A recent Drudge headlined proclaimed, “Scientists Create Mentally Ill Mice.” It linked to a Reuters article  about a breakthrough in genetic engineering.  It made me wonder: How did the scientists know the mice were deranged? Well, according to the article, it quickly became obvious to the scientists. One of the mice was heard musing […]
On February 12, 1989 I drove the car up to Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City and collected my wife and a 3-day-old baby girl. With pomp and fanfare all captured on VHS tape, we brought Caitlin home, along with a mountain of infant paraphernalia, baby girl accouterments, and a heaping, swirling, throbbing sense of uncertainty […]
Sorry readers. I’ve been on the road for several days with little time and limited internet access. Â As you may know if you’ve been following the story on the blogs, the identity of The New Republic’s anonymous soldier-correspondent became known a few days ago. He is Scott Thomas Beauchamp and he is indeed a active […]
. . . from Investor’s Business Daily. Â A private firm’s downgrade of its hurricane forecast raises an obvious question: If scientists can’t get near-future projections in a limited area right, how can they predict the climate decades from now? Read the whole article.
There is nothing we humans enjoy more than having our deeply entrenched biases and presuppositions validated by events. Even when those presuppositions are false and the events never happened. That’s why so many on the left jumped on the allegations of rape against the Duke lacrosse team. And it may be why the mainstream media unquestioningly […]
 As regular readers know, I’ve been following the evolving story of the pseudonymous military reporter for The New Republic who uses the name “Scott Thomas” whose recent reports of outrageously dishonorable behavior by U.S. service personnel have come under increasing scrutiny (See my posts here and here.) One such fantastic tale involves a group of […]
Spoiler Alert! I haven’t read a single line of a single Harry Potter novel. Nor has anyone in my household. But it’s all the buzz. This new one is about some “deadly mallows,†which is apparently a reference to some poisoned sugary confections. It’s all very sad really. First a lot of stuff happens. Then […]
Well, nearby Colleyville, Texas has made the news. . . or at least the blogs. Today Jonah Goldberg at NRO Online continued a running debate he’s been having about which pet has been a more useful friend of mankind—dogs or cats—by offering this post about the growing popularity of chickens as pets. He quotes from this article in […]
You would think the New Republic might have learned something from the humiliating Stephen Glass affair. You may recall that that Glass was the TNR editor who was fired several years back when it came out that most of the “facts” in his stories were fiction. See here. Now TNR is publishing fishy-smelling, uncorroboratable reports of […]
A logic exercise: A: Sunnis despise Shiites. B: Al-Qaeda is a Sunni movement. C: Therefore there is no cooperation between Sunni Al-Qaeda and Shia Iran. The above logic is pretty much an article of faith among the proponents of surrender and retreat in Iraq and of “dialogue” with Iran. It makes for a compelling argument except for one […]
