Archive for the ‘General Interest’ Category

Happy Independence Day!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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Best wishes for a Happy 4th of July to all my readers!

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Are you a mosquito magnet?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Dr. Dave Hnida tells you what makes you tasty to mosquitos.

How Gun Control Lost

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Reason Magazine has a great piece by Steve Chapman called How Gun Control Lost: The Long Road to D.C. v. Heller. Read the whole thing.

Catholics fiercest anti-nazis in pre-war Germany

Monday, June 30th, 2008

This is very interesting.

Catholic Church Conservation: Catholics fiercest anti-nazis in pre-war Germany.

Tour of Bell’s Brewery

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Tour Bell’s Brewery Inc.

Music of Mass Destruction

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Did you know that you’re not allowed to use iTunes to create WMDs?

British Steam Car Hits the Road En Route to 170 MPH at Bonneville

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Cool: British Steam Car Hits the Road En Route to 170 MPH at Bonneville from Popular Mechanics.

Scalia to write majority opinon on D.C. v. Heller?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Concurring Opinions has a piece on what it would mean if Justice Scalia writes the majority opinon in the D.C. gun ban case.

Anyone care about free speech?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

A commentary by the Toronto SunAnyone care about free speech?

Viral videos

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Where the hell is Matt? (2008):

Where the hell is Matt? (2006):

Personally, I like the 2008 video better, since more often it has people dancing with him. Anyway, here’s the obligatory link to the website.

ZENIT - Canada’s Human Rights Beef With Catholics

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

ZENIT - Canada’s Human Rights Beef With Catholics.

O Canada!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

From the Anchoress: Is Canada the Stepford Nation?

Read the whole thing.

Update 10:51 pm: Here’s a video about the Mark Steyn case:

Evolution, observed

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Check out this New Scientist story: Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab.

Drill here, drill now, send oil

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

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Now, this is a cool idea. Maybe it would be a different enough approach to actually get through to those idiots in Congress.

 

 
Read the whole thing.

Update: President Bush has now started to pressure Congress to act now too.

Prince Charles pays off royal debt … 350 years late

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Prince Charles pays off royal debt … 350 years late.