Monthly Archives: December 2008

Russian Professor (ex KGB) Predicts End of U.S.

Russian academic Igor Panarin thinks that the U.S., as we currently know it, will cease to exist in 2010 — torn apart by civil war: Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of […]

Bolts Sense Drowned*

I know Bolt doesn’t like to let facts or reason get in the way of his daily diatribes — and as a general rule, I leave most of his nonsense alone. But this bizarre referral to the below graph as evidence that we — silly global warming alarmists — shouldn’t worry about rising sea levels […]

Too Big To Fail? What About Too Big To Exist?

Matthew Yglesias has been floating an intriguing idea about financial institutions: are they too big to be allowed to exist? It’s a good point because all of these bail outs are setting a risky precedent. Just like it was widely accepted that the US Government would come to the aid of Freddie Mae and Fannie […]

Mario Kart Love Song

A great little mario tune: