[Entertaining as the Vader persona is, there are some things it just doesn’t work for. So I’m going to step out of character for this post. However, the reasons I am obligated to post as Vader still apply, so names and some details have been changed. The rest is true.]   (more…)

“Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table”    (more…)

I wonder.

Some interesting statistics and graphics.    (more…)

The facility where I work received a new captain a few days ago, and this one is addressed as “ma’am.” Before returning to Navy assignments from NASA a couple years ago, she performed five EVAs totaling 34 hours. (link, link)

I’m still here. No surprise there.   (more…)

Was apparently quite extensive. (more…)

The book’s main character is a renowned artist with two projects, one mural about Darwinism, another about Christ. And the premise of the book really is whether or not we evolved or emerged from the ooze, in which case nothing matters or whether we walked out of the Garden of Eden in the light of Cherubim and the Flaming Sword, in which case, everything matters.

I hate seeing prominent Saints utter such non sequiturs.

When asked whether the world was created or evolved, my current best answer is Yes.

With his speech on health care.    (more…)

Once, at the first and only time I ever sat on a panel in New York City, I described the pressure that comes with having a modest readership. “When you’ve got ten visitors a day you can say what you like. When you have ten thousand, you become very careful.” The other rule, which Marc has probably discovered, is that at ten visitors a day you don’t give a hoot whether you write that day or not. When the site gets to a certain level of traffic, that luxury disappears. You have to show up every day because you know ten thousand readers will. The only thing worse than having your own business is having a moderately successful blog.

–Marc Danziger

And what is his main thesis? As the catalogue above indicates, it is this. In every historical episode in which the Americans have projected state power, the overall death toll must be laid at Washington’s door; and, moreover, should be treated as an intended (or at least predictable) consequence of American leaders who are either full-blown murderers or so recklessly indifferent to human life as to be morally indistinguishable from them. Chomsky’s entire career as a commentator on foreign affairs consists of building this catalogue in his mind—a catalogue that he rattles off with an idiot savant’s precision at the drop of a hat, and to which, apparently, Osama bin Laden’s death now has been added. Nowhere is there any indication that this list-maker pays much attention to the opposite side of the ledger—the millions upon millions of lives saved, either from death or slavery at the hands of totalitarian forces, in the fight against the Soviet Union and the more modern Islamist threat.

The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet

And he keeps making me ashamed I did.

Maybe he was smarter back then. He was certainly a lot younger.

Wikileaks is drowning in it.

Reid has slain his thousands, and Obama his tens of thousands.

Coming to your planet in November.

I prefer a giant laser. Not as clumsy and random as an asteroid; an elegant weapon for cosmic genocide.