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Sorry about yesterday. Peter and I went for a walk down to the new sculpture park (eh) and then continued on downtown to look for a video game he wanted at the store on the bottom floor of Westlake mall. It was sold out. Upon leaving that store, we spied a sign [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Sunday Telegraph - We must fight terror the American way. By David Davis (the Shadow Home Secretary)

Since we’re all familiar with the way the Conservative opposition is treating the US these days, I think that thesis is telling. No, just kidding. Why would they want that?

have just returned from the United [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Better yet, why don’t we just call her on the phone. Whatever we do, let’s just not involve Margaret Beckett.

The Sunday Times - Iran ‘to try Britons for espionage’

This morning I was wading through a comment piece about how the sailors and marines may be used as leverage as the West escalates tension or [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - Again the Aggressor The UN must unite to punish Iran for its provocations

Uh huh.

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - Hands up who forecast Hong Kong’s decline, by Gerard Baker on a continuing, British-inspired miracle

There’s an important lesson here. It is still, essentially, British values that make the little miracle of Hong Kong what it is. Its survival these past ten years owes principally to the energy and courage of [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

If his radio addresses are like this, I will personally register fifteen dead people to vote for him.

NRO - Plutonic Warming, by Fred Thompson (audio here)

NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

WaPo - Retreat and Butter Are Democrats in the House voting for farm subsidies or withdrawal from Iraq?

TODAY THE House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill that would grant $25 million to spinach farmers in California. The legislation would also appropriate $75 million for peanut storage in Georgia and $15 million [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph - Will America deliver the final shove that topples Mugabe? By Con Coughlin

The most trenchant criticism of his latest excess has come from America, which in itself is surprising, given that Africa’s unpleasant little local difficulties have been low down the pecking order of Washington’s priorities. But now the Bush Administration seems [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph - Am I doubted because I’m a Jew? By Stephen Pollard

It seems Norman Tebbit may have been on to something when he identified his “cricket test” in 1990. As he put it at the time: “A large proportion of Britain’s Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Peter had to read for a history class Paris Sewers and Sewermen. I haven’t read it, but apparently, and I find this easy to believe, the subject is fascinating.

The Times - Sink Thames, Run Sweetly Flush out the old belly of London: bring in the supersewer for the new century

A city also marches [...]

Categories: History

Four days ago: Oh Here We Go

Today:

The Times - Green-eyed fools should buzz off. Notebook by Mick Hume

Coming soon to a bedroom near you: the Good Mosquito? Scientists are reportedly trying to engineer a genetically modified bug , with green eyes or fluorescent testicles, to combat the spread of malaria. But beating a [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

FOXnews - Judge Tells Battered Muslim Wife: Koran Says ‘Men Are in Charge of Women’

BERLIN — Politicians and Muslim leaders denounced a German judge for citing the Koran in her rejection of a Muslim woman’s request for a quick divorce on grounds she was abused by her husband. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

CDR Salamander - Fred Thompson’s bumper sticker

Categories: Politics

The cherry blossoms bloomed in Japan this week, after faking the forecasters out and making them think they’d be a week ago.

The cherry blossoms here appeared a week ago, but the flowers at the Japanese Consulate only bloomed this week.

I don’t know how they did it.

Categories: Science and Nature

Wheat & Weeds - Wild In Waziristan III

I told you people it was a good idea to send her there.

Now this is an example of the government getting good value for money that we can all learn from.

Categories: War and Peace