Remember the Yellow River Dolphin?
This is how they tried to save the Yellow River Dolphin: “Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
This Company Makes Me Want to Buy a Laptop
A new reason to rescue yesterday’s t-shirts from the back of your closet. Once upon a time, it was your statement to the world — a show of school pride, a taste for graphic design, a photo of your favorite singer’s mug shot. These days, it probably sits unworn in [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Life Imitates Ellis Peters!
Telegraph – Woman used rare poison in curry to kill ex-lover A woman found guilty of murdering her ex-lover used a rare poison which has not featured in a British court case since 1882.
Lakhvir Kaur Singh slipped aconite into Lakhvinder Cheema’s curry in January last year in revenge for his engagement to a younger [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
I’m Finding This Very Wearying Today
The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen
THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The UN’s Gotten Its Own Magic 8 Ball
After a BBC video report on the misery – and upcoming elections! – in Darfur:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has told African leaders he is outraged by the use of rape as a weapon of war.
After another year of it, maybe he’ll say he’s “shocked”. After another year, “gravely disappointed”. A third [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Where Cartoonists Have Panic Rooms
The Sunday Times – Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin
An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday night as the 75-year-old cartoonist was looking after Stephanie, his five-year-old granddaughter. Westergaard, whose little ink drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Pope’s Sidekick
Times Online – Pope Benedict XVI knocked to floor during Christmas Eve Mass
Reverend Benedettini said the woman who pushed the Pope appeared to be mentally unstable and had been arrested by Vatican police.
The pope’s spokesman is called Benedettini? Pope Benedict and Reverend Benedettini? That’s adorable!
Categories: People and Current Events
My Mini Copenhagen
First, curtsies to RC2:
New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin
The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
And Your Christian Elephants as Agents of Hindu Karma Story of the Day
Loopholes and Baby Killing
CMR – Cold-Blooded Child Murder and the Loophole
I warn you, this story is very disturbing. In Virginia, a mother gave birth to her baby and then suffocated it. Virginia law enforcement is powerless to charge her.
Oh gross.
Categories: People and Current Events
The Travels of Jennifer Lynch
National Post – Adrian MacNair: Jennifer Lynch gets human rights advice from Cuba, Kyrgyzstan
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has revealed the costly travel expenses of Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch, as she went abroad to consult dignitaries from such beacons of human rights as Cuba. In travels to Geneva, Dublin, Copenhagen, Malaysia, [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXV
Peter sent me this. It would be a Peter Recommends, but it’s too flipping funny. Poor Berlusconi.
Categories: Politics
Modern Musical Style Doing Its Part For Darwinian Evolution
This has been everywhere already, but I just want to add my joyous voice to the throng:
A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Geneva Conventions Are About Incentives, Too
WSJ – Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan by William McGurn
[T]he perverse message that decision [to dispatch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial] will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Celebrating Diversity at Fort Hood
NRO – Tragedy or Scandal?<br/> We weaseled and equivocated and appeased. By Mark Steyn
Well, like they say, it’s easy to be wise after the event. I’m not so sure. These days, it’s easier to be even more stupid after the event. “Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaeda,” mused MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “That’s not a [...]
Categories: War and Peace
