Couldn’t Help But Notice (071207)
Metaphor, Schmetaphor (HT Truth Laid Bear via Instapundit) — The New York Times’ gleaming new building is apparently infested with leaks (don’t get me started), rats (oh, the temptation), and maggots. Without detailed guidance, I would think it difficult to distinguish between the “legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter” and the journalists.
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Little-know Factoid of the Day — Martin Luther King once owned a gun (from the second-last paragraph of Chapter 8 of his autobiography):
How could I serve as one of the leaders of a nonviolent movement and at the same time use weapons of violence for my personal protection? Coretta and I talked the matter over for several days and finally agreed that arms were no solution. We decided then to get rid of the one weapon we owned. We tried to satisfy our friends by having floodlights mounted around the house, and hiring unarmed watchmen around the clock. I also promised that I would not travel around the city alone.
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Totally Predictable and Totally Futile — The Toledo Blade’s editorial geniuses think that economic basket case Michigan can be saved, if only taxes are raised even higher.
The Blade’s blusterers need to be reminded that people vote with their feet. Willisms has two posts showing that people are doing just that:
- State Government Spending Correlates With Domestic Migration
- Americans Tend To Move From High Debt States To Low Debt States
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“No Kidding” Comment of the Day:
When a conservative appears on talk radio, liberals cry for the Fairness Doctrine. Seventy-five free hours for Archbishop Gore’s Church of Climate Change? Not a peep.
