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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

OUR PROSECUTORS HAVE GONE ‘WAY OVER THE LINE…...

We need a justice system in order that the weak are protected against the strong. In order to live in a reasonably safe society, we give a great deal of power to the prosecutors. These offices need to be staffed by people who are sane; who have some sense of proportion; who use common sense and make reasonable distinctions. Ask yourself about this case…..

Posted by Earl on 07/31 at 07:57 PM
Miscellany • SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE • Politics • Domestic • Comments •

INGMAR BERGMAN HAS DIED…...

In case you don’t know much about him, you can check it out HERE

Anyhow, we went to an Ingmar Bergman film festival at Colorado State University while in graduate school in the ‘70s. You can save yourself a lot of time, and see if you really want to watch his movies by checking out the following. It’s a parody, but it will give you the “feel” and the aesthetic of most of the films we saw back then.

Posted by Earl on 07/31 at 07:35 PM
Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • REVIEWS • Movie • Comments •

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT STORY! YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHERE THE GUY…..

Ever had this problem? Well, your days of frustration are at an end…..

CHECK IT OUT

Sci/Fi, Fantasy, Biography, History, you name it—Plot, Main Character, Setting, and so on.

You’re going to love it!

Posted by Earl on 07/19 at 05:28 PM
Miscellany • REVIEWS • Book • Comments •

Thursday, July 12, 2007

CAN IVORY COAST END ITS CIVIL WAR WITHOUT ANY MORE SHOOTING…..?

Seems like a dream to me…..

A single soccer match achieves what five years of combat and negotiations could not: an apparent end to Ivory Coast’s civil war.

A wonderful dream, but maybe we ought to keep an eye on what actually happens there over the next few months to a year or two….

READ THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Earl on 07/12 at 09:33 PM
Politics • International • Comments •

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

I’m sitting upstairs in the “bonus room” watching the neighborhood fireworks show—they let you buy a LOT of different stuff here in the South!

How do they do that? HERE’S WHERE YOU FIND OUT.

Posted by Earl on 07/04 at 07:55 PM
Miscellany • Comments •

Sunday, July 01, 2007

DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT AL QAEDA IS REALLY LIKE?

Probably not. The major media in our country isn’t much interested in telling us the nature of our enemies—they’re too interested in drivel out of Hollywood, or the latest horror story about Dick Cheney, or the i-Phone debut, or scaring the bejabbers out of us because the President is about to institute a theocracy.

However, there is a lot that we ought to be aware of:

Posted by Earl on 07/01 at 06:12 PM
Politics • Domestic • Iraq • Comments •

YOUNG WOMEN ARE DOING MUCH BETTER AT EDUCATION THAN YOUNG MEN

There’s a fair amount of discussion about this among U.S. academics….with a strong contingent holding that this really doesn’t matter much. In fact, there are some who seem to think it’s a good thing that girls are “getting a little back” on the boys, who were somehow favored in the patriarchal past.

A very short-sighted view, it now appears (confirming common sense, I’d say.) In eastern Germany, there is a growing shortage of women—in many towns only 75 for each 100 men, in a few it’s down to 40 - due to the emigration of the young females to more promising locales in the west.

It is a vicious spiral. Girls are more studious than boys, so they get better qualified and migrate west to find both partners and jobs. The boys lack role models at home, where fathers are often unemployed, and at school, where teachers are mostly female. Young men now account for 65% of German high-school dropouts….The study, which combines reportage with figures, tells of frustrated gangs of youths drinking outside supermarkets and sleeping on their loading ramps.

Young, poorly-educated men with no jobs and no particular prospects - either for earning a living or finding a mate who might civilize them. And in whose universe is this not a serious problem? Surely we shouldn’t wait until the situation in our country is as dire as it is in eastern Europe…...

READ THE WHOLE THING

Hat Tip: Mark Steyn in THE CORNER

Posted by Earl on 07/01 at 05:52 PM
Miscellany • Education • Politics • Domestic • Comments •

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