tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237567392024-03-07T13:35:22.725-08:00Righteous BubbaOccasionally and without good reason more of something will appear on this site. Also, <a href="http://www.isthatlegal.org/Muller_and_Robinson_on_Malkin.html">Michelle Malkin.</a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.comBlogger906125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-39936917199669418492009-07-18T19:09:00.001-07:002009-07-18T19:09:59.813-07:00Name Change Time<a href="http://houseofsubstance.blogspot.com/">Go here instead.</a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-74246568681911196922009-07-17T17:36:00.003-07:002009-07-18T19:05:36.283-07:00The Stamp of ApprovalOn the one hand, peace between Israel and Palestine would contribute to stability in the Middle East.<br /><br />On the other hand, war between Israel and Palestine would contribute to stability in the Middle East.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmv05B53feo5fPD1tvOPdT44IMZHbIgKzF9CC1ZkECJmQ9LIPLBLBWqAYAzMtera2FSKEnfL3z7FhqXXt2-VxOCl7NS8AYJrAfnXCCY_XNU8QGCQYJQALqW7O3A_e905AXZDUe/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmv05B53feo5fPD1tvOPdT44IMZHbIgKzF9CC1ZkECJmQ9LIPLBLBWqAYAzMtera2FSKEnfL3z7FhqXXt2-VxOCl7NS8AYJrAfnXCCY_XNU8QGCQYJQALqW7O3A_e905AXZDUe/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359592735712908306" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-51520431029780369572009-07-17T14:07:00.008-07:002009-07-18T10:31:41.131-07:00Let the Photoshopping BeginJohn <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200511300810.asp">"Humbert"</a> Derbyshire will soon have a new book out, and I gotta say <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism/dp/0307409589">I like the cover:</a><blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCK0-eBszozd-SQ5zyKOxqMeIy37zkPKoqwYV_ncc0ZWTcW4v5Il7ZleLY40xmuAkeBA6oDhYBzLpM8V-GzrmVvBLuxm4E6q4ZCtg1bYceA2dCdHtYls7P0KGsJ4MNiTLQYgE/s1600-h/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCK0-eBszozd-SQ5zyKOxqMeIy37zkPKoqwYV_ncc0ZWTcW4v5Il7ZleLY40xmuAkeBA6oDhYBzLpM8V-GzrmVvBLuxm4E6q4ZCtg1bYceA2dCdHtYls7P0KGsJ4MNiTLQYgE/s400/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359538972235945330" /></a></blockquote>The "doom" is <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:corner.nationalreview.com+derbyshire+%22we+are+doomed%22">apparently a running gag.</a><br /><br /><blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ci6gXJu0HUWwirHXek5kW0yezN9_m9CKx0nLtzvmCkgLnXdPMUnJnmzmD5GLtQLEO_qCWE6vIx4FuNbOZSVmwdYkDoOOvTIcl9QSZHBkcQH4wRFsoJdDugEL7VeWT_Ftl_Y2/s1600-h/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ci6gXJu0HUWwirHXek5kW0yezN9_m9CKx0nLtzvmCkgLnXdPMUnJnmzmD5GLtQLEO_qCWE6vIx4FuNbOZSVmwdYkDoOOvTIcl9QSZHBkcQH4wRFsoJdDugEL7VeWT_Ftl_Y2/s400/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359676635469307602" /></a></blockquote>Via mikey:<blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5a3AskgqZ1jBnGZWbLs2q8_UGL19rmd-xkDMHuaFQl4wtutHoA6ZCa3QJ4Ir_QEES4qDPjCGI9C3CI63xRL_1R39MBNrBrmswpwfpJWlb67wPyVtHygaXQqXgO8m5bYV9v1-M/s1600-h/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_-1+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5a3AskgqZ1jBnGZWbLs2q8_UGL19rmd-xkDMHuaFQl4wtutHoA6ZCa3QJ4Ir_QEES4qDPjCGI9C3CI63xRL_1R39MBNrBrmswpwfpJWlb67wPyVtHygaXQqXgO8m5bYV9v1-M/s400/51UKyuxepkL._SS500_-1+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359853937848959506" /></a></blockquote>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-49385803252721435532009-07-16T11:08:00.002-07:002009-07-16T11:17:37.324-07:00I Have No Bridge and I Must Troll<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/07/15/my-secret-life-as-a-conservative-republican/" title="">Attacked!</a> <blockquote>God, I feel so good now. Got it all out. Okay, let’s hear it in the comments section now. No holding back. That includes you, <a href="http://righteousbubba.blogspot.com/">Unrighteous Bubba</a> and <a href="http://www.cognitivedissident.org/">Cognitive Dissonant</a>. Tell us about all the kinky things you like to do with tinfoil, Vaseline and vacuum cleaners while watching sick online German porn in your mothers’ basements <img src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0m3pZIrElhS1xkHc17IMaqVg0kkN8geoTL5P3EyaXonb8N_J-gXdsj9ur_z3X5BDExmWu7Fx6l063D4MH7IROGpH7mEFx_fuCpambA5YArQt-9MGO_RmTJHJzusLkLxgv4Hr/s1600-h/MWSnap+2009-07-16,+11_09_50.