Decrepit Old Fool

There’s no common thread in these posts – just good stuff I enjoyed reading and want to share:

• Karmen at Chaotic Utopia learns that McCain is an anti-science moron in “Seeds in Svalbard; your pork-belly future?” 

• You don’t hear much about voluntary celibacy these days but Paul at Cafe Philos explains his choice
• Cajun relates a story about a swirling lake of doom.  And the best thing about it?  Human error!  Man I love stories like that.
• Dana is having heart failure over her discovery that even conservative columnist John Derbyshire can see what an acephalic twit Ben Stein really is.
• Chris Clarke describes the relationship between commuter trains and neighborhoods in Commute.  It reminds me of a scene from HG Wells’ Time Machine;
  

  ”…I have watched the neighbors’ lives through the train’s lens. The new plastic toy tricycle left in different corners of the yard fades in the sun, is supplanted by a series of bicycles of increasing size. Trees are planted, grow, bear flowers and fruit, are pruned, succumb to blight. Roofs deteriorate in each winter’s storms…”

• WeeDram tells us just exactly how much he likes John McCain.
• ***Dave warns that if you’re a Transportation Security Administration screener and you bring a gun to work, you’ll face really severe penalties.  And you won’t believe just how severe!!!
• Finally, Brent Rasmussen at UTI recently took his family to his favorite steakhouse.  Great food, live country music under the open sky, but if you get up and dance, they politely ask you to stop.  You just know there’s some industrial-strength stupidity behind it, and it turns out, there is.