<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>The White Peril 白禍</title>
	<link>http://whiteperil.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:50:48 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>We never calculate the currency we&#8217;ve spent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Former Eric Massa Staffers:
The Daily News seems to be willing to swallow your implied self-characterization as victimized innocents:
&#8220;It&#8217;s like he had people trapped,&#8221; said a Hill source.
&#8230;
At the house on E St. Southeast yesterday, which Massa had shared with five of his staffers, clothes were piled on the floor and half-a-dozen pairs of shoes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/11/we-never-calculate-the-currency-weve-spent/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>So many drinks, such pretty flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To show how depressingly little exaggeration there is in my little punch-related joke post the other day, there&#8217;s this piece at Reason.com by John Stossel about how licensing laws help established businesspeople stymie competition from new entrants:
In Louisiana, you can&#8217;t sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the government. How do you get permission? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/11/so-many-drinks-such-pretty-flowers/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Punchline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie is the best kind of libertarian commenter&#8212;mouthy and cynical&#8212;but I think she&#8217;s going a bit light on Washington here:
The way things are going, I expect Nancy Pelosi’s staff will want to meet with couples personally to determine whether they are fit to get married and, if so, what type of punch they should serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/09/punchline/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Madam must have absolute quiet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric posts about the wonderful movie villainy of Claude Rains; he mentions The Invisible Man, and a commenter mentions his most famous role, in Casablanca.  But for my money, his most chilling performance is in Notorious, especially in the scene at the beginning of this clip, with help from the wonderfully named Leopoldine Konstantin. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/06/madam-must-have-absolute-quiet/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The gifts that keep on giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Line of the day, from Reason&#8217;s Shikha Dalmia:  &#8220;By contrast, few besides the government employees who run the no-brainer programs would even notice they were gone—especially because they have long outlived their uselessness.&#8221;  The no-brainer programs are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/05/the-gifts-that-keep-on-giving/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Here&#8217;s a (pain de brioche) toast to dear old Penn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Rosenberg at PJM cites a head-scratcher of a policy adopted at my alma mater:
Inside Higher Ed has just reported (Feb. 26) that the University of Pennsylvania may be the first institution to launch what is described as an “outreach” program for gay students. That program, I think, suggests a number of interesting questions, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/04/heres-a-pain-de-brioche-toast-to-dear-old-penn/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>I had some dreams/They were clouds in my coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This made me laugh aloud (via Instapundit):
Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party.
It&#8217;s like those ads in the &#8217;80s:  &#8220;If you like Calvin Klein&#8217;s Obsession, you&#8217;ll LOVE Compulsion!&#8221;
The Coffee Party soi-disant movement is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/02/i-had-some-dreamsthey-were-clouds-in-my-coffee/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Drink up the melody/Bite the dust, blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn.  Phoebe Snow has had a stroke.  According to the short message from her manager, the prognosis is good.  Glad to hear it.  She&#8217;s been one of my favorites since I was little.
*******
This parody is as predictable as they come, but it&#8217;s still good, wicked fun (via The Unreligious Right).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/01/drink-up-the-melodybite-the-dust-blues/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Better man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree with Matt Welch that the proper response to this from Bush II wordsmith Michael Gerson is incredulity:
Former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, writing in the Washington Post, is appalled and that Teddy Roosevelt has become &#8220;the conservatives&#8217; new demon.&#8221; Excerpt:
The problem with America, apparently, is not just the Great Society or even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/02/26/better-man/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>ブレーキ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Hit and Run comes this hilarious summation of the current Toyota troubles:
In fact, this problem with electronic braking came about because of federal pressure through CAFE standards, forcing manufacturers to make lighter cars. As they often do, politicians point their fingers at Big Bad Business. Now a memo has come to light showing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/02/25/%e3%83%96%e3%83%ac%e3%83%bc%e3%82%ad/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
