Isn’t science wonderful. Studying
what works in chatting up women at clubs. Via
philosophyjeff.
Snooker champ
Eddie Charlton dies. He was a figure from my childhood, since Dad liked watching Pot Black. (We were a very ABC family.)
The
Euro-Trio agree to keep the dreaded Anglo-Saxons at bay.
The people of North-East England really
don’t want a regional assembly.
A Dutch novelist who had been subject to Theo van Gogh’s invective
reflects on his murder. (Also reminds us that Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by an animal-rights extremist who wanted to stop him ‘making Muslims scapegoats’.) A dissident Muslim writer also
reflects on the murder. Hmmm, this is only a
free-speech issue if the owner of the wall the mural was on gave permission for the mural. But the Netherlands have an on-going
internal problem with radical Islam. Is pc making the Dutch debate
a bit surreal?
Sigh. A critique of Bernard Lewis
views on Islam. (Which would be more persuasive if it got his views correct.) The Fukuyama
versus Krauthammer fight over Iraq policy.
America is far richer than Argentina, was it because American exceptionalism
flowed from British exceptionalism? (The book on economic growth I
reviewed recently cites evidence against this proposition.)
Laurie Ferguson, an unusual contemporary Labor politician in that he has been known to defend working-class culture,
annoys people again. (But the proletariat have long since become rednecks.) Via
tcpip, (who has a very definite take).
The US dollar seems likely to
continue to decline.
The assault on Falluja is
underway.
more details. About a
key unit in the Iraqi forces.