Ben Stein on science:
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to [...]
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That’s how one of Instapundit’s readers wryly describes last weekend’s violence in Chicago. Since guns are illegal in that city, nothing bad could ever happen there. Of course, as Rachel says: Strangely, even when things are illegal, people still do them.
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Rachel Lucas mentions an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that trots out all the typical gun-grabber baloney. This drew a most excellent fisking from one of her regular commentators:
Amazing Beliefs:
That 1 firearm owner in 10,000 will commit an act of violence in his or her lifetime, and this is far more frightening [...]
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This article by Victor Davis Hanson is a good example of why he’s a professional writer and I’m not.
First, he briefly explains how the Republicans have fucked up in the past few years, bringing us to the brink of electing the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. Then he articulates many of the fears [...]
Behold: Damp Cats.
Hat tip: The Monkey Tennis Centre.
This intersting article, via Instapundit, demonstrates how easy it is for a newspaper to subtly slant a story based on the photos it runs.
But of course, the media isn’t biased…
Bill Whittle has posted a very good, very non-PC piece in which he explores evil people, people who don’t believe that evil exists, and people of action, in the dual context of terrorism and the savagery and utter incompetence we’ve witnessed in New Orleans:
Now, much has been made of the fact that Ray Nagin [Mayor [...]
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has serveral interesting articles regarding the 2nd Amendment (see article II) on his Other Writings page that I found quite interesting. Check them out.