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0m3pZIrElhS1xkHc17IMaqVg0kkN8geoTL5P3EyaXonb8N_J-gXdsj9ur_z3X5BDExmWu7Fx6l063D4MH7IROGpH7mEFx_fuCpambA5YArQt-9MGO_RmTJHJzusLkLxgv4Hr/s400/MWSnap+2009-07-16,+11_09_50.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359123706610974914" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-32019335879986642852009-07-15T16:48:00.013-07:002009-07-16T07:15:05.384-07:00Biggus Dickus Is Angered!<a href="http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2009_07_12_archive.html#7304556485048248745">Roy takes Rod Dreher to task:</a><blockquote>The other has to do with Dreher's idea of life in general. He's alarmingly sympathetic to <a href="http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2008_04_13_archive.html#7654801917776368088">plural marriages between/among nymphets and middle-aged men in a religious context.</a> But the notion of sexual fantasy nauseates him. With God, all things are possible indeed: if a grown man picks the right faith he can live like Humbert Humbert minus the guilt, but if he or anyone looks at Miss November not only is he doomed, but so is society.</blockquote><a href="http://whirlpoolsrim.blogspot.com/2009/07/pornography-bad.html">So too does this gentleman:</a><blockquote>Rod Dreher irresponsibly drags the "problem of pornography" <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/07/the-problem-of-pornography.html">onto his blog</a> and then attempts to hide the mess behind a few <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/07/snap-pornography-poll.html">utterly boring "essay" questions</a>. Typical Dreher. Bring up a problem that is at the root of the soul-annihilation of an entire generation, hope people will applaud you for noticing (and being "above it all, really"), and proceed to render the gravity of the problem vulnerable to the most basic <a href="http://reason.com/blog/show/134811.html">statistical</a> and <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/07/the-problem-of-pornography_comments.html">narcissistic</a> critiques.</blockquote>Why yes, thank you for guessing, smart person!<br /><br />It's <blink style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;">RIMWELL</span></blink> again!<br /><br /><object height="25" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HRqWWRCT5Cs&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HRqWWRCT5Cs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="25" width="400"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><br />LATE-BREAKING BUTTDATE!!!</span><br /><br />A dynamic logo for a dynamic personality:<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ql4cDvHI2qc&autoplay=1&loop=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="326" width="400"></embed>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-1967636078981462142009-07-15T13:27:00.002-07:002009-07-15T16:33:50.549-07:00Nostalgia<object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vjYXuBbmr5s&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vjYXuBbmr5s&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AIgiyi1YA3o&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AIgiyi1YA3o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/beWsrJUjaAU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/beWsrJUjaAU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="326"></embed></object>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-85067782535428557482009-07-14T14:13:00.003-07:002009-07-14T14:21:47.112-07:00Subsidized BlogricultureMark Steyn <a href="http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090711/OPINION01/907110305/1038/OPINION01">spies this:</a><blockquote>The closing of a newspaper means a little piece of democracy has died.