Ever heard this quote? “Federal agents don’t learn to spot counterfeit money by studying the counterfeits. They study genuine bills until they master the look of the real thing. Then when they see the bogus money they recognize it.” To be honest, it has always sounded a little fishy to me. For one thing, I’m [...]
Archive for June, 2006
The perfect game for the postmodern world?
World Cup madness notwithstanding, The Weekly Standard doesn’t like soccer’s chances of catching on over here. “DESPITE HEROIC EFFORTS of soccer moms, suburban liberals, and World Cup hype, soccer will never catch on as a big time sport in America. No game in which actually scoring goals is of such little importance could possibly occupy [...]
Insurgents: “Thanks for the idea”
Several major Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups recently offered an immediate halt to all attacks against Coalition forces IF the U.S. agrees to a timetable that would result in all foreign troops leaving Iraq by 2008. Sound like anyone else you’ve heard from recently? Maybe, but I’m not holding my breath waiting for the press to [...]
So just how big is the U.S. economy?
From the latest print issue of National Review (which I highly recommend, btw) comes an interesting aside comparing the GDP of various countries with those of a number of U.S. cities. Perhaps the most striking comparison: New York City’s economy, the largest of any individual U.S. city, is also a couple hundred billion dollars larger [...]
Pickle phobia?
Posted in Media by Stephen Moody on June 28th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
It’s hard to imagine that anyone could have come up with a better parody of daytime junk talk shows, but apparently this one’s for real. An episode of the Maury Show deals with various strange phobias. This girl supposedly has a deathly fear of pickles, of all things. Here [1&2|3] are clips of three more [...]
“I am deeply disappointed in the New York Times”
Posted in Current Events by Stephen Moody on June 27th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Treasury Secretary John Snow’s excellent letter to Bill Keller, managing editor of the New York Times is here. He does a good job of explaining just how irresponsible and I’ve also seen some discussion various places about revoking the NYT’s White House press credentials while pursuing the government officials responsible for the leak via special [...]
None dare call it treason?
I know I’m a little late on this, but while driving over the weekend I had some time to ruminate over the latest covert intelligence gathering revelation. I know a lot of ink has been spilled over this already, but here are a few thoughts, which as far as I know are original since I [...]
Minnick on reading, study, etc
I listened to SharperIron’s two-part interview with Dr. Mark Minnick on my way up to WV on Friday night, and thought it was excellent. Tim Joiner also listened to the interview and wrote a great review, so instead of rehashing what he wrote I’ll just link to it. I guess I was a little surprised [...]
Quick trip to WV
Posted in Personal by Stephen Moody on June 26th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I got back to SC late last night (actually about 2:30am). Elisabeth and I had a great time together in WV. I arrived there late Friday evening. The drive went pretty well except for getting stuck in Charlotte traffic for about an hour on the way. It was a bad idea to drive through Charlotte [...]
Travelling to WV this weekend
Posted in Personal by Stephen Moody on June 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 am
I’m leaving school early this afternoon to drive up to WV to visit Elisabeth for the weekend. I’ll be coming back Sunday night, so it’ll be a really quick visit but I haven’t seen her since early May, so we’re both looking forward to it. Hopefully I’ll be bringing her her stuff back with me [...]