Most esoteric title ever. I kind of hurt myself on that one.
Shut up.
This week, Congress finally got to hear testimony from the Benghazi whistleblowers. Conservatives view the many questionable aspects of why Stevens was in Benghazi, why the Administration may have refused to rescue the annex staff, and why the Admininstration sent its minions to lie about a stupid YouTube video for a few weeks as a full-blown scandal that may finally destroy … Read more
The last week has had a number of interest revelations about the two men who bombed Boston and, apparently, intended to bomb New York as well. I’ve been accumulating these articles for a week and waiting for a common thread to emerge. And I think I’ve found it.
The first thing that emerges from the reporting is that Uncle Ruslan had it right the first time he spoke to the press: these guys were losers. … Read more
It now looks like you can now let your inner woman run loose, if you are one of those down under dudes with doubts about what what’s many or not:
If you’re a man and have ever wanted to dress in women’s lingerie a firm has come up with the perfect product for you.
HommeMystere are hoping their new range of lingerie for males, which includes thongs and padded bras, will change the landscape
Another once-powerful leader dies. The fact that the gifted leaders of the world pass on doesn’t exactly trouble me. Nobody is immortal, regardless of his or her accomplishments. The problem I have is that every time we lose a Reagan or Thatcher it becomes more and more obvious how weak and ineffectual the leaders of this time really are by comparison. We aren’t replacing or succeeding them. “Helpless” may be the most appropriate term for … Read more
Farewell to Hugo Chavez. For a supposed adversary of the US, I just couldn’t manage to work up a lot of hatred for the guy. His new wave socialist, anti-American demagogic act coupled with relentless efforts to expand his executive power was about as tiresome as, well, Obama’s. Shit, Chavez was arguably less dangerous to the average American than Barack “Hellfire” Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner who seemed to think that his authority to … Read more
The universe likes to remind us, every now and then, that our entire existence is pretty frail and that a good enough sized chunk of slab from the ether can wipe it all out quite easily. It doesn’t take a very big rock to make a big mess, does it?
This week, be humbled before the Rock Gods lest you be smited by their fury. The music:
1. Rock. The greatest hits and biggest … Read more
So says a NYP quoting a peer reviewed academic study.
Researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy analyzed 237 studies in the scientific literature for evidence that organic foods are safer or healthier. They found that fruits and vegetables that met the criteria for “organic” are on average neither more nutritious than their far cheaper conventional counterparts nor less likely to be contaminated by pathogenic bacteria like E. coli or Salmonella.
Many folks
Well, I am going to revel in the “I told you so moment”, but yet another study asking the question”Did the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Lead to Risky Lending?“, reports that:
Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks’ incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect of the CRA on lending activity. Our empirical strategy compares lending behavior
Who said ,”It’s good to be the king”?, oh yeah.
Putting on the Ritz, dressing to the nines, opulence times ten, the Obamas know how to throw a party, and they take great pride in standing tradition right on it’s bony head;
Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent’s thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54
We’re watching a typical fake truce in action in the Middle East right now. New rockets are on the way for Hamas and new Israeli settlements are being built further and further east. It’s only a matter of time before the next bloodletting begins.
All of this has led me to question why exactly it’s considered to be “conservative” to support Israel. Let’s acknowledge the fact that the Israelis are underdogs (they’re outnumbered in the … Read more
