OK, just one esoteric thing my father taught me:
When you’re looking for something you dropped on the floor, get down and look across the floor rather than just standing there looking down at the floor.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Books
When I was a young man, my favorite authors were Stephen King, Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury; while I’ve always liked history, I read mostly science fiction in those days.
Now, as a middle-aged man, I read mostly non-fiction, especially history; my favorite author currently is David Horowitz—I’ve just started reading his autobiography, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
Now, as a middle-aged man, I read mostly non-fiction, especially history; my favorite author currently is David Horowitz—I’ve just started reading his autobiography, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Lemonade
A long time ago on a continent far, far away I had learned that the German word for a lemon-lime soft drink was “limonade”.
Many years later, when I had the occasion to go to England, I asked the waitress for “something like a 7-Up”; she said she could give me a lemonade and put some lime cordial in it. It turned out to be a green-colored lemon-lime soft drink; the next day I just asked for a lemonade. I don’t know why it took me so long to make the connection; I don’t know why the waitress didn’t just bring me a lemonade in the first place.
Many years later, when I had the occasion to go to England, I asked the waitress for “something like a 7-Up”; she said she could give me a lemonade and put some lime cordial in it. It turned out to be a green-colored lemon-lime soft drink; the next day I just asked for a lemonade. I don’t know why it took me so long to make the connection; I don’t know why the waitress didn’t just bring me a lemonade in the first place.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
No Mosque at Ground Zero
Anyone wondering why there should be no mosque at Ground Zero has only to learn two things:
- That Muslims build mosques at conquest sites.
- That the date of 9/11 was not picked by accident.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Abortion Profiteers
This is just sad.
As if it weren’t bad enough that China’s one-child policy results in so many abortions, or that AGW is a fraud, China is now using the fraud of AGW to justify killing more unborn babies.
Not only that, but China will now be profiting from the abortion of unborn babies.
What’s next? Carbon-offset credits for taking your grandmother to the junkyard?
As if it weren’t bad enough that China’s one-child policy results in so many abortions, or that AGW is a fraud, China is now using the fraud of AGW to justify killing more unborn babies.
Not only that, but China will now be profiting from the abortion of unborn babies.
What’s next? Carbon-offset credits for taking your grandmother to the junkyard?
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Ridiculous.
Especially in a crisis like the Gulf is experiencing now, the regulation should be that you just have to take out more oil than you put in. If you don’t get it all in the first pass, make another pass; if the ship you can deploy quickly releases more back into the ocean than a ship you can’t deploy for months, then deploy the first ship quickly and deploy the other ship later.
Instead, nobody does anything because it’s virtually impossible to meet such a ridiculous standard.
Instead, nobody does anything because it’s virtually impossible to meet such a ridiculous standard.
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