Joshua Bell opened the case of his $3.5 million Stradivarius on the floor of Washington's busy L'Enfant Plaza Station, threw in some coins and began to play "Chaconne" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor. Here's what happened next...

[hat tip: Jane Cherrington]

Forgive me for this indulgence, but I'm as proud as any father could be.

The Government’s call to end the legal defence for provocation is idiotic.

These guys are stalwarts for truth, using the scientific method to expose or confirm myths. This is arguably their best episode ever as they systematically dismantle the crazy Moon Skeptics' anti-heroic delusions.

Ka-Pow!! Buzz sends an asshole skeptic straight to the moon!!!

What a match!! Four set tie-breakers and 30 games in the final set!! Fed blasted 50 aces!!!!

Roger Federer (2) 5 7 7 3 16
Andy Roddick (6) 7 6 6 6 14

15 Grand Slam titles (surpassing Sampras' 14)... and he still has a few years on the circuit!!

SOLO NZ Press Release: In NZ it’s the Witches Who Do the Drowning

13 June, 2009

“It comes as an enormous relief that after 17 hours deliberation the jury has finally returned five guilty verdicts for the fatal Maori exorcism of Janet Moses. I was beginning to wonder if witchdoctory was a legitimate defense in New Zealand,” worries SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan's blistering attack on a 'devalued PM of a devalued government':

"You sound like a Breshnez era apparachick giving the party line..."

This just in from The NZ Herald's entertainment section: France is trying to evict the pseudo-religion on the grounds of fraud. While the whole movement is almost certainly a hoax I can't see they've done anything wrong. Anyone stupid enough to put their psychology in the hands of Tom Cruise and his band of High-on-Lifers should have their heads read by a professional shrink.

SOLO NZ Press Release: Time to End Racism in NZ

22 May, 2009

As support gathers for next Monday’s hikoi protesting the lack of Maori seats on Auckland’s Super City Council we’re reminded that racism is alive and well in New Zealand, says SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

SOLO NZ Press Release: Government Bulldozes Property Rights

13 May, 2009

Residents of Mt Albert and Waterview in Auckland are preparing to defend their homes against government bulldozers, and every citizen in New Zealand who values their own property should stand beside them in solidarity, says SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

SOLO NZ Press Release: 250 IRD Jobs Axed – Only 5750 To Go

23 April, 2009

Inland Revenue is looking for 250 volunteers in their department to put up their hands for an axing, which is a bloody good start but not nearly enough, says SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

Kasper found this amusing. I think we'll all get a giggle out of it too.

Great news that Atlas climbed to #1 in its category on Amazon, and now Wikirank has just posted an illustrative diagram s

SOLO-NZ Press Release: Tax Cuts Welcomed, But Don’t Stop There

April 1, 2009

After flagging a possible backtrack on its April 1 tax cuts, it’s pleasing to see National has ignored pressure from the tax-spanking Labour-Nannies and followed through on its promise to return some of our hard-earned money, says SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

The University of Michigan Students of Objectivism are organising a global rally on Facebook: Edison Hour.

SOLO-NZ Press Release: Applauding the Government for Cutting Road Safety Funding March 19, 2009 National’s plan to slash tens of millions off the road safety funding is a good thing, especially if it lowers the ghastly Nanny-nagging on our nightly TV viewing, says SOLO-NZ Coordinator Glenn Jameson.

*SPOILER ALERT* (though I'm not sure how one can spoil something so corrupted)

I'd say Amy beat me to the punch, but frankly her film review felt more like the slap of a damp ticket stub.

Most of you are probably familiar with John Cage's most famous 'piece' 4'33", but how many of you have heard the full orchestral version?

A Pew Report reveals what most of us already know: devoting one's life to an invisible god makes you dumb.

The inimitable Fred, old enough to remember the FDR's bailout blowout, talks more sense than most on either side of the political divide, ridiculing his government's plan to spend its way to prosperity:

*SPOILER ALERT*

Iron Man is the only hero in a recent batch of comic book film adaptations that can genuinely be called super. I watched this tonight with my daughters on a heavily discounted DVD, my expectations too low to have risked the expense of seeing it on the big screen. Now I wish I had.

Pulling the plug on another bad idea from the Green Nannies, National has announced that New Zealanders will continue to have a choice in the sort of light bulbs they may install in their homes.

Horrors will never cease!! Can someone please confirm if this is a true story?

SOLO-U.S. Op-Ed: Bring Back HUAC

Glenn Jameson
December 2, 2008

In the last week I've seen two more films that have left me wanting a Senator with the kahunas to reinstate HUAC and root out the Hollywood writers, actors and studio execs guilty of wholly un-American activities.

CAIR and MPAC have each released statements of condemnation of the Mumbai Massacres, and so have The Muslim Council of Britain.

I stuck to my guns and voted with a double-tap to the head of the beast, but who would have guessed those shots were going to take down her drooling comrades as well?

I have a single-minded objective: to help bring an end to the most corrupt government New Zealand has ever seen.

Just announced on FOX, McCain has picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, the country's first female candidate for VP.

The petition has closed to make our favourite car enthusiast the new British Prime Minister, the man who, as the Times reported, 'urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to close down the Church of England with the words: “I tell you this, beardie. Many, many more people have died in the name of God than were killed in the name of Hitler.”