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The Walt Disney Concert Hall is . . .: interesting.

Not Chinese. This factor is the Chinese writing system (which Japan borrowed and adapted centuries ago). The learner needs to know at least 3,000-4,000 characters to make sense of written Chinese, and thousands more to have a real feel for it. Chinese, with all its tones, is hard enough to speak. But:  the mammoth feat […]

When the Obama administration is not even fooling the most liberal of magazines, you know they have a problem: The Obama administration wants Americans to realize what a good job they and the Bush administration did saving the economy from a second Great Depression. But they’d prefer not to make this case directly. They want […]

Click the links! Link: The Looking Spoon. I was going to do something about the Fed and inflation and how dollar bills won’t be worth enough for anything else soon, but it just took too much explanation. Link: All American Blogger. Link: Wyblog. Link: Marathon Pundit. I also couldn’t resist: More: Link: Moe Lane. Link: […]

Upload your resume and have them: grade it. I haven’t tried it, but it might be worth a shot. (No money cost but you do have to give them an e-mail address.)

What? No, I most certainly did not mean to imply any sort of drug, or drug paraphernalia. Joint. Y’know, as in place. Oh, let’s just start at the beginning: According to Madison-area blogger Dave Blaska, the police have been called to the Occupy site 80 times in the 150 days it has been active; more […]

Got this in my inbox today: a comparison of how Wisconsin schools fared in past years vs. this year, and a comparison of what WEAC – the state teacher’s union – said about those past years vs. this year. FYI: those past years, there was a Democrat in office. A Case Study: WEAC Then and […]

For your: information.

Ann Romney had a very good two days. It all started with Hilary Rosen, Democrat strategist, saying Ann Romney couldn’t comment on economic issues because “she has never worked a day in her life.” Oh boy, for a PR girl, that was incredibly stupid. You don’t diss Moms. Any mother, working or not, will tell […]

Just a few…ah, you know the deal. Link: Trog. Link: Pundette. Link: Say Anything Blog and Sunshine State Sarah. Link: Questions and Observations. Link: Camp of the Saints. And finally: Previously: This Week in Automotivators, March 19-25 This Week in Automotivators, March 26-April 1 Make your own automotivators.

“The Six Most Remote Places In Human Civilization“.

So the kid’s here for spring break, of which today is the last day. The fiancee and I are driving him back to Nevada today so he can resume school. We had a blast with the go-karts and the trip to the shooting range, where I lost my .40 S&W virginity and managed a decently […]

Dan Mitchell is, of course, correct when he says: This is an appropriate point for the disclaimer that Obama is not a socialist, which technically requires government ownership of the means of production. As I’ve explained before, it’s much more accurate to say he’s a statist, a corporatist, or a redistributionist. True enough, as long […]

“Michael Davis, ladies and gentlemen“.

If they say so. (Though full props for the Burj.)

I found it truly strange that Pres. Obama would scold the Supreme Court before they made a decision on Obamacare, but it’s even stranger that WaPo liberal columnist, Ruth Marcus, who adores Obamacare and Obama, would scold the President. Obama’s assault on “an unelected group of people” stopped me cold. Because, as the former constitutional […]

So, now the Supreme Court has heard the arguments for Obamacare, and even liberal CNN analyst and lawyer Jeff Toobin saw it as a “train wreck.” Why? Charles Krauthammer has the best summary I’ve seen: (emphasis mine) Obamacare was carefully constructed to manipulate the standard ten-year cost projections of the CBO. Because benefits would not […]

There’s a: Top 25 Political Moms: contest that you may think is silly, but it’s important that conservative moms dominate this contest. Here’s why: The top bloggers from the left in this contest aren’t your mom’s Democrats. They’re radical progressives. The one in the lead describes herself as “Leftist. Very, very leftist” and has made it her […]

Just a few stories from the past week, covered Automotivatorly. Click the link below each picture for more details. Link: Legal Insurrection. Link: Daley Gator. UPDATE — yes, I know, Spike made good on the whole thing. I couldn’t resist. Link: American Power. Link: Fishersville Mike. Link: Marathon Pundit. Link: Trog. Link: Nice Deb. And […]

Won’t somebody: do something? Where’s the U.N. when you need them?

Quite interesting. See if you recognize the movies. (Some very NSFW language.)

Blake Koch is a young NASCAR driver who filmed this ad to get NASCAR fans to vote. ESPN rejected it saying it had “religious and political overtones.” It CLEARLY has no religious overtones whatsoever, and other than encouraging people to vote, it has no political overtones. It doesn’t endorse a party or a person. BUT […]

Is this a smoking gun that there was no fight, that Zimmerman, and a witness, lied about a scuffle? (ABC News) The surveillance video, which was obtained exclusively by ABC News, shows Zimmerman arriving in a police cruiser. As he exits the car, his hands are cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is frisked and then […]

In the midst of record high gas prices, which threaten the President’s re-election chances more than anything (other than perhaps his decision to sell out our missile defense system to Russia for two cases of vodka and a promise not to attack Canada until we’re ready to invade from the other side), you would think […]

There are certainly many folks who bring unhelpful, inflammatory, and idiotic statements to any discussion of race, such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Chris Matthews, Hollywood nitwits who never even graduated high school, Spike Lee, The Black Panthers, Keith Olbermann, but, really, who better to “act stupidly” than Mayor Michael Nutter? With the one-month anniversary […]

Don’t misunderstand, I’m not defending Zimmerman. Nor am I going to defend Trayvon. What we need are facts, rather than frontier justice ending with a lynch mob (Orlando Sentinal) With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George […]

Just a few stories or other interesting bits I noticed, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you don’t quite get it. Like that needs any explanation. Link: The Trog, here and here. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: The Sundries Shack. Link: Political Clown Parade. Link: Brian J. Noggle. Link: […]

Back in 1735, using poles and chains and the sun, surveyors mapped out the border between North and South Carolina. But today: …modern-day surveyors, using computers and GPS systems, redrew the border to narrow it down to the centimeter. Their results put the new line about 150 feet south of the old one and placed […]

Whatever comes of the SCOTUS case coming up next week, we’ll always agree on that. Couple law professors wrote in the Baltimore Sun the other day, arguing that Obamacare is, too, Constitutional. Here’s the best part: The individual mandate is the centerpiece of a complex regulatory scheme that accomplishes two objectives: obligating insurers to cover […]