Now let me say right off that I don’t really think that the government should do absolutely nothing to protect shareholders. It is one of the proper functions of the government to protect property after all. But it is not proper for the government to mow your lawn, clean your house, or supervise your employees. Click Here to continue reading.
In the comments of my last post, Rita said she still had a hard time understanding moving darts to the side seam, so this is a more detailed explanation. Again, I think it will be helpful for you work the examples shown with your own paper.
Here’s our new piece of paper.
You can see I’ve marked Click Here to continue reading.
Vinod Khosla (among many other people) wants the government to spend vast amounts of money to help along the production and adoption of ethanol. In other news, the Mexicans are having trouble buying corn to feed themselves because of existing ethanol production.
Cheap shot?
Maybe. But I have serious problems with Khosla and those like him. You Click Here to continue reading.
The poem of the week has some relevance to the essay of the week as is our custom. But the relevance is lost in the twisted maze of the Chieftain’s head.
In this rant, Spengler goes after modern art. Actually this rant is long enough to be an essay, but we shall term it a rant because it takes as much skill to attack modern art as it does to make it; which is to say, no skill at all.
Nonetheless, Modern Art needs a good kicking now and again and Spengler supplies one.
Our essay this week is not an essay properly speaking. Rather it is speech by Abraham Lincoln. It seem only fitting that as Lincoln’s birthday approaches that we should give him some space on our blog to defend himself against those who would argue that the South had every right to seceded. It would do well for people to listen to Lincoln’s own defense of Union as the South prepared to rebel before they make up their mind on the matter.
If someone told you that there was a Moslem group that did military-type exercises near the reservoirs that supply much of New York City’s water you would probably think that it was some right-wing fantasy. But it happens to be true. The group calls themselves the Jamaat ul-Fuqra.
I first found out about this group Click Here to continue reading.
Tatterdemalion asked me for help with her site the other day. The titles on some of her posts were so long the didn’t fit on the sidebar, and it was messing everything up. Since she didn’t want to change the width of her sidebar, we needed a way to truncate really long post titles when Click Here to continue reading.
This video will give you a faint idea of how much power can be stored in a CRT monitor or a TV. It’s pretty cool watching him power a fluorescent light bulb, and set things on fire.
I thought it was pretty funny that the President of Romania had the gall to tell Bill Gates he was glad his country steals Windows. Long live free software! Or whatever. . .
Bill had nothing to say. Maybe he’ll buy Romania as a punishment.