Mark reviews the latest crop of “Europe is headed for the falls” books.
Wake up, Europe. It may already be too late.
Why the fall and spring riot seasons in France are signs of the coming apocalypse
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Pushing the envelope
Gotta wonder how Canada Post would do with these experiments.
The USPS appears to have some collective sense of humor, and might in fact here be displaying the rudiments of organic bureaucratic intelligence.
Child rearing, Hollywood style
Just desserts for Sharon Stone and her treatment of her kid – her movie skidded into the ditch on takeoff.
THERE’S a good reason why Sharon Stone had a first-class seat last Friday flying from New York to Los Angeles while her 9-month-old son, Laird, sat in coach with his nanny.
Christ, even her handbag flew first class.
Working girls, broken society
Alison Wolf asks why government is steering women away from child rearing, without examining the future cost to society.
Families remain central to the care of the old and sick, as well as raising the next generation, and yet our economy and society steer ever more educated women away from marriage or childbearing.
via Blog This
The weak and the poor may overtake the first world without guns or ammo, by sheer numbers. They’ll just walk in and take over the golden palaces our working people will die in.
Who’s doing the work?
As the US struggles to figure out how to kick out millions of illegals, there’s this.
As the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina receded in September, roads filled with residents leaving the city, their cars, SUVs and moving vans jammed with what they had salvaged of their lives.
But another mass movement was taking place on the other sides of the highways.
It’s interesting that the group most displaced by the latinos is the blacks.
Toronto gridlock
John Downing’s from the old school of traffic—one of the last left who knew Sam Cass, the man that started our system of efficient traffic movement in Toronto. Too bad his work was never fully completed.
There’s no good news from Toronto’s gridlock front to show that there will be an improvement to the dumb way the city mismanages traffic.
Let them go
Yet another reason to either let Quebec go (on our terms) or at least take back control of immigration from them.
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the Parti Quebecois’s favoring of francophone immigrants:
Supreme sacrifice
Just watched March of the Penguins ($US orders), and seeing the sacrifice *both* parents go through to raise their 1 chick, no human should ever complain about the sacrifice they make for their progeny.
What a blow
No drift can beat this.
A 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet…O.K., but in a walk behind snowblower? This unit blows the snow back to where it came from!
Results of the Great Abdication
The roosters are coming home to roost for absentee parents.
For girls, is 12 the new 15? Here’s why:
Ms. Dimerman says today’s parents are more reluctant than previous generations to set limitations or impose consequences for their children, a new parenting dynamic she attributes to factors such as the challenges of parenting after divorce and the increased time crunch of two-income families.
“Parents often don’t want to be in their kid’s bad books,” she says. “They may indulge their children, either with material things, or by not saying, ‘No.’ ”
Some related reading:
Home-Alone America : Why Today’s Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before ($US orders)