09 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/09/08
- PETA Asks Harris County Sheriff to Place Man Accused of Barbecuing His Ex-Girlfriend on a Strict Vegetarian Diet (PETA.org) Rock!
- There's No Easy Way Out of the Bubble: Treasury doesn't know much about running a 'reverse auction' (Vernon Smith, WSJ) You'd never guess there's something Paulson doesn't know, from the way his Goldman buddies and W defer to him.
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must go (David Oedel, CSM) Unfortunately, they aren't going to go, and that tells you that political elites aren't at all serious about fixing the mess they've created.
- Wall Street 101 (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)
- Uncle Sam: Too fat to fail? (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- What's left for them to loot? (Poor and Stupid) Just wait and see what "improvements" a Dem Congress AND President have for you!
- News Flash: The Media Back Obama (Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ)
- Thailand in Turmoil (WSJ)
- Rockets like what they have at point guard (Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle) What the hell else are they going to say? Regardless, the point is an area of weakness, which an analytical (versus cheerleading) sports section might point out.
- Texans' McNair still hopeful about team, Reliant (Megan Manfull, Houston Chronicle) It must be frustrating enough to be a female sports reporter and trying to get the boys club to take you seriously, without the newspaper for which one works insisting that said reporter break out the pompoms for the local teams.
- Optimism is McNair's only option with Texans (Steve Campbell, Houston Chronicle) And cheerleading is the only option for the Chronicle sports section!
- 'Pacman' Jones given every chance, but he plays Dallas Cowboys owner for a fool (Randy Galloway, FWST) Amen, Brother Galloway.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/09/08 23:17 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
08 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/08/08
- The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer (Steven Malanga, RCM) One of the potential problems in democratic regimes (one which the Founders understood) is that eventually, large groups will eventually figure out how to vote themselves more and more of the working people's funds. It's an interesting question of constitutional design as to how one might head off that problem (one requirement might be that one does not get to vote if one is a net recipient of government largesse, although that would surely make some people shriek).
- Is ACORN stealing the election? (IBD) See above.
- Barney Breaks It Down (WSJ)
- Pin tail on donkey (IBD)
- The "fact checking" fad (James Taranto, WSJ)
- The more insightful, the funnier (Brothers Judd)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/08/08 22:38 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
07 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/07/08
- Barney Frank's bankrupt ideas (IBD)
- Mac: Blame Barack for me$$ (Carl Campanile, AP) Wow, who knew he could make the case. Too little, too late?
- Lessons From the Selloff (WSJ)
- We're Not Headed for a Depression (Gary Becker, WSJ)
- Public Passes on New Deal (WSJ)
- The Bomber as School Reformer (Sol Stern, City Journal)
- Planting Seeds of Disaster (Stanley Kurtz, NRO)
- Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia? (Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO)
- The real Obama (Thomas Sowell, RCP)
- Biden, the master gasbag (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
- But I only wanted to trade a tiny piece of my soul.... (Brothers Judd)
- True-Blue Dems?(Mark Hemingway, NRO)
- Democrats shouldn't coddle Chavez (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ) No, but their record on foreign policy isn't encouraging.
- There's a job to finish in Baghdad (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- An Asia bond could save us from the dollar (Thaksin Shinawatra, FT)
- Friends of the Ouachita Trail I guess I must not be the trail's friend, since I haven't given these people money. *sniff*
- American Catholic A new Catholic blog that looks to be interesting!
- Long wait for Blue Roof tarps irks Gulf Coast homeowners (Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle) Imagine when Obama/Reid/Pelosi deliver a government program to handle cancer or diabetes treatment as effectively as this!
- Is Southwest Becoming an Elitist Airline?(Tim Winship, SmarterTravel.com) Unless they give elite members early boarding privileges, it's not that big a deal... If they do that, the uproar should be fun to watch!
- Astros unlikely to make splashy offseason moves (Brian McTaggart, Houston Chronicle) Drayton wants the team to be just good enough at a low enough cost that fans keep going through the gates and paying too much for his concessions. So no, he won't be adding $15-20 million in payroll to acquire a #2 pitcher, even though this team isn't good and overachieved in terms of its record.
- It’s still too early to give up on Texans (Jerome Solomon, Houston Chronicle) No it isn't.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/07/08 23:52 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
06 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/06/08
- Truth, lies and ticker tape (Spengler, Asia Times)
- The resilient dollar (Economist) Our economy may be a basket case at the moment, but the world's innovations still come from here (for now), and investors know it.
- Hockey moms and capital markets (Spengler, Asia Times) See above.
- With a Wink and a Smile (Mark Steyn, NRO)
- Jim Cramer: Time to get out of stocks (MSNBC.com) When Cramer says there's no way to make money in stocks at the moment*, I tend to believe. The headline is misleading though, and doesn't completely match the article.
- Not Everyone Should Own a Home (Janet Albrechtsen, WSJ) In the quest to make housing affordable, we (okay, not me, and probably not you, but pols) created additional demand (and a bubble) that drove prices up and made buyers of two types of people who shouldn't own homes: 1) Extremely bad credit risks who never would qualify for home loans in a more regulated (edit: or at least less distorted) market and 2) Speculators of all sorts who realized the easy credit terms were too good to pass up in a bull housing market of seemingly endless returns. Oh so complicated. I wouldn't want a pol to try to discuss it, because complex sentences are hard.
