Bookworm Room

According to what I have been reading, Loughner purchased his handgun legally. How could this happen? When you purchase a handgun, you have to fill out an extensive questionnaire for the FBI background check. You answer questions about whether you have ever been convicted of a violent crime or misdemeanor, been psychologically evaluated, etc. A [...]

25 Comments »

I’d like to think this is a joke, but modern Britain being modern Britain, I’m actually sure it’s not.  One can only hope that at least some people will give the correct response to such an intrusive, inappropriate question:  “Bugger off!” Are you straight or gay? Police and nurses to be asked their sexuality in [...]

20 Comments »

Ivory Tower used to be a compliment.  Now, just as ivory has degraded in social standing (the whole death of elephants thing), so too has the Ivory Tower’s star fallen (the whole death of logic, common sense, morality and actual education thing).  This morning, I posted about UC Berkeley’s buffoonish Chancellor (paid by taxpayers, both [...]

15 Comments »

The Colossus of Rhodey looks at the way in which our children are being indoctrinated.  Okay, they’re not really being indoctrinated this time around, but any red-blooded liberal should be horrified by the graphics.  Any normal person, of course, reacts . . . well, normally. More seriously, Rob Miller, writing at American Thinker, looks at [...]

No Comments »

The media does hysteria well.  It’s about the only thing it does well. It hysterically accused Palin and Beck and Limbaugh and the Tea Partiers of being complicit in mass murder despite a few readily known and very salient facts:  (1) the absence of a single quotation that can be attributed to any of those [...]

No Comments »

Is there a cause and effect between hate speech and violence?  These tweeters are certain there is, and they believe that Palin should be tortured, given loathsome diseases and killed for having the temerity to engage in (unidentified) hate speech: Hat tip:  The Jawa Report

12 Comments »

Because there are lots of announcements this week (yay!), I’m simply reprinting here, verbatim, the post the Watcher put up at the Watcher’s Council site when announcing this week’s nominations. *** Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group [...]

No Comments »

If you haven’t already seen it, here’s a link to the video of Sarah Palin’s response to the shootings — the actual bullets aimed at real bodies in Tucson, and the rhetorical bullets aimed at political bodies in Tucson’s wake. The beginning, with it’s platitudes about “the process of healing” (and when did mourning become [...]

7 Comments »

The two posts I link to below are very narrow in focus, and very important — both analyze the mechanisms the media used following the Tucson shooting to promulgate blatant lies masquerading as news. J.E. Dyer Ace UPDATE (8:40 a.m. PST):  If you need a reminder about the scope of the media lies, please check [...]

1 Comment »

I didn’t elect this guy.  I can’t get rid of this guy.  This guy is in charge of education for the roughly 33,000 students at UC Berkeley.  This guy gets a salary that 90% of America would envy and that I, as a California taxpayer, help pay.  This guy gets a taxpayer funded computer system [...]

4 Comments »

I published the following post almost exactly five years ago, on January 6, 2006.  In light of Lougner’s long-standing, florid mental illness, it seems appropriate to republish it today. *** If you link here, you can hear a really sad story. It’s the taped reminiscence of Kim Emerson, whose sister, Kendra Webdale, was killed seven [...]

No Comments »

Allen Guelzo has written one of the absolute best articles I’ve seen on the Left’s response to the Tucson shooting.  This is a hard thing to do — write one of the “absolute best articles” — because everyone who is conservative or sane has been writing wonderful articles about the insanity that erupted after the [...]

5 Comments »

Doesn’t the information below about the lying autism/vaccination doc remind you of Green Billionaire  Al Gore and his fellow wealth redistribution (into their own pocket) fellow travelers? According to new research published in today’s BMJ, Wakefield’s motive for the fraud was money — and lots of it. Wakefield “planned secret businesses intended to make huge [...]

105 Comments »

I’m very slow to anger, and with reason — I’m a mean angry person.  I don’t do the liberal thing of wishing people dead or threatening them or imagining violence or bloodshed.  When I’m hot under the collar, though, I up the rhetorical ante, big time, usually with high doses of sarcasm.  I almost always [...]

30 Comments »

Brilliant. That’s just it. Brilliant. Hat tip:  Ed Driscoll

5 Comments »

Considering how frequently I include “conversations with a liberal” at this blog, it seemed appropriate to see if xtranormal was a good forum for those dialogs.  Here’s my first attempt, which pastes together dialog from two of my older posts, one recounting, verbatim, a conversation with a liberal angry about Rush Limbaugh, and one retelling, [...]

5 Comments »

Will you surprised that Sarah walks away from this conversation the victor? Hat tip: Ace

2 Comments »

I’ve been reminding people on facebook that censoring speech doesn’t censor ideas, it just allows governments to abuse people.  That’s a point that’s worth remembering. Garry Hamilton makes another excellent point about the relationship between speech and action.

4 Comments »

I want one of these installed on any toilet my son uses. Maybe it will improve his aim. Sega have [sic] launched a new bathroom video game console – that is controlled by the player’s urine. Sensors on the novel device – named the ‘Toylet’ – measure the speed and intensity of the male player’s [...]

14 Comments »

As I watched this video, which is truly toe-curling, I kept asking myself “why?”  Was this a retirement home joke, with the seniors gleefully anticipating a viral video?  Did an evil choir director sadistically take advantage of a vulnerable population?  Can a group of performers actually be this atrocious without deliberately aiming for that level [...]

9 Comments »

Here are two questions for you to ponder: 1.  How disgusted would you be if you were asked to take a bath in a tub that had a visible ring left by someone other than you? 2.  How disgusted would you be if you were asked to take a bath in a tub that had [...]

5 Comments »

Barry Rubin has a wonderful post about real hate speech, not the vapid American version, and the very real effects that speech has on world politics. H/t:  Sadie

No Comments »

Some Democrats, either more honest or loose-lipped than others, have explicitly stated that, in making anti-Tea Party and anti-Palin statements about the Tucson shooting, they are attempting to replicate the stunning success they had with shaping the spin following the Oklahoma City bombing, back in 1995: One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for [...]

23 Comments »

In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth, England], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington’s spirit was up. But [...]

9 Comments »

Mr. Bookworm had an interesting question.  He noted that it looks as if several states are going to default on their bonds, along with the possibility that these same states will file for bankruptcy.  He wondered if, armed with knowledge of these imminent economic collapses, it was possible to make money in the market.  As [...]

16 Comments »