Polimaths
Brett McS said in the comments of a different post,
The Tories are against British involvement in Iraq? Bizzaro. In that case, I would say that they’ve been well and truly “triangulated”.
Hah! This is trigonometry of an entirely different level than simple triangulation.
The Australian – Tories go populist: Britain’s Conservative Party [...]
Categories: Politics
Grey Faced Lady
City-Journal – Jew Tortured, Times Fiddles: Paper puts peaceful imam on page one.
Alas, despite honorable sympathies for victims in Uganda, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo, the same evasions and willful myopia still afflict the [New York Times] when it comes to crimes against Jews. On January 21st of this year, for example, a gang [...]
Categories: Business & Media
It's Just So Tsotsi
The webpage music alone makes me want to cry.
Categories: Entertainment
Economists in the Sky
The Times – Workers of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our airline tickets, by Anatole Kaletsky
Why, then, do environmentalists campaign for new airline taxes (which would be totally ineffective) or for outright bans on air travel (which will never happen), instead of arguing calmly for the economically rational solution [...]
Categories: Business & Media
I Suspected as Much
Tim Blair – “NOTORIOUS CONSERVATIVE” OUT OF BRITAIN
Mark Steyn is no longer published in the UK. Leftoid Guardian columnist Lionel Shriver will miss him, as will thousands: His column has now been dropped by both the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. I don’t know the inside [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Richest Man in Europe
Telegraph – Berlusconi has his faults, but dullness isn’t one of them. By Boris Johnson
So I hope you will agree that I still have a faint trace of impartiality in declaring there is something about the Italian leader that makes me warm to him; and it would be sad if he were to [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Business Breakers
FOXnews – Senate Could Mirror House Rebuke of Ports Deal
The Senate vote would come just one day after the House Appropriations Committee attached a similar amendment to a $91 billion emergency supplemental funding measure for hurricane recovery and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The committee vote in favor of the deal-blocker package was [...]
Categories: Politics
