Scruton's Western Landscape (Image from Roger Scruton: writer and philosopher ) Conservative British philosopher Roger Scruton has recently published a thoughtful article, "Islam and the West: Lines of Demarcation," in the journal Azure:Ideas for the Jewish Nation (No. 35, Winter 5769 / 2009). In th...

Is there no place in this country with more than 10,000 people 2 of them black that the NAACP doesn’t want to screw up by having a chapter there?  Not only does Paducah have an NAACP chapter, it’s evidently strong enough and the city government pandering enough such that it has influenc...

The Pope will be coming to Israel (part of the Holy Land) and there seems to be a problem: Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed on Sunday that he was coming to Israel in May, will definitely visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, The Jerusalem Post was told on Monday. But he will not tour that part of...

  A hardline Hindu organization is launching a soda in India that they predict will sell like hotcakes, better than Coke or Pepsi. That's a tall enough order in itself, but it's even more laughable when you learn what bodily excretion the beverage contains.  Each bottle will contai...

Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...

Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

Can't say we really expected to see anything from Western Digital here at CeBIT, but sure enough, it brought along its 2TB Caviar Green hard drive, WD TV HD media player and the new 8TB ShareSpace NAS. Along with oodles of other external, internal and somewhere-in-between drives, too. We actually ki...

Remember those absurdly capacious 2TB Caviar Green hard drives that Western Digital pumped out earlier this year? If not, WD's hoping to jar your memory by cramming no fewer than four of 'em into its newest, most spacious ShareSpace NAS ever. The four-bay device is now being offered in an 8TB flavor...

Filed under: Industry Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) are the two top dogs in the hard drive business. While Seagate's merger with competitor Maxtor years ago should have helped quash Western Digital further, the latter has stayed strong and today has a share pri...

It was a Pro-D day.  Arkensen had signed up for some floor hockey event in the South Arm Community Centre.  It’s a 24 hockeyton and it’s a fund raising event for the Canuck Place.  Arkensen has always been a hockey fan and it’s a good course.  It costs each player $50 to partic...