Tony Snow’s cancer has returned and metastasized to the liver. GM Roper, who knows about battling cancer, has a affecting post on it.
Everything Old is New Again, at least when it comes to hating presidents of a particular bent.
The Rickster has questions for Hillary about those US Attorney firings:
So… I’m a little simple… but here’s the math as I see it… firing all U.S. Attorneys as her husband did in 1993 is the “traditional prerogative of an incoming president”. Firing 93 and replacing them with political ideologues who’ll agree with Democrats is good, very good. Firing 8 and replacing them with political ideologues who’ll agree with Republicans is “a conservative push to shift the balance of power in favor of the executive branch” and thusly bad, very bad.
Curt tries to help Rick out by explaining that it’s a “liberal” thing You see…if a DEMOCRAT president fires all the US Attorneys, that’s tradition. If a REPUBLICAN president does that, it’s shifting the balance of power nefariously, and I don’t know how you explain the fact that some of the US Attorneys fired by Gonzales are conservatives. But that’s Hillaryland for you.
BBC is spending an awful lot of money to cover its own rear-end.
On a better British front, Brits at their Best looks at slavery and how Brits helped abolish it. A great multi-parter I think you’ll really like - elegant, informative and classy.
The Dems are promoting the biggest tax increase in US History?. I’m plotzing in surprise, over here!
At the UN: Hey, you, don’t be truthful; it’s rude.
On the “Green” front, Britain is intruding into individual freedoms for Gaia, Robert Tracinski looks at What Al Gore really wants (Love me and let me be in charge!) and Michael Barone talks about Gore’s Bad Science. It seems we’re all gonna die!!!. But some are repentant.
If you haven’t read Michael Yon’s latest, it’s worth your time.
Is the blogosphere just a “bitchfest”? Dr. Helen is on the case.
I can’t wait for my pear tree to blossom like this. Baseball is coming!!!!
Interesting interview of Rudy Giuliani by Kudlow
Finally, thanks to Hootsbuddy, check out the enchanting giant girl puppet. Street theater, the French seem to do well. This is wonderful.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
For you, blooming pear trees announce baseball season.
For me, it’s sprouting hot dog carts.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Thanks for the link, which is resulting in an Anchorlanche to my little place. For the first time in months I’m getting visits from a real site sent by a real person instead of the robotic indifference of search engines.
It seems symbolic that the content of the linked story concerns peppetry, another kind of robotics. This Courcoult fellow has been engineering an artistic epic over two decades, telling a story.
It is somehow an artistic echo of the impact of technology on our time, our era. We so much want to believe what we see, but at the same time we know that what we are looking at is just a big contraption animated by the coordinated efforts of a lot of ordinary people.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
On the “Green” front, Britain is intruding into individual freedoms for Gaia,
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On the hopelessly pedantic front, but one of the implications of the “Gaia Theory” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis ) is that it’s silly to think that relatively minor things like human activity could affect the climate of the planet. Basically the idea is that the earth is self-moderating. For example, increase carbon dioxide a bit, and plants all over the whole world grow a bit bigger a bit faster and strip the carbon back out. Another example, the earth gets warmer, there is more evaporation of water, more clouds, which block out the sun and make the world cooler.
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So referring to the people who believe human-caused climate change is occurring as “Gaia worshippers” is kind of odd nomenclature. It’s the Gaia Theory that says that those people are silly.
March 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am
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