The religious right has another poster-child in its fight against human frailty, a two-year old in Britain called Baby Charlotte. The baby is two years old and has never left the hospital where she was born three months early and weighing one pound. She’s deaf, blind, profoundly retarded, and has defective lungs. The doctors [...]
I really enjoyed these Winter Olympics. They were the second I’ve seen since acquiring the Tivos, but the first where the network put enough programming up to really saturate the hard drives, like they did for the last Summer Olympics. Consequently I got to see all the big curling matchups as well as the lesser [...]
More pictures of the free speech rally here.
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Here’s a nice web page devoted to Danish stuff that you can buy to defy the hate-mongers’ boycott. My personal preferences are and
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Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned, victim of a PC jihad. Here’s his statement:
Revealing some of the stubbornness for which he is known, Mr. Summers wrote: “I have reluctantly concluded that the rifts between me and segments of the Arts and Sciences faculty make it infeasible for me to advance the agenda of renewal that [...]
The US Curling team lost a critical medal-round match to the evil Canadians today:
The U.S. skip couldn’t lead the United States to the Olympic gold medal game, losing to Canada 11-5 in the men’s curling semifinals Wednesday night.
Canada clinched at least a silver medal and forced the Americans to play Britain in the consolation game [...]
Here’s something everybody should know:
In a major report based on official statistics, the life expectancy for English men is 76.6 years, the second highest in the European Union which had an average male life expectancy of 74.8…
However, Britain is the second “fattest” nation in the EU, with more than a fifth of adults deemed obese, [...]
Cathy Young and Jeff Goldstein have been discussing a peculiar case of false rape allegations for a few days, and now we have the official response from the feminist establishment. It’s not pretty.
It seems to me that the trouble with rape laws in America today is that the pendulum has swung too far in the [...]
I was inspired by Jeff Jarvis’ trashing of the olympics to write a comment:
I love the Olympics and think it’s the best stuff on TV, but only because of TiVo. I have two dual-tuner DirecTV recorders, so I can capture all the coverage on all the channels and then watch the best parts and skip [...]
In order to fully appreciate Olympic half-pipe, you got to know the lingo, so go check out the glossary for such terms as these:
McTwist
An inverted aerial where the you perform a 540 degree rotation and a flip. When done in the halfpipe, you approach the halfpipe wall riding forward, becomes airborne, do a backside 540 [...]
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