As I sit on my couch writing a letter to my grandmother, I’m listening to Anderson Cooper wonder out loud, “Why, if you can build a mosque in any Western, primarily Christian nation, can’t you build Christian churches in majority Muslim nations?”
The question contains Cooper’s trademark “old media” banal oversimplification, and completely misses the point. [...]

Thank you, Michael Richards. Not only have you offended millions (if not billions – I don’t know if the Great Firewall of China cuts off access to YouTube), but you’ve also opened the door for people like Al Sharpton to bring out the old “we’re all racist on some level” line.
‘Tis news to me. Of [...]

After spending seven – yes, that’s right seven – hours trying to reconstruct the Windows XP Pro OEM CD that should have come with my laptop (an Acer TravelMate 4060 which has, generally speaking, been a fine machine), I finally got the thing working.
Then I ran Windows Update (after installing all of the necessary drivers, [...]

Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006

Mary Ann Sieghart has written an excellent article about the treatment of women under Islam; specifically, with regard to sexual assault. She quotes Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali (the Mufti of Australia), who recently likened female rape victims to uncovered meat.
No, I’m serious. He states:
“If you take uncovered meat and place it outside . . . [...]