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Censorship and Repression of Art! Artist

Posted on March 16, 2011
Censorship and Repression of Art! Artist not allowed to exhibit art because it offends liberals. A crucifix in urine?  No problem. Elephant dung on the Virgin Mary?  Go ahead. An exhibit of "sustainable liberalism in a box"?  Get it out of here. Does it seem that the last 50 years of listening to our social elites prate about freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and the value of art in

Honestly, she should have been

Posted on March 16, 2011
Honestly, she should have been fired for the emotional distress she caused to the audience. This is a warning to all my professor friends who dance in semi-nude Burlesque shows - Professor fired for performing in off-campus burlesque review; files sex discrimination complaint...

Meta-Meteorology. This is cool

Posted on March 16, 2011
Meta-Meteorology. This is cool in a "meta" way.  I don't know if this has been done before, but here's the video from a satellite tracking the shadow of the Moon on the Earth during a lunar eclipse.

People are Idiots. Anti-Radiation

Posted on March 16, 2011
People are Idiots. Anti-Radiation Pills Selling Out in California.

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Your average death worshipping

Posted on March 15, 2011
Your average death worshipping Americans. The people in this video do not believe that abortion should be legal, safe and rare.  They aren't pro-choice. They are pro-abortion and want abortion viewed as a positive good, like treatment for cancer, rather than a tragic choice...

Travel from Corcoran to Borden

Posted on March 15, 2011
Travel from Corcoran to Borden in a high speed train! Megan McCardle explains the reason why the Central Valley will be the first part of California's high speed rail to be opened: So basically, the feds wanted to spend $2.6 billion, plus any cost overruns or operating costs, to put in a train for which there was no evident demand...

Is anyone actually watching "The

Posted on March 15, 2011
Is anyone actually watching "The Event"? I'm not, except that it was on while I was typing up a brief last night. From what I saw out of the corner of my eye, it seems to commit all the unforced errors described by Mark Twain's in "James Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses...

Scientists claim to have discovered

Posted on March 15, 2011
Scientists claim to have discovered the "lost city of Atlantis,"... ...which is weird because Plato said he was just making up the story about Atlantis. It's in southern Spain...maybe.

Thank God we have funding for scientific

Posted on March 15, 2011
Thank God we have funding for scientific research... ...such as the pressing question, "Why do people read magazines featuring envy-inspiring models." ?So you have to wonder: why do we still buy those magazines and watch those television programs when they should just make us more dissatisfied?? said Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, associate professor of communication at Ohio State University.

The "empty suit" metaphor is growing. Michael

Posted on March 14, 2011
The "empty suit" metaphor is growing. Michael Goodwin at the NY Post writes: First I did a double take. He said what? I read it again and the shock waves followed. A beleaguered Presi dent Obama has told aides it would be so much easier to be the president of China, The New York Times reports...

Seems like a metaphor for a lot

Posted on March 14, 2011
Seems like a metaphor for a lot of things. Are we the Greek vase painters? After the palaces had fallen, vase-painters went on for a couple of generations reproducing, without much conviction, imitations of the style to which men were accustomed,? A...

Why the media is in trouble. Patrick

Posted on March 13, 2011
Why the media is in trouble. Patrick Frey catches NPR's ombusman making up "spin" - claiming that Ron Schiller - last seen calling the Tea Party a bunch of scary racists - as saying on the same video where he was outed that he is a Republican.  The problem is that he didn't say it and the video never says it...

Tsunami Video At 4 minutes in

Posted on March 12, 2011
Tsunami Video At 4 minutes in you can see a convoy of cars moving parallel to the front of the Tsunami. The destruction is enormous.

Little Red Riding Hood. Io9 likes

Posted on March 12, 2011
Little Red Riding Hood. Io9 likes it. And this brings me to the film's other strength, which is that director Hardwicke has managed to craft a chick flick that is clearly a horror film. Unlike the widely-misunderstood Jennifer's Body - which was mistakenly marketed to men, and failed accordingly - Red Riding Hood knows that women crave blood and bite marks as much as they crave romance and

A video of the Japanese tsunami

Posted on March 12, 2011
A video of the Japanese tsunami rolling through the Bay Area Io9 claims that this is a video of the Japanese tsunami rolling through the estuary at Emeryville, California.  

Well, it was the constant stream

Posted on March 12, 2011
Well, it was the constant stream of stories like "AIDS victims teach opera to inner city kids" that made me stop listening to NPR back in the '80s... ...so it's interesting to here an NPR board member finally admit that "we unwittingly cultivated a core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite...

