In tonight’s Tippity amusement, filmed live at the the Steppe Inn, a private bar located at the back of the British Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian trio Shanz-Elsen Tsul helps the clientele knock back their Gin and Tonics with a drum machine-assisted performance of the traditional Mongolian song I’m Momentarily Out Of Ideas For Tips Music.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Nigeria’s nightmare bloodbath finding more Christian targets;
In Nigeria, thousands of people have been killed in recent months, and tens of thousands in the last decade. It is a fissiparous country whose conflicts have been exacerbated by the increased influence of radical Islam—beginning with attempts to apply Islamic law, then the growth of militias, and now the depredations of the vicious al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram movement.
The Left vs. Your Privacy – You Lose!
Out of California, yet another step “forward” with “progressivism”. What’s next, mandatory sexual organ measurements?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Last week I conducted an extensive interview with Max Allen of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. [,,,] Well, after pondering this, I emailed Max Allen some talking points for our interview, which forms the basis of the essay below related to the interview, and also includes responses to some questions I was asked during the interview.
Read it all, and then tune into IDEAS this evening for Head Explosions, Part 1.
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for.
It’s a sea change from the ousted regime of President Hosni Mubarak, when women were guaranteed 64 parliamentary seats. In the latest post-revolutionary elections, the quota was eliminated and women won only five seats. “The other seats went to the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists,” said El Soud, co-founder of the Revolutionary Women’s Coalition, which has 4,000 members on Facebook.
“We are going backward, backward and backward,” she added.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Dear Governor Perry,
The time has come for these three simple words: “Or else, what?“
YNoKyoto!
The European Union’s ambitious low carbon plan collapsed yesterday when Poland vetoed plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically after 2020. The move is the latest stage in the ignominious failure of EU carbon policy that has seen a grandiose carbon trading system bog down in a quagmire of scandal and price collapse. Europe will meet its current carbon reduction goals less because of any serious action than because the continent’s economic crisis brought on by the poorly constructed euro experiment has stalled economic growth.
A Diet High In Ibex
“These discoveries put a lot of what we see today medically in a broader context,” said Bustamante. “For example, this man, who died when he was about 45 years old, was likely very fit. He got lots of exercise and ate a true paleo diet. And yet he had begun to develop heart disease. This shows that the selective forces we’re familiar with today just weren’t in the picture then. These types of disease were probably common, but they didn’t kill people. People died instead of an arrow in the back or in hunting accidents. There is still so much more to learn.”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
The Sound Of Settled Science
Lord Monckton, sternly but sadly, told those who had raised their hands: “You know, from the plain and clear demonstration that I gave during my lecture, that the IPCC’s statistical abuse was just that – an abuse. Yet, perhaps out of misplaced loyalty to your professor, you raised your hands in denial of the truth. Never do that again, even for the sake of appeasing authority. In science, whatever you may personally believe or wish to be so, it is the truth and only the truth that matters.”
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music American songwriter Buddy Miller, along with Emmylou Harris on backing vocals, sings a beautiful song from the 2004 album Universal United House of Prayer called Wide River To Cross.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Occupying Media: 24 Hour Protest People Panel
Hyatt Regency Austin
Texas Ballroom 1-3
5:00PM – 6:00PM
The Occupy Wall Street Movement began in September, 2011 with the goal of holding a 24/7 public protest at the nerve center of American finance. Uniquely among American mass protest movements, the “occupation” …
Via Tabatha Hale
Andrew Coyne’s Speech to Conservatives
It’s Probably Nothing
A Reagan Forum with Mark Levin
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
From the comments – “Figures. They take the one guy in Detroit who actually uses birth control and whack him.”
Reader Tips
From his 1996 album Country Love songs (personally autographed copies available here), here’s Robbie Fulks’s country stomper She Took A Lot of Pills (and Died).
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
