Things I’d Like To Post About Today ….. (081508, Morning)

….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:

• Renowned scientist Unhinged Luddite Prince Charles doesn’t like genetically modified (GM) food. Seriously, GM science has the potential to solve world hunger, and people want to stop it, because somebody, somewhere might actually make a little money for having done so. Where’s the compassion?
• I really want to stick with the Dunce of Wales, as the Reason Hit & Run blog calls him, for a moment. The UK Telegraph writes that Chuck believes that “Small farmers, in particular, would be the victims of ‘gigantic corporations’ taking over the mass production of food.” In the early 1900s, blacksmith advocates could have argued against the automobile by saying that they would be “victims of ‘gigantic corporations’ taking over the mass production of transportation.” All but the nuttiest enviros would say we’re immeasurably better off because blacksmiths didn’t get their way, and automakers like GM did. The new GM is no different.
• Apple’s worth more than Google? Yikes (and I say this as a big fan of the company’s products), the “Mac Community” is going to become (even more) insufferable.
• Ed Morrissey at Hot Air (via Instapundit, originally at Knoxvillebiz.com) notes “Another Democrat with a government land deal.” Serious bucks are involved in the Heath Shuler-TVA situation. Even with all of its traditional media, uh, water-carriers, it really is hard to imagine a Democrat Party effort to claim a GOP “culture of corruption” this time around.
• Newsosaur’s Default-o-Matic is predicting that the Tribune Co. is in deep trouble “as the publisher most likely to be unable to repay its debt in the future.”
• Bloomberg reported earlier this week (HT Gawker) that New York Times Company bonds are “a step above junk and in danger of being cut.” That would be appropriate, as the Times’s business situation would then match the quality of much of its reporting, and almost all of its editorializing.