Migration in the United States. This

Posted on March 12, 2011
Migration in the United States. This map shows where people are moving to/from.

Baptists embrace cult-like practices. According

Posted on March 11, 2011
Baptists embrace cult-like practices. According to the Associated Baptist Press: Easter Sunday -- the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ -- is for Christians the culmination of their community life, expressing the heart of their faith. But among Baptists and other evangelicals, an intentional period of preparation for their holiest day is often understated or absent -- in contrast

Japanese Earthquake. An 8.8 magnitude

Posted on March 11, 2011
Japanese Earthquake. An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Japan, unleashing a tidal wave.  Initial reports indicate that the town of Kurihara, population 75,000, has been completely destroyed.

"The 10 Commandments of McAtheism" According

Posted on March 11, 2011
"The 10 Commandments of McAtheism" According to Saints and Sinners: 1) Only accept those beliefs that are supported by evidence 2) Do not accept circular arguments 3) Do not hurt your head finding the evidence for 1 without breaking 2 4) Do not believe in anything that has not been confirmed by the physical sciences 5) Do not apply 1 and 2 to 4 6) Believe 4 will turn up in the physical

Amazon Review - "Before the Dawn"

Posted on March 09, 2011
Amazon Review - "Before the Dawn" by Eugenio Zolli. Before the Dawn: Autobiographical Reflections by Eugenio Zolli, Former Chief Rabbi of Rome. Eugenio Zolli was born Israel Zolli. Zolli was the chief rabbi of Rome before and during the Nazi occupation of Rome during the period between 1943 and 1944...

Culture of Death Watch Via Mark

Posted on March 08, 2011
Culture of Death Watch Via Mark Shea. Family forced to watch as Catholic hospital removes feeding tube: After a stroke left her severely brain damaged, Rachel Nyirahabiyambere, a legal immigrant from Rwanda, has been given a court-appointed guardian who has ordered her feeding tube removed against her family?s wishes...

I've read Hitler's Pope so you

Posted on March 06, 2011
I've read Hitler's Pope so you won't have to. Brief summary: John Cornwell is to "history," what Dan Brown is to "literature." Longer review posted on Amazon. Of late, I've been reading a number of books on the relationship of the Christian churches with Nazi Germany in relation to the claim that the Catholic Church was somehow complicit with the Nazi Reich, e...

Freedom as a Zero-sum Game. English

Posted on March 03, 2011
Freedom as a Zero-sum Game. English philosopher Roger Scruton comments on a recent Englich decision that prohibits a Christian family from refusing to rent out a room on their house to unmarried couples.  This English decision is about a decade behind a similar decision in California...

If common sense was common, we

Posted on March 03, 2011
If common sense was common, we wouldn't need this decision. Emotionally, I side with Justice Alito in the Snyder v. Phelps decision.  Funerals are not public events that provide public forums to insane human toothaches whose clear intent is to emotionally devastate the lives of suffering people...

Americans ought to be Mr. Holder's

Posted on March 03, 2011
Americans ought to be Mr. Holder's "people." James Taranto points out another way that race-consciousness plays a primary role in the Obama administration: "This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way," declared Attorney General Eric Holder in a House oversight hearing yesterday...

Democracy?  Rule of law? This

Posted on March 02, 2011
Democracy?  Rule of law? This resembles nothing so much as Germany in March of 1933. From Professor Jacobsen: I wrote this weekend about the Madison, Wisconsin policeman who appeared in front of the protesters in the Capitol rotunda, while wearing police insignia, and announced that he would side with the protesters against the Governor, and how other policemen announced that they would not

Playing "Spot the Idiot" just got

Posted on March 02, 2011
Playing "Spot the Idiot" just got easier. Westboro Baptist Church's First Amendment right to act like the boil on the butt of humanity was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, 8 - 1, Alito dissenting. Although I am not a First Amendment absolutist, after watching recent leftist/liberal/progressive attempts to suppress free speech, I'm more convinced of the need to protect the rights of the truly

Finally, some good news... ...nerds

Posted on March 02, 2011
Finally, some good news... ...nerds live longer! Beware jocks and mean girls: you may be more popular in high school, but according to a new academic paper, it is the smart kids and conscientious glee-club types who will live longer. Not only that, they will suffer fewer diseases before they die...

Saul on the road to Damascus. Joseph

Posted on March 02, 2011
Saul on the road to Damascus. Joseph Bottum on the life of the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founders of NARAL: Back-alley butchers. That was the catchphrase. And 10,000 women a year killed in illegal abortions, that was another. Coat hangers were what those butchers used to perform their grisly trade, and the only thing American women wanted was medical safety on the rare occasions

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