</blockquote>Mark Steyn <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTlmZTI0NzhiNGU3MzhjZTczNDQ1NTliM2M5NDJlZWY=">responds thus:</a><blockquote>This kind of indestructible, fatuous narcissism is a big part of what's wrong. What other industry conflates itself with the very legitimacy of the state? If you're insisting on your indispensability even as millions dispense with you, you're the one with the problem.</blockquote>That makes me want to donate money to the National Review which could not survive in the marketplace without the blah blah blah.Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-83593632891797075502009-07-13T23:45:00.003-07:002009-07-13T23:47:36.994-07:00Bicycle Race<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPY-zcwNAwmTOCGl6hPHPKLh3VF-et__PtKgNcWoepHDWB8WknS37suCxtFEcUMUH8uFTLQheif3XtWlY_jP5Up0QR_R9Zz6Rs8Mpl680P7UTZzBE3masl5viSahUCnW0sVazS/s1600-h/IMG_0114.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPY-zcwNAwmTOCGl6hPHPKLh3VF-et__PtKgNcWoepHDWB8WknS37suCxtFEcUMUH8uFTLQheif3XtWlY_jP5Up0QR_R9Zz6Rs8Mpl680P7UTZzBE3masl5viSahUCnW0sVazS/s400/IMG_0114.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358203413458142610" /></a><br /><br />Antonio Ruiz, 1938.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/">Philadelphia Museum of Art.</a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-61474556468657936212009-07-13T15:33:00.003-07:002009-07-13T23:53:06.492-07:00How Dare They!<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhallowell/2009/07/13/hollywoods-assault-on-free-speech/">Billy is outraged!</a><blockquote>Last but not least comes Madonna (who just screams “family values”). During the 2008 campaign, she used a photo montage during one of her performances to compare John McCain to Hitler.</blockquote><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=100&q=site%3Abighollywood.breitbart.com+obama+hitler&cts=1247524334489&aq=f&oq=&aqi=">NOBODY ON OUR TEAM WOULD BE SO CRASS.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhallowell/2009/07/13/hollywoods-assault-on-free-speech/#IDComment27225116">In comments to the article</a> (which is entitled "Hollywood's Oxymoronic Definition of 'Liberal Tolerance'"):<blockquote>Here's the sitch. These fragile ego'd pretenders in Hollywood feel guilty because they know they know what they do is a joke and yet they get paid well and are fawned over. They feel bad because they play act all day and do nothing of importance yet earn much more than people of real significance. They also are aware of what dirt-bags they are (remember "casting couches" -- Think they went away?) and due to a non-belief in God are unable to ever feel forgiven for their shortfalls. To fight and appease this nagging guilt, they get involved in social causes. Further, most all of them have massive insecurities and so they cannot tolerate anyone who shines a light on their immorality. As such they surround themselves with other dirt-bags, including a dirt-bag President who will not threaten to expose their immoralities and shortcomings. </blockquote>Also the site is entitled Big Hollywood, because conservatives are supposed to like entertainment just like regular folks.Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-78751925179682025832009-07-13T12:38:00.001-07:002009-07-13T14:15:21.395-07:00The Human Shrub<a href="http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED12%20Jul%202009%2019%3A09%3A51%3A047">The world needs heroes.</a><br /><br />Corrupt bureaucrats cannot stand the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jul/08/human-shrub-colchester">shining green light of justice aimed at their actions:</a><blockquote>Martin Hunt, the council committee member for parks and gardens, said the only reason containers were bereft of flowers was because the planting season had yet to begin.<br /><br />"If the Human Shrub is crossing dual carriageways in order to make a political point then I think he is being very irresponsible," he told the East Anglian Daily Times.<br /><br />"He could get himself injured or killed, or even worse could lead to someone else being injured or killed. At least when he was outside the town hall he was amusingly stupid. This is not funny at all."