Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Time flies, and with the economic and political hysteria flying around with it, I lost track of Watcher’s Council results. As it was, I found the voting incredibly difficult, because each post I read struck as being at least as good as, if not better than, the one that came
Continue readingI hadn’t missed the fact that Paul Newman died of cancer this weekend. I always admired him, not for his screen presence, but for his off-screen decency: a fifty year marriage to the same woman and a twenty year commitment to children’s charities. As for his on-screen presence, I too
Continue readingIt’s only three minutes but it packs quite a punch: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-K7JwwV0U[/youtube] Hat tip: The Strata-Sphere
Continue readingWishing my friends, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, all the best for the upcoming New Year.
Continue readingOne of the things special needs children remind us is that their parents are also special people, who either have innately or who develop extraordinary reserves of love, patience and humanity: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTdqjFLqSw[/youtube] Also, here’s a video of Paul Smith, that typewriter artist I told you about earlier (and, BTW, the
Continue readingGosh alone knows why, but I’ve never linked here to Haveil Havalim, a weekly blog carnival of posts from all over by, about and of interest to Jews. It’s a fantastic read, and it reflects badly on me that I’ve never let y’all know about it. So, in the “better
Continue readingAs of now, it looks as if An American Carol will not be opening soon in a theater near me. That may change, of course, but it looks disheartening for making plans for next weekend.
Continue reading“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” — Harry Truman. If you can’t stand the heat, get goons to frighten your opponents — and in Missouri, this means rounding up Democratic government prosecutors and officials to threaten people with prosecution for political speech.
Continue readingDo you get the feeling that a lot of Democrats, having watched the first debate, are saying that their man is qualified to be in the White House merely because he managed not too drool all over himself and say anything too stupid? That is, they’re acknowledging that, substantively, McCain
Continue readingI’ve said before that I am not a racist — I’m a classist or values-ist. Always have been. I don’t care about your external color or sexuality or whatever; I do care about the beliefs you bring to the table. What this means is that I’m pretty hostile to identity
Continue readingNew gods, new hymns (from Glenn Beck): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxiG56M-eU[/youtube] Hat tip: Old War Dogs
Continue readingWith all this talk of Depression, I thought I’d revisit one of the great moments in movie history, Busby Berkeley’s 1933 homage to the Forgotten Man (from Gold Diggers of 1933): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-ocetYDdU&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingIf you’re like me, the second the debate ended, you got on your computer to check whether the consensus in the blogosphere jived with your own impressions of the first Presidential debate. I discovered that the general consensus (from both liberal and conservative bloggers) was that McCain scored on points.
Continue readingSeveral times during the debate, McCain said of Iraq (and Afghanistan) that we have to win this time, so that we won’t have to do it again. His refrain reminded me of another refrain, one Irving Berlin wrote for his famous military show during WWII, a time when Americans had
Continue readingI haven’t yet mentally processed the debate, but I will pass on to you my kids’ comments: Of Jim Lehrer, my son asked “Why are his lips such a funny color?” Of Barack Obama, my daughter said, “He has ears like an elf.” And of John McCain, my daughter, flush
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