September 2007
14 posts
“As someone who earns his living from this sport, I generally hew to a variant of...”
– Friday’s Foaming Rant: The Detour of America
“The Bible,” sighed Voltaire. “That is what fools have written, what...”
– Are Sacred Texts Sacred? the Challenge for Atheists - Chronicle.com
The Problem With Bio-Fuels →
Two words:
Thirsty autos. The more I write about biofuels the more I am convinced that there is an elephant in the room that no one is acknowledging. The elephant is automotive fuel economy.
There is no point using expensive grain to make a gasoline extender if its just going to poured into inefficient autos and burnt. Robert Rapier said at the end of last year fuel ethanol is boondoggle.
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If Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, will he run... →
War On Iran Update →
Bill Kristol knows that the current strategy in Iraq will not work as it was designed to do. He’s not crazy. The chances of national reconciliation in Iraq have gone backward, not forward, this past year, and the U.S.’s empowerment of anti-Shiite propaganda in Anbar will only isolate Maliki further. The best that can happen is an indefinite occupation of a dismembered Iraq to slow down...
“A stockbroker has been charged with assault after he became so enraged by the...”
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Broker is accused of ‘spin rage’ at gym - Telegraph
Not A World War →
Niall worries about Giuliani’s 9/12 fixation, his staggering ignorance and incuriosity about the world outside the U.S., and his penchant for pure aggression as a foreign policy. Money quote:
The reality is that the threat posed by Islamist terrorism today is wholly different from the threat posed by the Axis powers in 1941-42. To judge by Osama bin Laden’s latest rant, he aims at...
Nebraska senator sues God to stop terror threats →
Ryan Singel of the Wired News blog Threat Level tells BoingBoing,
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed suit against God Friday, asking a court to order the Almighty and his followers to stop making terrorist threats.
The suit (.pdf), filed in a Nebraska district court, contends that God, along with his followers of all persuasions, “has made and continues to make terroristic...
What Are We Fighting For Again? →
I try to make sense of the war goals in the Sunday Times:
Let us review the stated objectives of the Iraq war chronologically:
2002: to disarm Saddam Hussein of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and create a breathing space for democracy in the Middle East (the WMDs were not there; the breathing space became anarchy).
2003: to allow chaos in order to create a “fly-paper” for every...
“King Solomon famously threatened to cut a disputed baby in half, to expose the...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Cut Medicine in Half
"Cruel and Inhuman Treatment" →
Out-takes from Fred Thompson’s first marriage in the British papers. His first wife stands by him though. Her brother explains why:
“It has been a bit of a dilemma, deciding whether to support him. But his political philosophy and ours are very close, time heals and Sarah and he had three children together. We believe he can beat the hell out of the Democrats.”