Lay off WILLIAM BENNETT, ok?


Blowing huge sums of cash in Las Vegas is probably the most constructive thing this dickhead has ever done in his entire life. SO WHAT if he lost $8 Million? Do you think he should have kept it? Worse yet, he could have given it to some truly evil organization, like DARE for instance...

Today brings a happy column from ANN COULTER, who takes a big bite out of John Kerry. Favorite quotes:


"If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does."


"In a profile of Kerry's current heiress wife, Teresa Heinz, in the upcoming issue of Elle magazine, noted journalist Lisa DePaulo quotes Kerry oozing with admiration for his wife, saying she is "very earthy, sexy, European." "Earthy" and "European" appear to be euphemisms for hairy armpits and body odor."


It's a beautiful, sincere column with the subtle grace of a fine print mugging. Go read the whole thing! I met John Kerry once, when he was campaigning in Cambridge in the early eighties. His hair was perfect then too. In fact, it seemed a shame for him to be standing outside the polls, in the rain, with only the warm glow of the tv cameras to warm him....

Whoops! It seems a couple of days elapsed when I wasn't looking. Sometimes it seems that there's nothing interesting in the news. Not that it isn't important when tornados rip up your town, but not the type of thing that encourages commentary---unless you have command of the alien weather control technology that is, in which case you should write me immediately. Just when I was ready to panic, I found THIS!


Anything into Oil
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
By Brad Lemley


I'm a big fan of technology, and this is a BIG THING. Of course, there are other technologies that I thought would have more impact than they have yet, in particular a process called capacitative de-ionization that was developed at Lawrence Livermore Labs in California. The process created absolutely clean water at a price far, far below market, and I figured that would make a big difference to every country with a coastline. Not yet though, perhaps some other year. I found this story by reading LGF, and you should go there right now.