Swanky Conservative

First off, I refuse to call the Texas - Oklahoma football game the Red River Rivalry. It’s always been the Red River Shootout and screw ‘em if their panties are twisted in a knot because they lack the intestinal fortitude and quiver at the mention of the word ’shootout.’ Now that we’ve gotten past that, [...]

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Sir Roger Moore pens a wonderful piece in the Times Online about James Bond and the numerous death knells that have been sounded for the quintessential Man’s Man. Mix up a martini and give it a read.

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Wally Pacholka took this unreal photo from False Kiva, in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. It’s a single-exposure image. Unreal. More explanation at the always cool Astronomy Picture of the Day. (big thanks to Eric Berger for the link)

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The big financial institutions are dropping like attendees at a Jim Jones cocktail party. Cable news reporters are hyperventilating and tossing out absolutely worthless advice and statements worthy of an Orwell radio show. In light of all this, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “The Audit” has the best advice I’ve seen yet:
Time to take a deep [...]

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Nearly a third of a million dollars was “discovered” during the Austin city council’s budget process and what did the city council decide to do with the $300,000 that taxpayers had overpaid? Here’s a hint: they didn’t give it back to the rightful owners:
There wasn’t much left to debate in the budget as the council [...]

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RIP Don LaFontaine. The Voice is silent.

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11-year-old McKenzie shows us she’s capable of quickly field-stripping an AR15. Good job, dad.

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My friend in New Orleans sent me this link to Florida State’s gulf fluid dynamics laboratory forecast model for Gustav. This forecast model makes me cringe, as it’s showing Gustav making a direct hit on New Orleans.
The SciGuy at the Houston Chronicle has a post detailing why it’s bad that this storm is heading to [...]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer. The program _ which includes a video showing a gunman opening fire [...]

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Look for the run on canned food, bottled water, and gas cans to start by 5:00 p.m. tonight here in Austin. The official forecast track for tropical storm Dolly is now pointing at Brownsville.

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Guess who’s back from the dead in the new season of 24?

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