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I’m no fan of the Prius, but seriously:

Forbes – Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax, by Michael Fumento

Also, check out the Ken Doll byline headshot on this guy. Yeesh.

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Telegraph – Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown

Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.

How does he explain the [...]

Categories: Politics

Another story I can’t stand so I’ll just quote Instapundit:

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: Neglected by ‘lazy’ nurses, man, 22, dying of thirst rang the police to beg for water. “A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital. Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

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

WaPo – IOC failing in its responsibility to the Olympics, by Sally Jenkins

As the Vancouver Games come to a close, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will call them a success. But it’s the IOC — so incubated in blue blazers, five-star accommodations, and shellfish buffets — that requires real assessment. Exactly what [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Telegraph – Canadian women’s ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice The all-conquering Canadian women’s ice hockey team has apologised after players celebrated winning Olympic gold by quaffing champagne and beer, and smoking cigars, on the ice.

Victorious players emerged from the dressing room, still in their uniforms and with gold medals [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

I’ve never thought of it this way:

NY Daily News – Palin vs. Edwards, a case study in media bias

When in 2004 John Kerry picked Edwards, whose entire resume in public life at that point consisted of six years in the U.S. Senate, to be his vice-presidential nominee, few questioned whether Edwards was qualified [...]

Categories: Politics

The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Categories: Politics

I have decided to take advantage of this long weekend and make myself a portfolio. For those of you wondering what on earth I’m doing. Also: a friend was in town and we had brunch. SO MUCH BRUNCH. So that’s where I’ve been.

I have a ton of links on Haiti and other important things [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I’m sure most of you have no idea what this is all about and could care even less, but I’m gonna bang on about it anyway.

Just READ THIS LETTER (which he sent to a NEW YORK paper, just fyi):

People of Earth: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a [...]

Categories: Entertainment

I was this close to sending an email to Fox News when we cancelled our cable that the only thing that kept me subscribing to cable was his show, and please don’t take it personally, etc etc.

The Corner – KLo: This Is Beautiful

from Brit Hume, via Christianity Today: [...]

Categories: Business & Media

A young man, on a watchlist, shopped to the CIA by his own father, who spent time in Al Qaeda-controlled lands learning “Arabic”, who began his travels in sketchy west Africa, who paid cash for his ticket, who checked no luggage, who HAD NO PASSPORT, gets on a flight and tries to blow up a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

A much more interesting Person of the Year:

The Times – Person of the Year<br/> Neda Soltan, killed by a government thug, became a symbol of Iranians’ yearning for democracy and the ruthlessness of a bankrupt regime

Every few years a man, or a woman, whose name is often familiar to few beyond the circle of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

You know how people get about cricket…

The Corner – Mark Steyn: Come Fry with Me

In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual “carbon allowance” preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating [...]

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