Glenn Reynolds doesn't exactly need more traffic, but I'll give him some anyway.

While you're there, check out this . And follow the Rebecca's Remarks link at the bottom. Priceless

I resisted getting into Harry Potter for a number of years (at least 3). But now I'm hooked. The books are good clean fun, and the movies are both nifty, and as close to the books as I think a movie is realistically going to get.

Interesting observation on the job creation front - see here and here . I realize that there are " lies, damn lies, and statistics ." But in my various courses that required plotting a trend, my profs would have given me an extremely hairy eyeball if my plot had anything quite so blatant in it. I doubt you can blame the current administration, they are hurt by it (and weren't even in power during the time in question). But we all know the previous administration would never engage in diddlin...

Between stuff like this and this I've figured out the theme song for the new liberal talk radio (and for the leftist anti-war types that aren't just against us). It is The Folk Song Army by Tom Lehrer

Entrepeneurs have made this country great. They lead the wave of innovations. So many of their businesses sink in the first few years, but enough prosper and grow that our country continues to lead the developed world in innovation. Under the current tax laws of the USA, they are generally considered to have the "income" of their company, not a salary paid by that company. This leads them to be considered "rich" by the tax code. The small companies are where the job growth is in this phase of...

So I'm sitting in Freedom Square, DC, (13th & Pennsylvania ave. NW), getting ready to listen to some Daiko drumming (group is from Japan). I just finished off a bowl of shrimp tempura in a Styrofoam bowl. And I've been taking notes for a blog post when I get to an internet connection on a hand-held computer. Once again, I realize the extent of the age of miracles we live in. If I wanted to, I could be writing this post nearly live, and my readers, wherever in the world you are, could be r...

Seeing people getting their pictures taken with the AOL running man at part of the Cherry Blossom festival in DC today was vaguely amusing. Do people in other countries get their pictures taken with marketing icons?

Go read Mr. Hanson. Says it better than I can, he does.

I've been coming to the conclusion that I don't give a tinker's damn about "World Opinion". "World Opinion" wants a tame power, under their control, not interfering with their sweetheart deals, and spending money in their economies, and not looking behind the curtain. What they have is a self-aware power, stirring up trouble and dealing with it before it gets out of hand.

I've seen this linked a couple of places (I followed the link from Bill Hobbs). I like it. Anyone else got an opinion?

Compare and contrast. One of side, we have a president who is comfortable poking fun at himself. On the other, a candidate who is so uptight, he has to proclaim, "I don't fall down. That son of a bitch ran into me," when a member of his Secret Service detail bumped in to him accidentally during Kerry's recent ski trip. Given the choice, I'd rather have someone who can make (and take) a joke over someone who does sweat the small stuff. But that's just me.

I have two links on the state of education today - I'll still be here when you're done reading them. My rant is mainly concerned with the second, but the first explains why there are less stellar teachers, so I decided to include it. (NYTimes registration required for the first). The theme that I see in these zero-tolerance policies is that it is easier to enact a one-size-fits-all policy than to think. And every one of the stupidities that result are because the administrators don't wa...

Due to stupid user errors (forgot the cable I need) I haven't been able to get online until just now. Now that I have both my cable and some free time, I decided to set some electrons to screen. I-CON, for those who don't know, is a multiple media convention (sci-fi, fantasy, anime, TV/movie) convention that is held every year in the latter half of march at SUNY Stony Brook out on Long Island. This is my 3rd year attending, and the first one where I didn't spend the entire time playing Wa...

I'm going to I-Con up at SUNY Stony Brook this weekend. I'll be blogging onsite from there from time to time, taking advantage of my wireless carrier's 3G service to connect at dial-up speeds. But hey, it beats carrier pigeons...