- Democrats Were Wrong on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Michael Barone, US News) Yes, but if McCain can't or won't make the case, he deserves to lose. Eight years of a President who cannot communicate is enough.
- Do facts matter? (Thomas Sowell, RCP) See above.
- Is It 1929 Again? (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)
- The Credit Card Congress (WSJ)
- America and the New Financial World (Zachary Karabell, WSJ)
- Weathermen: Home-grown US radicals (Joe Boyle, BBC News)
- NYT's Ayers-Obama whitewash (Stanley Kurtz, NRO) What else would one expect?
- Who Killed Real ID? (David Weigel, Reason)
- Seeing race and seeming racist? Whites go out of their way to avoid talking about race (APA)
- Behind the Bluster, Russia Is Collapsing (Murray Feshbach, WaPo)
- Brazil's Lula takes center stage in Latin America (Chris Kraul & Patrick McDonnell, LA Times)
- Ecuador votes to lock in its shift to the left (Sibylla Brodzinsky, CSM)
- Brazil local vote to have national impact (Gary Duffy, BBC News)
- Bad tidings in Iraqi Kurdistan (Mohammed Salih, Asia Times)
- Pakistan, US await militant showdown (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)
- The view from Damascus (Ayman Abdel Nour, Forbes)
- For U.S. and Sunni Allies, a Turning Point (Ernesto Londono, WaPo)
- Free Super-Crunching Software (Ian Ayres, Freakonomics)
- HC County Judge: Emmett v. Mincberg (Lose an Eye, It's a Sport)
- State House candidate Greg Meyers calls for investigation into Rep. Hubert Vo (Crystal Hubbard, Texas Watchdog)
- American Airlines considers a la carte pricing (David Koenig, AP) Unfortunately, what a la carte pricing probably means to this carrier is, "We'll keep our current fares as they are, call that the base, AND start charging for 'extras' like seat assignments, bags, drinks, maybe even non-middle seats."
- Saviors of the prairies (Denver Nicks, Tulsa World) The links lead to some cool photos of the Tallgrass Prairie in Osage County (OK).
- Creative Losing (Lose an Eye, it's a Sport)
- Texans fumble away first victory in colossal collapse (John McClain, Houston Chronicle)
- Justice: Blame, losses start to mount for Texans (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle)
- Dolphins too fat to do tricks put on diet (Urmee Khan, Telegraph) Give the dolphins fewer nachos!
* Italicized for the reading-challenged, as a cue to read carefully.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/06/08 20:10 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
04 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/04/08
- The Coming Energy Abundance (Jon Basil Utley, Reason)
- Democrat fingerprints are all over the financial crisis (Dominic Lawson, The Independent) If someone named Dominic Lawson of the UK-based Independent can make the case, why can't the suddenly inept McCain campaign?
- Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco (Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe) Change the names and see above.
- The Last Trillion-Dollar Commitment: The destruction of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Peter Wallison & Charles Calomiris, AEI)
- Collapse, in Review (Stephen Spruiell, NRO)
- How Government Stoked the Mania (Russell Roberts, WSJ)
- Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee (Rich Lowry, NRO)
- Both sides of the financial crisis (Lawrence Henry, TAS)
- Our Bair necessity (Lawrence Kudlow, Wash Times)
- That rubbish they talk about the credit crunch (Gerard Baker, Times)
- Bailout scare talk (Joel Stein, LA Times)
- NRCC ad: naming names (Ace of Spades) I love the blog's assumption that blogs have great sway over elections.
- Happy Talk (Steve Salerno, WSJ)
- Second in command (TMagazine)
- Impeccable Timing, Impeccable Taste (Slampo's Place) Mincberg must be desperate -- and comes across angry and scowling in the ill-advised ad.
- Following up on my concierge health care experience (Houston's Clear Thinkers) As government continues to become ever more involved in the health sector, we're likely to see more of this as some doctors resist the restrictions on salary and cuts in quality of care that result.
- How do you run out of coins? (Why you want to live in Buenos Aires)
- As international airfares soar, Americans stay in USA (Gary Stoller, USA Today)
- Good barbecue's not all they do in Texas' Hill Country (Jerry Shriver, USA Today)
- Off the beaten wine trail: Explore four emerging regions (USA Today)
- 36 Hours in Milwaukee (Maura Casey, NY Times) Milwaukee's on my to-do list, but not until baseball season next year.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/04/08 16:03 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
03 October 2008
Linkpost: 10/03/08
- A Mountain, Overlooked: How risk models failed Wall St. and Washington (James Rickards, WaPo)
- What They Said About Fan and Fred (WSJ) It is astounding that the McCain campaign can't/won't make this an election issue when he has been on the right side of the issue. They have been utterly inept on this one.
- The Roots of the Crisis: How did Wall Street get into this mess? (Michael Flynn, Reason)
- In defense of the House Republicans (James Bowman, TAS)
- Playing games (David Warren, RCP)
- Mark to mayhem? (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- Welcome to "moral hazard' (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Maddening for Madisonians (Quin Hillyer, TAS)
- No Silver Bullets Here (Steven Pearlstein, WaPo)
- Who Needs Congress? (David Ignatius, WaPo)
- Bill v. Barack on Banks (WSJ)
- A Vote Against Rashness (George Will, WaPo)
- Wall Street bailout, Congressional cover-up, or Sarbanes-Oxley? (Steven Selengut, TCS)
- The fatal banker's fall (John Gapper, FT)
- Bailing Out Ourselves (WSJ)
- Free AIG (WSJ)
- 36 Hours of Alarm and Action as Crisis Spiraled (Joe Nocera, NY Times) Sometimes, the Gray Lady still does some fine reporting (as opposed to "analysis").
