It’s almost as though the Government sucks at directing economic production: On Friday, General Motors announced that it will temporarily suspend production of the Chevy Volt and temporarily lay off 1,300 workers associated with the electric car. Three days prior to GM’s decision to halt production of the Volt, President Barack Obama spoke in Detroit… Read More Government Motors Fails
Reading Graham Greene today. I like it. It’s serious and honest. I shall have to dig some of his stuff up for the Kindle. Perhaps The Quiet American, as I’ve seen that movie.
Which is odd, as his novels have always made me fear the future. (h/t: Instapundit) It’s an ancient, somewhat universal human attitude, and often they give it full voice. But it’s been being given voice for thousands and thousands of years. You can go back and see the ancient Greeks doing it. You know, “All… Read More William Gibson Distrusts the Past
Over at the Telegraph, a snarky argument in favor of the monarchy. For my part, I don’t get the point of electing a ceremonial president, as the Germans do. The President of the Bundesrepublik does nothing at all, but embody the spirit of the German nation or some such. Well, can’t someone who inherited the… Read More God Save the Queen
This is how it starts: Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees… Read More Freed Slave in 1865 Writes to Old Master With Great Affection, Barely Concealed Laughter
Saw this over at Ace’s, and will probably have to read it again soon. I have always found post-modernism transcendentally irritating, because it always seemed the desparate decadent cry of the self-hating honky. It was a fundamentally nihilistic riff of of ideas first played with by the Sophists, as I came to notice when I… Read More The Death of Postmodernism?
Chris Kyle, aka “The Legend,” aka “Al-Shaitan Ramadi” (the Devil of Ramadi), America’s greatest living sniper, with 160 confirmed kills. The son of a Sunday-school teacher and a church deacon, Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill. From 2,100 yards away from a village just outside of Sadr City in 2008, he spied… Read More Sgt. York, Meet CPO Kyle
Merry Christmas. Peace on Earth. Goodwill towards men.
“So this is what insomnia feels like. I wonder if I’m going to get so tired I’ll create a cool alter ego of myself who wants to blow up credit card companies. I mean, I wouldn’t mind doing that normally, so…” “I am going to find out what breast milk tastes like. This is going… Read More Things That I Hope Other New Fathers Have Thought Within the First Week of Their Child’s Life…
