Sometimes (like when they come up with the robotic moose) one is bemused with Canadians.
Other times, like when a former MoD and DPM of the country begin working for alien awareness, it’s definitely more unnerving.
UPDATE 11/27/05 10.21A: Power Line takes the other commentary route that I considered in this story, but decided to avoid so that I could provide gratuitous links to the picture of George H. W. Bush looking like a moose.
Forget those movies about the ‘perfect crime’ that keep coming out. If you want talented thieves, you need to go to Baltimore.
Stories like this one worry me. “Holocaust denier… anti-Semitic and racist” he may be, but free speech is free speech. Denial of the holocaust may be stupid, racist, and historically laughable, but arresting people who say dumb things is similarly stupid. To quote the t-shirt one of my students wears to class, “Stupidity isn’t a crime, so you’re free to go.”
The danger of legal recourse against those who deny the holocaust is that you are simply reinforcing their idea that there is a massive conspiracy to silence people who disagree. To imprison them for their use of free speech simply reinforces their beliefs and helps them convince others.
So not only is restraining free speech in this way morally wrong, but it’s stupid as well.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. If you want something rather entertaining to read for turkey day, I’ve found a pretty good one here from Power Line on opinions on the war in Iraq. They do an excellent job of tearing apart the problems with this particular survey, so it’s pretty interesting to read.
Not that it has anything to do with Thanksgiving, really, but I felt like posting it and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.
In other news, it snowed here last night for the first time this season. Only an inch or so, and it’s already melted, but I quite enjoyed it anyhow.
Canadians are the only people that I can think of that would go to the trouble to create (and then be able to actually USE!) a robotic moose.
Americans can’t claim to be that inventive. We would probably just use George H. W. Bush.
I must say, this is the sort of thing designed to get a student’s attention. It’s the sort of thing that would make Harry Hutton proud.
While trying to figure out how/why somebody found my website by searching for the phrase “gun-type barner,” I ran across this website. Many people who know me might well associate my last name with ‘crank-houses’ (I know, I know, that’s not what krankenhaus means) and sanatoriums, but might be suprised to find that in this case, the Barner is in charge of the asylum.
Internet, thy name is irony.
Dr. Sanity has an interesting piece on the reasons people blame Bush for everything.
Via Power Line, who got it from Glenn Reynolds.
Isn’t the blog-sphere just one wonderful, incestuous wriggling mass?
PS – I hate the word “blogosphere” so I’m unilaterally changing it to “blog-sphere.” If the French hate me for it, so be it.
Dr. Sanity has an interesting piece on the reasons people blame Bush for everything.
Via Power Line, who got it from Glenn Reynolds.
Isn’t the blog-sphere just one wonderful, incestuous wriggling mass?
PS – I hate the word “blogosphere” so I’m unilaterally changing it to “blog-sphere.” If the French hate me for it, so be it.
My dad was in Carlisle today, and traffic was all backed up through downtown Carlisle and down a significant length of 81. Here’s why. The video is definitely worth taking a look at.