BillHeise | December 20, 2009
The Adam Lambert Problem I found this on the Web today. In the article, subtitled “Wrong track” poll numbers aren’t just about the economy,” conservative commentator Peggy Noonan focuses on the sinking of Obama in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. It is another in a long trail of polls that show a clear if [...]
BillHeise | October 25, 2009
Found this on the Web today. The Obama White House is switching to open-source code to power ther website. This is stunning news and comes completely out of the blue. It’s a shame they can’t switch over to another form of the much-praised open source: information sharing. If I recall, that was a campaign promise [...]
BillHeise | October 24, 2009
I voted for Obama in the last election. I would do it again. But I voted for him despite my recognition of some of his weaknesses. The chief of these is that he is an academic liberal (as opposed to a NASCAR-watching farmer or an entrepreneur working in “flyover country”). This means he tends to [...]
BillHeise | October 11, 2009
Yesterday, I posted my first of many reactions to the Nobel committee’s awkward decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to a man who has not DONE anything yet. I noted that even people on the left were stunned. Last night, Obama gave a speech at the Human Rights Campaign dinner. Today, Andrew Sullivan writes: [...]
BillHeise | October 10, 2009
My good friend Jim Marchand used to say that he was waiting for the Nobel committee to call and award him his long-delayed Prize. They never did. After yesterday’s surprise, I hope he realizes what an idealistic body that committee is. Even my friends and fellow bloggers at the Huffington Post quail at the choice [...]
BillHeise | October 9, 2009
President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. “I don’t think it’s a partisan thing,” presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Right.
BillHeise | September 21, 2009
This bit of news crossed the desk today (click here for the full story). If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario. Quick thinking Ontario researchers. They managed to set up mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks as infectious [...]
BillHeise | September 20, 2009
I was looking at North Korea on Google Earth today. I noticed that there were no automobiles on the roads. Click here for the panoramio page. But I found this picture of a truck, which (I think) explains why. Click here for the panoramio page.
BillHeise | September 18, 2009
Found this article today on Yahoo about When Singers Can’t Sing Their Own Songs. It starts out with Roger Daltrey, who is mounting one last tour before his voice gives out. “‘These are the last years of my life that I can sing that material,’ he confessed.” The author confesses his love of “Quadrophenia.” But, [...]
BillHeise | September 16, 2009
I found this horrific post on Michael Berube’s blog. It concerns deaf-mutes in Mao’s China. They are robbed of their speech until the “Mao Zedong Thought Medical Team” brings Mao’s thoughts on health care to them. “Who has made them deaf-mutes?” the narrator asks at 1:14. You might be thinking, “They’re deaf by nature,” or [...]