- Another cost of the bailout (Houston's Clear Thinkers)
- Fundamentally Biased (Mark Hemingway, NRO)
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do (Andrew McCarthy, NRO)
- Samsung NC10 might have best netbook keyboard ever (Liliputing) The eee -- and so many other netbooks -- really aren't nice for touch typists, because of that awful right-shift key. This bad boy seems to solve the problem.
- Rare bird: Cardinals' Pujols put up another amazing season (Joe Posnanski, SI.com) Pujols is just a monster-great player.
- UH banking future on donor dollars (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle)
- Rockets' Adelman to install his offense this year (Jonathan Feigen, Houston Chronicle)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/03/08 07:51 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
30 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/30/08
- Can We Shut the F Up About the "Biggest One-Day Loss in History" on the Dow Already? (Reason)
- Bear market for personal responsibility (Michael Graham, Boston Herald)
- Deregulation not to blame for financial woes (Peter J. Wallison, Bloomberg)
- George Bush, Democrat? (Seth Gitell, NY Sun)
- An Expert-Induced Bubble: The nasty role of ratings agencies in the busted housing market (David Levy & Sandra Perrt, Reason)
- Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer (Jeffrey Miron, CNN.com)
- Key to economic stability bill's defeat was Pelosi's refusal to make this a "party loyalty" vote on the Democratic Party's bill (B. Dyer, HughHewitt)
- This was all predictable (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- Revolt of the Nihilists (David Brooks, NY Times)
- In times of crisis, trust capitalism (Joseph Calhoun, RCM)
- Don't call it a bailout (Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch)
- Bailout politics (Thomas Sowell, RCP)
- The Bailout Bust (NY Sun)
- Pre-emptive Plumbing: The useful Wachovia precedent (WSJ)
- Loose Money And the Roots Of the Crisis (Judy Shelton, WSJ)
- The Beltway Crash: Congress lives up to its 10% approval rating (WSJ)
- 10 links to walk you through today’s financial crisis — and make you smarter than 99% of other people (I Will Teach You To Be Rich)
- The tank isn't empty - A review of The Myth of the Oil Crisis (Steven Martinovich, ESR)
- The Arc of the Sun (NY Sun)
- Ideal of the Scoop (NY Sun)
- Picking Up the Flag of the Sun (NY Sun)
- How the Sun Shone (WSJ)
- Sprint Launches WiMax in Baltimore (Fast Company Tech Watch) Sweet!
- Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership (Get Rich Slowly)
- Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership (Jack Hough, Yahoo Real Estate)
- Delta merger presents unique set of challenges as well as opportunities (Kelly Yamanouchi, AJC)
- Chicago for cheap: Hot dogs, parks and trolleys (Caryn Rousseau, AP)
- Cowboys Corner: Not enough running game, Wade says (Rick Herrin, FWST) Not enough defense, supposedly Wade's specialty, Kev says.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/30/08 22:59 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
29 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/29/08
- Interview with US General David Petraeus (Spiegel)
- Lehman Brothers was an economic 9/11 (Anne Applebaum, Telegraph)
- Calling J.P. Morgan (L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ)
- A Main Street Rescue (WSJ)
- What we can learn from Chile's financial crisis (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ)
- E Pluribus Hokum, or When the gamblers bail out the casino (Spengler, Asia Times)
- US wealth in shrink mode (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Catharsis, then common sense (Charles Krauthammer, RCP)
- A Bailout for All Our Bad Decisions? (Mark Sanford, WaPo)
- A Model Program Avoids Foreclosure Pitfalls (Lawhawk)
- Beg, Borrow, or Steal (Steve Chapman, Reason)
- Meltdown Myths (The Antiplanner)
- Whatever is good for Goldman ... (John Gapper, FT)
- Who killed New Labour? (Economist)
- Is “emerging markets” obsolete? (Economist)
- False dawn in Myanmar (Larry Jagan, Asia Times) Jagan is usually an apologist for the junta. Did they deny him journalistic access or something?
- Obama's Brown Shirts (Tom Rants)
- Victoria Newspaper Letting Readers Pick The Stories (Hair Balls)
- Mayor cusses, entire f-ckin' city falls into swoon (Slampo's Place) It's great to see the return of Houston's most interesting net scribe.
- Comcast Enhances Its Rep for Excellent Customer Service While Desecrating the Memory of Our Town's Namesake (Slampo's Place)
- Ten Reasons Drayton McLane Might’ve Rejected Bud Selig’s Plea to Get Out of Town (Ballz)
- Valhalla closed indefinitely (Rachel Carlson, Catherine Bratic, Cindy Dinh &Ariel Schnitzer, Rice Thresher) Wrong. Just wrong.
- UH's President Acknowledges Pissing Off A Lot Of People (Hair Balls) Next, she should apologize for what has been some harebrained decisionmaking at UH pre and post-Ike.
