Wahoos being University of Virginia alumni, of course. According to Sand in the Gears, Charlottesville has been seized in a fit of liberal stupidity.
Glad I’m a Hokie.
Anthony Woodlief’s Sand in the Gears is a great blend of humor and commentary. The first post I read had me laughing out loud. Check it out.
Orson Scott Card, one of my favorite writers, is also quite willing to wade in and tell Geraldo Rivera what he missed in his interview with Arafat.
In case you’d forgotten (and I hope you haven’t), here’s a movie to remind you what we’re fighting for.
Courtesy of Megan at Live from the WTC, an explanation of why, exactly, drugs cost so much less in the EU. It’s far more interesting than you’d probably think, and written for the layman, as Megan usually does w/ these economic issues.
Lefties in America have been screaming about this for years – screaming, that is, that we are allowing our evil Pharmaceutical Giants to charge outrageous prices for their products, when prices in Europe show that the actual price of the product is really much lower.
If you haven’t picked out the problem with this argument already, it’s that the lefties have forgotten one little thing: the ENORMOUS cost of developing drugs. The average drug has to make $500 million to earn back all the R&D costs, not only for itself but for the 999 other compounds that didn’t work.
That’s just the intro though, she explains much more in the full version.
Dan Gillmor’s article in ComputerWorld explains why we’re suddenly hearing that privacy and security cannot co-exist. And it’s not just because of the government.
But corporate America has never been a friend of privacy. Building dossiers on customers and regulating their behavior has always been something of a Holy Grail for businesses.
You should check out HokiePundit, ifyou haven’t already. He’s a smart kid with some great insights into religion and the world. And I think it’s quaint that he can’t bring himself to type words like “penis”, hehe.