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Full Theatrical Trailer for Star Trek

Lance — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:55:29 +0000

Please just don’t let it suck.

Meritocracy vs. a Bully Pulpit

Lance — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:11:36 +0000

Will an Obama Presidency herald in a new era of Bully Pulpit activity on favored left-wing causes such as affirmative action and will he fill his administration with minorities and other disenfranchised appointments? I don’t think so.

Russ Daggat has a post up today descibing Barack Obama’s time as President of the Harvard Law Review. The Harvard Law school at that time was strongly polarized along political lines and when Obama was made President of the Law Review, many left-wingers thought they had finally gotten their turn; expecting him to use the modest powers of the President to further their causes, appoint minorities to positions on the Review, etc. Instead, Obama refrained from such activities. Bradford Berenson (Harvard Law, class of ‘91; associate White House counsel, 2001-2003) said of Obama:

He was unwilling to undermine, based on the way I viewed it, meritocratic outcomes or democratic outcomes in order to advance a racial agenda. That earned him a lot of recrimination and criticism from some on the left, particularly some of the minority editors of the Review. …

This gibes with everything I’ve seen of Obama so far and I am hopeful that President Obama will work to restore one of the foundations of our country: the professional cadres of career government workers and mliitary officers that the Bush administration has done so much damage to over the past eight years.

Palin Lines

Lance — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:28:26 +0000

I just love Get Fuzzy.

Covers

Lance — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:51:02 +0000

I’m sitting in the waiting room at my auto mechanic’s place, waiting for them to finish changing the oil in my car and figure out if I need to get an alignment. There are two guys sitting here with me, whom I had assumed were typical NC smalltown types: jeans, t-shirts, ballcaps.

A couple minutes ago, they both pulled out paperback books and started reading, then one asked the other what he was reading. The second guy showed the front cover of his book, revealing C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. They then started into a deep discussion of various authors, wandering from Star Wars, to the Golden Compass, and the Chronicles of Narnia.

Teach me to judge a book by its cover.