- Mincberg says he'll do a better job keeping the lights on in Harris County (Isiah Carey's Insite) Wow, this little Terry Abbott screed completely undermines 1) the previous association with Bill White -- since many of these same "criticisms" can be directed towards him and 2) Mincberg's previously "positive" campaign. The polling must look pretty bleak for such a bipolar change of strategy.
- Houston airports face $14M clean-up bill (Roger Yu, USA Today)
- Cooler tube rides in pipeline, says mayor (Dan Milmo, The Guardian) A small move in the right direction. It can get pretty nasty down there when it's only moderately warm up top.
- Wal*Mart pulling the plug on their music DRM Server (CrunchGear) Another example of why it is stupid to buy DRM music. Don't do it!
- Can the Cowboys go undefeated in the regular season? (Clarence Hill, FWST) *ahem* No.
- Cowboys let their guard down against Redskins (Randy Galloway, FWST)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/29/08 22:16 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
25 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/25/08
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Pundits (John Podhoretz, Contentions)
- Sometimes the Stupid Party is just stupid (Brothers Judd)
- Whatever is good for Goldman ... (John Gapper, FT)
- A Bailout We Don't Need (James K. Galbraith, WaPo)
- How to Restore Trust In Wall Street (Arthur Levitt & Lynn Turner, WSJ)
- The Public Deserves a Better Deal (John Paulson, WSJ)
- American Airlines suspends flights to Bolivia (AP) Never a good sign.
- Liberal PACs Ready Attack Ad on McCain’s Health (Jim Rutenberg, NY Times) Way to stay classy, libs.
- Whether you're an Obamanaut or McCainiac.... (Brothers Judd)
- Mainstream Media Should Pay Attention to Obama's Ties to William Ayers (Michael Barone, US News) Right! They'll get right on that, I'm sure.
- A Presidential McCain (William Kristol, Weekly Standard)
- T-Mobile Removes 1GB 3G Data Cap for G1 Android Phone (Gizmodo) Good move.
- Skyfire Mobile Browser Now Open to Everybody (Greg Kumparak, TechCrunch) This will be one of the first downloads when my 800w arrives.
- Evacuating to Aspen: Houston's wealthy deal with storm (Claudia Feldman, Houston Chronicle) The ongoing MeMofication of an already-bad newspaper continues.
- Torre moves beyond Yankees, back into postseason (Stephen A. Smith, ESPN.com) Hmm, pushing out Torre and installing Girardi really worked out for the Yanks, eh?
- Pickens fund trouble will impact OSU sports (Andrea Cohen, Daily Oklahoman) On top of the bad coaching moves in football (why does Gundy have his job still?) and basketball (why doesn't Sutton?), Boone State's financial decisions are now a bit of a problem...
- By doubling Terrell Owens, opponents are playing short-handed against Dallas Cowboys (Mac Engel, FWST)
- Wade Phillips really is Mr. Fix It, just don’t tell him (Jennifer Floyd Engel, FWST)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/25/08 23:24 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
24 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/24/08
- Our Generals Almost Cost Us Iraq (Mac Owens, WSJ)
- Bush Boosts the Financial Plan -- and McCain, Too (John McKinnon, WSJ) Poor David Axelrod's head must be spinning...
- Pandora's bailout (Holman Jenkins, WSj)
- Let's Get the Bank Rescue Right (R. Glenn Hubbard, Hal Scott & Luigi Zingales, WSJ)
- Paulson's Panic (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)
- It's Paulson's own mess (John Berlau, TAS)
- The Paulson Sale (WSJ)
- 'Wall Street' No Longer Exists (Alan Reynolds, WSJ)
- The Establishment Lives! (David Brooks, NY Times) I never would have guessed this administration would preside over the return of Rockefeller Republicans (or perhaps in Paulson's case, Rockefeller Democrats).
- Give Paulson a clean bill (Lawrence Kudlow, RCP)
- Video: Catholic Vote’s new pro-life ad (Hot Air)
- Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools (Stanley Kurtz, WSJ)
- Obama's "tax cut" is income redistribution (Ken Blackwell, RCP)
- Obama's leftism (Joshua Muravchik, Commentary)
- Media campaigns hard for Obama (Tony Blankley, RCP)
- The media play the race card on Obama (Jonah Goldberg, RCP)
- Mediterranean Diet Declines, and Weights Rise (Elisabeth Rosenthal, NY Times) Excessive nacho consumption is not a good thing!
- Matt Millen removed as Lions team president (ESPN.com) How in the world did he keep his job for so long?
- Fan devotion to Texans not same as Oilers (John McClain, Houston Chronicle) No kidding. Why would it be?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/24/08 23:10 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
23 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/23/08
- Do not exaggerate investment banking’s death (Philip Augar, FT) The sky is not falling.
- The shadow banking system is unravelling (Nouriel Roubini, FT) The sky has fallen, and a black hole is forming.
- The Great Shakeout: Good-bye, Masters of the Universe (James J. Cramer, New York Mag) The sky has fallen on some people. (My snark aside, this is a thoughtful piece, one of the best I've seen so far).
- Buy an Apartment (James J. Cramer New York Mag) How and when to take advantage of the partially falling sky.
- How the Democrats created the financial crisis (Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg) "Created" seems a bit strong, but certainly this paints a damning picture.
