May 16, 2005
Steyn On Bolton
Mark Steyn proves once again why he is the world's best columnist:
Bolton's sin is telling truth about system
Who? Well, he's prime minister of Canada. And in January, after the tsunami hit, he flew into Sri Lanka to pledge millions and millions and millions in aid. Not like that heartless George W. Bush back at the ranch in Texas. Why, Prime Minister Martin walked along the ravaged coast of Kalumnai and was, reported Canada's CTV network, "visibly shaken." President Bush might well have been shaken, but he wasn't visible, and in the international compassion league, that's what counts. So Martin boldly committed Canada to giving $425 million to tsunami relief. "Mr. Paul Martin Has Set A Great Example For The Rest Of The World Leaders!" raved the LankaWeb news service.
You know how much of that $425 million has been spent so far? Fifty thousand dollars -- Canadian. That's about 40 grand in U.S. dollars. The rest isn't tied up in Indonesian bureaucracy, it's back in Ottawa. But, unlike horrible "unilateralist" America, Canada enjoys a reputation as the perfect global citizen, renowned for its commitment to the U.N. and multilateralism. And on the beaches of Sri Lanka, that and a buck'll get you a strawberry daiquiri. Canada's contribution to tsunami relief is objectively useless and rhetorically fraudulent.
Read the whole thing. Hat tip to Boortz.
Posted by nopundit at 01:12 PM
May 03, 2005
Equal, In The Cold?
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today:
"Unhappily," Sommers writes, "P-Day may be the only effective means of countering V-Day with all its c-fests, graphic lollipops, intrusive questionnaires, outsized effigies of vaginas and its thematic anti-male play."
Unhappily? C'mon, Christina, lighten up! By one estimate 73% of all scholarly and extracurricular activity on American college campuses is ridiculous. The only effective way to combat it is through ridicule. The Roger Williams administration is so threatened by P-Day precisely because it illustrates so vividly that the emperor has no clothes.
James Taranto fails to note that it is still cold in Rhode Island this time of year.
Posted by nopundit at 08:36 PM
May 02, 2005
More Than Meets The Eye
Follow the Instapundit link and go play. But keep your eyes open for fun and blasphemy. Who knows what you may find.
Update: For my other reader, click here.
Posted by nopundit at 07:38 PM