Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
jnc4p
Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
lmsinca
markinaustin
Arcanaut
novahockey
quarterback
ScottC
yellojkt
"Hey, are you in there? Hello? I'm feeling better now. Really."
This is a great blog about The Overlook Hotel from Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s where I got the image above, and where I first ran across the image below:
A children's menu from The Overlook Hotel, re: Kubrick's The Shining.
The U.N. wants control over the Internet. I’m sure that’s going to go over well!
DRM in HTML5. That sounds like a great idea!
Thiotimoline is a substance so water-soluble, it actually dissolves before it comes in contact with water.
A Sci-Fi Horror movie shot i and around Chernobyl:
That’s it for me — KW
Filed under: Stephen King | Tagged: Chernobyl, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Overlook Hotel, The Shining |
All Things in Moderation 
I always loved those Thiotimoline stories. I had no idea there were so many of them.
LikeLike
Mitt Romney and Ron Burgandy – Separated at Birth
LikeLike
I had completely forgotten about Thiotimoline, until reading that article.
LikeLike
Ross Douthat on the “Safe, Legal, Rare” Illusion.
I find interesting the stats that indicate contraceptive access isn’t a problem with our current unwanted pregnancy rates . . .
And Douthat’s take on the oft-repeated idea that conservative red-states have a bigger problem with teen pregnancy is also interesting:
LikeLike
Question to financial peoples:
Is this really the UKs version of the Buffet Rule, and is it not really working?
LikeLike
Kevin, I didnt follow the debate. Was the point of the law increased revenue or fairness?
LikeLike
It’s proof of the Laffer Curve.
LikeLike
Is the quote of the day monitor on strike?
LikeLike
okie:
Is the quote of the day monitor on strike?
No, he just had to spend most of his time today parsing and defending his own quotes.
LikeLike
Not that I mind the QOTD, mind you! 🙂 She’s a worthy quotee.
LikeLike
Scott:
No, he just had to spend most of his time today parsing and defending his own quotes
Heh. Makes you a better man than many.
And that is not meant as a comment on any other XY commenters on this site. It just means that most men don’t bother. There is a reason this site exists.
LikeLike
And that is not meant as a comment on any other XY commenters on this site.
Inner dialog: God, she’s talking about me. I know she is. Any time they say it’s not about anybody in particular, it’s always about me.
🙂
LikeLike
Be afraid, Kevin, be very afraid . . . . 😉
LikeLike
Troll: Kevin, I didnt follow the debate. Was the point of the law increased revenue or fairness?
Nor did I. I assume, irrespective of the rhetorical justifications, they assumed it would at least raise X amount of revenue (every proposed tax hike I’ve seen tends to have fanciful projections of expected revenue attached, the presumption normally being that when you raise taxes, all things stay the same, and there are no changes in behavior).
LikeLike
I liked this line from Santorum the other night in the debate:
LikeLike
ScottC: That’s what they do. That’s not what we do.
That sounds nice. Alas . . .
The issue is: who is the “we”? Certainly Arlen Specter was not averse to a government program or three, and he was who Santorum backed over Pat Toomey. 😉
But clearly Big Government conservatives in the Dubya mold do support new government programs, laws, and regulations to advance their initiatives. Sometimes these laws are complicated: they negate previous, problematic regulations or programs, but then add many new laws and regulations (ala The Patriot Act). It would be nice if it was true, but with few exceptions (Ron Paul? I’m not sure if even Santorum is an exception) there aren’t a lot of Republican politicians whose small government instincts don’t end at cutting taxes and cutting funding to NPR.
While I think a president Santorum would be as likely to try and outlaw contraception as Obama was likely to rename America The United Socialist Soviet States of Northern America and nationalize Wal-Mart (which is the kind of portrayal I think that’s probably a response to, the image of a president Santorum as a religious dictator who outlaws atheism or something) . . . while that simply wouldn’t happen, and nothing like it would happen, it’s simply not accurate (at least, not without a lot of caveats) to suggest that Republicans are that much less likely to look to a government program to fix various problems. At least, in DC.
LikeLike
Kevin:
it’s simply not accurate (at least, not without a lot of caveats) to suggest that Republicans are that much less likely to look to a government program to fix various problems.
No doubt, there are plenty of big government Republicans who are inclined to look to government to solve perceived problems. But the existence of two different parties is not just a random happenstance, with little to distinguish between them. The parties do tend to be populated with people whose views on the nature and role of government in society are substantively different than those of the people populating the other party. And one of those substantive differences is, I believe, the inclination to look to government as the go-to problem solver in society. Pointing out that sometimes Republicans use government to solve perceived problems, or, conversely, (if such example really do exist) sometimes Democrats do not use government to solve perceived problems, does not obviate the general philosophical differences between the parties in their approach to government.
As an aside, the increasing presence of big government Republicans in Washington is one reason why I am baffled by claims that the government has somehow been trending towards the right in recent decades (a claim made by bsimon the other day). In fact, it seems to me that it is liberal, not conservative, premises about the proper role of government that have become increasingly entrenched in DC.
LikeLike