- Burma's secret schools of dissent (Anand Gopal, CSM)
- Activists put Burma's grim jails on display (Anand Gopal, CSM)
- Monks with guns? Burma's younger activists get bolder (Anand Gopal, CSM)
- Gingrich: Bailout Proposal a 'Dead Loser' on Election Day (Susan Davis, WSJ) This is the guy who thought the Contract with America gave him a mandate to shut down government and end the welfare state, which was a miscalculation. Pols had better give the obstruction strategy some careful thought.
- The Treasury bailout is not rocket science (Houston's Clear Thinkers) But obstruction may still be the right approach.
- New Evidence on Taxes and Income (Arthur Laffer & Stephen Moore, WSJ)
- The Battleground Poll and the vanishing moderate (Bruce Walker, ESR)
- The GOP Brand (Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard)
- Abortions Do Sometimes Produce Live Births (Mona Charen, RCP)
- Biden reconsiders, decides it really is okay to mock McCain for POW disability which prevents him from using keyboards (Bill Dyer, HughHewitt.com)
- Joe Biden, Straw Man (Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason)
- Democrats and Double Standards (Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard)
- Is Obama another Dukakis? (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
- Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin (Cathy Young, WSJ)
- The Jawa Report: Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them (The Jawa Report)
- Power Is Scarce, but Houston’s Spirit Isn’t Lacking (James McKinley & Thayer Evans, NY Times)
- Why we now live in Sri Lanka (no offense to Sri Lanka) (MeMo) Houston does not resemble a third-world country/Sri Lanka. This would be the latest example of why unserious people should stick with unserious topics.
- Schadenfroze at the Chronicle (Unca Darrell)
- 1-3 start not what Sumlin, UH had in mind (Michael Murphy, Houston Chronicle) Raise your hand if you thought Sumlin's defense would be THIS bad? (If you are raising your hand, I don't believe you)
- Dallas Cowboys beat a top team without Romo at his best (Jean-Jacques Taylor, DMN)
- Dallas Cowboys unbeaten and unrivaled this season (Tim Cowlishaw, DMN) The games in September count. The playoff games in December count more.
- Felix Jones is having an early impact on the Dallas Cowboys’ running game (Randy Galloway, FWST) Ya think?
- How I learned to start worrying and hate my iPhone (By the Bayou) It's what all the cool kids have, and it just works! Except when it doesn't. But it still is elegant and cool LOOKING at least.
- T-Mobile Restricting 3G Data Usage to 1GB a Month Without Penalty (Gizmodo) This is not a cool way to launch your nice new network.
- Android and T-Mobile G1's Five Most Obnoxious Flaws (Gizmodo)
- The G1: Almost perfect (CrunchGear) It's not close to perfect (see above), but it's a decent first effort.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/23/08 21:34 | Links | Technorati | Comments (1)
22 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/22/08 (or, the post-Ike dump!)
- The surprising geopolitics of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope (Sandro Magister, Chiesa) Eh, what he really needs to do is write $elf-help books!
- Questions for Charles Murray (Interviewed by Deborah Solomon, NY Times)
- Leadership (Robert Cringely, PBS.org) I wonder how long it would take for HR to pull this off the coffeebar bulletin board in our non-fractal shop?
- Cancer stem cells: The root of all evil? (Economist)
- Shooting down cancer (Economist)
- Lehman and the end of the era of leverage (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Youths Pledge Continued Demonstrations Until Lights Come on (AllAfrica.com) Maybe we should have tried this in Houston. :D
- Are towns really safer without traffic lights? (Isabelle de Pommereau, CSM) Houston sure as hell is not! :)
- A debate about Ike, civility and Houston (MeMo) Deep thoughts from the Chron Star elitists. See this roundup for thoughtful post-Ike blogging from grownups.
- Risky foray: Why Gaddafi is seeking to shrink the Libyan state (Roula Khalaf, Andrew England, Heba Saleh, FT)
- Kazakh Oil -- A War of Nerves (Steve LeVine, Spiegel)
- Ukraine comes to the forefront (Economist)
- Bush 'approved' Pakistan attacks (BBC News) And that would seem consistent with the declaration that we will make no distinction between terrorists and the nations that harbor them.
- U.S. forces the terror issue with Pakistan (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)
- When you pick a VP known primarily for cramming his feet in his mouth (Brothers Judd) Way to impress undecided voters with disabilities.
- Why doesn't McCain use a computer? (Jake Tapper, ABC News) See above.
- Joe Biden: The forgotten man (Ruben Navarrette, RCP)
- New Abortion Study Fuels Criticism of Obama and Praise of Palin (Liz Halloran, US News)
- Second opinion: Felix Jones was the right pick for Dallas Cowboys (Jean-Jacques Taylor, DMN) It certainly looks that way.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/22/08 12:26 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
11 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/11/08
- The election and September 11 (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Seven Questions: Bernard Lewis on the Two Biggest Myths About Islam (Foreign Policy)
- A conspiracy of crackpots (John Avlon, City Journal)
- Lehman's Fate (WSJ)
- Going for broke (Nicole Gelinas, City Journal)
- Too Early To Call It (David Broder, WaPo)
- What was feminism? (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)
- The Sarah Surge in black and white (Larry Kudlow, NRO)
- Obama Can't Win Against Palin (Karl Rove, WSJ)
- The first and last word on lipstick (Tom Bevan, RCP)
- Palin cornered the market on lipstick (Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times)
- Pension Time Bomb (George Will, WaPo)
- Exclusive Interview: Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It (Will Smith, MaximumPC) It's fixed? How can that much bloatware suddenly be fixed?