</blockquote>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-54093837192454867472009-07-12T20:19:00.007-07:002009-07-12T23:06:22.952-07:00Quartz ComposerI've been fiddling with <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a> once in a while, which is free, but the learning curve is steep and I tend to give up after extruding a sphere or two. While I was looking up some related material I remembered <a href="http://www.cycling74.com/products/max5">Max/MSP</a> which had a nifty kinda modular interface but costs oodles of money for honest law-abiding citizens such as myself. For some reason I looked that up on the Wikipedia and I find I have a low-budget modular video synthesizer right on my Mac. Quartz Composer is a fucking snap to use.<br /><br />Share with me the fruits of my labours:<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hJMdc7YBCJA&autoplay=1&loop=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="326"></embed><br /><br />Autoplaying and looping YouTube is awfully fun.<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gtKdBAioCek&loop=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="25"></embed><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S05ExL8oZRM&autoplay=1&loop=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="326"></embed>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-5009558522682709082009-07-11T23:58:00.008-07:002009-07-12T01:16:07.387-07:00SerendipityHere is Michael S. Rulle Jr.:<blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5hW3E2galtejxNpiu6ldmz6eaVLP9F_4nw4CZaHbk_N7AEIRFNbpiTVd8WBO3_WH994R0NJs8xxdxJZSAvygpM3RWLFbeWz_we411guKT5E_0P3xTuW3bJXVprgZaiV5JEtb/s1600-h/mrulle.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5hW3E2galtejxNpiu6ldmz6eaVLP9F_4nw4CZaHbk_N7AEIRFNbpiTVd8WBO3_WH994R0NJs8xxdxJZSAvygpM3RWLFbeWz_we411guKT5E_0P3xTuW3bJXVprgZaiV5JEtb/s400/mrulle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357465141800716226" border="0" /></a></blockquote>He is manager of his very own financial firm and <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrulle/2009/07/11/californication-and-a-girls-guitar/">loves the Red Hot Chili Peppers:</a><blockquote>I have been trying to figure out how to work the Red Hot <blink>Chile</blink> Peppers’ (RHCP)* 1999 hit, Californication, into a blog. </blockquote>This is a wonderful coincidence, because prior to moseying over to Big Hollywood to nutpick I had spent upwards of twenty seconds trying to figure out how to work this picture "into a blog":<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhax4CUJxpcJu0mwwGiVUHcg4Q1gTyoYbE0LE9_9Ak2r6qYovFG57B2YKrDM66hG1aTPGS97q3M1djj6GHNolLYG6Ft47_b2p5m6WY7R9CPr18xvSnSaZgyUE20fv679ErEVdMC/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhax4CUJxpcJu0mwwGiVUHcg4Q1gTyoYbE0LE9_9Ak2r6qYovFG57B2YKrDM66hG1aTPGS97q3M1djj6GHNolLYG6Ft47_b2p5m6WY7R9CPr18xvSnSaZgyUE20fv679ErEVdMC/s400/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357468450788242178" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Shall we finish up the first paragraph?<blockquote>I had known and liked the song for some time. Who doesn’t?** But other than simply liking the song and having a general sense of what it was about, I had never listened closely. Of course, the title itself has almost the entire meaning of the song within it. I had recently read economist Russell Robert’s Hayekian novel, “The Price of Everything.” It is a simple yet spiritual characterization of the mystery of what Hayek called the “spontaneous order” in human organization.</blockquote>What follows are a couple thousand words of similar character and spontaneity in an attempt by Mr. Suit and Tie Guy to have a more dignified midlife crisis than his buddy who got the clap. After a painful verse-by-verse examination of the lyrics, we wind up here:<blockquote>Lets put it all together. We know this “Californication” thing is “bad” but what is it? Californication is libertinism, crass materialism, solipsistic interactions and spiritual emptiness. It is our modern secular world, in short. Who knew RHCP shared something in common with cultural conservatives?