Seven links by 7PM on Wednesdays: RS McCain needs donations for his journalistic trip to New York’s district 23. An interesting line item for his expenses is two packs of cigarettes per day. I hope those are for share. The clients’ guide to web design. This kind of tutorial is essential in expectations management. I’ll… Continue reading this entry

Seven links at 7PM on Wednesdays: Professor Chris Lawrence has a roundup on BHO’s Nobel Peace Prize commentary. Charles Johnson, who was responsible in 2004 for publicizing (note, it was a Free Republic member who noticed the proportional font) the Dan Rather fake memos, himself has descended into fake-but-accurate Ratherisms about Rush Limbaugh. Barry Oh… Continue reading this entry

I’ve moved the weekly roundup to Wednesdays, mainly so that my Sunday photos can sit up top for a few days. Seven items delivered by 7PM: Deep Glamour reacts to the FTC disclosure rules, which prompts me to put up my own policies page. (Found from Dustbury.) Venomous Kate encounters an incontinent, obese woman. Inside… Continue reading this entry

Seven things to read, delivered at 7PM every Monday: Jules Crittenden examines the brewing Shakespearean tragedy that is Obamlet. The Anchoress shares a Hebrew folk tale on the value of sharing what is the most to us, no matter how seemingly small we seem to perceive it. Rob at Say Anything has some Liberal columnists… Continue reading this entry

“Pandas favor the missionary position.” Whodathunkit? Found through DanHarris on Twitter: “Let’s just say Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan would tuan yuan at every chance,” said Liu, referring to the combination of the panda’s names, which means “to reunite” in Mandarin. “They would do it doggy-style and every armchair zoologist knows that pandas favor the… Continue reading this entry

Ryan Goff asks the first thing that comes to mind if a doctor asks patients to sign a non-disclosure agreement: What would be the first thing that came into your mind if your doctor asked you to sign a gag order banning you from posting reviews? I would think that he has something to hide… Continue reading this entry

(1) A comment I left at a post by Bill Quick on SciFi: I think the debate over the definition of terms around SciFi and Fantasy as literary genres will never end. I think there is far less acrimony between writers of each genre than the depictions in pop culture show, however. I’ve always thought… Continue reading this entry

Repeat after me: a house is not an investment. Just ask the tallest female econoblogger on the planet: Incidentally, if you think that people still have a vestigial view of housing as an investment asset rather than a consumption good with residual value, this implies that housing will substantially undershoot as well. But wait, there’s… Continue reading this entry

Observer or prophet? Bill Quick links to and comments on a post on global banking insolvency and ends with a Karl Marx quote that has me asking that question. Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more… Continue reading this entry

Sometimes I’m just better elsewhere: Signing in as Jay C., at OTB, where I comment on a Leftist’s view of taxes, on the nature of attributing to the Divine what is best ascribed to the due dilligence of men, and on the folly of intellectual nostalgia. As Jay, I also show up at Althouse, where… Continue reading this entry

Thanks to Ian’s Shoelace Site and his entry on the lacing technique, I’ve rescued two pairs of shoes from being nigh unusable due to corrugation. A link on the shoelace site leads to the inventor’s webpage; it turns out the lacing is patented. How about that?

When the networks called the election for PE-BHO, the weirdest thing happened. I stayed calm. Sure, I was hoping for a McCain victory, and I’m a little sad but nor surprised. Before the election results started to come in, I was musing about how, for the past eight years, the folks on the left foamed… Continue reading this entry

We’ve heard of the MSM being so much “in the tank” for one candidate or the other that Julian Sanchez has had to publish the concise etymology of the phrase. Crude and tired, of course, but certainly, for just one day I would like to hear someone on TV ape the memorable Denny Crane line… Continue reading this entry

How fast time flies. Seven years ago on this day a terrible, terrible terrorist attack—an act of war—was launched upon us. Quite frankly, we the people responded in a way that, while unsurprising and fully expected of us (the acts of nobility before and after, and yes, letting loose the dogs of war) I fully… Continue reading this entry

…I want to write as well as Victor Davis Hanson. Happy Friday, folks.

There’s lots of WordPress themes out there for people to just drop in and use for their blogs. It makes it easy for someone to not have a theme that looks just like the next. I, on the other hand find it a little difficult to work with a pre-existing theme and modify it and… Continue reading this entry

Looking back, I’ve seen a pattern of redesigning my site twice a year. Well. This is the second redesign for 2008. It’s currently at 70% completion but I figure it’s worth soft-launching.

I am not an economist. I am not a capital-E Economist, nor do I want to be, because economics is just one of those sciences where you can say one thing and the listener can hear the complete opposite. Oh, wait. That happens in every science. So here’s the thing. I’ve got a little over… Continue reading this entry

I’m planning to do a drastic renewal on the site but I want to at least be courteous to those who have linked me before; that and it’s the right thing to do. I will be moving the contents of the site to another WordPress install under a folder, foo. The database will carry the… Continue reading this entry