Wednesday OTA/Short Roundup
This is an Open Trackbacks Alliance open post. link to this post and trackback. See the OTA and Linkfest Haven links below the (very) short roundup of posts that have caught my eye. (Hey, I’ve been mostly outa the loop for a coupla days, ‘K? 
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Alexandra notes a kinship with Mark Steyn (she’s right; they are intellectual sibs ).
Beth asks, Is Peace Moonbeam a Fraud? Well, with a name like that, I’d certainly hope so…
“Dave the NCO,” writing in over at Jerry Pournelle’s place, notes the mystical powers of literacy. 
He points to an article by John Derbyshire (though unfortunately not with a link) that has gems like this:
“…a few years ago, when I complained to my Wall Street boss, a lady with a degree from a good university and a six-digit salary, that in giving me a project to complete without the proper means to complete it, she was asking me to make bricks without straw. She stared at me uncomprehendingly. “Bricks? Straw? What on earth are you talking about, John?”"
Yep. Communicating with the subliterate is like making bricks without straw, indeed.
Why is Africa “poor”? Read this. Western Civilization is better. And one of the key principles of the West can be seen lacking in Africa… and it’s one that’s both essential to creating a society of growing wealth and one that’s particularly despised—in theory and loudmouthed pronouncements and rules affecting other people—by the disingenuous liars and the useful idiots of the Left…
Oh, and you’ll see this too, if you page around enough on Pournelle’s site:
Chicago schools require Drivers Ed for blind students.
I can’t make this stuff up. No one can. Who has an imagination that depraved fecund?
Random Yak holds forth with an English/History lesson. “…when all the sway of earth shakes like a thing unfirm…” and all that.
Yeh, I know there’re lots more (including some good posts linked in on Monday and Tuesday). Link in with some of the good ones I’ve missed, OK?
Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at
Linkfest Haven.
Diane’s got a linkfest post up, too. Go check it out and link there, as well.
Posted: March 15th, 2006 under Blogroll.
Tags: stupid is as stupid does
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Trackback from Stuck On Stupid
Time March 15, 2006 at 5:57 AM
The Dangerously Incompetent Linkfest & Trackback Party…
Michigan Republican 2006 Senate Campaign Poster Senator Debbie Stabenow(d-Michigan). Nuff’ Said…. This is a midweek Linkfest & Trackback Party. Trackback and I will return the link.Permalink Trackback URL Linked To…
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Time March 15, 2006 at 9:27 AM
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Trackback from The Business of America is Business
Time March 15, 2006 at 9:53 AM
The Road (that ought to be) Less Traveled…
Last fall a rather remarkable article entitled Chavez Restyles Venezuela With ’21st-Century Socialism’ appeared in the New York Times. What it is that’s remarkable is not that in the 21st century the paper of record would publish such an obviously …
Trackback from TMH’s Bacon Bits
Time March 15, 2006 at 10:50 AM
Moby Bush…
The similarities between the liberal quest to dispose of President Bush at all costs, and Captain Ahab’s hate-filled quest for vengeance against Moby Dick, are astounding. Vengeance, in the form of insane hatred, my dear liberals, is but suicid…
Trackback from Church and State
Time March 15, 2006 at 10:55 AM
UN Proposes World Taxation…
This “Robin Hood Mentality” of Take-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-poor is as humanist and liberal as it gets. Socialism failed for centuries in Europe and other parts of the world until America started out based on free enterprise….
Trackback from Don Surber
Time March 15, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Cleveland Indians, The Blogosphere’s Team…
If any baseball team best illustrates the insurgency in the Internet, it is my beloved Cleveland Indians. Doing more with less should be the team motto….
Comment from The MaryHunter
Time March 15, 2006 at 11:51 AM
WOOT! David! I rarely look at TTLB anymore (yearight) but:
TMH’s Bacon Bits: #160
third world county: #162
Hey neighbor! 
Comment from The MaryHunter
Time March 15, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Um, if that was crass, then please delete.
Now, back to worky work… 
Comment from David
Time March 15, 2006 at 12:18 PM
TMH, yeh, sorry about parking my trailer home next to your antebellum manse. I know it has to affect property values to have a coupla cars in the front up on blocks, the hounds baying at squirrels and coons all hours o’ the day n night, etc., but what can I do about it?
It’s a Federal program.
Trackback from Freedom Folks
Time March 15, 2006 at 12:24 PM
Chicago Sammenhold Rally…
Chicago had it’s own Christopher Hitchens inspired Sammenhold rally today to support Denmark….
Comment from The MaryHunter
Time March 15, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Shewwwwt. Y’all know how muuch it takes ta heat this hea little home? Un.Be.Lievable. 
