Archive for December, 2010

Liberal thinking in a cup of tea

We are a family of tea drinkers.  As dedicated tea drinkers, we like good tea, which usually means loose leaf tea.  Loose leaf tea, in turn, means special tea makers.  Our favorite is the Adagio Ingenuitea Teapot, which makes one perfect cup of tea at a time.  The only downside of the Ingenuitea maker is [...]

“Let’s Remember Pearl Harbor”

Wikileaks

I have been, I suppose, almost remarkably silent about the whole wikileaks fiasco.  The data drop is of such enormous proportions, it’s actually difficult for me to process all the implications.  I have, however, got a laundry list in mind of some conclusions to be drawn and some of the things it means, which I’ll [...]

British women escaping Western nihilism

In past posts, I’ve noted that it isn’t surprising that British women are converting in surprisingly high numbers to Islam.  In a secularized, socialized, de-moralized Britain (and, by de-moralized, I mean a place remarkably free of traditional morality), the women are pickled in alcohol, and encouraged to have sex at the drop of a hat [...]

Sometimes a person’s name is just too perfect

I had to laugh (emphasis mine): As the director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, Melanie Nutter is in charge of implementing some of City Hall’s most controversial ideas, such as mandatory composting.

Israel, American Jews, American Christians and a whole bunch of other stuff too

I struggled for a few minutes to find a clever title for this post that would convey the volume of information I’m about to download from my brain, but realized I couldn’t.  A laundry list description will just have to do. You see, last night, I had the pleasure of attending a Hanukkah party that [...]

Liam Neeson — great voice, little brain

Liam Neeson, who does the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Narnia movies, has upset people by claiming that Aslan could as easily be Allah or Buddha as he could be Christ: Ahead of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next Thursday, Neeson said: ‘Aslan symbolises a Christ-like figure but he [...]

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

An Austrian MP has finally had enough of the way the Turkish government complains about the treatment Turks receive in Austria.  I have no idea what kind of treatment Turks receive in Austria, although if it’s like the rest of Europe, they get welfare, and they do not integrate, both because the welfare keeps them [...]

Happy Hanukkah!

From New York’s Yeshiva University:

Acknowledging REAL heroes

One of the things I hate about our culture is the way in which it cheapens the notion of heroism.  To me, a hero is one who puts his safety, or even his life, on the line, to protect others.  It’s that simple.  There are people who are altruists, which is also very virtuous, but [...]

New memes and old facts when it comes to the oldest hatred

Lately, Mr. Bookworm has been obsessed with Glenn Beck, and he keeps attacking my conservativism by saying that Beck is the “most dangerous man in the world.”  The genesis for this theory is a series of Jon Stewart shows that skewered Glenn Beck shows, in which the latter attacked George Soros. Soros, of course, is [...]

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize religion

Democrat priorities

We’re looking at a potential financial meltdown, and the lame duck Congress manages to find the time to send Obama a bill to mute the volume on TV commercials.  Is it any surprise that Americans are absolutely and completely disgusted with Washington?

Obama’s priorities

Is it just me, or does Obama sound more upset about losing the chance to host the World Cup than he does about the disastrous (for his administration and, perhaps, world stability) revelations from Wikileak? This is Obama regarding the World Cup:  “‘I think it was the wrong decision,’ Obama said at the White House.” [...]

Watcher’s Council submissions — super good stuff

I meant to blog lots today but, lacking inspiration, I did other stuff.  Since I offered you nothing but a vacuum, I should have done you the favor of linking to the Watcher’s Council submissions earlier today.  The stuff here is that good.  I mean, really, really good.  It’s not too late, though, for you [...]

A great idea from the Heritage Foundation

Real Hispanic outreach.  High time too.  I wish them good luck in this endeavor.

Online tutorial creates new country: Golan Heights

This past summer, I blogged about the fact that the Marin YMCA had created a brand new country called East Jerusalem.  That was foolish but, in terms of reach, relatively innocuous.  The Marin County Fair, while well attended, is not quite big enough to change the way people think. But what about a company that [...]

The East Germans would have loved this one

My younger readers, assuming I have any, don’t remember that, throughout the Cold War, the Communists, especially the East Germans, were reputed to be using feminized men to compete in women’s Olympic events.  The benefit, of course, is that, no matter how the feminists try to deny it, men are stronger than women and, in [...]

A Leftist party is worth a thousand words

Hat tip:  Power Line

The covenant of parenthood

A long, long time ago, NPR did a series of stories aimed at “documenting” the state of marriage in America.  One of those stories stood out strongly in my mind, because the woman the reporter interviewed articulated a view of marriage that I’d never considered before.  She said that, in America, secular people view marriage [...]