Items of Interest

Here are some items which interested me today:

At NRO, Jonah Goldberg has a column on Vive la Sloth!.

Here is an excerpt:

Imagine riot police had to be sent into Harvard to quell an enormous student protest. OK, that's not terribly hard to imagine. But instead of the usual reasons for prosperous students to get all uppity — gay rights, antiwar hoopla, a strong math requirement — imagine that Harvard students rioted over the possibility that they could ever be fired from their first jobs.

Well, that's pretty much what happened over the weekend at the Sorbonne, the creme de la Brie of French education. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the leader with the most important hair in Europe, pushed through a law which says that employers don't have to give lifetime job security to job applicants under the age of 26. Seriously. For the first two years of what the French call the First Employment Contract, employers can fire you if you don't do your work satisfactorily or if they can't afford to keep paying you. Of course, if you make it past those first two years, the smothering mothering of the crapulent French Au Pair State kicks back in and you never again have to worry about getting fired. You would have to be an on-the-job rapist or serial killer to get sacked. Even using the wrong salad fork at the company bistro wouldn't do it.

You must read the rest. And they say we have a bad unemployment system/economy?

Also via The Cornerat NRO, a link to the truth about George Clooney's Neoconservatism. Well, sort of.

Maggie Gallagher offers Why I Am Not a Crunch Con.

Over at the Crunchy Con Blog at NRO, Rod Dreher responds (there are comments from others who contribute as well). And a military man chimes in with some smart comments. Jonah Goldberg has a good response to the Crunchies here.

This is funny. Well, at least she admits it, from Townhall.com. And read about how to Nail Yale.

Drudge has a flash report about how:

The Pew Research Center recently updated a question about happiness that the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has been asking since 1972.

In every asking of the question, ROLL CALL reports, Republicans have been happier than Democrats.

No surprise there. Republicans tend to have more faith in God, better morals, better work ethics, and better attitudes than Democrats. These lead to happiness. I would be less happy, too, if all I did was complain about everything and blame everyone for all the troubles of the world. Plus, Dems like to focus on tiny aspects that make up the whole of something, rather than see the goodness of the big picture.

At Woman Honor Thyself, Angel asks What's in a Name, with a very interesting post.

Stop the ACLU keeps us up-to-date on how ACLU Alleges FBI Spying on Anti-War Groups and what the truth is.