- Lenovo ThinkPad T400 Review (Notebook Review) Memo to Santa: This is one SWEET machine.
- No huddle, no problem for Oklahoma Sooners (Brandon George, DMN)
- QBs Young & Leinart: From can't miss to can't figure (Tim Cowlishaw, DMN)
- Young needs space, 'love and support,' mother says (ESPN.com) Oh my!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/11/08 23:44 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
10 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/10/08
- There Should Be No More Excuses At Ground Zero (Michael Bloomberg, WSJ)
- The Foreign Policy Difference (Fouad Ajami, WSJ)
- Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway (David Tirrell-Wysocki, AP)
- The GOP resurrection (Tony Blankley, RCP)
- November lineup: Obama vs. Obama (Dick Morris, RCP)
- How to save Detroit and $50 billion (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- The Hunt for Sarah October (John Fund, WSJ)
- Running Alaska (WSJ)
- What's the Matter With Sarah? (Janet Albrechtsen, WSJ)
- A Tale of Two Bridges (Deroy Murdock, NRO)
- Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge (Jim Demint, WSJ)
- Send us your dreams about Sarah Palin (David Plotz, Slate) Bizarre and disturbing.
- At least she doesn't call Mrs. Palin a pig (Brothers Judd)
- Palin Energizing Women From All Walks of Life (Anne Kornblut, WaPo)
- Obama-Biden obsession with Palin continues (Mark Helperin, Time)
- Palin bounce has Democrats off balance (Peter Wallsten & Janet Hook, LA Times)
- Palin Panic (Howard Kurtz, WaPo)
- Obama knocks press on 'made-up controversy' (Ben Smith, Politico) And keeps his controversy in the news another day...
- Gordon Brown triggers row with John McCain by 'backing' Barack Obama (Robert Winnett, Telegraph) Sir Gordon the Inept strikes again.
- A tough but fair ad from McCain, hitting Obama on education (Jim Geragthy, NRO)
- The challenge of riding the weak horse (or, in this case, unicorn) (Brothers Judd)
- The Gospel According to Joe Biden (Fr. Thomas Williams, NRO)
- Congress must stabilize the dollar (Rep. Ted Poe, RCM)
- At Best Buy, Marketing Goes Micro (Jena McGregor, BusinessWeek)
- messageSling: the future of voicemail This services looks kinda cool.
- FrugalTravelGuy This guy WORKS it for miles/points.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/10/08 23:32 | Links | Technorati | Comments (1)
09 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/09/08
- Family with Down Syndrome Child Meets John McCain and Sarah Palin (RushLimbaugh.com) Nice move.
- No One Convicted of Terror Plot to Bomb Planes (John F. Burns & Elaine Sciolino, NY Times) Fiasco. And yet some people think the U.S. needs to return to its pre-9/11 legalistic approach to terrorism.
- McPalin rattles Team Obama (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
- Creation Myth: What Barack Obama won't tell you about his community organizing past (John Judis, TNR)
- The MSNBC meltdown (Harry Stein, Forbes.com)
- Countdown to complete meltdown (Stephen Spruiell, NRO)
- Iraqi Leaders Opposed Biden's Partition Plan (Dan Senor, WSJ) Biden's been wrong on many major foreign policy questions over the past few decades, so why not one more? His mischaracterization of his original views is pure Biden.
- In the Beginning: The Democratic ticket confused science and theology (Yuval Levin, NRO) The question of equal natural right (as found in the Declaration) really drives the pro-life position on abortion, however much some people wish to evade the question.
- Fannie and Freddie: What next? (Steve Forbes, Forbes.com)
- Paulson's Pretext (NY Sun)
- Fanny, Freddie, and Obama (The Prowler, TAS) Again, could someone -- anyone -- tell me why the hell an allegedly conservative president turned over the economics portfolio to Paulson?
- Trying too hard (The QandO Blog)
- Vigorous press purpose (Jay Ambrose, Wash Times)
- Sarah Palin is not such a small-town girl after all (James Bennett, Telegraph)
- A Thought Experiment (Ross Douthat, Atlantic.com)
- Obama wrong to spurn Hillary, pick Biden (Ed Rollins, CNN.com) Obama's ego wouldn't allow the Clinton pick. It may cost him the presidency.
- ObamaTax 3.0 (WSJ)
- The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have (David Kiley, BusinessWeek)
- Titans asked police help to find 'emotionally down' Vince Young (AP) This is just bizarre.
- The dominatrix (Gary Kamiya, Salon) What a nice illustration accompanying this story. Good to see The Left continuing to keep it classy!
- Who is Sally Quinn? (Jeffrey Lord, TAS)
- Sliming Palin (Brooks Jackson, Jess Henig, Emi Kolawole, Joe Miller & Lori Roberston, Newsweek) How many of those false smears were posted by none other than the Chron's erratic features editor, MeMo?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/09/08 23:59 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
08 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/08/08
- Paulson's Seizure (NY Sun)
- Weekend at Henry's (WSJ)
- Latin America wants free trade (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ) Unfortunately, the majority Congressional party in the U.S. does not.
