In The Air Tonight

"In The Air Tonight," Phil Collins.

What is it that's so haunting about that song?

Godspeed, Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its last mission before retirement this afternoon.

Godspeed, Discovery.

It's The Taking

A key graph from a piece well worth reading, by Paul Rahe over at Ricochet:

But what was at issue in 1896 and what will be at issue in 2012 is not sharing: it is taking. It is using coercive force, which is possessed in plenitude by the government, to be generous with other people’s money, and this is a policy recommended not in the Gospels but in the sixteenth chapter of Machiavelli’s Prince. The real choice is between systematic theft and a public policy aimed at encouraging and enabling individuals to earn their own way, and that is the way it should be pitched in 2012.

How Long

Barenaked Ladies, "How Long."
(This needs a music video, but for now, all we've got is the tune. Pretty catchy, no?)