conference, because the sponsoring organization are clearly terrorists based on unindicted namings and their ties. You know, the conference that the society is putting on to engage interfaith dialogue, and that Rick Warren will be attending. Nothing like using the “guilty until proven innocent” standard, which is doubly hard because they’re Muslims.
Mr. Greenberg thinks the current recalcitrance by the world to step in and stomp on Iran has echoes of previous times, when the world refused to assist those who wanted to break away from Communism, and who are now revered as heroes in their country for having resisted. He suspects the same fate for those who are in Iran now, that they will be killed now and then buried later when Iran breaks free of its current repressive regime, and insinuates cowardice on the part of Americans and others who aren’t trying to make this revolution be the one that counts. The comparisons to Russia under Gorbachev are starting to come out... if that’s the end result, huzzah, huzzah.
In second place, over that trio of bronze offerings, The WSJ opines about the Padilla lawsuit, starting in good territory (what if it happened to your guys?) before wandering off into places about how Mr. Padilla did have his rights and they were never violated, the terror prosecutors should go after the people at the top, not the middle, and that the real strategy is to bankrupt the people who indicated torture was a good and legal idea, because they haven’t been able to get anyone to actually prosecute.
But, because opinion columnists still can’t hold a candle to actual representatives, Ron Paul accusses President Obama of wanting to bring about an economic collapse, based on the spending of the Congress and the additional credit line extended to the IMF.
On the positive side, though, Mr. Kaku looks on with interest at the new space race, and wonders if some old treaties about who can own space need updating and renegotiation.
In technology, Microsoft is apparently going with what's worked for them and using the Word HTML engine to render Outlook e-mail, irritating a significant number of Twitter users, and probably others. Similar failures include the mosquito device that emits a high-pitched noise to drive away loitering teenagers. Other tech includes MIT using equations based on explosion ripples to model, and then hopefully eliminate, phantom traffic jams (the kind where you get through them and discover no evidence of all to explain the slowdown), a new T-Mobile Android-based phone, interpreting the Fermi Paradox to indicate large-scale galactic civ is unlikely, instead of Humes being alone in the universe, ground broken on a lab that will be the furthest underground to this date, and continuing to develop chemical "noses" that can detect the presence of cancerous growths.
Last for tonight, put on your tinfoil hats and read the supposed proof that the moon was capable of life, based on a carving supposedly made hundreds of thousands of years ago and brought back by astronauts.
And then grab your Darwin Award nomination for the girl who dropped her laptop in the bath tub, electrocuting herself and removing herself from the gene pool.