Trackback from Tel-Chai Nation
Time March 15, 2006 at 1:05 PM
Caroline Glick on Dubya’s port deal and Kadima…
Caroline Glick talks about how Bush, in his arrogant attempt to gain approval for the seaport deal with Dubai that’s more or less damaged his credibility, has succeeded in sending a wake-up call to Americans that even a president like him can be unre….
Comment from Iran Watch
Time March 15, 2006 at 1:54 PM
If you say the obvious reasons why Africa is poor then expect to be called a racist. The cradle of civilization and yet there was no written language in sub-Saharan Africa. I don’t believe it has as much to do with intelligent levels as it does with environmental conditions. In sub-Saharan Africa, there was little change and little reason to adapt. I’m sure nutrition also played a part.
Comment from David
Time March 15, 2006 at 2:13 PM
Iran Watch: Go to the back of the class. You didn’t read the linked article before you commented here, did you? While there are legitimate reasons to argue that the mean “g” of sub-Sahara Africa is lower than the mean “g” of say Europe (the primary reason being that it IS, by all measurements) and that the actual brain capacity of SSA occupants is meaybe one deviation lower than that found in the Med or Europe, that’s not anything I was pointing to (and what the argument specifically pointed to) was a cultural problem.
Read the article before you pop out with the racist card. Heck, re-read my post for a clue, since your comment doesn’t seem to indicate you’ve even done that much. Key comment in my post:
“…one of the key principles of the West can be seen lacking in Africa? and it?s one that?s both essential to creating a society of growing wealth and one that?s particularly despised?in theory and loudmouthed pronouncements and rules affecting other people?by the disingenuous liars and the useful idiots of the Left?”
Key word: principles. As I said, it’s a cultural thing, much as the Islamic culture lacks?and has always lacked?other things the West had had, things that, lacking, compel Islamic-dominated countries to just naturally be less than the West in creativity, productivity and overall societal wealth.
Trackback from AbbaGav
Time March 15, 2006 at 6:10 PM
Hollywood Squares — 15th Minute Edition…
Hello everyone, welcome to this very special Andy Warhol Memorial, 15th Minute Edition of the Hollywood Squares. I’m your 12th minute host, David Spade. Today we have two contestants who are desperately clutching their last Warhol minute like little ….
Trackback from Radioactive Liberty
Time March 15, 2006 at 7:07 PM
Cowardly Democrats Undermine Impeachment…
Some Democrats in the House seem to be more concerned with getting re-elected than in doing what is best for the country. We need to let them know that our top priority is the impeachment of President Bush, and NOT winning elections.
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Trackback from Mark My Words
Time March 15, 2006 at 7:19 PM
Sometimes I shouldn’t listen to the radio at work…
The internet, for all of it’s wonders and convenience, can also be a tool for the most depraved. It’s becoming more difficult to be shocked as the coarseness of our culture continues to inecrease. Yet, when I heard this on the radio today……
Trackback from Carnival of the Celebrities
Time March 15, 2006 at 9:52 PM
George Clooney Did Not Write This Blog Either…
Well, actually, I did not say that. I mean, I may have said that in an interview with the late Larry King, at the Oscars, on the set of “Roseanne” in the 1980s. But I really did not blog it….
Comment from Iran Watch
Time March 18, 2006 at 5:02 PM
“If you say the obvious reasons why Africa is poor then expect to be called a racist.”…this isn’t the ‘race card’. This wasn’t even directed at you. Any time someone mentions disparities between black and white there are people who will play the race card. This is only meant as a general observation. Don’t take this to heart as you obviously have(past experience?). My comment was about evolutionary factors and geographic effects on social evolution. You talked about culture and I only tried to bring in a different viewpoint. Next time I’ll talk about Roseanne or the Cleveland Indians since they seemed to be more relevant. Later Einstein.
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Time June 21, 2006 at 5:02 PM
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails,
whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through
the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents’ beds, un…
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Time July 25, 2006 at 4:57 AM
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Harp not on that string.
– William Shakespeare, “Henry VI”
You are going to have a new love affair.
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Time July 25, 2006 at 5:36 PM
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You are the only person to ever get this message.
The Public is merely a multiplied “me.”
– Mark Twain
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Time July 25, 2006 at 11:57 PM
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Do something unusual today. Pay a bill.
A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
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Trackback from TMH’s Bacon Bits
Time March 15, 2006 at 4:18 AM
Muhammad?s Competition…
The theme of very rich sultanates is always money, lots of money, and oh yes, it seems there is always at least one bad guy, a black sheep brother perhaps.
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