Cool High-Speed Video of Eagle Owl
This is cool. High-speed video of an eagle owl coming in for a landing. Watch those claws at the end (not sure who to credit for this; saw it on tumblr, which was linked to wickedinsight‘s YouTube channel):
Hmmmm. Carlos Slim Says “Charity Doesn’t Solve Anything.”
Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire and current world’s richest man, doesn’t think philanthropy is going to solve many problems for the world’s poor: “The only way to fight poverty is with employment,” he said. “Trillions of dollars have been given to charity in the last 50 years, and they don’t solve anything.” As for the [...]
marfdrat Has a New Contributor!
I’m really excited to announce that Morgan Harris is joining marfdrat.net as a contributing editor. Here’s her bio. Morgan’s bio page will be up soon (in the “About” section) on the site, and she’s going to start posting about movies, pop culture, Richmond, and whatever else she wants to write about – ‘cuz that’s basically [...]
The Cult of Multiculturalism: “It Takes a High IQ to Evade the Obvious”
Another gem from Thomas Sowell, writing on Townhall.com: Sowell writes about German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s declaration from last week that the “multicultural experiment in Germany has utterly failed.” Somebody eventually had to say it — and German chancellor Angela Merkel deserves credit for being the one who had the courage to say it out loud. [...]
Celebrities Want “Malaria No More” by Handing Out Nets. Here’s a Better Idea: DDT
Malaria is a big problem, especially on the African continent. It kills 2,000 children every day. It has killed millions of people in the last three decades. It’s a problem that’s solvable with existing remedies. Celebrities of all stripes have joined together to promote the “Malaria No More” project, hoping to stem the tide of [...]
Examining Tea Party Myths: Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat of the New York Times wrote an interesting piece examining some oft-bandied liberal myths about the Tea Party. He begins with a re-hash of the study done by Emily Ekins, a UCLA grad student, who went to the big Tea Party rally in D.C. about a month ago, and took pictures Image via [...]
