November 30th, 2003
Bush has decided to repeal the steel tariffs that caught him so much criticism from all sides of the political spectrum. See my earlier comments on the tariff. Looks like the commies will have one less issue to riot about.
Archive for November, 2003
November 29th, 2003
Turkey-day Photos
I’m still in San Antonio, but the first of three photo sets is already up.
Update: I’m back – and the rest of the photos are up. (The photos were selected and resized: full-size originals are here.)
November 25th, 2003
No Comment
The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling.
November 25th, 2003
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m leaving for a week to visit my parents over Thanksgiving. I leave you with a 1860’s political cartoon that would probably be un-pc today. (Found here.)
November 24th, 2003
“Wage slavery” and other falacies…
This post is mostly for my reference. I responded at a local forum in answer to some questions about the nature of wages and the effects of productivity improvements. I dont have much experience debating economics (as opposed to capitalism) so suggestions are welcome
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What is a job?
A job is a contract between two [...]
November 24th, 2003
What comes up….
Did you ever wonder about that story of a penny dropped from a skyscraper on a pedestrian’s head?A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said. [The]bullet struck…on the top of the head and exited at the [...]
November 24th, 2003
Jews and Political Radicalism
VodkaPundit: “Ive always joked that Jews who dont stay Jews end up as either communists or Objectivists.”
How true. I have two compounding explanations for this: (a) For historical and cultural reasons, Jews are more educated and intellectual than the average citizen, so they are more included towards participating in two the dominant philosophical [...]
November 23rd, 2003
More Leftist Nonsense…
Laurel mentions a panel at the University of Chicago’s “Center for Gender Studies” pushing for unisex bathrooms. I found these lines both hilarious and revealing:
...many womens restrooms have a caricature of a person in a dress on it. Going into it implies that we are willing to be associated with that image. There are [...]
November 23rd, 2003
Sold Brides Endure And (Barely) Survive: To flee oppression, many North Korean women escape to marry Chinese men. Here are two tales of desperation.
November 23rd, 2003
Hillary in ‘04?
Mike Mazza reports that Hillary’s filed a report with the FEC for the presidential vote in ‘04. Could it be? I wouldn’t put it past her. May God have mercy on us all.
November 23rd, 2003
Bin Laden in Iran
Fox News analyst Mansoor Ijaz:Al-Zawahiri was seen within the last two weeks, and bin Laden was spotted in July, says the network’s foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz.
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Iran’s provision of safe harbor, finances and logistical support for al-Qaida is a measure to counter the possibility that U.S. action in that region could result in democracies on [...]
November 23rd, 2003
“Economics for Real People” website
Collectrix.com is now hosting Economics for Real People, a new introduction to Austrian economics in the spirit of Economics of One Lesson. Other than excerpts, I havent read it yet, but from what I understand, its a great book.
November 23rd, 2003
New Battlestar Galactica Series
Last year, I started watching 1979-era Battlestar Galactica episodes on the SciFi channel. The show was pretty decent, and when I heard that a new series was being made, I was initially excited. Then I read the intro:
So we’ve set out to bring the old boy back to life and give him [...]
November 22nd, 2003
The Palestinian people does not exist.
I came across a revealing quote today:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do [...]
November 22nd, 2003
Glow in the dark fish!
The next miracle of genetic engineering has arrived: glow in the dark fish!
Eco-freaks are already moaning:
“It’s biological pollution,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety. He said that even if the GloFish was not dangerous, failure to regulate it would set a precedent allowing many other ornamental fish to enter the [...]
November 22nd, 2003
North Korea
The United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union decided today to suspend construction of two nuclear reactors in North Korea. The nuclear reactors being built for North Korea are extortion payments by western nations meant to delay plutonium production at North Koreas other nuclear plants (built with western aid as well, of [...]
November 21st, 2003
Affirmative action bake sale
Check out my photo blog of the YCT affirmative action bake sale.
November 21st, 2003
CodeFellas
Now here is a job my advisor didn’t tell me about : tech suport for the mob.
November 18th, 2003
New Photos
With the coming of winter, I’ve added a third “space heater” to my room and posted new shots of me at work. If you haven’t seen my photo gallery at all, you should go to photos.rationalmind.net…now.
I also wrote an autobiography for my about page. What do you think?
November 16th, 2003
In the first 15 days of November, I had 1008 unique search engine hits from Google, contributing to most of my 38,181 hits and 4,258 visits. Here are the top 8 queries:
jewish racism
cultural misunderstanding
html compression
george bush award for excellence in public service
middle east terrorism
victorian morality
arguments for fox hunting
prostitution and religion