Bottom Up, People. Bottom Up.

 Civilizer
Everybody take a minute to read this New York Times Op-Ed from David Brooks.  Here is the gist:
“Between 1870 and 1950, the average American’s level of education rose by 0.8 years per decade. In 1890, the average adult had completed about 8 years of schooling. By 1900, the average American had 8.8 years. By 1910, [...]

The Chinese Example: Forget Warming, And Cut Emissions Anyway

 Civilizer
Global warming continues to be this year’s hot complaint.  The greening of America has seeped into retailers, advertiser, and consumers, and all thanks to the rallying cry “Stop Global Warming.”  Al Gore made an alarmist film rife with errors and got a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for it, because he was trying to “Stop [...]

Unacceptable

 Civilizer
I repeat myself:  why, when a people are apocalyptically stricken by any number of scourges (genocide, natural disaster, starvation), does the world see fit to sit on its hands and allow the government which makes aid almost impossible to continue to govern?  They are killing their own people, either directly through violent repression or indirectly through the incompetent [...]

Yeah, Maybe We All Overreacted Juuuuust A Touch

 Civilizer
It’s been a popular lament amongst the nation’s columnists and talking heads that these past 7 and a half years have been a long strange trip – we suffer a catastrophic terrorist attack in two major cities on the same day, manage to blow all of the international goodwill engendered by that terrorist attack, the [...]

Pardon My Drool

 King Civilizer
Death Magnetic album cover’s out! 

Get it?!  It’s magnetic filings, pulling together in the shape of a coffin, which is where you go after death!  Metal!

A Mexican Submarine? Geez, That Punchline Writes Itself

 Civilizer

Hey kids, thinking about turning down that college scholarship to pursue a lucrative career in the cross-border drug trade?  Well here’s a pretty good reason to reconsider:  if you follow through on that narco-trafficking idea, there’s a chance a Mexican drug lord unaccustomed to hearing the word “No” will insist that you climb aboard a [...]

What Are Surrogates For, Again?

 Civilizer
“Surrogates.”  Anybody remember when these people became indispensable to the election cycle?  Anybody?  I seem to recall a time when a candidate was running for office, and he or she was all you really heard from.  Maybe there was a spokesman, the coffee-swilling guy wearing an iffy suit who acted as campaign manager, but that was [...]

At Least He Hasn’t Complained About Arugula In A While

 Civilizer
A question: phrasing a personal responsibility speech by telling a room full of black youths that they’re not as good as they think they are at rapping or balling, “forgetting” to tell a ballroomfull of Democrats at a speech to help retire Hillary Clinton’s debt, putting his kids on Access Hollywood, saying it’s “embarrassing” that [...]

Aw Crap – Quote Of The Day

From Ted Forstmann, quoted in The Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Forstmann’s argument about the present crisis starts with the money supply. After Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Reserve pumped so much money into the financial system that it distorted the incentives and the decision making of everyone in finance. He illustrates this with what he calls [...]

Happy Fourth Of July, America