- How to Manage Savagery (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- PM rebukes "hysterical" Yushchenko (Roman Olearchyk, FT)
- BP Concedes to Russian Partners (Philip Pan, WaPo)
- Obama: Recession Could Delay End to Bush Tax Cuts (AP)
- When Barack's berserkers lost the plot (Nick Cohen, The Observer)
- Democrats must learn some respect (Clive Crook, FT)
- Shifting to flail mode (Brothers Judd)
- He's the poster child for the Rose Garden campaign (Brothers Judd)
- Have you ever tried riding a unicorn and answering questions simultaneously? (Brothers Judd)
- McCain, Obama plan joint stop at Ground Zero (AP) The President and Rudy Giuliani ought to be there too.
- How dare she be a working-class woman! (Tom Gross, NRO)
- Palin, Evangelicals, and the Secularists (John Podhoretz, Contentions)
- Anatomy of a smear (Dean Barnett, Weekly Standard)
- Palin rises above "Shrill" media (Ruben Navarrette, RCP)
- McCain Finds the Right Wingman (Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard)
- A Heartbeat Away (William Kristol, NY Times)
- A new social contract for America (Frank Micciche, CSM)
- "No Child Left Behind Act" leaves schools in a quandary (Challen, Stephens, Huntsville Times)
- Drawing a Bead on the Press (David Carr, NY Times)
- MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat (Brian Stelter, NY Times)
- Media Bashing 102 (Unca Darrell)
- The car of the perpetual future (Economist)
- Meet Samsung netbook (jkkmobile) Oooh, I likey the keyboard better than the eee!
- The Other Grand Canyon in the Texas Panhandle (Jim Atkinson, NY Times)
- Village unites to foil robbers (Kathimerini) Don't mess with a Greek village!
- Catching Your Alaskan Dinner (VarmintBites) Cool! It's been a long time since I've seen a really good Alaska fare, unfortunately.
- Bridge still sways (Manny Gamallo, Tulsa World) Pawhuska: A pleasant community with a lot to offer!
- Grand Hyatt's problems were 12 years in the making (Carlos Guerra, SAEN) Wow, a real metro columnist. Why can't Houston's newspaper have one of these?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/08/08 22:05 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
05 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/05/08
- Forum: The Russians Are Coming (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Why They Hate Her (Jonathan Last, First Things)
- What happens when you don't vet your VP choice (Brothers Judd)
- And then the Unicorn Rider brought me a sandbox (Brothers Judd)
- You'll never believe me, but this isn't a parody either (Brothers Judd)
- 6 Ways McCain Can Run as the Candidate of the Party of an Unpopular President (Michael Barone, USNews.com)
- Palin's small-town ways will play big across U.S. (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- A Glimpse of the New (David Brooks, NY Times)
- How Palin beat Alaska's establishment (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- What Mrs. Palin Could Learn From Mrs. T (Barbara Amiel, WSJ)
- What Palin Really Did To the Oil Industry (James Lucier, WSJ)
- Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism (Gerard Baker, Times)
- Why Obama's "community organizer" days are a joke (Michelle Malkin, RCP)
- Continental to begin charging for first checked bag (Mark Babineck, Houston Chronicle) Boo.
- Google Chrome - A New Chapter in Browser History? (MakeUseOf.com)
- Houston Texans, Year Seven (Houston's Clear Thinkers)
- Cowboys have added potential impact men (Rick Herrin, FWST) Will they have an impact in December and January, though?
- Can Marion Barber hold up as a starter? (Randy Galloway, FWST)
- Houston's Sumlin lands in hotbed of talent (Jake Trotter, Daily Oklahoman)
- Cougars' QB Keenum eyeing some rarefied air (Michael Murphy, Houston Chronicle)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/05/08 22:50 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
04 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/04/08
- Obama Is the Anti-Thatcher (Andrew Wilson, WSJ)
- Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War (Peter Wehner, WSJ) "Experience" you can believe in?