</blockquote>Like Hitler, Anthony Kiedis is fond of children and dogs.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*My gratitude to the author for clarifying what might have been a confusing acronym later in the article.<br />**Me.</span>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-31195785374237328392009-07-11T09:50:00.004-07:002009-07-11T10:13:21.997-07:00Chernobyl<a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/07/maybe-two-or-three-visitors-become.html">Dave Brockington has a post up at LGM</a> about Chernobyl tourism. (I'll be damned: spell-check likes Chernobyl.)<br /><br />One of our party wanted to go, but our schedule was full and some of us were opposed, myself included. I had no wish to become irradiated or have to replace everything I was wearing. The lure of of inhabited land turned feral - not just returned to nature but poisonous - remains pretty powerful though, and I still regret not going, much as I know if I was presented with the chance again I still wouldn't take it.<br /><br />Below is a picture from the terrific-by-Ukrainian-standards Chernobyl museum in Kiev (photography not allowed, dumb tourists cut some slack). These men who look so pleased at their triumph over the reactor died shortly thereafter of course.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaL3C7vHT_Uhb3eSz01L81jvQ6f3tNxBvYc7NufMvZ4ohB6J4tTvZcJaiZWS6GzFz602O5vuaoQIXc3PA4ZwbshPleO35m6ltHnQ1C3uMbdyKpsHVsGeAaCCi6V8kw4L0D_j0/s1600-h/IMG_1619.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaL3C7vHT_Uhb3eSz01L81jvQ6f3tNxBvYc7NufMvZ4ohB6J4tTvZcJaiZWS6GzFz602O5vuaoQIXc3PA4ZwbshPleO35m6ltHnQ1C3uMbdyKpsHVsGeAaCCi6V8kw4L0D_j0/s400/IMG_1619.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357247184020995458" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-60805223312105341922009-07-10T17:17:00.001-07:002009-07-10T17:19:03.696-07:00The Baitles<object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lGIwB0MLhFU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lGIwB0MLhFU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/07/the_best_thing.php">See Roy for more.</a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-62779101752535174862009-07-10T14:00:00.003-07:002009-07-10T14:03:48.630-07:00Uighurs<a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090710-1050a.mp3">A 24-minute radio documentary about four who have ended up in Bermuda after Guantanamo.</a> Mostly a series of interviews with their translator/angel of mercy.Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-90811563988395047722009-07-09T15:06:00.003-07:002009-07-09T15:17:40.576-07:00Waiting for GaddafiFrom The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiraya we are presented with a PDF called <a href="http://www.ibe.unesco.org/National_Reports/ICE_2008/libya_NR08.pdf">The Development of Education:</a><blockquote>The philosophy of education is based on the Jamahiryi system applied in the Great Jamahiriya from the Third World theory formulated by intellectual leader Muammar Gaddafi in the Green Book with its three chapters (political - economic - social). The Green Book defined knowledge as the "natural right of human beings" and described the systems that monopolize knowledge as systems that call for the ignorance and backwardness, and the social element to this theory identified the philosophical framework of general education, where many statements were made on the educational process, such as:<blockquote>The study is not an end in itself, but the purpose is to create the new model man.<br /> <br />Compulsory education is in fact compulsory ignorance.<br /> <br />Ignorance will end when the reality of everything is revealed.</blockquote> </blockquote>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-66527373471983462042009-07-09T11:07:00.006-07:002009-07-10T16:45:16.208-07:00Why Bother?Ann Coulter is a big liar of course, <a href="http://townhall.com/Columnists/AnnCoulter/2009/07/08/forgetting_sarah_palin">but here:</a><blockquote>Whatever you think of Palin, her argument for resigning was the opposite of "rambling" and "incoherent."