Quick Hitts

I want to put out a newsletter, (The Smartenizer) so I’m looking at various services and sending some of them questions.  This is one of the few times I’ve clicked on the ads that appear next to Gmail messages. One was for RDH Marketing.  The link showed me a generic 404 page.  (Not even a [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hillary has told Obama she just won’t have time to campaign for him unless he helps pay off her $10 Million campaign debt. She’ll also need a private jet to get around. Obama wrote her a personal check for the maximum allowed contribution: $2,300. Now she wants him [...]

While most countries are badgering their citizens to lose weight, France thinks they have the opposite problem – some of their citizens are too skinny. New French legislation makes it a crime to promote excessive thinness. Anyone guilty faces fines of up to $70,000 dollars and three years in jail, where the food is, evidently, [...]

Evidently it doesn’t take much to be a professor in New Zealand. Or a “top public health expert,” for that matter. Professor Rod Jackson (which would be an excellent screen name for a porn star) has declared that butter is poison. He uses the word repeatedly in his rants. He claims “We have a health [...]

A high school project in New Jersey asked teens to design public policy.  They designed one that requires Big Brother to punish kids for making incorrect decisions, proving that government schools are doing a fine job of raising the next generation of sheep. The new bill would fine kids caught possessing tobacco or smoking in [...]

The Democrats solution to most problems, both real and imaginary, is usually a new tax. Rep . John Dingell, known to his friends as Barry, thinks the solution to skyrocketing gas prices is to add a tax of fifty cents a gallon. This, he thinks, will lower consumption. Seriously, that’s the way his mind works. [...]

I’ve avoided adding too many categories to this blog, because the longer the list gets the less useful it becomes. Occasionally this has resulted in having to shoehorn a story into a category it barely fits, but that’s better than having a hundred categories with just one or two items in them. But I keep [...]