Archive for September, 2011
Bookworm on Sep 30 2011 | Filed under: Education, Media matters, Religion
Tweet I’m growing very fond of Jill Tucker, a “journalist” at the San Francisco Chronicle who gives me lots of meat for my blogging. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at her incurious (some might say lazy) reporting about the decision the Oakland Children’s Museum’s made to cancel a controversial art show consisting of [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet This is Obama, the guy with moobs and a poochy gut: This is Obama, the guy who looks like granny on a bicycle: This is Obama, the guy who throws even worse than I do: Given who and what Obama is — a guy who’s never worked hard physically or mentally — it’s no [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet David Brooks fell in love with Obama’s creased pants. Now David Brooks is recommending Romney. That should be the kiss of death, shouldn’t it?
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Presidential elections
Tweet If you need one, here is an excellent reminder that the majority of registered voters were the ones who put Obama guy in office. It wasn’t a ballot box coup, it was a cultural coup. Let’s hope that the voting majority does a bit better in 2012 — and that whomever they elect validates [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet My post caption is the headline the protestors dreamed of. Zombie has the reality. Looking at the apathy on display in San Francisco, and comparing it to the furious protests during the Bush era, made me wonder if we can’t come up with some viable alternative energy source by tricking these yahoos into believing [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet A friend told me a very funny, and apt, story that I want to pass on to you. It came about because, while he was talking about one thing, I interrupted him to raise another subject that seemed pressing at the time. When we’d worked through that second subject, I apologized for bringing up [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Government
Tweet When I was a little girl, one of the refrains in my life was “get your cotton-pickin’ fingers out of that.” I didn’t mean to be destructive. I was always certain I could make things better. I had bald Barbies, because I was pretty sure I could make their hair look better. I had [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet Since I am non-observant, I am not doing anything special today, despite the fact that today is a special day. I am, however, doing something nice today, even if its not religious. I’m reading my Watcher’s Council submissions: Council Submissions Joshuapundit-Can Israel Survive? The Noisy Room – Man of the Hour – Herman Cain [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I loved this — prayer shawls, yarmulkes, and high quality hip hop. Hat tip: Lulu
Bookworm on Sep 28 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Jews
Tweet Obama is having a bad week when it comes to Joo . . . janitors. After his mispronunciation faux pas (which was probably the innocent act of a mental stumble bum, but which sounded appalling coming from Obama, who has proven hostile to Israel and the Jews), he’s now issued a Rosh Hashanah message [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Have you ever heard of Tabata intervals? They are reputed to be the best cardio exercise there is. The deal is to do hard cardio for 20 seconds, and then take a 10 second break. Then repeat for several intervals or several minutes or until you collapse in a sodden, breathless, immobile heap on [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education
Tweet My Dad was a teacher, and he worked like a dog. Of course, back in the day, he got a salary that was only slightly above poverty level, so his hard work wasn’t really the teaching itself. Instead, it was all the private lessons he gave on the side. He put in as many [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Blogs and Blogging
Tweet I’m still working, so I checked in with my blog and saw that people from far away are checking in too: Welcome, friends!
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Jews
Tweet Sadie sent me quite possibly the best New Year email I’ve ever received, and I share the email, and the good wishes, with all of you: May you enjoy your applies and honey May you find it easy to give and receive May you know when to surrender, and do so with grace May [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Herman Cain
Tweet I caught literally two minutes of Rush this morning, but I heard him say something very important, which I’ll summarize here to the best of my abilities: Herman Cain succeeded in Florida because he’s the only Republican primary candidate relentlessly attacking Obama. The others are so busy with their internecine warfare that they’ve dropped [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Race
Tweet I regularly read James Taranto’s Best of the Web and always enjoy his “Life imitates the Onion” or “Life imitates South Park” shticks. Imagine my surprise today, when I realized that, this time around, life is imitating a very silly satire I did at my blog almost exactly one year ago. In September 2010, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Health
Tweet Back in the 40s or 50s, Esquire Magazine, when it was still a magazine for gentleman, published some quite funny, if very risque cartoons.* One of them showed a gorgeous, voluptuous, obviously purely decorative woman talking on the phone in her apartment. Behind her is a kitchen piled to the ceiling with dirty dishes. [...]
Danny Lemieux on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, Economics, Hard Work
Tweet A short time ago, my priest gave a sermon that addressed the deep sorrow and sense of worthlessness internalized by our parishioners that were unemployed. The point of the sermon, actually, was how the unemployed felt “useless” and demeaned for being unable to provide for their families, but that nobody in God’s family should [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet Here’s the joke, an oldie from the Soviet Union: On a bitterly cold day in Moscow, word has gone out that a store has received a shipment of food supplies. People start lining up early. Soon, the line doubles around the blog block. After a couple of hours, an official emerges from the store. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet I do love the way my liberal Facebook friends make me aware of things I wouldn’t otherwise notice. One of those things is a Matt Miller op-ed in the Washington Post, which imagines the perfect speech a dream independent candidate would give. As Miller describes it: This is one columnist’s stab at what a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics
Tweet This picture showed up on my liberal friends’ posts at Facebook today: As for me, over the past two years, I’ve been spending my time looking at this picture, or ones very similar:
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Just Because Music
Tweet Not new, but I just discovered it, so I’m sharing it with you:
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Jews
Tweet I knew President Obama would approve of this New Year’s message from the janitors of the world: Shanah Tovah! May you be inscribed for a sweet (and, since this is janitors talking, clean) New Year! Hat tip: Lulu
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Military, Pakistan
Tweet It seems we’ve propped up Pakistan long enough. It’s no longer a duplicitous ally. Instead, as Islamists have penetrated further and further into its political and military ranks, it’s now becoming an active enemy: On Thursday, Adm. Mike Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Pakistan was using ‘violent extremism as an instrument [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few stories from England’s Daily Mail, all showing that the country is not in the best of health. Each of these stories highlights, not the horrible things individuals can do, because those crimes transcend national boundaries, but the way in which England has rendered itself unable to react in any way to the [...]
