Daily Archives: October 15, 2007

What Got Lost

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Regular readers will note that I had a bit of a software foul-up while trying to upgrade. The site was dead for a while, in fact. Hopefully, everything is back, more or less, now. I did try to save comments … Continue reading →

Posted in Geek Stuff | 2 Comments

When The SCHIP Hits The Fan

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

According to The Crypt, the Democrats are rolling out a new poster child for the SCHIP expansion they are pushing. The thing is, if they had brought this family out first, I rather doubt anyone would have blogged about them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | 6 Comments

No Diversity At All

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Mark Moyar writes about his effort to obtain a professorship at the University of Iowa history department. This appears to be a case very much like what George Will wrote about yesterday in the social work field. While the University … Continue reading →

Posted in Left Wing, The Ivory Tower | 1 Comment

A Job I Would Not Want

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Reporter Jill Leovy of the Los Angeles Times has been covering every single murder in Los Angeles county as part of a project to document every victim for one year. Tough assignment, right? You have no idea: She has covered … Continue reading →

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Television Can Kill

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

The things they never tell you when you're growing up. We would just like to point out that television can kill or cause serious injury to life or property. Particularly when the television set is heaved out a second-story window. … Continue reading →

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Undular Bores

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

This is pretty wild. Visible gravity waves. On a recent crisp autumn afternoon in Iowa, video cameras captured an unusual and visually dramatic result of two air masses colliding. Clouds split into a series of stripes and swept across the … Continue reading →

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Keep The Home Fires Burning

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

The old cliché "keep the home fires burning" probably originated in the need to tend home cooking fires so they would last all day. It has come to mean other things through the years, mostly about the need to take … Continue reading →

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Originality, Or Lack Thereof

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Paul Krugman is completely unable to come up with a new term, so he just rewrites one invented by Charles Krauthammer and unveils the left's newest meme: Gore Derangement Syndrome. Then he busily projects the left's routine behavior. Partly it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Left Wing | 5 Comments

UN Springs Into Action, Issues Tut-Tut To Burma

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

The United Nations special envoy to Burma has issued a tut-tut to the military junta that rules Burma. There was no official finger wag, however. The junta responded with a Bronx cheer and went about the business of cracking more … Continue reading →

Posted in World news | 3 Comments

Putin To Visit Iran Despite Assassination Plot Rumor

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Vladimir Putin will go ahead with his planned visit to Tehran despite reports in the Russian press that sources have warned about an "assassination plot" against him there. Oh, please. The tightly controlled Russian media lets it be known that … Continue reading →

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Io, Io, It’s Off To Work We Go

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

Ok, I couldn't resist the pun. NASA researchers think they have unlocked the secrets of Io's atmosphere. That Jovian moon is the most volcanically object in the solar system but scientists have long been puzzled by the sulfur dioxide atmosphere. … Continue reading →

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End Farm Subsidies

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Gaius

That is the opinion of Dean Kleckner, who headed the American Farm Bureau for 14 years. In his role with the biggest farm lobby he used to support the subsidies. He has had a major change of heart. As he … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Taxes | 2 Comments