</blockquote>How does it serve Ann Coulter to prop up Sarah Palin? Surely Coulter is bright and vicious enough to leave Palin to the tabloids and move on to some less embarrassing authoritarian monster.<br /><br /><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/106xcau.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/14vign.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic">Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-55036829811771140822009-07-08T16:48:00.002-07:002009-07-08T17:32:20.876-07:00Genetics<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve">Mitochondrial Eve</a><br />Found it hard to believe<br />That she'd meet the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam">Y-chromosome Adam.</a><br />She was right it turned out<br />For there can be no doubt<br />That her great × <i>n</i> granddaughter had him.<br /><br /><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/">Via Pharyngula,</a> Brian Kilmeade understands the perils of straying from the bloodline:<br /><br /><object width="400" height="337"><param name="movie" value="http://images.salon.com/video.swf?id=w-84496-2019122"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://images.salon.com/video.swf?id=w-84496-2019122" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="337" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-26346659101559972872009-07-08T10:31:00.004-07:002009-07-08T15:04:27.672-07:00Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Provenance<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3742537,00.html">News from Israel:</a><blockquote>This was supposed to be the happiest day in the life of Sharon Schechter and Roman Buksafon, but on Monday, a day before their wedding, the Chief Rabbinate informed he couple they were not allowed to marry.<br /> <br />"You are adopted and therefore your Jewishness cannot be verified," a rabbi at the Chief Rabbinate told Roman, who denies being adopted and says he has produced all the documents required by the Rabbinate to receive a wedding permit. </blockquote>The rest of the article details what seems to be a requirement that one prove one is not adopted before a marriage will be performed.<br /><br />What if the guy was really found among the reeds on a riverbank?Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-90348321630479022292009-07-07T15:33:00.005-07:002009-07-07T17:00:45.590-07:00Victoria Jackson's Day<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/07/07/ignorance-is-bliss/">What's Victoria Jackson up to?</a><blockquote>I was browsing in a Burbank gift shop yesterday and I asked the store owner how business was doing. She smiled, “Well, you know, hit and miss. I’m sure it will be better soon.” The store was empty.<br /><br />I apologized for not buying anything. “I’m sorry, but my husband now cringes when I order a Hazelnut Iced Coffee at McDonald’s, so I can’t really buy anything.”<br /><br />Her smile hardened.<br /><br />“You know, I’ve been speaking at Tea Parties lately. No one seems to know or care that our country just turned Socialist.”<br /><br />She stared at me like a deer caught in head lights.<br /><br />I continued, “I don’t like politics, but we have to do something. I’m writing to my Congressmen and Senators now.”<br /><br />Her teenage assistants with no customers had frozen smiles and frozen bodies.<br /><br />“Did you know Obama uses our tax payer dollars to pay for abortions?”<br /><br />She shook her head no.<br /><br />“He even supports killing 9 month old babies, in the womb.”<br /><br />She became a ceramic knick knack.<br /><br />I continued, “It’s called ‘late-term abortion’. Now he’s going to kill sick people and old people. Did you know that Cap & Trade will allow the government to regulate how long we take a shower? And that the “New Health Plan”, happy, happy, will allow the government to decide who lives and who dies?”<br /><br />Crickets. Dead crickets.<br /><br />As I opened the door to leave, she shook herself into reality and said, “Thank you and come again.”<br /><br />The bell jingled as the door shut.</blockquote>The future looks good for Victoria as she'll probably be able to afford a custom shopping cart and many many cats.