WHY INTELLECTUALS are not conservatives. Money quote: “Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.”

SCREW ‘EM: Andrew Klavan on the culture.

FROM MY EMAIL: it’s not a good idea to irritate RAF pilots.


The RAF AV-8 Harrier Force's final flypast over the Houses of Parliament following the decision to decommission them. (It’s a photoshop, but still ....)

THE FUNNIEST THING happened on the way to my afternoon nap: I was called back to work - at least for a couple of months. My family responds:

Sister: After your being in "storage" for so long ... hope your co-workers are good with the smell of "moth balls"!

Son: Cool – congrats! That should be just enough time for you to get sick of working again.

Daughter: Remember to be social and ask lots of questions – people hate firing people they like – so maybe you can extend this.

So now you know why posting dropped off a bit.

OTHER THAN THAT, the story was accurate. Us Weekly apologizes to Sarah Palin over using fake quotes.

OBAMA JABBERWOCKY ON TAXES: one man’s loophole; another man’s stimulus. Crony capitalism at its best.

DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMIC MYTHS: supposed 'truths' are toppling America’s financial success.

WHAT LIBERALS MEAN by ‘civility.’

More here and here.

MYTH AND MEMORY: the battle over Reagan's legacy. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson contributes to the revisionism.

JEFF JACOBY: No room at the table. Jacoby is writing specifically on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood, but two comments bear thinking about more generally.

Free and democratic societies take chances.... They give citizens the power to elect their rulers ... and the possibility that voters will choose officials who are corrupt or incompetent.

The 2008 Presidential election, anyone?

Democracy is flexible, but even in the best of circumstances it is incompatible with religious totalitarianism.

The same can be said for secular totalitarianism.

GRAVITY ASSIST: Asteroid makes sharpest turn yet seen in solar system. All of our deep-space probes (Pioneer, Mariner, Voyager) have used gravity-assist and it’s long been a staple of good science fiction, but this report is the first one I’ve seen of nature using it. Neat.

SAVE THE BULB; repeal the ban. And watch the video clip.

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT, here’s an “issue even better than global warming climate change, because it would require shutting down nearly all of industrial civilization entirely, and returning us to the 17th century.”

MORAL HAZARD: when government creates the problems they purport to solve.

IF ONLY THE CAR WAS A PRIUS

COMMERCIAL SPACE: Bill Whittle’s “Free Frontier.”



A larger version is available on YouTube.

JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY: Iowahawk on Congressional ethics.

Linked from Instapundit.

SINCE WE CAN’T DRILL FOR DOMESTIC OIL, here is where your gas money is going.


It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire (naturally). Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque, it goes 0-100km/hr in less than 2 seconds, a 1/4 mile in 6.89 seconds, and runs on biofuel.

That is not stainless steel, people, it’s white gold.

I'm sure you'll sleep better tonight, knowing that the exorbitant dollars you're paying for gas these days are at least going to a 'good' cause....

“TRYING TO BE MORE CONSCIOUS OF ONE’S OWN BIAS, and even to attempt to work against it, should not be such a hard task for people as brilliant, open-minded, and committed to equality and social justice as I keep hearing that liberal academics are.“

Veronique de Rugy has more.

And the answer is ... three.

GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS send letter urging Congress not to give into climate alarmists. The letter - with signatories - is here.