Category: World

Read an article today whose point seems to be that (a) having children is becoming increasingly popular with the glitterati, and (b) it’s a shameful thing to promote having children, or even that having children can be a good thing.

Sinister motives are implied:

In her new book, The Terror Dream, the feminist Susan Faludi (also without child) argues that the procreation push is part of a creepy post-9/11 gender narrative, an extension of the ongoing, nationalist effort to promote hearth, home, and female fragility: “a concerted effort to promote this … idea that women would and should reproduce as a way of consoling the nation,” as she put it to The Observer.

“Consoling the nation”? Isn’t it more like “maintaining the continuing existence of the nation”?

Of course, being a man, what do I know?

Via Instapundit comes yet more evidence of the nefariousness of the current US incumbent, as if any more were needed!

But I feel it is imperative to spread the word that the Bush administration has now been conclusively shown to be in a massive cover-up. They are deliberately and wilfully covering up good news from Iraq:

Overall trends show a significant drop in violence over the last several months, according to previously unpublished military statistics obtained by NEWSWEEK. (Emphasis mine)

I call upon all right-thinking people to cast off the chains of neocon oppression and obfuscation, and declare for all the world to hear the truth that there is good news from Iraq!

So I haven’t posted for a while. Lots of late nights at work.

But I just felt I had to link to the story of a not-so-intelligent MIT student.

An MIT student wearing what turned out to be a fake bomb was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said.

Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport.

“She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,” Pare said at a news conference. “She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it.”

She’s lucky to be alive, is what she is.

The next time anyone starts prating about Europeans’ superior culture and artistry (versus Americans’, for example), have them read this article. But only on an empty stomach — the article is graphic and disturbing in the extreme.

Europeans may indeed possess a great and noble artistic and cultural heritage, but if a tenth of what the article describes is true, this willful desecration must necessarily completely abolish any pretense of present cultural superiority.