Curiositech

“Bush’s decisions don’t seem principled. I’ve tried to find the underlying philosophy what will knit together the last eight years. I can’t divine it. Maybe you can. I certainly don’t recognize him as a conservative. He has increased government size and oversight in ways that appall me. ”

“For me, the heart of conservatism rests on the concepts that small government is better than large government, local government is better than remote government, and private property and individual freedom and more important than social good. ”

“American conservatism is much more libertarian than not and we’ve lost sight of the strong appeal that the desire to be left alone has for people. Rather than being defined as the party of less government intervention, Republicans have settled for being about some kinds of intervention and not others. The key difference between Republicans and Democrats today is what kind of intervention you favor. ”

Read it all.

“In younger couples, the increasing availability of pornography on the Internet, which has been shown to affect sexual attitudes and perceptions of “normal” behavior, may be playing a role in rising infidelity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28well.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

David Hasselhoff is laughing all the way to the bank.

Here’s the most complete analysis of the economic melt-down that I’ve seen so far.  It’s amazing that we could see this coming so far ahead of time.  If I’d had the money to take the risk, I would’ve shorted WaMu a long time ago.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29009