Monthly Archives: July 2008

Kidney stones. Via.

I think Norman Geras is right: An absolute prohibition against torture that is not grounded primarily in the inviolable individual right against being tortured must fail, I think. Rodin’s focus on the doers won’t work unless it starts from the … Continue reading →

Fox News reports: Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said. The North Pole-35 station, where 21 researchers … Continue reading →

Snoopy, that’s just cruel!

The Prof writes: Megan McArdle is requesting recommendations for good introductions to Sci-Fi, for female readers. He then gives a recommendation of his own. I’d add I am Legend and The Forever War. I was given these two a couple … Continue reading →

For this particular robber.

Sorry for the paucity of posting, but this is what I seem to have become in the last ten days. Odd, what happens. But it’s been busy.

The romance of dog ownership: walking through sunlit cornfields with your frisky chum, cleaning up undigested stomach contents that have leaked from a hole in his abdomen, changing dressings and smearing cream on his testicles. Yes, the big guy is … Continue reading →

Attorney Brooke M. Goldstein, interviewed in FrontPage Magazine, described a relatively recent tactic now being employed by Islamist Jihadis as follows: … while the violent arm of the Islamist movement attempts to silence speech by burning cars when Danish cartoons … Continue reading →

This reforestation business (“For just £4, €6 or US$8 you can help fight global warming and buy your own piece of forest”) does not lack ambition: Buy deforested land, help it regenerate, and protect it from exploitation again forever. (emphasis … Continue reading →