I’m sick of blogging about politics. I don’t care how juicy the news is, for the next week, I’m only blogging about programming and economics, and anything else as long as it doesn’t relate to Bush, Kerry, or the 2004 campaign.* So, with that in mind, I’d like to direct your attention to Tyler Cowen’s [...]
Steve Gigl is on a roll today, but in this post he gives a pretty good theory for John Kerry’s weird remarks about Mary Cheney in the debate last night. In a nutshell, Steve thinks that Kerry was trying to obliquely accuse the Bush/Cheney campaign of hypocrisy, since they’re taking a strong stance against gay [...]
Okay, I typed up my responses while I was at the debate party, got home, and Mrs. Wilson added her annotations, which I’ve helpfully italicized. 7:30: Wow. Big room. Foofy Chandelier. I’m Amishing with pen and paper because my laptop cord won’t reach to the wall and I’ve got a dead battery. 7:33: Steve Gigl [...]
The Mrs. and I are going to the downtown Hilton to an AM1280 The Patriot debate party, to watch tonight’s presidential debates with all of the local “hate radio” right-wing nutjobs. Here’s what I want to see at tonight’s debates: 1. A flawed health care plan. I don’t want perfect, I don’t want good, I’ll [...]
Okay, I’m running around trying to get chili cooked and the computer hooked up, so I’m missing the first few minutes. I was amused by the first question on wishy-washy Kerry. Just thought I’d mention that. 8:30: Questioner is concerned about Iran. Kerry says Iraq was a mistake, we should have had more troops in [...]
I noted with great joy that Waterdeep is now offering MP3s at their online store. For the cost of 75 cents a song or 7.50 an album, you can legally download any of waterdeep’s music that you could previously only get by purchasing an album. (I’d think this was even greater if I didn’t *already* [...]
David S. Bennahum (I have no idea who he is, but I got the link from kottke) posted a brief piece on abolishing the Electoral College. It’s heavy on statistics like these: The state with the most electoral leverage, meaning the smallest number of elligible voters per elector, is Wyoming: A “red state” in 2000, [...]
Captain Ed from Captain’s Quarters points out the case of Charlotte Wyatt in the UK, a very sick preemie infant the NHS is trying to deny care to. In the government-run health system that the British have used for decades, the choice between life and death doesn’t belong to the patient or their family — [...]
Wow. I read this part of a Thomas Sowell article five minutes ago and I still don’t know what to think about it: Did you know that people in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of Sausalito, across the bay, own 80,000 acres of land in Kenya? What are they doing with it? They are setting [...]
First shipment of negative ads arrives in Afghanistan: In one of the ads, approved by a group calling themselves Brutal Afghan Warlords for Truth, a narrator accuses Mr. Karzai of flip-flopping on the issues, a point vividly dramatized by showing his trademark hat switching from one side of his head to the other. Hailing the [...]