Motus Mentis

As often happens to me mid-week, I’m working long hours. So for tonight, just some links that have been piling up:

— Diplomad comments on the banning of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from the U.K.

— From Walter Williams, some reminders from the Founding Fathers on why the right to bear arms is of such fundamental importance to “the security of a free State”.

— If you’re a sophisticated Windows user (no ‘oxymoron’ jokes from you Mac snobs, please), you’ve probably noticed at one time or another a dynamic-linking library (DLL) called ADVAPI.DLL. There’s more to it than meets the eye.

— Amazing science porn: the inner life of a cell.

— Re “climate change”: it’s getting uncomfortably warm for the “settled science” crowd, because there simply hasn’t been any statistically significant warming for a long time now. (That didn’t stop the President from using the “crisis” as justification for further regulatory expansion in his speech the other day, which included some truly childish insults about the “Flat Earth Society”, but there it is anyway.) The current hiatus is already stretching the limits of the “settled” models, but if it goes on any longer, it will be clear that they are simply wrong. (That’s the thing about science; it’s falsifiable.) More here, and here, as always, at Watts Up With That?

— You’ve gotta love Iggy Pop. Read this rider.

— Pat Buchanan weighs in on the political feminization of the U.S. military.

— Man, what a beautiful meteorite.

— Will Sasso pays homage to the late James Gandolfini.

— The future of nuclear weapons?

— Jared Taylor addresses the opprobrium associated with the term “white nationalists”.

— New ideas about black holes, wormholes, and Hawking radiation.

— An entity stole my wallet! Police in New York are no longer allowed to describe the suspects they are pursuing. Absolutely surreal. As all of this progresses on every front, the panicky horror of being in the presence of actual madness deepens.

Back soon.