Anyone who has ever programmed a computer after learning about programming computers at any American university (and many of those who didn’t learn it that way) knows who Donald Knuth is. His life’s work in programming and in particular his careful, methodical and deeply beautiful understanding of algorithms is something that almost anyone basically acquainted with the field has read about, at one time or | Read More »
Today there are another round of protests in Greece about the austerity measures the country has been forced to adopt because it cannot afford itself, and as usual for Greece, they’re violent and disruptive. I have a very short question here: If there are all these jobs that Greeks Won’t Do, why don’t we send some Americans over there to do them? There are a | Read More »
This isn’t a contest, but I’d like to discuss my favorite photo of this year’s group of G20 protestors in Toronto. Here it is: Click the picture for the larger version. Go ahead, you know you want to. I realize this is a conservative website but let’s face it, if we have to look at another gallery of photographs of leftwing/anarchist protestors, we might as | Read More »
I’ve never had a tropical storm named after me before, and particularly not the first storm of the season. Drudge initially announced it a few days ago with “Hello ALEX!” but that was a different storm, apparently. Regardless of whether it impacts the coasts, I’d like to say that I’m uncomfortable with the whole idea of having storms named after people, even their first names. | Read More »
There’s one small thing that Dave Weigel is forgetting in his blog at the Washington Post, apologizing for his comments on a “reputable journalist only” listserv expressing his opinion that the world would be a better place if Matt Drudge immolated himself. First of all, that might be true from his perspective as a liberal commentator on conservatives at the Washington Post, but it’s not true | Read More »
If there’s any lesson that’s slowly oozing out of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s that British entrepreneurs and particularly energy company executives are completely untrustworthy. They do inferior work with inferior machinery and enormously inflated personae, and attempt to sell it on the open market as though it meant something any longer. Then, when things go wrong — as they | Read More »
This is quick: Politics and Prose the Washington, DC landmark independent bookstore that some of you have seen on C-Span and others have undoubtedly visited, is up for sale, or about to be put up for sale. I think we should try to get together an effort with Rush Limbaugh and a few other people to buy it. I will contribute to that cause. The owners | Read More »
I’m an American and I care about my President, even if I don’t agree politically with him. I care because so many people in our country and elsewhere in the world rely on his capability and ability to perform his duties and at least look competent that his absence would be unthinkable for me, and for much of the rest of the world as well. | Read More »
Here’s my idea of it, feel free to add your own comments: President Obama: Hi, I’m pretty much the President of the United States, and although I haven’t given many press conferences or gone down to Louisiana much to talk about this spill, which would have earned my predecessor the continual hatred of the nation’s chattering classes…oh heck, it did…even though…wait a minute…teleprompter, catch UP! | Read More »
Please, don’t recommend this diary. Really, I am seriously asking people just to read it but not recommend it. The New York Times offers all kinds of compelling information and explanation and prestidigitation about why the oil spill in the Gulf is what it is, and how harmful it is. And let’s make no mistake, it’s a bad thing. It’s awful. But let’s remember something | Read More »
I just have to ask, watching all the stuff about Greece’s bonds being pushed into the junk realm and now followed by Portugal. Seeing how something like 60% of the people in Greece don’t want the IMF bailout, the only thing I can conclude is not that they don’t really want the IMF to spend the money — they just don’t want the strings that | Read More »
I have a question and I haven’t completely answered it, but it’s an interesting question considering that the Washington Post is making a lot of Obama’s visit to the funerals of the most recent mining fatalities in West Virginia. Despite the fact that his Vice President is on record talking on YouTube about “No Coal Plants Here in America, Build Them, If They’re Going to | Read More »
Neutron: Probably some of you have wondered why I’m the interlocutor in this long interview with Kowalski. It is because I am a Neutron. I’m a little like Dick Cavett used to be, but of course I am much, much smaller — practically invisible really, except that I have the single virtue of making up many of the important parts of the nucleus of | Read More »
Neutron: Well so far we have a pretty decent exhange going with one of Redstate’s longer-serving members, so let’s continue to press the conversation, because we really have to go back to the Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, and homosexuals. Maybe we can rope the Catholic Church into this discussion if we keep pressing forward, but everyone has reasons to doubt that. Mr. Kowalski, you | Read More »
Neutron: Hello again Redstaters, we’re continuing today with our interview of Mr. Kowalski, who is doing his best to stage a comeback at least in terms of talking here at Redstate with some of his friends and probably more of his enemies. We left the conversation with a very short summary of his views of the Tea Party movement, which I promise to come back | Read More »
Mr. Kowalski has had more than a year of hiatus from regularly posting here at Redstate, and some of our reporters caught up with him early this week to ask him why he hasn’t been very involved here. Some of you might remember him as a Republican who now lives in Massachusetts and supported Scott Brown’s candidacy, and other of you might remember him variously | Read More »
If you wait long enough, you’ll eventually hear Joe Biden tell you what “green jobs” and “global warming” are really about, because he had to stand in front of a roomful of AFL-CIO members who hate the bailout of the Corporate Fat Cats, and were about to twist his arms off and take the keys to the Trans Am if he didn’t tell ‘em something they | Read More »
I’m not saying empathize, but in order to comprehend them you need to try just for a moment or two to grok this song. Since Drudge is running the story about Morrissey being whapped on the head with a plastic bottle containing a liquid resembling beer, I know he knows Morrissey. He probably also knows Morrissey because of his background in suburban Washington, DC — | Read More »
Drudge is running a story today about the Oath Keepers. It’s probably better to let people read the story and view the website before adding any of my personal opinions, since I really don’t have any preconceived notions of this group. ————————————————– SIDEBAR: I take issue with one of the sentences in the Las Vegas Review Journal’s story: But for Rhodes, it looked like preparation | Read More »
This morning, CNN is running a story (h/t: Drudge) about a protest over “Illegal Alien” costumes sold by Target, Walgreens and many other stores, organized by Los Angeles based radical immigrant group CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles). The group is protesting the costumes and pressuring stores to stop selling them because they might “offend illegal immigrants.” Yes, you read that correctly. | Read More »
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