DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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There you go — everything good is bad for you.

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Probably true. And that tells you all you need to know about the American school system.

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Well, yeah — not being around primitive farm machinery and animals that weighed a lot and didn’t really care what they stepped on will do that for you.

Those who mourn the “dark Satanic mills” forget that country people flocked there in preference to working in the fields.

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The biter bit.

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Apparently not. Think you’ve had a bad tech support experience? Hah. Read this, and weep.

My wife and I had Cingular mobile phone service — the service was fine, but God help you if you had to have a change or make a correction to a bill. We eventually gave up and switched to AT&T (old style), and were happy as clams — until Cingular bought AT&T, whereupon all of the old problems re-arose.

Don’t be fooled by the name — I say it’s Cingular, and I say to hell with it. (And, ironically enough, that’s where you’ll be if you call their tech support. See, it’s all this big circle….)

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That’s some Religion of Peace you got there, guys.

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I’m astonished that there aren’t more of these.

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This sounds like an excellent idea.

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir attended a summit of African leaders in Turkey on Tuesday in his first trip abroad since an international court indicted him on genocide charges last month.

And that tells you everything you need to know about Africa.

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Police in Germany have confiscated what’s thought to be the world’s fastest office chair.

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In order to inherit the future, you have to show up, as Mark Steyn says. Who’s having children? The future belongs to them.

A useful map.

Turns out the regions Georgia is so keep to keep aren’t even inhabited by Georgians.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The biter bit.

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I imagine they probably do.

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And the glass ceiling just dropped another ten meters.

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Not hard to tell. It doesn’t pay shit, and people think you’re a fag. Expecially if you wear one of those silly chin beards in a vain attempt to look “with it”. And even if you are a fag, it still doesn’t pay shit.

Oh, wait, I should put that in a more sensitive fashion — as they do in the article:

Studies have shown developmental benefits to mixed-gender care, the article says, but a couple of factors combine to constrain the number of men in early-childhood education: relatively low pay and, perhaps even more, suspicion that men who care for children are up to no good.

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For example, white people find it particularly hilarious to take slang and enunciate every word perfectly.

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Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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Possibly the dorkiest tie in existence.

Of course, it would only be worn by people whom you would expect to be wearing the dorkiest ties in existence, so the confluence is almost poetic in its elegance.

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Boy, those South Africans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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So far, reaction in the US to Russia’s invasion of Georgia has been all Vladimir Putin could have wished. Exhausted in every way by its experience in Iraq (a failure not much mitigated by recent progress there), its authority and sense of purpose quite depleted, the US looked slower and less decisive than Europe in its initial response, and that is saying something.

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In praise of Portland.

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I love maps like these.

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This would be useful.

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Oddly enough, that makes perfect sense.

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Scientists tested the blood of 32 people aged 92 to 102 who were exposed to the 1918 pandemic flu and found antibodies that still roam the body looking to strangle the old flu strain. Researchers manipulated those antibodies into a vaccine and found that it kept alive all the mice they had injected with the killer flu, according to a study published online Sunday in the journal Nature.

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Darwin Award nominee.

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It always astonishes people when a Communist dictatorship acts like, well, a Communist dictatorship.

You would think that Tianamen Square was only a place.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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So let’s see. By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second most prominent court. Since his “elevation” to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.

Meanwhile, as he bids to be America’s Commander in Chief, Mr. Obama isn’t yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a “community organizer” and law school lecturer. Justice Thomas’s judicial credentials compare favorably to Mr. Obama’s Presidential résumé by any measure. And when it comes to rising from difficult circumstances, Justice Thomas’s rural Georgian upbringing makes Mr. Obama’s story look like easy street.

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Although why anyone ought to give a shit what “animal rights campaigners” think is not explained.

Miss Paltrow, 35, who is married to the Coldplay singer and vegetarian Chris Martin has won praise for her impeccable green credentials and is a fan of holistic practices and yoga.

Oh, I see; it’s treason they’re bitching about. Sorry, guys; money talks.

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Let’s see — which drugs are politicians more likely to need?

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The United States government has poured large quantities of money into higher education. As a result prices have risen. Increases in demand often cause prices to rise. Now the morons in the US Congress are going to try to pressure colleges to ignore the extra market demand created by the government.

What follows? Why, rationing, of course. There will be more people wanting places than places wanting people. Which means that somebody, somebody, is going to be choosing who goes to college (and qualifies to join the ruling class) and who doesn’t. And on what basis will that choice be made? Well, perhaps you can find a clue in looking over the Harvard or Yale or Princeton application materials concerning what sort of students they like to see.

Can you say “politically correct”? Can you say “fashionable minority”? Can you say “art history major rather than engineer”? I’m sure you can.

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Donald Duck in a toga? Say it ain’t so.

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What is it with these guys? Bill and Eliot and now John, especially John. They have smart, capable wives who have been doing what they were supposed to do for years, helping their careers, having their children, telling the world what wonderful husbands they have. And the guys turn around and do them dirt — with a selection of females not one-tenth as interesting as the women who have stood by their side.

Well, let’s see — they’re all Democrats. But that wouldn’t have anything to do with it, surely?

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Government doesn’t solve problems; government creates problems, and then takes your money to “solve” them.

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This is God telling you not to go kayaking.