Crying racism is the first refuge of the moron. Libertarianism is applied autism. If, as immigrationists often claim, the economy benefits so much from low skill workers, why continue to spend money educating native born Americans? Think of the economic boom to result if we stopped funding high schools and colleges in order to increase the homegrown pool of unskilled labor. I dream that someday in the far future the lost art of minstrelsy will be revived. Last time I was in a Las Vegas casino I noticed the hookers were dressed less whorish than the female tourists. Horse betting isn't gambling, it's pari-mutuel wagering. Successful betting requires knowledge, intellect, and the ability to evaluate and take risks. One learns that reality is too complex to be reduced to a mechanical system. It's a gentleman’s sport, of great tradition. When wagering you compete with other bettors, as opposed to passively sitting in the stands unthinkingly adulating various egomaniacal million...
Sorry to go off subject, but My Dear Sir, I was wondering whether you had heard the news about killer giant hornets in China? e.g. http://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/giant-hornet-attacks/
ReplyDeleteThere's a terrific NatGeo (I think) show about those which films them invading a honeybee hive.
DeleteI would love to see a documentary on what happens when a hornet attempts to invade a Japanese honey bee hive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
DeleteHere's a clip from it.
DeleteA fun question for environmentalists: if those things were endangered should steps be taken to preserve them?
DeleteIn Lilo and Stitch, Earth was designated as a wildlife sanctuary to protect the mosquito. The aliens who came to Earth were excited to be bitten by them.
DeleteAnyway, amazing how even Russia doesn't have enough alpha males for their women. No, that's not the problem, the problem is that women are ever trusted, at all, for any reason. They are born traitors.
It shouldn't be surprising a lady powerlifter took an impulse too far.
DeleteWill you compose the rock opera based on this story or shall I? From the article it appears the show-stopping aria has already been written by the heroine herself.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. You do the music, I will come up with some lyrics that ryhme with Ustiuzhaninova.
DeleteI find it curious the Siberian Amazon wrote her message in English.
DeleteEveryone communicates in English now. It's the universal language of "Put Me On Television."
DeleteStealing a two hour slab of Schoenberg performed on an oud will work for the music.