from one who shall remain nameless:
“It isn’t often I get to read an analysis of a mathematical theory of color constructed in three-dimensional space, written in 1220 by a Medieval bishop. Yes yes, I know, it doesn’t take much to keep me amused…”

A few weeks ago, Towson University debaters Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson became the first team composed of two African-American women to win the prestigious Cross Examination Debate Association intercollegiate national championship.   (Via The Woodpile Report)

‘Most scientists will tell you that race has no biological basis—it is, in academic-speak, a “social construct.” But a new book by distinguished journalist Nicholas Wade challenges that assumption, concluding that race is real and human social behaviour is subject to natural selection just like everything else.
As the New York Review of Books put it, in its coverage of Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, there is now a “statistical sense” in which races are real. Scientists can tell, based on genetic variance, which continent a DNA sample comes from. That might not sound revolutionary to you, but it’s only recently that we’ve had the computer processing power to do it….’
UPDATE: Fred Reed has a good take on this.

‘ LEGENDARY Australian, Sir Jack Brabham, died suddenly at his home on the Gold Coast on Monday.
The oldest living Formula One world champion, who took his titles in 1959-1960-1966, was much more than just a racing driver…’

‘Targeting gun manufacturers and retailers‘

‘..Washington’s “assault weapon” is the regulatory bureaucracy: its de facto power to make law, its swelling cadre of armed enforcers, and Congress’s unwillingness to rein it in. It has targeted the foundation of Americans’ rights: the means we must have to defend them…’

excuse me while I snicker:
‘A mosque in Auckland has been shut down indefinitely following violent attacks and the declaration of jihad, or holy war, against private security staff.’
How’s that multiculti Sweden-of-the-Pacific thing going for you, Kiwis? This is just the beginning of the influence the Religion of Peace aka Headloppers Unanimous is going to have on your little slice of smugness.
Update: The Conservative (Terry Wallbanks’ excellent blog) has a good post on this.

is garbage

Also: President Obama and US Embassies ignore Armed Forces Day, but honored ‘International Day Against Homophobia Or Transphobia’ yesterday

‘..The largest and bitterest of our modern totems, “democracy,” is a con job, a public-relations attempt to blind us to the inescapable facts about governments: they are all corrupt. The occasions on which they administer genuine justice are minuscule in number compared to the occasions on which they inflict grievous injustices upon men — and they strive to hide behind one of the oldest and most pernicious of all maxims: Vox populi, vox Dei. “The voice of the people is the voice of God.”
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All governments – whether freely elected or not – are coercion, dishonesty, corruption and waste
Wabbit

Wabbit is knackered after getting up at 3am and checking out a cattle station for wild pigs then picking a site there suitable for a rifle range. We’ll have an 11km down-range distance.   We got home at 7:30pm.