Tuesday, December 1, 2015

On the Fact that (According to the CDC) 1,000,000,000,000 Germs Can Survive in Just One Gram of Fecal Matter

This needs to be pasted on the wall of every hospital, convalescent home, and rehab facility on the planet (the fact that tens of thousands of people die every year from mostly preventable hospital infections).

On the Falling Out Between William F. Buckley and Murray Rothbard in the Late 1960s

Yeah, it was about Vietnam (Rothbard having the good sense to see the utter futility of the operation and Buckley not so much). What else?

On Hannity Referring to Newt Gingrich as a "Great Historian"

There are sliding scales and then there are SLIDING SCALES. This was a SLIDING SCALE........................................................................................................P.S. The truly great historians in my mind are people such as Charles Adams, Ralph Raico, and Robert Higgs in that they are the ones with no sacred cows and who challenge the standard government narrative, as we all should.

On the Fact that the Left Has No Problem Accepting the Theory (Even Embracing it) that Sin Taxes Reduce the Sinful Behavior but Won't Even Entertain the Possibility that Income Taxes (Especially at a Certain Level) Reduce Income

Not surprising in that intellectual honesty and logic have never been their strong suits.

On the Fact that the Central Kalahari Bushmen Have Been Barred by the Botswana Bantu from Claiming Their Ancestral Homeland

And the self-righteous indignation, hand-wringing, and international uproar pertaining to this is where exactly?............Seriously, though, I haven't heard this much echoing silence from the left since King Hussein (and NOT the Israelis) mowed down thousands and thousands of Palestinians during Black September (circa, 1970 to 1971).