And the US Army Corps of Engineers is really sorry about destroying New Orleans . Now get over it and send them more money! Meanwhile, reports like this do not inspire confidence: “The Army Corps of Engineers yesterday experienced movement of a 400-foot section of hurricane protection levee system near Buras in Plaquemines Parish. The section of
I’m trying to order a hamburger, medium well, but the cook was involved in heated argument with the customer who was insisting that DSL is better and faster than cable for a home internet connection. ‘Man, DSL rocks!’ ‘You are crazy. DSL ain’t nothing. Cable’s bandwidth rocks!’ ‘You are paying for nothing. You can’t download nothing on cable!’ And
A very nice oped in the Houston Chroncle , by Robert Bradley, concerning the global warming question. I’m glad he is fighting this fight. I thought that this issue would have died long ago, but It seems like nearly everyone on the left (broadly speaking) is convinced that this is the issue that they can use to crush all that they hate about modern
Medical News Today reports that Rage disorder, or Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), affects 7.3% of US adults at some time during their lifetimes. The disorder comes with moments of unexpected anger in which the person may attack other people, other people’s belongings and actually hurt them and damage their property. In most countries,
Remember those silly days in the 1990s, when Clinton, Gore, and their friends cobbled together our money to put computers in every classroom and community center? The hope was that the computer would at last do what the government has so far been unable to do after a century of work: make every child literate and high-minded. It turned out that
Good for Steve Chapman for quoting Mises: “Government is the only agency which can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless.” The only problem is that no one can seem to verify that Mises actually said this. It more or less reflects his thought but the prose is not his
The ink was barely dry on the quoted predictions that the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq would reduce violence and begin to normalize politics in Iraq when a rash of bombs killed 40 people in Baghdad. The government responded by (this is true) banning driving in Baghdad
Based on correspondence from this blog item on kids and the web, the number-one issue that makes parents reluctant about the web is its red-light district. Well, let me cut to the chase: K9webprotection is a free program that solves the problem, and better than any of the others I’ve tried. A household with computers and kids has no excuse not to
Thank goodness for Peter Doshi, who is doing his best to get the word out on the bird-flu frenzy. See his latest blast against the hype .
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