Category Archives: Scribbles

A vault from the Volt

The concept car is ugly. It has no headroom and looks like a mashed can. But if Chevy can really pull off this flex-fuel, hybrid electric car by 2010, it could be the start of something good for the Long War and the economy. Too many of our pols seem to have their pockets lined with Saudi dollars for them to make a serious effort away from the Middle East oil funding the terrorists. But the automobile industry might be able to do it for them. Although as the driver of a Honda rice-burner, I’ll grant the Audi-driving Seablogger his take on the usual American car: "…it’s overpowered; it steers like a truck; and it feels as though it wants to go airborne every time it rounds a corner.”

Via Instapundit 

Defending prostitute dignity

The blogosphere–criticizing the NYTimes’ chief cretin columnist Bob Herbert–boldly goes where few have gone before:

"Are doctors humiliated when patients show up and expect them to palpate and attend to their naked body parts?"

Beats me, but I hope not. 

The male prerogative

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Tasteless? I suppose. But it made me laugh, and with the snowstorm in the northeast it seems like a good time to use it.

Via Miss Cellania 

He’s for Fred

Eric Klien, that is, and he’s bold enough to predict Fred will be our next POTUS. I’d also prefer Fred to any of the others–though I still like Rudy–but I’m not quite bold enough (yet) to predict his win. But to Eric it’s all about defense. The rest is just smoke and mirrors. I do agree with that one.

Via Instapundit 

2007 Darwin Awards

More tales from the shallow end of the gene pool where people die splashing through "an astounding misapplication of judgement." The second one is from Texas. This is evolution at work, folks. See it now.

Via Slashdot 

Seeds of destruction

It’s always seemed to me–though you will get plenty of argument about it from the liberal multicults– that the slaveowners among the Founders knew what they were doing when they voted for a Declaration of Independence declaring that "all men are created equal." The lawyers among them, in particular, knew that slavery would be abolished sooner or later and that women (since they meant "men" in an inclusive sense) would win rights that they then didn’t have.

The notion belies the currently-popular idea that the nation was racist and sexist from the start, which Mackubin Owens notes is abetted by such otherwise harmless examples of PC as the New Jersey Legislature’s recent apology for slavery. Not that even conservatives, such as the recent Lincoln bashers, don’t like a good argument about such things now and then.

Via No Left Turns 

The gate keepers’ lament

Columbia University, denying an Iranian report that some professors are enroute to Tehran to apologize to Mahmoud-the-mad for insults on his recent New York visit, includes an interesting little slap:

"We ask that a clarification be added….and that verification of the facts even during the era of Google’s news value-neutral, digital age continues to be warranted."

Ah, yes, let’s bemoan the end of the days when the gatekeepers got to decide "news value." Boo hoo.

Via Simply Jews