Category Archives: news
Conservatives in their native environment
The Independent‘s Johann Hari goes on a cruise with readers of the National Review: A red-faced man who looks like an egg with a moustache glued on grumbles, ” If the Germans think they can take responsibility for the world, … Continue reading
You fucked with the wrong marine
Ex-Marine, 72, fights off pickpocket: Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash. He immediately … Continue reading
Ladies and gentlemen, start your bicycles
Paris is about to get what could be the world’s largest Yellow Bike Program(ish): On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered … Continue reading
Why Asian Muslims didn’t explode
After the cartoon fiasco, Karim Raslan of the The New York Times wrote Why Asian Muslims didn’t explode. He doesn’t really answer why, but he does cite several cultural differences. Some of hsi strongest rhetoric: Whether we are conservative or … Continue reading
where the money went
Florida university discovers misplaced $275,000: Three University of South Florida officials were fired after the school discovered $275,000 in misplaced checks and cash scattered throughout an office. Nearly half the money at the school’s English Language Institute — $133,647 — was … Continue reading
pilot dumps drunk man on island
don’t piss off monarch air: The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus … Continue reading
Marquette U doesn’t believe in free speech
A dental student at Marquette University got in a bit of trouble over a blog posting. I’ll let the Marquette Warrior sum it up: But this is the first case we know of (there probably have been many we don’t … Continue reading
torch that SUV
apparnetly not only do some SUV drivers have bad taste in cars, they are also committing insurance fraud.
malcolm gladwell explains college admissions
Like Malcolm, I, too, went to university in Ontario. I, too, filled out the tanking sheet. He describes my school and program kindly: There were several good ones and several better ones and a number of programs—like computer science at … Continue reading