Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

is still alive and well at Harvard. I give you Professor Neil Ignatiev, who wishes to “abolish[] the white race”.
Just as there is nothing worse for Jews than a self-hating Jew, there is nothing worse for whites than a self-hating white man.

Radley Balko has it exactly right. Excluding Social Security, paycheck withholding is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people.

Seems Colin Powell was not received politely yesterday at the Global Summit:

Repeatedly interrupted by jeers and protests, Secretary of State Colin Powell defended the United States’ environmental record and its efforts to help the poor in the developing world Wednesday, the closing day of the World Summit.

I guess I should be Secretary of State (or maybe I shouldn’t), because the first time it happened I would have stopped, looked at the hecklers, and said, “You know, folks, the United States can take its ball and go home any time. And you lose big time if we do.” Instead:

As Powell spoke, delegates from non-governmental groups in the audience repeatedly interrupted him, shouting “Shame on Bush.” Two people held up a banner reading, “Betrayed by governments.” At least two people were removed by security.

Sounds like it wasn’t enough.

Powell looked annoyed, answering back “I have now heard you,” at one point, then soldiering ahead with his speech.

Too moderate. Chew their ass, for chrissake, Colin! Weren’t you a general once? Surely you were an NCO on the way up.

South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who was chairing the session, yelled at the hecklers to stop and called the outbursts “totally unacceptable.”

Duh. Well, at least one of the freeloaders woke up and smelled the “what happens if the US takes its ball and goes home” coffee.

The boos and jeers began when Powell criticized the government of Zimbabwe for exacerbating the food crisis in that country and pushing “millions of people to the brink of starvation.”

Heil Mugabe.

[]Sen. Bob Brown from Australia’s Greens party lambasted the energy compromise.
“The wealthy nations have their heads in the sand,” he said. “The world’s being let down. The interests of the next generation have been appallingly disenfranchised.”

Hmm. Maybe in the Third World, where most of their leaders have disenfranchised them by stealing their foreign aid, murdering them, and starving them to death.
And besides that, how exactly do you disenfranchise “interests”? “Interests” are intangible. A franchise extends to people, not to intangibles. Learn to speak your own language, you left-wing Aussie blowhard.

Read and weep.

and in full flower:

Today we are back at the WFC. Our new office in our old building looks down on a 16-acre pit several stories deep. During our first stint in this place–from May 1996 to September 2001–we would occasionally look over at the World Trade Center and try to imagine what it was like when a bomb went off there in February 1993. Now we look at the enormous hole in the ground and try to remember what it was like a year ago, when two homely yet majestic buildings still stood on the site.
Then, to put things in perspective, we look at a map of the Muslim world and imagine what it will be like when the dictators are gone and the countries they now rule have joined the civilized world. If this strikes you as fancifully optimistic, look at a map of Germany, Italy, Japan or even Russia and remember what those countries used to be like.

Bravo! Welcome back, Mr. Taranto.

At least according to Jonathan Last.
I’m surprised that Fox didn’t take up this idea and flog it to death. Seems like it would be a natural for them. It would certainly beat hell out of those interminable helicopter car chases and Amber Alerts.

Lawrence Henry has a thoughtful piece on getting ready to go to war.

I was going to do the “What Revolution Are You?” quiz, but I have a problem with the second question:

Do you think you are a rebel?
x Sure I am, the system is wrong and must be changed
x Yes sometimes. I do what I want without thinking about consequences
x I would like but I am too busy to doing something
x No I am loyal to authorities

How about “No, as long as the authorities are loyal to me” ?
Sorry guys. That’s the crux of the American Revolution. Government is supposed to be in the service of us; we are not the servants of government.
So right off the bat this quiz is flawed.

This idiot is trying to foist his atheism on us yet again…

Pampered “singing” idol Lance Bass won’t be going into space.
Good. Space is for professionals right now, not for tourists who think their money can buy them whatever they want.
And that goes for members of Congress, too.