— Go to lgf: don’t panic right away to read LGF for the next few days, until DNS propagation catches up with reality.
— Go to lgf: don’t panic right away to read LGF for the next few days, until DNS propagation catches up with reality.
— Last night it was my pleasure to meet the distinguished French journalist Emmanuelle Richard (no relation), the wife of Matt Welch. I discovered, much to my surprise, that Matt and Emmanuelle have only one pair of glasses between them, which they apparently share. So please go to Matt’s Tip Jar and make a contribution … Continue reading “Give the gift of sight”
— Last night it was my pleasure to meet the distinguished French journalist Emmanuelle Richard (no relation), the wife of Matt Welch. I discovered, much to my surprise, that Matt and Emmanuelle have only one pair of glasses between them, which they apparently share. So please go to Matt’s Tip Jar and make a contribution to help them buy a second pair of glasses. Thank you.
— BBC News reports that the body of Pim Fortuyn will lie in state in the Rotterdam Cathedral the day before his funeral. Could it be that the assassination of Fortuyn will have the same impact on the Dutch that the John Kennedy assassination had on America? Everybody who was conscious at the time can … Continue reading “Holland’s JFK?”
— BBC News reports that the body of Pim Fortuyn will lie in state in the Rotterdam Cathedral the day before his funeral. Could it be that the assassination of Fortuyn will have the same impact on the Dutch that the John Kennedy assassination had on America? Everybody who was conscious at the time can tell you in vivid detail where they were and what they were doing when they heard about JFK, and his ascension into martyrdom cleansed him of all sin and made has agenda an article of faith for America for years to come. I don’t know that Fortuyn had this kind of standing in Holland, but his agenda will clearly outlive him.
The first signs of the martyr effect are already in, according to Adam Curry:
“25,000 expatriates who had already cast their votes and sent them to the Netherlands want to change their vote. Dutch government offices are being flooded by phone calls from Dutch people living elsewhere. This could be an exciting, surprising and mostly unpredictable election, for once.”
I’d like to think this is the beginning of the end of political correctness, in Holland at least, but we’re not quite there yet in the US.
— Glenn Sacks has a nice column on one of my friend Assemblyman Wright’s child support bills, this one aimed at providing relief to child support debtors in prison: Williams was crushed when he recently learned that he owes $12,000 in child support arrearages to reimburse the state for the benefits paid to his wife … Continue reading “Modest reform”
— Glenn Sacks has a nice column on one of my friend Assemblyman Wright’s child support bills, this one aimed at providing relief to child support debtors in prison:
Williams was crushed when he recently learned that he owes $12,000 in child support arrearages to reimburse the state for the benefits paid to his wife and kids while he was in prison. The support arrearages, which he never knew existed, will consume as much as half of Williams’ modest salary, virtually destroying the possibility of the new, stable life that the 42 year-old East Palo Alto resident had dreamed of behind bars.
We’ve tried to pass this kind of bill before, unsuccessfully. Legislators have very little compassion for men in prison, of course.
— InstaPundit.Com had one of his better days Wednesday.
— InstaPundit.Com had one of his better days Wednesday.
— PatrickRuffini wrote a nice letter to NBC News’ Brian Williams about their biased coverage of Fortuyn, to whit: Once again, webloggers like Andrew Sullivan and Rod Dreher of National Review Online savored the hard political “facts of the case” … within an hour of hearing of Fortuyn’s murder, and hours before NBC News reported … Continue reading “Right-wing extremism”
— PatrickRuffini wrote a nice letter to NBC News’ Brian Williams about their biased coverage of Fortuyn, to whit:
Once again, webloggers like Andrew Sullivan and Rod Dreher of National Review Online savored the hard political “facts of the case” … within an hour of hearing of Fortuyn’s murder, and hours before NBC News reported otherwise. And those facts all indicated that Fortuyn was no Le Pen. Whereas Le Pen had spent years directing his anger to all manner of social and political groupings — immigrants, Jews, the political class, the European Union, and the United States — Fortuyn’s only real “right-wing” plank was to cut foreign immigration by 75%.
By the NBC standard, the Sierra Club is a right-wing extremist organization, because they too are opposed to immigration.
— Edward Boyd at zonitics.com has done a follow-up on the Nunberg study alleging that Bernard Goldberg was wrong about media labeling of politicians, and finds Goldberg was right and Nunberg wrong. Boyd corrected Nunberg’s denominator and looked for labeling on a story-by-story basis, concluding: Overall – and subject to some interpretation – conservatives were … Continue reading “Deceptive labeling”
— Edward Boyd at zonitics.com has done a follow-up on the Nunberg study alleging that Bernard Goldberg was wrong about media labeling of politicians, and finds Goldberg was right and Nunberg wrong. Boyd corrected Nunberg’s denominator and looked for labeling on a story-by-story basis, concluding:
Overall – and subject to some interpretation – conservatives were 30% more likely to be labeled than liberals.
It’s unlikely that liberal media outlets who’ve touted Nunberg’s claim will issue retractions, since they’re busy labeling slain Dutch politician a right-wing extremist and covering-up the similarity between Al Gore’s views on the environment with those of confessed pipe-bomber Luke Helder:
Helder, an art student from Minnesota…sent a rambling letter to the University of Wisconsin student newspaper expressing his radical environmental views and wish to legalize marijuana. Sounding like Al Gore or John Kerry, he whines that “the icebergs are melting, and precious earth is heating up.”
The Big Lie – it’s everywhere you want to be.
— This will make somebody happy: IT job market to rebound, hiring managers predict The information-technology workforce shrunk by 5 percent in the past year, but it should rebound soon because companies expect to refill jobs cut in the economic slump, a trade group said Monday. But a decrease in high-tech unemployment will be bad … Continue reading “Get a job”
— This will make somebody happy: IT job market to rebound, hiring managers predict
The information-technology workforce shrunk by 5 percent in the past year, but it should rebound soon because companies expect to refill jobs cut in the economic slump, a trade group said Monday.
But a decrease in high-tech unemployment will be bad for blog readership figures.
— The WSJ (link requires subscription) reports: WASHINGTON — Using strategies dubbed “Death Star,” “Get Shorty,” and “Fat Boy,” Enron Corp.’s energy traders manipulated California’s power system to increase profits during the height of the state’s 2000-2001 energy crisis, documents released by federal regulators show. The internal company documents were the first to provide evidence … Continue reading “Smoking gun”
— The WSJ (link requires subscription) reports:
WASHINGTON — Using strategies dubbed “Death Star,” “Get Shorty,” and “Fat Boy,” Enron Corp.’s energy traders manipulated California’s power system to increase profits during the height of the state’s 2000-2001 energy crisis, documents released by federal regulators show.
The internal company documents were the first to provide evidence of what had been suspected through previous inquiries by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — that market manipulation was a major factor in sending wholesale energy prices soaring in six Western states.
Turns out the market was gamed after all, folks. The tactics included shipping power outside the state and then back in to escape price caps, and charging the state for moving power and relieving congestion when they hadn’t moved any power or relieved any congestion. And with all of that, Enron still went out of business, but not until a few bucks went into a few numbered bank accounts, I’ll betcha.
— We’re doing a primer on Electoral Politics over at DailyPundit.com. If you understand the value of pragmatism, check it out. Update: discussion moved to archives.
— We’re doing a primer on Electoral Politics over at DailyPundit.com. If you understand the value of pragmatism, check it out.
Update: discussion moved to archives.
