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Over the weekend I sent Sunday’s India Knight to RC2 to file under “It’s Only Women” (it wasn’t a time for grim subjects for me, given what I was preparing to catch a plane for), and she just put up a post on the subject, making this connection:

Neither Allen nor Knight makes the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

From last Wednesday’s Opinion Journal, talking about judges (maybe Taranto’s reading RC2?):

Neither social conservatives nor constitutional conservatives will be happy with judges appointed by a President H.R. Clinton. And yet there has recently been talk that if front-runner Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination, social conservatives may bolt, either voting for a [...]

Categories: Politics

The Australian - Doom if Saint Al loses carbs, by Mark Steyn

Two things I hadn’t heard before. One rhetorical:

No matter how you raise the stakes (”It might take another 30 Kyotos”, says Jerry Mahlman of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research), Saint Al of the Ecopalypse can raise them higher. Climate change, he [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Times Online - China outraged as Bush meets the Dalai Lama

President Bush was today due to hold talks at the White House with the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, and tomorrow the US Congress will award him one of its highest civilian honours. “This action will seriously damage China-US relations,” [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Now we can all go to heaven!

Bubblehead - Get Thee Hence, Satan!

(So, I had an enjoyable evening last weekend with some cousins rubbishing the awful We Are Marshall all throughout the movie, due to its idiotic insistence that football is something that can make the tragic 88 good friends and family members a-okay and not [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

I just got this email:

Dear Western Standard reader, I’m sorry to report that we’ve had to shut down the print edition of the Western Standard. Despite nearly four valiant years of trying, we were unable to make ends meet financially. I regret that means we will be unable to fulfill [...]

Categories: Business & Media

(I wonder, has anyone considered that they’re just jealous of their Danegeld?)

The Copenhagen Post - Hirsi Ali offered refuge in Denmark

Brian Mikkelsen, the Danish culture minister, has indicated the government would be willing to allow outspoken Dutch-Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali to live in Denmark under its protection from fanatical Muslims seeking to [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Telegraph - John Howard’s example

That’s how to do it, Gordon Brown. The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, is even further behind than you are: by 11 points according to some polls, by 18 according to others. Yet he has gone to the country in apparently good cheer, making a [...]

Categories: Politics

Fascinating:

Times Online - Urban Dirt - Four reasons why vending machines are better than the Japanese civil service, by Leo Lewis

Categories: Business & Media

This could be a funniest item of the day, but Seattle in the news doesn’t deserve that.

AP - Overhead Cam Falls Onto Field in Seattle

An overhead NBC television camera mounted on wires collapsed onto the turf during a timeout in Sunday night’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks, causing a [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

First of all, this is funny:

NY Times (sorry, sorry) - First Lady Raising Her Profile Without Changing Her Image

At the United Nations General Assembly in late September, Mrs. Bush was in the audience while her husband criticized the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators by the military junta in Myanmar, formerly Burma. But three weeks [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I’m in California, now. My grandma’s dying, so I’m here basically waiting for that. I bought the tickets last night after driving home and flew in this afternoon. Got in later than expected due to some fog over Seattle this morning, so just getting a chance to hook up the ol’ laptop [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Well, we made it. Details to follow.

Update:

So, here is a list of the animals we saw: A bear, a great big daddy elk with big daddy antlers, a bunch of female elk, another smaller daddy elk, two chipmunks, a dead wolf in the road, a black bear, a pika, a handful of birds, mountain goats, [...]

Categories: Wildcard

This is Lake Louise last time we were there this time of year. I forgot to check the webcam during the daylight again today, but I’m sure it’ll be like that now:

But we’ll probably go there, too. And maybe have some tea. And then we’ll maybe go to Canmore to get some dinner [...]

Categories: Wildcard

This is inside (or rather, on top of) Banff National Park, looking up the Bow River Valley, from the top of the Banff Gondola:

Peter’s threatening to make me walk up so we can get a free Gondola down, so I’m hoping I make it up there. Here’s another shot in the other direction:

Categories: Wildcard