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<em>Je ne regrette rien</em>: France creates anti-conscience safe space
The Wall Street Journal editorial reports that France's High Audiovisual Council (which sounds like nerds with tape on their glasses wielding gavels) has banned "a television commercial showing happy children with Down Syndrome." Produced to commemorate World Down Syndrome Day, the commercial showed several cheerful children with DS addressing a...
Downtown Tulsa needs demolition limits, regulatory and tax relief
Route 66 "planter" and "nature band-aid" attempt to distract from ugliness of Tulsa Community College surface parking lot. UPDATE 2019/11/29: I'm revisiting this entry years later, as Strong Towns uses Black Friday to call attention to parking minimums, zoning laws that require a minimum number of parking spaces based...
Remembering 9/11 and Benghazi
Twelve years ago today, America was attacked by Islamofascist fanatics. Thousands of innocent people lost their lives, tens of thousands were injured, hundreds of thousands were left orphaned or widowed or deprived of a dear friend. We particularly remember today a graduate of Tulsa's Memorial High School, Jayesh Shah, who...
Tonight: Tulsa school board to consider breaking law that helps special-needs kids
Tonight the board of Tulsa Public Schools will discuss whether to join Jenks, Union, Bixby, Broken Arrow and other area school districts in disobeying a new state law, HB 3393, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program Act, which provides scholarships to meet the special educational needs...
"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoonist goes into hiding
Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris is "going ghost" -- "moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity" at the insistence of the FBI, according to a story a September 15, 2010, story in the Seattle Weekly. (Via GWSchulzCIR on Twitter.) She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our...
Mayor: Medlock
This has been a hard piece for me to write, which is why it's only now being posted. My apologies. I endorsed Chris Medlock for Mayor in 2006, but if you had told me 18 months ago that I'd be voting for Chris Medlock for Mayor in 2009, I'd have...
Good and <s>Pawlenty</s> Palin
There. I had that headline ready to go, and by golly, I'm going to use it. (Dawn Summers already won the Sarah Palin punny headline contest: "Palin Comparison.") I was excited this morning to hear the buzz about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as I hadn't been hearing her name in...
Joel Kotkin on cities, Tulsa
Earlier this week, Michael DelGiorno interviewed urban development expert Joel Kotkin. Kotkin knows Tulsa well, having visited and written about our city during the tech boom and the tech crash. As you might expect, the topic of the interview was Vision 2025, and whether a downtown arena and convention center...
We're all winning!
Joel Veitch, creator of the side-splitting Viking Kittens flash animation, has a band called 7 Seconds of Love, and the most recent two animations at his www.rathergood.com feature two of the band's songs -- "Winners" and "First Drink of the Day." It's great upbeat stuff, and it reminds me a...
A Schiavo parallel
Mark Steyn writes in the Spectator (free registration required) about a case from California in the 1990s which was very similar to Terri Schiavo's case: [Robert Wendland] was injured in an automobile accident in 1993 and went into a coma. Under state law, he could have been starved to death...
<i>Angle of Attack</i>: The engineering side of the space race
Just finished reading a fascinating book on Project Apollo, one of a collection of books on the U. S. manned space program that my wife gave me. Angle of Attack by Mike Gray, published by Penguin in 1992, tells the story of the effort to reach the moon as it...
From daily blog rounds
No comment, just links to some interesting finds in my latest tours around the blogosphere: Power Line has a number of stories on vandalism targeting Republican offices, signs, even vehicles displaying Republican bumper stickers. And there's this item, that shows that separation of church and state apparently only applies to...
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