December 20, 2009

Peter Brimelow On The Bill Cunningham Show At 10:30 ET

Peter Brimelow will discuss “The War Against Christmas” Sunday night at 10:30 p.m. ET on the nationally syndicated Bill Cunningham Show. The program can be streamed here.

Muslim Busted for Bacon as London Liar's Lawsuit Loses

In London, a Muslim chef who had sued his employers for forcing him to handle "unclean" pork products was smacked down when he was discovered to be a willing bacon chomper himself.

Unemployed Armenians In Glendale

The photograph below, courtesy of Brenda Walker's post, comes from the LA Times story, California's unemployment rate shrinks - but so does the number of jobs. It's from the Glendale Unemployment Office, and I didn't recognize the characters in the third line.

“I am Not an American, I am a Muslim”

Tina, one of Larry Auster’s readers writes,

"I am a simple school bus driver. Here is a conversation I heard. Last year we had an Iranian girl who loudly proclaimed, when the school was in its Patriotic Songs Celebration ('This Land Is Your Land,' etc.): 'I am not an American, I am a Muslim.'

The Year in Ideas 2009

The New York Times Magazine's December perennial, "The Year in Ideas," had a bit of an off year in 2009. For example:

Black Quarterbacks Are Underpaid

The Harvard-Goldman Filter of Recursive Credentialism

Arnold Kling writes:

My position on breaking up banks generates questions from two groups. Libertarians ask, how can I justify breaking up private sector institutions? Naive liberals ask, why is this policy not embraced by our political leaders?

My answer to both relates to what I call the Harvard-Goldman filter.

The Harvard-Goldman filter works like this.