Football on the Brain

Sports Illustrated looks at concussion.

Hooters Tokyo

Is it odd that China got Hooters years before Japan did?

Republican Victory, Conservative Loss

Daniel Larison says the results of Tuesday's election will change litte.

America's One Child Policy

The Weekly Standard looks at how birth rates are declining across the world.

How Barack Obama Is Like Joan Jett

Steve Sailer directs our attention to an article by perhaps the only person to have been in a band with Joan and law school with Barack.

It's Like I'm a Young Japanese Man

Except for the cosmetics and caring what I look like part.

Suspicious Minds Remix

Not bad. But I prefer the orginal.

Malaguena

Japan Recruits Foreigners

To help increase tourism.

Randy Quaid Seeks Refugee Status in Canada

There goes any sequel to Independence Day.

Will Marijuana Legalization Fail in California?

David Henderson points to one reason why it may.

Who Says Romance Is Dead?

For a few thousand dollars, you can get married at McDonald's. It almost makes me wish I had a fiancee.

Ignorance Is Bliss

Daniel Larison writes:

It is hardly news that Christine O’Donnell is a talking head with dreams of being a television celebrity, so I’m not sure that it proves much of anything when she demonstrates that she doesn’t know much about the amendments to the Constitution. Andrew focused on her apparent ignorance of the First Amendment near the end of the video, but I thought the far more telling moment was when she asked her questioner to explain to her what the 14th and 16th Amendments were. Actual constitutionalists have at least some basic familiarity with these, not least since they tend to see these amendments and later interpretations of the 14th Amendment as having been particularly damaging to republican self-government. Based on her responses, O’Donnell not only doesn’t agree with them, but she wouldn’t even be conversant with the relevant arguments. So we can confirm what a lot of people already knew: Christine O’Donnell is a professional political activist who has no real grounding in the fundamental law she has been repeatedly invoking as the core of her beliefs during this campaign season, and as far as respecting the Constitution is concerned she is simply a phony. Anyone on the right who wants to keep defending her as anything else is wasting his time and embarrassing himself.

Of course, the Republican Echo Chamber can't be embarrassed.

Why Japanese Love Robots

And Americans fear them.

One Nation Under Fraud

Ron called my attention to this scary article.

What the Tea Partiers Really Want

Jonathan Haidt says they are motivated less by a fear that freedom is being eroded than by a fear that karma is.

The Shock of Gray

China is geting old really fast:

In 2015, China’s working population below the age of 65 will begin to shrink. Meanwhile, the number of people over 65 will be rising to 300 million by 2050, a threefold increase. Richard Jackson, the director of the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, notes that China will be older than the United States within a generation, making it the first big national population to age before it joins the ranks of developed countries. One of China’s biggest fears, expressed repeatedly in public pronouncements, is that it will grow old before it grows rich.

Out of Afghanistan

And into Pakistan.

Correction of the Day

Most reporters aren't very good with statistics.

Seven Day Lover

By Atlanta's own James Fountain. In England, they call this Northern Soul.

$1 Million !?!?

Why didn't somebody tell be about this offer?

Big Soda Is Watching You

The latest in Japanese vending machine technology.

What a Dikshit

TV host's comments spark an international incident. Seriously, India, the joke was sophmoric and probably racist. But as nation you seem really thin-skinned.

Art Students Again

Guess who?

You've Got a Sick, Sick Country There, Ron

Did I mention that it is sick? But at least that guy has a retirement plan, which is more than I can say.

NFL Owners' Extortion Racket Continues

Armin Rosen on their latest plan to bilk taxpayers.

Rise of the Online Autocrats

The Jackie chan bit is just weird.

You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight

Does China really have a monopoly on rare earth minerals?

Think About It, Darlin'

Obamacare: It Begins

Principal Financial is leaving the health insurance business, citing the impact of the health care reform law passed earlier this year.

Unemployment in South Africa

Alex Taborrak looks at how government and union policies have drive the jobless rate to 24 percent.