February 7, 2009

Unstimulated

One reason I'm a lousy blogger is because I get bored easily, and thus often fail to write about what everybody else is writing about at the moment. This week, everybody was blogging about Obama's stimulus bill, but I said all I have to say about it in previous months, which has migrated to the edges of conventional wisdom by now.

New York Times Readers Share Their Fantasies About The Obamas

Here's an apparently serious column in the NYT by Judith Warner that's beyond the powers of Christian Lander, Tom Wolfe, Evelyn Waugh, or Jonathan Swift to satirize:

<i>Slim Times </i> At It Again

Oh, no, a sheriff in Arizona is acting as if illegal immigration is, you know, illegal, laments the Slim Times.

He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Bill Gates vs. Bill Gates

Bill Gates, who supposedly scored 1590 on the SAT (which is equivalent now that the maximum has been raised to 2400 and scoring made easier, to about, oh, roughly, a million today), is, notoriously, the World's Biggest IQ Snob in his personal business (at which he's been rather successful).

Bill Gates Ruined My Daughter's High School

A reader writes:

The Kvetcher Sends Out a Fiery Cross

The Kvetcher has sent out a Fiery Cross (so to speak):

Hear, ye, hear ye!

The U.S. Must Stop Enforcing Our Immigration Policies by Passover!

The Jews have spoken. The U.S. must stop enforcing their immigration laws. Rather,

“Immigration Reform, Not Raids”

Saturday Forum

02/06/09 - Immigration 101: The Education of a Critical VDARE.COM Reader

A Reader Asks "Why Is The New York Times Protecting The $PLC?"; etc.

From: Deena Flinchum [e-mail her]

Bad Schooling Ideas Never Die

After I reported yesterday that Bill Gates had given $1 million in 2001 to long-time Weatherman fugitive Rick Ayers (brother of President Obama's extremely distant acquaintance Bill Ayers) to start "small learning communities" within Berkeley High to, among other things, take students to Cuba to study "social justice," a reader who graduated from Berkeley Hig

Note To Overseas Readers: Millions, Billions, Trillions

A German reader has pointed out that my recent work on Community Reinvestment Act pledges of boggling scale by American financial firms is confusing to Continental readers more familiar with the "long scale" of naming huge numbers (where a "billion" is what Americans call a "trillion") rather than the American "short scale." So, let me recount some ten year pledges to serve minority and low income "communities" with both the American words and the d