Eye, Eye, Sir…

Durn it. The over-40 disease kicked in over the weekend. I can barely read the screen. *sigh* I guess it was due to happen sometime…so it’s bifocals for me now. Arghh….
(My wife swears she wasn’t laughing at me yesterday when I discovered I couldn’t read the fine print on a map I was trying to use. Sure, dear. You were laughing with me. That’s why you used your evil laugh. I love you anyway, you liberal you.)

Virginia Postrel is back…

…but just having a bit of a spurt for the moment, then laying off again until September. Lots of interesting stuff to read, though. Including this article about how one piece of machinery is making life easier in Mali.
One of the measures of quality of life is how much leisure time you have. It sounds like quality of life in Sanankoroni, Mali, is getting better.

Millions for defense; not one cent for reparations

I guess the “Millions for Reparations March” was a complete flop. Apparently the crowd was numbered in the “hundreds”. Horowitz has it exactly right:

America did not create black slavery, but ended it. The civil war was won. America has outlawed segregation and discrimination. The civil rights cause was victorious. It’s time for everyone including Randall Robinson and Charles Ogletree to get used to it, and to move on to more productive debates.

Amen. Many a young and promising life was lost on both sides in the war that freed the slaves. How much more blood do you want?

Now that’s litigation.

From Fox News:

The families of Sept. 11 victims on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against groups and individuals — including Usama bin Laden — who “aided and abetted” the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

But what in the world took them so long? I’m amazed some lawyer wasn’t on this twenty seconds after the first tower went down.