There is absolutely nothing wrong with the use of drugs to build a better body but it is nice to have a staid, fuddy-duddy like the Financial Times on your side. Click here to read the introductory paragraphs or buy a subscription. FT says the way to get around the problem of cheating is to…
Monthly Archives: July 2007
BALONEY! ON STILTS!!
Looking for a good college? Don’t look here. The recently released list of the best colleges in the world is of no great interest to those who seek an education. Here’s why. Shanghai University produces this annual list that leans heavily on who has faculty with Nobel Prizes. It also counts Nobel Prizes eventually won…
STEROIDS ARE GOOD, PERIOD
Julian Savulescu is Professor of Practical Ethics at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. Telegraph (U.K.) “It is time to allow doping at Tour de France” By Julian Savulescu Another Tour de France has been ruined. The event has moved from being the supreme test of human endurance to a petty media-fest of…
TIDBITS
In one of Billy Shakespeare’s plays, Julie the C says “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Such men are dangerous.” Now comes Alberto Gonzales who has a pudgy face and seems overfed. He lacks a mind and is only a thug. On the other hand, John Yoo is, as I wrote in a…
FOX “NEWS”
FOX is not exactly in the news business but we admit it is pretty close. It brings us accounts of events it supposes we are all dying to read about. I prefer to think FOX is not only incompetent in journalism, it is also incompetent in human psychology. Here is a rundown it provided just…
OUR FRIENDS AT VANGUARD
Yes, Friday’s mail brought me my weekly Vanguard report. As usual, it was called “Economic Week in Review” when in truth it was “The Financial Week in Review”. I learned that the S&P 500 Index fell 4.9% and the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell 24 basis points to 4.76%. Despite a housing market slump, GDP…
ALBERTO GONZALES/INCOMPETENT, STUPID, LIAR, CROOK
It is now no longer disputable that Alberto Gonzales is incompetent, very stupid, dishonest, a liar, a downright crook and a danger to civilization. Most senators privately hold this view but they lack the guts needed to try to remove him from his office. Here are a few articles that have appeared in the NY…
A THOUSAND SUCKERS ARE BORN EVERY DAY
The stock market is for suckers. Suppose somebody offers you this wager: Toss a coin. If it comes up head, you win $500. Tail, and you lose $475. Now, if you can play this game with him 10,000 times, you will win lots of money. If it is a one-time only deal, you are crazy…
TIDBITS
If your mother is now 75 and her parents are both 95 and your maternal great grandmother died when she was 102 that doesn’t mean a thing for how long you will live. Biologists now believe that lifespans are entirely inherited from your father’s side.*****The president of the Bastiat Society says you should “Beware those…
MORE POLLS/WE LOVE THEM
The way to get your finger on the pulse of the world is not to theorize but to observe. Here are some interesting new findings. [The Austrian philosopher, Wittgenstein, once advised with respect to anything and everything, "Don't think; look!] 1. How do you feel about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons? We give the percentage who…
MORE STUPID SCIENCE
I leave it to you to decide. Here are your two choices: 1. American people are incredibly stupid. 2. American scientists hold the rest of us in contempt. [I admit you can choose both.] We all know, without the help of scientists, that very fat people are at least a little more likely to hang…
REEFER MADNESS
Here we go again. The movie “Reefer Madness” is a cult classic among the college-age set, and rightly so. It has given more belly laughs than any two other movies you know. The propaganda is so stupid that even physicians must be embarrassed. But now we have a follow-up that proves idiocy dies hard. The…
THE MURDER OF PAT TILLMAN
Frankly, it never occurred to me that Pat Tillman was NOT murdered until I received this article saying that Tillman may have been murdered by men in his own platoon. Truthout.org …….[The story below is a reprint from Truthout - which you should be reading regularly.] “Was Tillman Murdered?” The Associated Press Thursday 26 July…
REDUCING ANIMAL CRUELTY
A new safety test for cosmetics using human skin grown in the lab is set to spare thousands of rabbits and mice a life of pain and misery. Experiments have shown Episkin – developed by scientists at the world’s largest cosmetics company L’Oreal – predicted more accurately how a person was able to react to…
WRONGFUL DEATH SENTENCE OF A MENTALLY ILL MAN
ACLU.org………July 17, 2007. ACLU Challenges the Conviction and Death Sentence of a Severely Mentally-Ill Man The ACLU CPP represents Richard Taylor, a schizophrenic, psychotic and delusional death row inmate, in his direct appeal to the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals. Despite four prior judicial findings of incompetency, Taylor was permitted in 2003 to represent himself…
GIVING THE MAN HIS SAY
God bless America’s devotion to a free press. Let us hear from all the loonies. The following was duly reported by the [sic] major media. At a Friday sermon in a Sudan mosque last May, Sheik Ahmad Bahr, Speaker of the Palestine Legislative Council, had this to say: “You will be victorious on the face…
BOMBS AND SOCCER – A TOUGH TRADEOFF
Iraq beat South Korea 4-3 in a soccer match yesterday [football, if you prefer what the rest of the world calls it] and thousands of miles away, Iraqis went wild with joy in Baghdad. Thousands jammed the streets in a torrent of happiness not commonplace in these parts. As a result, they made an excellent…
RACING BILLIONAIRES
The America’s Cup is an international “sporting” event held every couple of years. Billionaires climb aboard their yachts they build sometimes for less than $10 million and try to see who is fastest. Russell Coutts, the most successful helmsman in the recent history of the America’s Cup, confirmed Tuesday that he was returning to the…
A PERSONAL NOTE ON MY UNFORGIVING NATURE
You don’t have to remind me because I realize a political blog is not the place to pour out my feelings of enmity toward well-meaning organizations. Still…. In the summer of 2000, my son Stephen died of AIDS-related leukemia. Already an internationally known worker for the cause of stopping AIDS, he gave his money away…
MEDICAL WATCH
1. Do what you will about the latest medical finding. I choose to toss it into the garbage file I have titled “Medical Lies That Are Good For You”. A report from the journal Circulation says that drinking one diet soda per day will help bring about “metabolic syndrome”, a condition of greatly increased waist…
WHO LIKES AMERICA/WHO DOESN’T
Sorry, but another poll. This one by our friends at PEW Global Attitudes Project. It was conducted between April 6 and May 29 by telephone and personal interview. About 45,200 persons participated. People from 47 nations were asked whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the U.S. Some excerpts below: Our best friends…
THE MOST BORING STORY IN THE WORLD
2.30 A.M. and I can’t sleep. What better way can there be to drive away my insomnia than to search for news about Osama, son of Laden. [That's what "bin" means, you know.] No one really cares whether Binny is alive because it doesn’t change a thing. When Pablo Escobar, the king of drugs died,…
CURMUDGEONLY TIDBITS
If you saw me standing near a dead body, would you kill me? You would, if you were a Canadian cop and I was a very large bear. You wouldn’t bother firing tranquilizing darts at me, calling animal control experts or investigating. Although you are a cop patrolling in bear country, you wouldn’t bother being…
BROWNSVILLE BY NIGHT/A WONDERFUL SIGHT
If you have never lived in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn,DON’T! Having spent the first 7300 nights of my life there, [20 years], I can vouch for the fact that the kids in the following story are telling the truth and the cops should be thrown into the same black hole they pulled the boys…
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