Roberto Mugabe stole the election in Zimbabwe, and the EU is considering sanctions. Tune in to Damian Penny and Glenn Kinen for volatile reactions (this is why we blog- because bloggers, unlike politicians and the mainstream press, manage to remember right from wrong and loudly pronounce the differences), and remember why the United States seems to like to act unilaterally when things need to get done.
Ideas, Etc., by Kevin Holtsberry,
Ideas, Etc., by Kevin Holtsberry, has moved to a new address.
New link for Next Right-
Another sorta mainstream mention for
Another sorta mainstream mention for Sgt. Stryker. Yesterday it was National Review’s Corner, today it is Spintech. How long before the military starts inquiring? I am willing to bed that the military will realize that Sgt. Stryker is the type of military public relations they NEED, despite his frequent (and appropriate) criticisms of the military.
Are google-bombs going to kill
Are google-bombs going to kill google? Thanks for the heads up from the FU Clan.
Popular search site Google is being exploited by some net users to mount protests and play jokes on their friends.
The users have found a way to “bomb” Google to improve the rankings of particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for particular search phrases.
Before now Google’s method of ranking webpages was thought to make it largely immune to the tactics that many businesses use to improve their position in web searches.
Some fear it is only a matter of time before businesses start using the bombing tactic to influence their standing in search results.
A copy of the proposed
A copy of the proposed Canadian tariff on blank media discussed by Steve Den Beste the other day can be found here. If you have not been following this, go read Steve at the USS Clueless, then check the PDF file for the gory proposal.
Rod Dreher reports in Andrew
Rod Dreher reports in Andrew Sullivan’s Gay Problem-And mine. that their could be an enormous, public, internecine struggle within the Catholic Church in the neart future:
I draw those dire conclusions not on “hearsay,” as Sullivan says, but on reporting and years of conversations with priests, who have told me more than I wish I knew about what it was really like in their seminaries. It will be interesting to see how Sullivan will react to author Michael S. Rose’s forthcoming Goodbye! Good Men, which is the first book I’m aware of to systematically compile these stories from the seminaries, and to name names.
I’ve just finished an early copy, and what it documents is absolutely astonishing, and cannot be ignored except by those who do not want to see. This bombshell book reveals a seminary underworld in which homosexual promiscuity and sexual harassment is rampant, in which straight men are marginalized and demoralized, and seminarians who support the Church’s teaching on sexuality and the priesthood are persecuted, even to the point of being sent off, Soviet-style for psychological evaluations. Many of these guys are rejected from entering the seminaries, expelled, or driven by depression to leave.
This will get uglier.