Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Quick Takes

Here's proof ( as if you needed it) that G-d rules the world. Who would you have bet on: Len Bias or Mr. Yamaguchi?

It is inconceivable that a starving tenth rate nation can threaten and cow the world's two greatest economic and industrial powers with their threats. North Korea can do so because it holds South Korea hostage to its plans. It's time that Obama, untested as he is, ends this terrorism forthwith using massive power if neccessary.

AIG employees and the teachers' union have a lot in common. They both don't believe in performance standards or merit pay.

Climate change has become an obsession - the primary article of faith for a worldwide secular religion known as environmentalism. - Paraphrase of a statement by professor Freeman Dyson of Princeton from the New York Times magazine.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Len Bias? Really? We're going back to 1986 for cultural references????

Anonymous said...

hey, don't I get a hat tip for pointing you to the article about Professor Dyson?

soupeater said...

Huh?

This guy goes back to the 19 teens so 1986 isn't that far back in comparison. I didn't want to use an example from the entertainment world whose obvious drug use, narcissism and a propensity to live on the edge really turns me off. Len Bias seemed to just die of natural causes, maybe not, but it was a cause celebre just the same. River Phoenix or Heath Ledger just don't ring my bells.

Anonymous said...

Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose.