Can I Get an Amen on this, People?

"The greatest evils are poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, disease and hunger, all the conditions that deprive people of opportunities and limit their freedoms. The humanist ethic accepts an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a small price to pay, if world-wide industrial development can alleviate the miseries of the poorer half of humanity."......Freeman Dyson, physics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.............So there it is, people. Folks from the developing world wanting their piece of the pie, just like we've been having our piece of the pie (gorging on it even). And the only real way that they can achieve this is via access to abundant and affordable energy (this, as opposed to putting some solar panels on their huts simply because an individual from Alexandria Virginia, or Pacific Palisades California, or Marblehead Neck Massachusetts, or West Palm Beach Florida, or Newport Rhode Island, or the Upper East Side of Manhattan tells them to)....I mean, it certainly worked out well for us, no?

On the actor, Dale Robertson, Dying Today

I had half forgot that the dude ever existed.

On the Assertion that Mises and Cato are "Right-Wing" Entities

It really kind of misses the point, I think. I mean, yes, they do have some traditionally conservative viewpoints but both of these well-respected think-tanks are libertarian organizations (Mises representing large L libertarianism and Cato small) that deviate markedly from Republican style conservatism on a myriad of issues, both foreign and domestic. I cite, specifically here; gay-marriage, abortion (most libertarians are pro-choice for at least the first two trimesters), civil-liberties, military spending, foreign intervention, drug legalization, torture and enhanced interrogation, the FED, etc.. That, and I would also really stress hard here the fact that libertarians are significantly less crony that either the Democrats OR the Republicans are. No special favors for G.E., Halliburton, or Goldman Sachs if these fellows ever take the reins. Hell no.

On "Pawn Stars" Being Up Against "Hardcore Pawn" Last Night

Really, America? REALLY? This is what we've degenerated into? I'm finally starting to understand why the rest of the world refers to us as Dumbfuckistan.

Probably When that Idiot, Vanilla Ice, Sampled the David Bowie-Queen Classic, "Under Pressure"

What would be my answer to the question, "So, what, in your opinion, represents the lowest point in pop-music history?"

On Iowa Senators, Grassley and Harkin

These two fellows should be shamed. More than anybody else in Washington, these two Senators were responsible for the American voters having to fork over TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars in what was probably one of the greatest scams in American history. Yeah, I'm talking about ethanol and, even though the subsidies themselves have ended, we're still paying through the nose at the pump because of that moronic 10% mandate. You want to know what the real face of crony capitalism looks like? There it is, folks, smiling at the camera for you, times two.

The Planet's Green Economies?

Hm, let's see.......Well, I guess that if you based it strictly on per capita, per annum carbon emissions, you really couldn't do a heck of a lot better than Cuba (2.36 tons), North Korea (3.18 tons), and Syria (2.65 tons).......Gee, I wonder if those peeps would ever come here and share their true green secrets with us.