Today the Drudge Report had a rather alarming red faced link, describing that China now had a special “Kill Weapon” that was a threat to US aircraft carriers. The article cited was produced by the US Naval Institute, and outlines this weapon: After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a “kill weapon” [...]
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OVERNIGHT LINKS ITEM: Hey! Al Gore and I both celebrated Earth Hour with our lights on! We’re buds now! As for Kentucky, heck, they celebrated a whole Earth Week not long ago! ITEM: Creeping socialism/fascism alert: Obama tells GM CEO to hit the road. For firms and organizations still considering taking government money, there’s a [...]
OVERNIGHT LINKS (and don’t go waiting for any updates, either) ITEM: Headline of the week: “Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale.” ITEM: Economic common sense from … Germany? ITEM: There is some justice in the world, after all: “Vindictive people make less money.” ITEM: On the other hand, this explains a lot: [...]
Happy Earth Hour, everyone! I may leave these on all night! Naah. ..bruce w..
MORNING LINKS (Gotta post!) ITEM: Hey, “Earth Hour” is tonight, another blip of self-congratulatory, feel-good environmental idiocy and irrelevance. Here’s how I think we should really celebrate Earth Hour (from Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle; and if you haven’t read it lately, why the hell not?): Be the First In Your Block [...]
I’ve been swamped with work (always a good thing), which is why my morning link roundups haven’t been here the past few days. Plus I was getting a bit discouraged at just how rapidly the handbasket seems to be plunging towards hell. Woooooooot! Well, I tried to make it Sunday But I got so damned [...]
How do you think TOTUS felt about that brazen hussy flaunting herself in the middle of the White House Press Corps? Talk among yourselves. I’ve still got work to do. ..bruce..
My daughter — who spent 16 months in Russia (her husband spent 22 months there as well) — had the following observation about my link this morning regarding the House bill on compulory youth service (the first link was in the e-mail; I inserted the second link): Your entry today on your blog about the [...]
EARLY MORNING LINKS — they’ll still be brief, because I’m still busy ITEM: The mainstream media tells us how to cope with difficult times: eat more candy (NY Times), play more (USA Today). No, really. ITEM: Think of it as evolution in action: Josh Freeze comes up with a novel (and brilliant) tiered pricing structure [...]
MORNING LINKS REMINDER: While I am happy (truly) to see the stock market rising after Sec’y Geithner unveiled his toxic asset plan, I have to always remember that the foundation of basic stock market transactions is the Greater Fool theory, namely, that if I pay $10 for a share of XYZ Corp, I do so [...]