My Way...

The inimitable Mark Steyn:

I've been saying for months that the difference between America and Europe is that, when the global economy nosedived, everywhere from Iceland to Bulgaria mobs took to the streets and besieged Parliament, demanding to know why government didn't do more for them. This is the only country in the developed world where a mass movement took to the streets to say we can do just fine if you control-freak statists would just stay the hell out of our lives, and our pockets. You can shove your non-stimulating stimulus, your jobless jobs bill, and your multitrillion-dollar porkathons. This isn't karaoke. These guys are singing "I'll do it my way" for real.

Read the whole thing...

President Me!

Excellent:

Landing on a Carrier...

Two part clip from the PBS Carrier series, via my mom:




I watched a good many landings on the USS Enterprise (the “Big E”) when I was in the Navy, deployed off the coast of North Vietnam, in the early '70s.  The technology now is vastly improved, but it's just as difficult and risky now as it was back then...

Cassy vs. Courtney: Cassy Wins in a Knockout!

Cassy Fiano loves a soldier, a Marine who's done two tours in Iraq and is heading to Afghanistan soon.  She's infuriated by Courtney Cook's recent Salon article How to leave a soldier, in which Ms. Cook recommends that other women leave their soldiers while their soldier is on deployment, with a proverbial “Dear John” letter.  Cassy tears Courtney a new one.

I was disgusted by Courtney's piece when I first read it a couple of days ago.  It got me to wondering just how many modern women were so shallow and so selfish that they'd read Courtney's piece with approval – or even take action on it.  Having been deployed myself (though before I was married), it was easy for me to empathize with the soldier on the receiving end of Courtney's cruelty. 

Reading Cassy's piece was a breath of fresh air.  I kept saying things to myself like “Point Cassy!” as I was reading.  At the end I had a smile on my face, for several reasons: Cassy's excellent takedown, the good fortune of Cassy's soldier, and the hope she gave me that the Cassy's in this world outnumber the Courtneys...

We're Watching the Dam Burst...

JoNova has a cool graphic at right, and a nice timeline of the bursting of the AGW dam...