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Posted at 10:01pm on Jun. 24, 2008 I Want to Own Property in Space

By ikslawoK

Bear with me here. I know, it's a little difficult because ikslawoK is 90 degrees orthogonal in just about anyone's dimension, and some of the things I say are just put out there for comment without any specific policy direction implied...HOWEVER: I want to skylark about this for a few minutes anyway.

I've been watching how Sergey Brin of Google is buying a flight on a Soyuz capsule for a couple of weeks now, and I know (as does he) that commerical exploration is the next real direction the space program should take. And so here is my statement to you all tonight on Redstate:

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Posted at 3:05pm on Jan. 22, 2008 Bill Clinton Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz (snort) Zzzzzzzzzz

By ikslawoK

I had a lot of fun watching that clip on Drudge featuring Bill Clinton nodding off in Harlem during the MLK celebrations there...

I had a lot of fun because one of the people I used to work for, a big Friend of Bill and also one of the most stalwart liberals I've ever known, another super Type-A personality running a law school, used to do the same thing during speeches. It was horrible. Always at the most inopportune times.

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Posted at 5:26pm on Jan. 21, 2008 RedState Articles I'd Like To See

By ikslawoK

Princeton University economist Paul Krugman has apparently caught on to the fact that bashing the Reagan Coalition and the Reagan Presidency is now fashionable even among Republicans, including Newt Gingrich and extending to many others. Including, I should add, myself: at least since I'm supposed to be listening to these people as authentic arbiters of Conservative thought.

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Posted at 2:10pm on Jan. 20, 2008 I'm Cranky

By ikslawoK

[Update: And yes, I know that by saying I'm cranky on a Republican/Conservative blog, it feeds into the propaganda (actually a subject of "serious" investigation) about how Republicans and Conservatives are "dispositionally" cranky people, but when you read the explanation I think you'll be surprised. It's not a dispositional crankiness, it's a situational crankiness (there's a big difference), driven by (but insufficiently grasped until last night, thanks C17wife) a few serious externalities. In my experience, Republicans and Conservatives are much less disposed to whininess and crankiness than others, mostly because they tend to have intact families and as a result are much better-grounded and mentally stable, at least as a group. This is different, and you'll all be able to read it when I finish the piece...]

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Posted at 8:35am on Jan. 19, 2008 Thought Police Nabs Chris Matthews

By ikslawoK

OK, so many of you will say, "couldn't happen to a nicer guy" and schadenfreude is always fun when it's the other party's guy taking the hit. But Chris Matthews being brought to heel like this, groveling before the National Association of Women (NAW), is just pathetic and pitiable. And it truly captures the kind of retroactive thought control and policing feminist organizations use against anyone regardless of party -- from the halls of academia to the comments made by a sometimes-deliberately-abrasive host of a cable infotainment show named -- after all -- Hardball.

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Posted at 12:40pm on Jan. 17, 2008 Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

By ikslawoK

From the diaries by Leon...

[Underling's note: kowalski has been placed on administrative leave due to a sudden and unexpected flare-up of latent quasi-statist thinking, resulting from the anticipation of bad financial news, exacerbated by tensions surrounding the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. He has been restrained for his safety and evacuated via helicopter to the Milton Friedman Intensive Care Unit of the Friedrich A. Hayek Memorial Recuperative Care Facility, where he is currently undergoing a full detoxification and 8-week therapy regimen. We wish him and his family well during this troubling time.]

So, now that I've got that out of the way let's review something quickly that happened just the other day in the Washington Post. Remember that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis and inspired The Onion (now an official value-added solutions partner of MoveOn.org) to feature it as a metaphor for our crumbling infrastructure, and which is now being used as a rallying point to raise gasoline taxes to repair same?

Well, it turns out that the problem wasn't sloppy or negligent maintenance after all: it was a design flaw in the bridge itself dating back to the time of its construction, ahem, in the 1960s.

Read on...

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Posted at 1:51pm on Sep. 15, 2007 It's time to reread The Closing of the American Mind

By ikslawoK

After all of these years, finally, the New York Times is giving perhaps the greatest popular book on philosophy and the state of higher education of the last half century its due on the front page of their website -- of course, in their timelessly patented, backhanded way.

I'm talking about The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which I read (and didn't really understand except for a few sections, because I was so scatterbrained and full of hormones and rage, and otherwise-inclined) in my senior year of high school, after picking up a copy off the curb at a sidewalk sale in Greenwich Village, of all places.

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Posted at 12:34pm on Sep. 13, 2007 It's not a "perk" so why do lefties hate it?

By ikslawoK

[Author's note: Kowalski is in semi-retirement, for reasons that are known primarily to him. However, his alter-ego/avatar ikslawoK has been authorized to occasionally post blog entries in his place until such time as Kowalski decides that he's not going broke and until his head clears up about the current state of our Republican field. The views expressed by ikslawoK should not necessarily be construed as identical with those expressed by Kowalski, although they will overlap.]

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