Reader Tips
When something in the house needs repairs, who should you call?
Hint: not your hipster boyfriend.
h/t
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Boston Globe columnist fights with The Onion over whether Boston’s a world class city
“Why I Hate Guns”
“The fact is that all Russian politicians are clever.”
History started in 1960
President Obama proves once again how smart he is.
Lets see, 1775, 1812, Fenian raids. Yeah, Bozo, it’s two hundred years now since we gleefully spilled each others blood, 150 since the last skirmishes. That’s okay though, I’m sure Obama believes he just has to give a speech to create a path for Israel/Palestinian relations to become similar to Canada/US.?
I really don’t understand why the US, in general, is so concerned about peace in the M.East. Every president since Kennedy has mucked about in the region, usually creating more problems than they fix. These are the people who can’t get bipartisan support from their adversaries in their own political system and the world is supposed to give a damn about what the US thinks about the Middle East? It changes every four years.
Know your allies, support your allies, and then shut up, already.
Climategate 3.0
Roger at Tallbloke’s Talkshop here has gotten a letter from CRU lawyers suggesting he not mess around with the recently released Climategate e-mails, which are accessible using a password. The CRU apparently is very concerned about personal data ending up in public…
With advice from Lord Christopher Monckton.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
The arrests of two girls after a region-spanning steak knife stabbing spree late Monday have raised concerns of an “organized group” of teens bent on violence and robbery on B.C. public transit. […]
The girls have a combined 142 run-ins with police, Transit Police’s Anne Drennan said.
She said the group, sometimes seen with seven teens in total, has become a “serious ongoing problem” particularly with cellphone robberies.
h/t Larry F.
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Are Biofuels Causing Food Riots?
The New England Complex Systems Institute has become the latest organization to charge that by turning almost 50 percent of our corn crop into auto fuel, America is causing food shortages in the poorer nations of the world. The UN Food and Agriculture Association has been saying the same thing for ten years, calling biofuels “a crime against humanity.” But this time the authors are not simply making the accusation. They are providing correlations to back it up.
Related: “We need to design a new kind of democracy…” INdeed, we do. One in which our public policy makers share the same consequences as the victims of their planetary make-over schemes.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Decline, squared: Illegal Aliens Demand Americans Pay For Their Healthcare In New Commercial
Philadelphia Story
Author Robert Huber tried to start an open dialogue about race relations in Philadelphia. The usual suspects already want to destroy him.
Australian PM Puts Leadership On Line
Labour in turmoil in Australia;
Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, has thrown open her job to challenge by Kevin Rudd after senior figures of her Labor party called for the man she deposed to come back and replace her.
A combative Gillard said in parliamentary question time that a leadership ballot, known as a spill in Australian politics, would be held on Thursday afternoon. Gillard batted away taunts from the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, who called for a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives. The prime minister opened question time by challenging the opposition to “take your best shot”.
Caucus going to drag Gillard out of office by her feet. Claw marks in the carpet.
— grace collier (@MsGraceCollier) March 21, 2013
She’s called a leadership ballot for 4:30pm (12:30 am EDT). Tim Blair has the blow by blow. (link fixed)
Reader Tips
Tonight’s tips music, a live version of a track from Leonard Cohen’s 1969 album Songs from a Room, is a quiet, simple, beautiful, elegiac song about a young, good-hearted woman who lost her way in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Here’s Seems So Long Ago, Nancy.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick
Flashback: CBC Hues of the News
The Sound Of Settled Science
Unicorn Economics
All economic production comes from the central bank. And if you don’t understand that, then you don’t understand Unicorn Economics, and you’re a racist.
Smart Diplomacy
An Obama administration video highlighting the president’s plans for his Mideast trip depicts Jerusalem, the Golan and the West Bank – also known as Judea and Samaria – as non-Israeli territory.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
The federal Liberal leadership race was supposed to help the third-place party connect with a new, younger generation of voters and expand its shrunken base.
But an analysis of those who’ve registered to vote thus far suggests it’s done neither.
Almost 60 per cent are 50 years of age or older.
Related – “We call them the Laurentian elites”.
h/t Mike W