Diversions

“…your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.” – Emerson

The cynical Harry puts up a quite partial list of “failed states.” A more complete look shows us some quite interesting contrasts. (For one thing, some on this blog might weight the UN as “Intervention of Other States or External Actors”, but it is doubtful that the Scandinavian countries, which rank at the top, do.) This reader, however, pauses at The Fund for Peace’s introduction: “We are pleased to present the second annual Failed States Index.”

Now THIS is a Brokeback Mountain sequel that I would pay good money to see!

I’d even buy the DVD so I could enjoy it again and again and again.

(HT to Ace, and cross posted at Hell in a Handbasket.)

Dan gets a haircut.

It doesn’t look like those Volvo adsters have been reading our blog. Volvo for Life! They, like some of the commenters here, see spectres of overpopulation, thanks to their steel frames. This may be why they are targeting gay couples, to encourage coupling less likely to produce great masses of the hoi polloi. But, if, as one commenter on Shannon’s post claims, the reproductive rate is beginning to uptick, is this the powerful influence of Chicagoboyz?