For Pecos Bill:  Police force cut back, justifiable homicide up 79% in Mo-town.   Private security business booms.  Daily Mail.

Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable of Rolling Eyes and Texting, To Be Euthanized.

His Majesty: “I’m Emperor Palpatine, and I approved of this message.”

State of the Union speech assessed as being at eighth-grade level.

His Majesty: “Lord Vader, which audience do you mean? The American public, or Congress?”

Yes.

Over the past several years I’ve made several comments at various blogs that same-sex marriage (which is a very big step in the overall destigmatization of homosexuality) will lead to homosexuality becoming a socially acceptable choice.

Well, it has started sooner than I thought it would.  I refer you to recent statements by Cynthia Nixon, who, after a 15-year marriage to man, claims she chose to be gay.

Couple this with primary and secondary school textbooks being rewritten to contain positive homosexual characters, and arts and media presenting positive homosexual characters and role models.

I  invite you to connect the dots and extrapolate.

He violated one of the cardinal rules, know your backstop, with tragic results.

Update: 7:00pm EST.

And AGAIN, like I said, KNOW YOUR BACKSTOP!  (And note the fine print, “Alcohol was involved in the incident…”)   This time with a surprise something-good-came-out-of-it twist.

Chanukah begins at sunset tonight. Our best wishes to any Jewish readers for a Happy Chanukah.    (more…)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2074994/Plans-floating-city-California-coast-house-entrepreneurs-visas.html

In a previous life, I spent part of a year in college on an ocean-going tanker.  It does take a couple weeks to get your sea-legs, and not everyone can adapt.

But this is a very creative solution to the problem of high-tech entrepreneurs not being able to get the necessary types of visas.

It also illustrates that the United States culture/families/education system is not creating sufficient home-grown talent.

Or, “My Crazy Has a Name.”   (A cross-post.)

Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called “Light Verse” about a defective robot that could create works of art, generating fame for its owner.  A robot engineer happened to be visiting the owner, recognized that it had a defect, and, not knowing that the defect was tied into the creation of the art, “fixed” the robot on the spot, thinking he was doing the owner a favor.  However, by fixing the defect he removed the robot’s ability to create art. (more…)

“Negative again, Bub. Nature beat me to it.”    (more…)

P.J. O’Rourke continues his lifelong drift from liberal to libertarian to conservative:   (more…)

“What a nightmare. ‘Star Wars’ is now literally just a joke.Which is kind of accurate, sadly.” (more…)

From an article at Mormon Times:   (more…)

Even if it seems right on the money.  (more…)