Monday Open Thread
I’ve got a post in the works, but it’s not finished yet. Until then, it’s open thread time! Yay!
Continue readingMonth: May 2010
The political ad everyone is talking about
This guy joins Gov. Christie as someone who doesn’t pull his punches. Alabama voters are going to have some fun at the polls: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0[/youtube]
Continue readingJust Because Music — Modern English
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls[/youtube] I like to dance. I’m not trained. I just like to get out there and wiggle around. So it was awfully nice this weekend, when I was dancing, to have someone tell me “You are a wonderful dancer. You’re so good, you’re the reason other people don’t have the
Continue readingComedy Central allies itself with Palestinian Television
At HonestReporting.com there is a story I thought was a prank, but isn’t. It turns out that the same network that collapsed utterly at there mere specter of Palestinian outrage over a South Park cartoon suggesting that freedom of speech trumps Islam, is running an online computer game that would
Continue readingInformation wanted re French health care system
I was talking with someone the other day who is actually worried about the changes being wrought in the American health care system. However, his touchstone, his security blanket regarding the socialization of American medicine is France. France, he told me, has a great health care system that is the
Continue readingWhy California is in deep, deep doo-doo
Numbers can lie, but the numbers here are consistent with the same numbers I’ve seen in dozens of other places, and the numbers are consistently drawn directly from government sources. If you want to know one reason why California has gone from the most extraordinary state in the Union (something
Continue readingColor me stupid, but I don’t know why legal immigrants support illegal immigration
Turns out that Hispanics, who are probably as misinformed as Eric Holder about the actual contents of the Arizona immigration law, are opposed to it in vast numbers. I don’t get it. When the illegal immigrants pour into American communities, bringing with them all their pathologies (gangs, drugs, alcoholism, violence,
Continue readingIowahawk on the Harvard factor
The language is blue, but don’t let that stop you. Read it. Read it all. My favorite line, incidentally, is this one: Despite her underprivileged background Professor Kagan rose to the challenge and graduated magna cum laude, an honor reserved for the top 89% of Harvard Law alumni. Right there
Continue readingA Memorial Day tribute
It’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start. Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058VyI89QoQ[/youtube] I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent
Continue readingA bad movie review that makes me want to see the movie
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so when the New York Times disses a movie based upon its politics, that may just be enough to mobilize me and move me to a theater. Here’s the NYT on Robin Hood: You may have heard that Robin Hood stole from
Continue readingMickey Kaus would certainly be a fun Democratic candidate
I met Mickey Kaus a few years ago at a blogger’s gathering. He is precisely as Jonah Goldberg describes him: middle aged, a little disheveled (albeit quite attractive), and hostile to BS. I don’t agree with his political views, but he is smart, honest with himself and others, and he’s
Continue readingLetting others take down E.J. Dionne, so we don’t have to
I read E.J. Dionne’s fatuous defense of Kagan in The New Republic, and started formulating a response to his superficial argument comparing Kagan to Roberts. (It was so superficial it almost, but not quite, devolved into “and they’re both homo sapiens.”) Fortunately, I was spared that effort when I read
Continue readingThis is who I am
Gov. Christie of New Jersey takes on the media, and those of us with Blue State governments, jealous: Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his ‘confrontational tone’
Continue readingA little bleg
My husband and I have a tacit agreement — I don’t give our money to conservative causes and he doesn’t give it to liberal ones. The only way in which we do spend our money semi-politically is that he subscribes to The New Yorker, and I subscribe to Commentary. However,
Continue readingTwo presidents in their milieus — and how photos can lie *UPDATED/CORRECTED*
Presidents get photographed hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of time. Each photograph captures a mere moment. Some are flattering; some less so. Many, however, go on to become iconic. My generation, the 1970s generation, is deeply imprinted with this photo of Richard Nixon flashing the victory sign: Then there is
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