Tonight in my International Law seminar we’re talking about the Law of the Sea (and Air, Space, etc.) Why do I love my job? Because I get to talk a bit about the British sinking of the German Heavy Cruiser — The Admiral Graf Spee. After battling the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles [...]
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Catholic school suspends 9-year-old for Michael Jackson dance move, http://fxn.ws/xrsHK8 Kids today… They always wanna be startin’ something. Share on Facebook Kids, just following the example of the POTUS. At any rate this is pretty pathetic. Share on Facebook This case is the textbook “hanging is too good for him” case. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE80U1YO20120131?irpc=932 I doubt this teacher will get what he fully deserves though. If the mobile link doesn’t work here is the New York Daily News version. Share on Facebook Now you understand why I wrote this post, earlier (http://www.threedonia.com/archives/48688). Regardless, even with that preemptive shot I know I will be lambasted here for writing this, but, I’m a realist and I can’t help stating what I believe is fact. First) I really wish there were some different candidates to choose from regarding the [...] (I found this article by James Altucher on TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/ and I thought some here would find it interesting. Here’s the link to James’ post, if you want to comment to him directly, http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-should-self-publish-a-book/ I’d be interested in the opinions of those here; Lars, Rich, David (any others?) with experience with this topic.)
I’ve [...] Just found out that Wikipedia’s down today (per Jonah Goldberg’s Twitter feed). (Google’s even horned in on the act. There’s a big piece of — what looks like — duct tape over their logo.) Yesterday he wrote at NR’s The Corner: Very soon Wikipedia will go dark for a day to protest something called SOPA. [...] ESPN and USA Today are both reporting (which means ESPN probably stole the story from some local blog) that Penn State has hired New England patriots Offensive Coordinator Bill O’Brien as its next head football coach. Nittany Lions nation is apparently up in arms that someone without ties to PSU was hired. Bill O’Brien [...] Here’s an interesting piece from New Scientist on “outsider physicists” and other amateur, non-credentialed scientists. IN OCTOBER 1991, astrophysicists observed something incredible in the skies above Dugway Proving Ground, a former weapons-testing facility in a remote corner of Utah. It was a cosmic ray with an enormous amount of energy – equivalent to the kinetic [...] Norman, Norman, Norman. Foolish, foolish Norman. Just doesn’t matter how many facts stack up against you when you whine about conservative media bias and backlash, does it? Larry Elder, thanks for blowing Mr. Delusional’s ill wind right back at him. How accurate is Lear’s assessment of the supposed power and influence of the right? [...] Want to lose weight? Don’t worry about counting calories or exercising… just talk about food endlessly… nothing kills an appetite like “the philosophy of food”. The downside… it might increase your alcohol intake. Philosophers have a long but scattered history of analyzing food. Plato famously details an appropriate diet in Book II of the [...] On Christmas Day I posted a piece on the negative effects of affirmative action — not just on Whites, but also for Blacks and other minorities. It seems the utter failure of our Affirmative Action President has chummed the waters for the pernicious idea that to solve racial discrimination we have to discriminate racially. I [...] Now who would’ve have thought that making decisions based on solely or mostly on race would lead to bad outcomes? Anyone with a lick of sense of course. Now the numbers are starting to emerge on the damage affirmative action has wrought. From Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe: In a report published last year [...] From Australia… the “ethical” case for eating meat from a journal called The Conversation: Most cattle slaughtered in Australia feed solely on pasture. This is usually rangelands, which constitute about 70% of the continent. Grazing occurs on primarily native ecosystems. These have and maintain far higher levels of native biodiversity than croplands. The rangelands [...] Theodore Dalrymple… one of my favorite, if one of the more doleful, writers around has written a brilliant post-mortem of this past summer’s London riots for City Journal. Here’s a bit — go read the rest of “Barbarians on the Thames” here. Resentment is a powerful, long-lasting emotion that usually is self-serving and [...] No denying Coach Paterno’s legacy took a deserved recent tarnish due to his inaction re. Jerry “How Ya Liking Jail Now?” Sandusky’s sickening behavior, but a recent ranking of Penn State football’s academic excellence a nice heads-up for those who don’t know what we who proudly wear the blue and white have known for [...] To bum a sentiment from David Stein by way of Michael Corleone, just when you think all the fuss about David’s take-down of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s intellectual dishonesty re. Gov. Rick Perry’s Muslim curriculum had seen its last, they pull him back in to the fray. Be sure to check out David’s whole [...] I’m 99.5% against kicking another man in the balls. The exceptions… self defense from a crime, street fights and defending yourself from a bigger bully. I hope this mother wins a judgment and someone loses their job over this… from CBS Boston: A 7-year-old boy is being investigated by his South Boston elementary school [...] |
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