You’re a sweet little headache, but you are lots of fun. I’ve a good mind to spank you, then thank you for all you’ve done.. ♫
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The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’ve taken to sleeping in a chair with the shotgun in my lap.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Is President Obama waging a war on coal? Republicans say yes. Democrats deny it. Here’s what Bill McKibben, self-styled leader of America’s “fossil-fuel resistance,” has to say: “Recently, I had a long talk with an administration insider who kept telling me that, for the next decade, we should focus all our energies on ‘killing coal.'” Sounds like a war to me.
That wasn’t good enough for McKibben, who insisted that the administration would have “to put the same sort of thought and creative energy into killing oil and natural gas, too.” Now that’s creativity. Energy independence? “Last century’s worry,” says McKibben.
The Tolerant Left
MSNBC: Is Dr. Ben Carson ‘Just a Black Sarah Palin?’
4 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Well, it’s only gasoline consumption. Probably nothing.
h/t Melinda Romanoff
The Iron Lady
May she rest in peace.
Diversity in Everything Except Thought & Ideas
The WSJ has a fascinating story about a detailed analysis of a liberal arts school in Maine. Here’s a snippet:
The school’s ideological pillars would likely be familiar to anyone who has paid attention to American higher education lately. There’s the obsession with race, class, gender and sexuality as the essential forces of history and markers of political identity. There’s the dedication to “sustainability,” or saving the planet from its imminent destruction by the forces of capitalism. And there are the paeans to “global citizenship,” or loving all countries except one’s own.
The full study can be read here (PDF).
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The disability insurance trust fund has been running at a deficit since 2009. So far, it has been able to make payments drawing down on surpluses built during the 1990s and early 2000s. But unless revenue increases or payouts drop that extra cash will eventually run out. In fact, the most recent report of the fund’s board of trustees expects it to run dry as soon as 2016.
It’s Probably Nothing
Portugal Considers Paying Public Workers In Treasury Bills Instead Of Cash
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Luna Lee plucks, pushes, and strums on her gayageum as she performs a version of Jimmy Hendrix’s Voodoo Chile.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Quote of the Week
In North America, we call it ‘Fisker’
‘Solyndra’, and crony capitalism.
“My wife has been crying for three or four days now saying: ‘Why should we pay and not them?'” says Andreas.
It was revealed last week in Greek media that Laiki, the Bank of Cyprus and the Hellenic Bank forgave loans amounting to millions of euros to companies, local authorities and individual politicians.
It’s what happens when politicians and business people spend time together on the golf courses.
H/t: Dick Slater
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Maybe ‘substance’ is the last thing Canadians should be worried about:
Trudeau”s not worried about those who say he lacks substance: “I’m not going to go around reciting PI to the 19th decibel” he says #cdnpoli
— The West Block (@TheWestBlock) April 7, 2013
A proud teacher who won’t back down from the Harper Conservatives, err, the Ontario Liberals.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
It’s a good thing there isn’t a “People for the Ethical Treatment of Activists”.
Despite $35,000,000 in annual revenues and millions of “animal-loving” members, PETA does not even try to find them homes. PETA has no adoption hours, does no adoption promotion, has no adoption floor, but is registered with the State of Virginia as a “humane society” or “animal shelter.”
Pamela Anderson’s breasts were unavailable for comment.
H/t EBD
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
An aboriginal association tasked with disbursing federal funds for flood evacuees has spent over $1 million in eight months on snacks for evacuees, CBC news has learned.
The Manitoba Association of Native Fire Fighters (MANFF) spent the money, which was over and above the three meals a day Manitoba evacuees from the 2011 flood received from the hotels they were staying in.
Ted Ducharme, a MANFF community liaison who is currently on stress leave, has provided documents to CBC News that show the organization paid Winnipeg’s Mona Lisa Ristorante Italiano more than $1 million to provide “light refreshment” in the evenings to hotel-bound evacuees.
A copy of a ledger Ducharme provided to CBC News shows the restaurant delivered up to $1,500 worth of snacks every day to each hotel housing evacuees from April 2012 to December 2012.
If you build it, they will come.
h/t Orville
It’s Probably Nothing
Robin Harding explains why David Stockman doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about: “David Frum” and inflation “at 1.3 per cent”.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s music en route to the Tips is a simple, riff-driven, lyrically childlike rock ‘n’ roll nursery rhyme of sorts from Neil Young, backed by members of Pearl Jam including drummer Jack Irons. So, let’s go Downtown….where the hippies dance the Charleston.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
IL-76TD Antarctic ice pilot footage. h/t Michael
Y2Kyoto: “Remember 1979?”
… of “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, of “The Dukes of Hazard” on TV, and of ” Kramer vs. Kramer” on the silver screen. It was the year the Shah was forced out of Iran. It was before the web, before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and answering machines. But not before the global warming campaign.
With enemies like this….
You know that last fight scene in The Matrix? Neo is fighting Agent Smith and is so much faster that he doesn’t really have to concentrate? Smith tries to lay a hit, but Neo blocks them all with one hand while looking away.
Yeah, The Toronto Star is Agent Smith.