Monday Moanin'
Zmirak on Buchanan on WWII. Good stuff.
It's clear that in writing Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, Buchanan was courting controversy–and not of the surface sort, like the meaningless chatter aimed by the likes of Limbaugh and Coulter at John McCain, over whom they will be fawning come November. No, Buchanan was striking deep, and his aim was mostly true. In critiquing the figure of Winston Churchill, he was acting like St. Boniface among the Teutonic pagans, when he stood before their sacred oak and hacked it down.
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Side comment made by Zmirak in the article linked above: "How many retarded children have you seen on the street lately? They used to be rather common–before the free, Christian peoples of the West discovered amniocentesis."
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One of the funnier Youtube videos I've seen (briefly sacrilegious at two points).
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You know the economy is rough when it hits Vegas and things like this happen: [T]he slump now runs so deep it's starting to hurt even the town's Elvis impersonators, wedding chapels, and sex industry. When money's tight, the prospect of stuffing another $20 bill into a lap-dancer's gyrating stocking-top somehow doesn't seem quite so enticing. Maybe economic slow downs happen for a reason.
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Information overload and the power of concentration. Good piece at WSJ.
In contains, incidentally, this little gem that helps explain why attorneys (whose phones ring a lot, and whose email boxes fill-up quickly) charge for every interruption:
On average, knowledge workers change activities every three minutes, usually because they're distracted by email or a phone call. It then takes almost half an hour to get back to the task once attention is lost.
