Friday, December 5 (Updated)

• The Economics of Too Big to Fail by Bruce Kesler @ Maggie's Farm

  The answer that comes from our politicians, who see their pet programs and their contributors as too big to be allowed to fail, is to increase our debts through formerly unimaginable greater deficit spending, piling multitudes of new debt upon the existing. That is a prescription for delay, at best, of a far worse reckoning.

• Islamic Space Punks: Iran plans to "Launch Animals to Space" but some kids in England have already sent Teddy Bears Into Space VIA Universe Today

• Muslims miffed by Osama Bin Lego. Mohammed Shaffiq, of Muslim organisation The Ramadhan Foundation, branded the toy “absolutely disgusting”. He said: “It is glorifying terrorism — the makers should be ashamed." Would that Shaffiq and his ilk spoke out so forcefully against Islamic terrorists that are not toys. OrderBrickArms "White Bandit" HERE [VIA Larwyn]

• It's a green thing. You wouldn't understand. Green on Green Violence @ Milloy's JunkScience.

• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. And Juan Garcia. And Julio Garcia. And Esteban Munoz. And that Zorro fellow. -Velociworld

• A moment of admiration for those hot (and not-so-hot) babes who carry the name "Porntip" through the world. They can't all be Porntip Nakhirunkanok aka "Miss Universe"

• It turns out that the cliche of the bumbling incompetent Indian bureaucrat is, well, true: Ten men willing to die, and a pathetic security system by Edward Luttwak [VIA: Kings of War]

• Galveston’s still standing: After Ike: A Surge of Gratitude @ The Task at Hand

• Films of the Neuters: “Hollywood is great at producing male actors, but sucks at producing men,” says Miller. “I found them all too much like boys.” - U.S. short on tough guy actors @ Variety [VIA 2blowhards.com: American Manhood, R.I.P.]

• Worse than clowns: Creepy and Scary Mannequins and Dolls @ WebUrbanist

• No Gurlz Aloud: Why Women Hate Men - The Blog [VIA: the Free Radicals @ Atomic Nerds]

• Nutshell:

  American foreign policy for the last sixty years has produced neither security nor anything else for Americans. Nor, I believe, has it been particularly good for the rest of the world, which would otherwise have to defend itself and behave responsibly as an independent sovereign. For Foggy Bottom, however, it has been a windfall. Every year it is paid more and more to supervise a giant squalling world of thirteen-year-olds who dress like ho's and bring guns to school, and the next four years promise to be especially rich. - Unqualified Reservations: Patchwork 4: a reactionary theory of world peace

• If {mantyhose} Then {"Can manpons be far behind?} Come on you gender-bender manufacturers, that’s where the gals have entire store aisles all to themselves. Go all the way. - Morgan @ House of Eratosthenes

• Enough is enough of radical Islam "Militant Islam isn't a tiny minority of otherwise goodhearted Muslims. It's a dominant strain of evil that runs rampant in a population of well over 1 billion."

• Deep Thoughts by Bill Ayers: Global Warming Myth Explodes, Killing CNN and NBC (Patriot Room): CNN and NBC lay off scores of global warming climate change specialists. In related news, Encyclopedia Brittanica laid off its door-to-door salesmen.
  

• It's a dog-save-dog world. Via: Rachel Lucas "Traffic-camera footage of a dog being hit by (at least one) car, then laying there unmoving, and then another dog runs out to him, hovers over him protectively, and then DRAGS HIM BACK TO SAFETY."

Posted by Vanderleun at December 4, 2008 6:05 PM