Archive for May, 2009

Predators and prey

Last night we watched a beautifully photographed HD show about Yellowstone.  I’d give you the link but, because we TiVo’d the show, and my husband sped through all commercials and station information, I have no idea on which channel the show originated. Aside from offering gorgeous photography from one of the most beautiful places on [...]

ACORN under fire

This just in from BNO News on Twitter: KLAS-TV: The Nevada Attorney General and Secretary of State have filed criminal charges against ACORN and two of it’s employees.

Tortuous topics, by guest blogger Ymarsakar

[Today's guest blogger is long time commenter, Ymarsakar] How is it that opponents of the Atom Bombs that killed 300,000 implicitly support a conventional war that would have killed ten million? Let’s start off with Jon Stewart and this question posed by one Blackfive commenter and reader. My answer for why? Because they are warmongers. [...]

Zac Efron

In my Friday Open Thread, I promised that I’d blog about Zac Efron.  First off, let me clear the air here and explain that I haven’t developed some pathetic “middle-aged woman/teenage boy” obsession with him (although he does bear an uncanny resemblance, girlish hair and all, to the teen idols of my youth).  What makes [...]

I prefer clarity to agreement *UPDATED*

Charles, at LGF, is concerned that the “extreme right white supremacist” (his phrase) BNP party in England is gaining political ground.  If you check out the party’s blog, though, racial purity a la the Nazis or the KKK is not part of the party’s platform.  As far as I can tell, it wants to close [...]

Who are these citizen soldiers?

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Senate hearings for a new judge

In an MTV world, in which the up-and-coming generation has a 3 minute attention span, image is, if not everything, way more important than it used to be — as Obama proved and still proves.  He ran a content free campaign and won because he was new and improved.  Now, he’s running a far left [...]

Friday morning open thread

So little time and so much to write.  I’ve got some interesting ideas percolating, but no time to do anything with them this morning.  Until then, you all go and be wonderful . . . here . . . now.  Suggestions:  Souter, Swine flu, $540 tennis shoes, news reports exposing the guys who purportedly came [...]