Bookworm Room

I am something of a sybarite.  Not in a big way, but in a little way.  I like two creature comforts:  a very comfortable bed (a liking that grows more important as I get older and suffer from fairly chronic insomnia) and I like to have my own bathroom, complete with all the amenities.  Give [...]

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The Watchers Council members tore themselves away from their turkey and stuffing just long enough to vote on the past week’s wonderful submissions.  Here are the results (also, be sure to watch the video the Watcher included with the results): Council Winners *First place with 2 votes! – Joshuapundit–JCS Mullen: ‘We Can Stop Islamic Extremism [...]

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Another one from Ben Howe:

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When I was a child, filling the gas tank was the cheapest part of owning a car.  Houses were also warm.  As long as my father was earning money (which wasn’t always the case), during the winter we heated our house to a comfortable 72 degrees.  Then, in 1974, the first energy crisis heat.  Gasoline [...]

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I think Nancy’s new motto should be “La, la, la!  I caaan’t hear you!”

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I’ve got to run an errand this morning — one of those time is of the essence errands — so the best I can do is to leave you with some choice material from other bloggers. A good start is the Anchoress (Elizabeth Scalia) on Bono and other earth worshippers.  Or, as the New Editor [...]

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Many American Indians (I can’t speak for all) identified animal spirit totems that helped guide the individual in life and defined who they were. Animal spirit totems also helped other individual discern qualities in individuals. Often, spirit totems were animals defined by qualities that the American Indian admired and sought to emulate, such as craftiness [...]

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I haven’t had time (nor do I have the will) to pay close attention to the myriad revelations in the Wikileaks documents.  My overall sense, though, is that, fact-wise, there is nothing new here — or, at least, nothing new to those of us paying attention.  All of us at Bookworm Room have known that [...]

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As Kate over at Small Dead Animals likes to put it, this is where we juxtapose two stories. I am sure that this Federal regulation to change street signs all over America is either a response to a national emergency or a last ditch effort to burn up taxpayer money because there is way, way [...]

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We just returned home after an eight hour journey up I-5.  Whew!  It wasn’t too terrible, though, despite the long drive.  We didn’t get stuck on the Grapevine, where a storm was brewing; the car performed perfectly; no one got sick; we had no scary traffic moments; and the kids watched the old Dick Van [...]

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SADIE submitted the following comment and link to one of my earlier posts, which merits its own discussion: Iceland is drawing up a new constitution (they’re currently using a revised Danish version) The constitutional assembly will be made up of 25 to 31 delegates, the final number to be determined by a gender and equality [...]

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One reason I ceased to believe in God was that I was taught as I was growing up that God knew everything there was to know — past, present and future.  This necessarily meant that the future could currently be known with certainty.  Thus, every apparent exercise of free will was illusory.  I might feel [...]

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In the comments in the Bookwormroom about liberals one common theme is that liberals cannot and will not argue from the facts.  I was planning to write a post about the national debt when I came across this web page.  Here is a liberal with facts.  For the most part, the discussion is pure, class-envy, rich-bashing, demagogic, [...]

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iPhone blogging means I can’t do hyperlinks, so here is a raw link to an article saying exactly what I predicted — women’s sanitary pads are going to trigger patdowns: http://www.infowars.com/tsa-groin-searches-menstruating-woman/

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Recently, there have been many comments on this blog and elsewhere disparaging Liberals. It is difficult to have a conversation with them because they are too emotional and don’t think rationally like we do. They refuse to accept facts. Even more extreme charges that they are out to destroy marriage, destroy morality, destroy America. Perhaps we [...]

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DQ here.  Just want to pop in to say Happy Thanksgiving to you all.  Perhaps for this unique holiday we can share with each other what we are thankful for.  I’ll start.  I, of course, am most thankful for my beautiful wife.  We’ve been married 36 years and each has been better than the last (and the [...]

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I can’t get my comments feature to work on my iPhone, so I’m going to use my blogger’s prerogative to use a new post to comment re Danny Lemeiux’s post re Sarah Palin. The gal writing in the Atlantic felt that it was unfair that Palin hadn’t been exposed to mean men. It seems appropriate [...]

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Spent the day on I-5 heading down to my wonderful in-laws (all neocons) for Thanksgiving. I-5 is always a slog, but it’s a depressing slog lately because so much land is fallow thanks to federal water/environmental policies. Makes me wonder, again, how Boxer won, again. She’s killing the state visibly Once in LA, I saw [...]

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Just came across this opening paragraph from an article on Sarah Palin, in the Atlantic (via Hot Air): “To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don’t agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the most visible working mother and [...]

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If you’re wondering what to read in the next few days as bloggers slow down to spend time with family and friends, and to give thanks for the many blessings we have (despite and, sometimes, because of our new administration), the Watcher’s Council provides a collection of good stuff to read: Council Submissions Snapped Shot [...]

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I had a truly strange dream last night.  I dreamed that I was singled out for a TSA pat-down.  I went reluctantly, telling them that I sing when I’m nervous.  (This is not true in my waking life, by the way.)  As they started to pat me down, I started to sing The Star-Spangled Banner.  [...]

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Two interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic — dependence on Big Government — but reach diametrically opposite conclusions.  The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals.  This isn’t just Dennis’ opinion, by the way.  Instead, several recent polls [...]

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I’m working on a slightly long, medium complex post, which should go up in about an hour.  ‘Til then, here’s an open thread.

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As you may have guess from my blog silence yesterday, it was a very long weekend, which left no time for blogging.  Even if I’d had the opportunity to write, I didn’t have the time to ruminate, which is a predicate to any writing I do.  (Yes, I know that’s not always obvious.) This morning, [...]

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Overheard, verbatim, in a mall: Him:  For the last time — do you want Chinese food or not? Her:  No, I don’t. Him:  Gawd!  You are so passive aggressive.

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