Current Affairs

Possibly the best opening line of all news stories this week: A high school principal received a six-day suspension and a letter of reprimand for giving one of his students a wedgie [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225123,00.html]. The rest of the story isn'

Surveying the Internet landscape, there's a mish-mash of semi-interesting stuff, but nothing worthy of an entire post, not even one of my 10-word ones. News for the stomach strong: Harry Potter will perform nude next summer [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224037,00.

I have no idea whether this guy is credible, but it's interesting: > If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you've been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to

I've previously made the point that the environmental movement is tainted with misanthropes: folks who would prefer that folks not exist. I'd never seen them admit it, though, until I saw this [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19225731.100-imagine-earth-without-people.html] : >

A friend sends this along: Why Conservation is Conservative. Quotes by famous conservatives [http://www.rep.org/ConservativeQuotes.html]. Pretty neat.

I'd seen this quote from the European Human Rights Court before, but it really struck me when I read it yesterday (here [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52311]): > The (German) Federal Constitutional Court stressed the general interest of society to avoid the emergence

Good thoughts from a message board: > Right after this breaks, Foley says he was molested by a clergyman and has a drinking problem. What's he trying to say? He's dysfunctional somehow? He's functional enough to get elected, which takes a high amount of

Well, I read the Foley email/instamessage exchange with the underage page. I've taken four showers since and still don't feel clean, but I knew the risk going in. What's there to say that hasn't been said? Nothing, except maybe this: The

Today's Wall Street Journal raises points related to the ones I raised earlier today [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033]: > But in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no