Cab Drivers are Giving Real-Estate Tips

Old Joe Kennedy knew that something was wrong when his shoe-shine boy started giving him stock tips in 1929. Cab drivers were giving stock tips in 1999. Now John Makin reports that cab drivers are giving real-estate tips in Florida. Alan Greenspan, can you spell “bubble?”

Steyn: It's Still Wrong

As usual, the incomparable Mark Steyn gets to the
heart
of the matter of the culture of life
vs. the culture of convenience. On Schiavo, he intones:
“it may be legal under Florida law for the state to order her to be starved to death. But it is still wrong.”

Clueless Old Europe

Enjoy these
delicious caricatures
of Americans from Stern, the German magazine: noble liberals
put up against wacko conservative nutters. Those crazy Europeans. One of these days their
mean-spirited ignorance is going to cost them.

Here Comes Polyamory

After mainstreaming the idea of gay marriage, the radical left is limbering up for the next stage: the mainstreaming
of polyamory. You girls will remember that: it used to be called polygamy. And the polyamorists
have found a bright,
intelligent Brit academic to do it for them, according to Stanley Kurtz. Her name is Elizabeth F. Emens.

“A whiz kid with a Ph.D. in English from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, Emens, who teaches the University of Chicago Law School, has published a major legal and cultural defense of polyamory (group marriage).”

In “Monogamy’s Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence,” she raises the idea of a
“disposition” towards polyamory similar to the disposition people have towards homosexuality, and
can thus call “a whole raft of laws into question — from marriage laws to partnership laws,
to zoning laws, to custody laws. All these laws, says Emens,
place unfair burdens on those with a ‘poly’ disposition.”

Now that we are beginning to read the
stories
of the real children of the Sixties, the children born
to the Sixties “kids,” we are beginning to see the other side of the counterculture: the
blighted lives, the neglect, the exposure to sexual predation that occurs in what we might call a
“diverse” sexual context, we are beginning to learn the hard way the reason the west has
developed the idea of monogamous marriage between an man and a woman. It’s about the children.
It’s startling to realize that there are brilliant whiz kid academics out there that
haven’t read the news yet, and that in consequence don’t seem to have a clue.

Steyn Won't Let Up on Old Europe

Gloater Mark Steyn is at it again, needling aging Europe about its population crash and advising
it to
get it on
before it’s too late. Forget about finishing those
“Anger Management, Systemic Racism and Gay Studies degrees,” he advises. Get to work
and make some babies!

Tory Party Sees a Glint of Hope

Ever since the mid Nineties, the British Conservative Party has been on the mat, the old Tory dog
befuddled by the prancings and sincerities of Tony Blair’s New Labour. But now the old Tory dog is
starting to growl.
And this breathless columnist is reporting that her dyed in the wool Labour friend
is
complaining about Tony Blair:
“Every single time I see him on the telly, I think: why are you lying to me?”
That is the kind of talk that gives rabid right wingnuts heart palpitations.

Republicans are Cracking Up. No They are Not.

Which is it? Andrew Sullivan says the Republicans are
cracking up
as their various sub-groups
start to fight. Robert D. Kaplan says that the Democrats
need a guy
like Dick Cheney who can
keep all the Democratic constituencies in line.