- What's so special about Sarah? (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment (Janet Daley, Telegraph)
- Sarah Palin: A Star is Born in the GOP (Michael Barone, US News)
- Sarah Palin Shoots…She Scores! (David Brody, CBN News)
- The natural: Sarah Palin connects with people in a way that few politicians can (Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard)
- Sarah steals the show (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- Why the smiling, sudden, relentless Sarah Palin should scare Democrats (John Dickerson, Slate)
- Palin Could Make the Difference In This Close Race (Karl Rove, WSJ)
- Sarah Palin's 'new feminism' is hailed (Robin Abcarian, LA Times)
- Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist (John F. Harris & Beth Frerking, Politico)
- Dems pounce too soon (Dick Morris, RCP)
- The Right Address for a Rebel (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- Rantlets: Charisma, community organizers, soccer moms (Tom Rants)
- Lipstick tracers (Brothers Judd)
- Palin vs Obama (Fresh Bilge)
- Strategy leads Lampson to turn down a debate (Chron Houston Politics)
- How Much is Enough? Comcast finds a new way to kill peer-to-peer (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)
- Google launches Microsoft’s big fear (John Gapper, FT)
- UH’s Joseph jumps at chance to play receiver (Michael Murphy, Houston Chronicle)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/04/08 22:25 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
Linkpost: 09/03/08
- Russia Claims Its Sphere of Influence in the World (Andrew Kramer, NY Times)
- Another Japanese Leader Quits as Recession Looms (Yuka Hayashi & Sebastion Moffett, WSJ)
- Mauritania Coup: Is It Wrong to Remove Rogue 'Democrats' By the Force of Arms? (Okello Oculi, AllAfrica.com)
- A sting in Pakistan's al-Qaeda mission (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)
- Thailand teeters on the brink (Shawn Crispin, Asia Times)
- Iraq's port city shows signs of an economic comeback (Tom Peter, CSM)
- Uncertainty After Anbar Handover (Amit Paley, WaPo)
- Pakistan's next president is a Category 5 disaster (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- A clear and present danger to the American Left (Peggy Noonan, WSJ)
- The Beltway Boys (WSJ)
- There's no excuse for Palin family feeding frenzy (Kerry Dougherty, HamptonRoads.com)
- A time-warped sexist assault (Andrea Peyser, NY Post)
- Palin and the narcissistic Left (James Lewis, RCP)
- Team McCain hits back on Palin, vetting (Byron York, NRO)
- Sarah Palin: Deeply threatening to the Left? (Andrea Tantaros, RCP)
- Sarah Palin's pioneering streak (Maggie Gallagher, RCP)
- Palin is a true feminist role model (Chrystia Freeland, FT)
- McCain Comes Through (Robert Novak, WaPo)
- For GOP delegates, Sarah Palin on the ticket is a no-brainer (Stuart Rothenberg, RCP)
- The Case Against the Case Against Palin (The Plank)
- A stark choice on abortion (Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe)
- An evolving GOP approach to family values? (Ted Anthony, AP) No, it's the same approach -- opposed to abortion, cognizant of man's fallen nature, supportive of loved ones. But the better question is when AP decided it was a source for editorializing, as opposed to news.
- Sarah Palin and the two Americas (Thomas Lifson, RCP)
- Honey trap (Brothers Judd)
- How Obama lost the election (Spengler, Asia Times) He didn't lose the election in August, but he did give away too much in terms of his policy prescriptions. It would be much better strategy to talk hope/change/identity and leave out those liberal policy prescriptions.
- Oh, that Joe! (No. 7 in a series) (Jake Tapper, ABCNews.com) When he's not borrowing someone else's life story, Biden can deliver pure comedy gold.
- Joe Biden's class act (William McGurn, WSJ)
- No autopilot for Delta CEO on merger, fuel costs (Kellyi Yamonouchi, AJC)
- United drops planned meal charges on Europe trips (AP) Apparently with some pressure from Star.
- Tenacity: Summer’s End (She Eats) Live scallops?
- Richard Justice crosses the line (Houston's Clear Thinkers)
- The Ballad of Richard Justice and Stephanie Stradley (Ballz)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/04/08 00:09 | Links | Technorati | Comments (3)
01 September 2008
Linkpost: 09/01/08 (Labor-free edition!)
- When the post-mortems are written (Brothers Judd)
- McCain’s gamble on Palin is shrewd (Clive Crook, FT)
- Go ahead and laugh: How Palin matters (John Pitney, NRO)
- The Palin breakout (Hugh Hewitt, TownHall.com)
- Diminishing Palin (Dean Barnett, Weekly Standard)
- The fighter pilot and the moose hunter (Lisa Schiffren, City Journal)
- World's gaze falls on Wasilla, Palin's folks (Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News)
- With Palin On the Ticket, Evangelicals Are Energized (Michael Shear & Juliet Eilperin, WaPo)
- A Star Is Born? (William Kristol, NY Times)
- History changer: Sarah Palin, talented understudy (Alvin Felzenberg, NRO)
- Sarah Palin: Conservatives find the girl of their dreams (Sarah Baxter, Times)
- Ivory Tower Aghast at Palin Choice (TFG)
- Tweezer-brains pick up arithmetic hammer… (TFG)
- Obama-Biden/Democrat Sexism Continues (TammyBruce.com) Keepin' it classy!
- Lefty bloggers go after Palin's daughter (Amanda Carpenter, Townhall.com) Keepin' it classy!
- It ain't so, Joe (Celia Cohen, Delaware Grapevine) Biden: A more experienced pathological liar?
- Joe Biden's deep (but mythical) blue-collar roots (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune)
- Deflating origins is just another way of lying about achievements (Brothers Judd)
- Obama The Orthodox (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- Of him, America knows so little (Charles Krauthammer, San Diego Union Tribune)
- Why CIA veterans are scared of McCain (Laura Rozen, Mother Jones)
- What Did You Say? (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)
- False start: Sherman era at A&M starts with stunning stumble (Bobbi Roquemore, DMN) Whoop!
- UH opens Sumlin era with 55-3 win over Southern (Michael Murphy, Houston Chronicle)
- Lightning should have stopped Oklahoma blowout (Berry Tramel, Daily Oklahoman)
- Fans should thank their lucky stars for Romo (Randy Galloway, FWST) We do.
- Houston Chronicle Columnist Richard Justice Unfairly Attacks Alex Gibbs...and Then Me? (Stephanie Stradley, NFL Fanhouse) Justice's behavior is disturbing and unprofessional (although not surprising to anyone who's ever been on the receiving end of his truly bizarre outbursts).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/01/08 11:34 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
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