Our deficits keep drillin’ down deeper ‘n’ deeper. Yeehah! We’re gonna hit oil!

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Selected links from Drudge: (more…)

Some headlines just write themselves. (more…)

Thomas Sowell is one of the finest living social philosophers in America. (more…)

Chez Wooster is no place for daubers of colors, but some of these entries are rather festive, what?

Meridian runs some good articles, which only makes it more painful that they run the occasional tripe.

My wife can give a humdrum talk at church, and I’ll listen. She’s my wife. (more…)

Yeehah! The great agua rush iz on!

The worst part of these village treats is the children’s choir. The little blighters are rather de trop, what? Seared into the Wooster gray matter–to give you just one instance of the many that come to mind–is the occasion that Kim “Kimber-bimber” Jong-Il of the Drones’ Club invited me down to his country place and what was looking like a promising little week-end with a well-stocked cellar was constantly spoiled by little excrescences mumbling ‘Dear Leader” this and shrilling “Dear Leader” that wherever one turned. It began where ghastly left off.

Good overview by Mig Greengard of the Kasparov-Karpov blast from the past match in Valencia.  (Chess journalist Greengard is a long-time ghostwriter and booster of Kasparov.)

More interesting, however, is the news in recent weeks that Kasparov is training 18 year-old Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen, who has very good chances of being world champion.  Photos emerged of Carlsen and Kasparov training in Kasparov’s summer home in Croatia.  Here’s an interview on Norwegian TV.

"Snatch the pebble from my hand."

I should scarcely advise it.

With the help of Congress, of course. (more…)

I have a tendency to rely too much on The Lecture. (more…)

A new study claims high teen birth rates correlate with high religiosity. (more…)