Your Democrat-Dominated Congress At Work

Giving themselves a pay raise.
I don’t see any Republicans opposing it, so they aren’t exactly covering themselves in glory…but Democrats who voted to invade Iraq still blame President Bush for it…until they take credit for the war being a success.  And Democrats also blamed Republicans for the failure of at least one bailout bill, even [...]

How Many Guitars Are Enough?

I’ve noticed that some professional guitarists change guitars and change endorsements as often as most people change their underwear, say, around once a month.  (What?)
But other professional guitarists choose a guitar and seem to stick with it for years and years and years, and get associated with THAT guitar.  David Gilmour’s guitar, B.B. King’s Lucille, [...]

Income “Justice”

Mickey Kaus has some good stuff on unions and “distributive justice”, i.e., using unions to ensure income equality and redistribute wealth.  Unfortunately, Kausfiles doesn’t have links to individual sections, so you just have to keep scrolling down for more.
All this discussion of unions has been spurred by the UAW drag on US automaker competitiveness.
The discussion [...]

Time Waster: Guitar Heros

I’ll be spending too much time poking around this site, I’m sure.

Herm Edwards: A Few Thoughts

1) Herm is a good coach.
Evidence: look at how bad the situation there is.  Exactly 2 years ago, Mangini was supposedly a genius who rebuilt the Jets into a playoff team from the shambles of Herm’s suckiness.  Yet Mangini is now fired.  1 playoff appearance in 3 seasons, no playoff wins.
Herm, on the other hand, [...]

Will Herm Be the Chief’s Coach Next Year?

I can’t find the original report, but ESPN’s Chris Mortensen apparently says no.   On a chat message board, a poster said:
Herm Edwards is on the way out he believes. He said that Clark Hunt wants a new young GM to grow with and that most likely means a new head coach.
Thinking critically, it is too [...]

Merry Christmas!!!

Er, Merry Christmas Eve!

Global Warming: I Think I Understand Now

If it is a hot day, that’s evidence of climate change, i.e., Global Warming.
If it is a record hot day, that’s evidence of climate change, i.e., Global Warming.
If it is an unseasonably or even record cold day, that’s not climate, that’s just weather.
Islands are disappearing in the South Pacific.  It doesn’t matter that this has [...]

Possibly Actual Quotes from the 2008 Olympics

The last one is my favorite.  It wouldn’t be as funny if it weren’t for the moment of belated awareness…
(Editor’s note: Several readers passed along these souvenirs from the Bejing Olympics. Sometimes technical terms do have a way of being misinterpreted. And sometimes the brain and mouth simply don’t connect. Enjoy.)
Here are some comments made [...]

Weird Story of the Day

Guy killed by rain-making rocket; they don’t realize it until they try to cremate him.
Sloppy govt administration all the way around.