<br /><br />In any case, she'll be happy:<blockquote>I got into my fuel efficient economy car, with the leopard seat covers, and the bumper that used to have the “I RESIST SOCIALISM” bumper sticker, until it got smashed, and I drove away thinking, “Ignorance is Bliss.”</blockquote>This makes me laugh in a surprisingly untroubled way:<br /><br /><object width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oF_JdL0iIQw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oF_JdL0iIQw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br />I just can't see it as anything but silliness.Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-87795642831340035422009-07-06T17:17:00.002-07:002009-07-06T17:20:07.178-07:00Frist!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist#Medical_school_experiments"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQ70H0CknuAjAMUQWn7MXUmweWU1C9S1k-cJ-OECYo6Jok1THn_o0EzN5GJBiE2GetLZ0RTolG6Pl2-wNsgTTwdDTHyiTQ_LCO0vi8v-KRYYWucdo0L1BPxGfjo9Bc1ZUNnGB/s400/MWSnap+2009-07-06,+17_17_04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355505926523417442" border="0" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-63247404893894953802009-07-06T16:28:00.001-07:002009-07-06T16:31:08.657-07:00Fire, Pro and ConOnce there was a little church<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/13/palin.church/index.html">Scorched one night</a> while stars did turn<br />It's left the parish in the lurch:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFiyyFTF88">No place to wish a witch would burn.</a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-77573029120566332642009-07-06T09:21:00.003-07:002009-07-06T09:38:06.423-07:00The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Hero<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzExZGUzODIyMDQwZmNlNDcxYzEwMWViNTljMjQ3MTc=">Andy McCarthy is objectively pro-communist.</a><blockquote>The Wall Street Journal (as flagged in the NRO web briefing) reports on rioting in China by Uighur "students" that has left scores dead and hundreds wounded. </blockquote>Well, what lover of freedom wouldn't rebel against the heathen Chinese, my good fellow?<blockquote>The "students," described elsewhere in the story as from a "predominantly Muslim ethnic group</blockquote>Oh dear. The wrong people are rebelling.Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-84893400738158956092009-07-05T15:07:00.002-07:002009-07-06T07:42:33.671-07:00Birds of a Feather<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/07/05/im-mad-as-hell/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExXMykWbC7Qwjevhhz_jT7WiKV1-6tElQouxQ8sL45Z4DVyph-eVzkWuUMyEwfUHnnrszTLIUUeo9QQOaho89vFkTa69iNgeGpgzDchAlC4mm8kCQpnxjA_c6zk3HPAEkbKIJ/s400/Picture+5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355101214589426258" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Y'know, I love screenshots.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIplViBvOlCLnKX6REQiRgQ6vSxTeoJERdHU367z6dmy5ggxjMQM1zzJcQhr2XMN9drOrZBwZAbBHz_y57ye88qOMqSCeE0l7oh7KCBcbWEV0Ge7t4_i9vCZ-C89DNvPHhNTn/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 373px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIplViBvOlCLnKX6REQiRgQ6vSxTeoJERdHU367z6dmy5ggxjMQM1zzJcQhr2XMN9drOrZBwZAbBHz_y57ye88qOMqSCeE0l7oh7KCBcbWEV0Ge7t4_i9vCZ-C89DNvPHhNTn/s400/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355357492214779602" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23756739.post-73798953822255384832009-07-05T10:31:00.001-07:002009-07-05T10:32:31.925-07:00This Means America Is Not Conservative Enough<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPlziFdq7wP1Z5GGO2PnFf_P50jkLby3NeIdi8CXDlSiMbn130omRDNBx4mxXZhWVOxDDgE1JaF2YSgK58HzNlU6sg3_oANjrahmld4Y4JxAXA5868XD9f_ICFo1BkXvQrTs-d/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPlziFdq7wP1Z5GGO2PnFf_P50jkLby3NeIdi8CXDlSiMbn130omRDNBx4mxXZhWVOxDDgE1JaF2YSgK58HzNlU6sg3_oANjrahmld4Y4JxAXA5868XD9f_ICFo1BkXvQrTs-d/s400/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355030249233127810" /></a>Righteous Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com22