Friday morning open thread — and Watcher’s Council nominations
Bookworm on Feb 15 2013 at 10:25 am | Filed under: Open Threads, Watcher of Weasels
I got thrown a bit off my stride — literally — yesterday, when I learned that my knee is in worse shape than I thought. It’s definitely fixable, but it will take time. I’ll find out in a week or two if I need arthroscopic surgery.
In the grand scheme of things, this is a very little deal, but complicates my life. I’m usually a binary person. Either I’m not moving at all (typing or reading), or I am moving, very fast and efficiently. Slowly limping around with a cane is a level of inefficiency that frustrates me a great deal.
I also hate having to stop my martial arts training. I’m at the age where missing a week has a bad effect on me. It will therefore be a challenge to get back up to speed if I miss a month or more.
On the good side, my kids are helping with household chores without argument. They may end up taking something very positive away from this experience. That’s certainly something to celebrate
Since I’ve been confined for the last 24 hours to comfy chairs with my leg elevated (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation), it’s been hard to blog. In theory, I can write on my iPad. In fact, my WordPress doesn’t work well on iPad, and that doesn’t even take into account that my typo level increases like crazy on the iPad keyboard.
I will write today, but I’ll definitely be less productive.
In the meantime, please consider this an Open Thread. Also, check out the Watcher’s Council forum about the way modern American society marginalizes boys, as well as this week’s Watcher’s Council submissions. (Results out later today.)
Council Submissions
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Just Don’t Repeat What They Say …
- The Noisy Room – Year of the Political Snake
- Simply Jews – Bibis’ conundrum: a forecast attempted
- Joshuapundit-White House On Benghazi: ‘ No More Questions!! ‘
- The Political Commentator – If WWII ended today, would it still be called a ‘Surrender Table’?
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Drones Gone Wild!
- Rhymes With Right – The Problem With The ObamaCare Birth Control Regulation
- The Right Planet – I Want My Machine Guns Back
- The Glittering Eye -The Irony, It Burns
- The Razor – Pope Benedict XVI Resigns
- Bookworm Room – Explosive new book: Obama administration up to its neck in covert acts that caused Benghazi deaths
- VA Right! - The Commonalities Between Cop Killer Christopher Dorner Worship and Obama Worship
- Gay Patriot – Why doesn’t City of LA attend to its uneven sidewalks?
- The Mellow Jihadi – A Bigger Feminist: Beyoncé or Maggie Parker?
Honorable Mentions
- Ask Marion – America – Land of the Mis, Under and Low Informed
- The Pirate’s Cove – NY Times: It’s Not Easy (Or Cheap) Being Green
- Right Reason – Is John Brennan a Muslim?
- Wolf Howling – Finally: The DOJ Charges S&P With Fraud In Rating Sub-Prime Backed Securities
Non-Council Submissions
- Weekly Standard – Hagel: Israel’s Nukes More of a Threat than Iran’s submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Kimberly Bloom Jackson/American Thinker –Children Deserve to Be Defended submitted by The Noisy Room
- The Dissident Frogman – President Obama, he goes shooting all the time submitted by Simply Jews
- Amity Schlaes – The Small Presidency submitted by Joshuapundit
- Adina Kutnicki -John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Pick, IS A Muslim Convert…Brotherhood Mafia’s Infiltration Near Complete submitted by The Political Commentator
- Latitude blog/New York Times – Pakistan’s Media Police submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Allergic To Bull – The Map of Hate submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Dr. Benjamin Carson – Dr. Benjamin Carson’s Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast submitted by The Right Planet
- Joel Kotkin/NewGeography.com – The Cities Winning The Battle For The Fastest Growing High-Wage Sector In The U.S submitted by The Glittering Eye
- The People’s Cube –Cardinals Mull Obama Papacy submitted by The Razor
- WSJ/William Kristol & Peter Wehner -The Absentee Commander in Chiefsubmitted by Bookworm Room
- Heritage.Org – Morning Bell: Obama’s Bogus State of the Union Promises submitted by VA Right!
- Jennifer Rubin/Right Turn -Comeuppance for Menendez, Obama and Hagel submitted by Gay Patriot
- Michelle Malkin –Latest embarrassment from the legitimate news media: Sarah Palin joining Al Jazeera submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Michele Rhee – My Break With The Democrats submitted by The Watcher
- Michael Totten – Radical Islam’s Global Reaction: The Push for Blasphemy Laws submitted by The Watcher
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I’ve been pondering this post on high school and how we are all scarred by it: Steve Sailer: iSteve: High school Interesting premise in that our high school pigeon hole might define our political affiliation, until we mature somewhere in our late age. Found via Assisted Village Idiot.
But just this morning I came across this open letter by Alex Tobbarrok to his son’s school High School Safety in Northern Virginia He questions the deleterious effect of prison camp high school environment on the future courage of students:
When we surround our students with security we are implicitly telling them that the world is dangerous; we are whispering in their ear, ‘be afraid, do not venture out, take no risks.’ When going to school requires police, security guards and cameras how can I encourage my child to travel to foreign countries, to seek new experiences, to meet people of different faiths, beliefs and backgrounds? When my child leaves school how will the atmosphere of fear that he has grown up in affect his view of the world and the choices he will make as a citizen in our democracy? School teaches more than words in books.
I view it as more likely to simply accustom them to living in the world of Big Brother and constant surveillance. Of course, as we’ve seen the impact of the watcher is not to promote proper behavior but rather to inoculate the victims against privacy or modesty and the resultant open presentation of body and soul over the internet.
Thoughtful and candid post by VA Senator Jim Webb’s son, “Women in the Infantry?”Can be applied to women in the SEALS as well. http://puckingninja.blogspot.com/2013/02/women-in-infantry.html
This statement was made without any sense of irony;
The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.”
thegatewaypundit…mn-high-school-food-fight-turns-into-200-student-race-riot-video/
Color(ado) me - not surprised.
After forty years, the Colorado house and senate are in the hands of Democrats or the other “doobie brothers and sisters”.
“please douse all the doobies in the area”
How government works when Democrats are in control.
JKB – ahhh, the smell of multiculturalism is in the air.
Hey Book get well soon. My wife just fractured her 5th right metatarsal in what is known as a Jones fracture. 8 weeks to heal oy. No cast but a franken boot and crutches. So when you recited the RICE we are right there with ya.
Blessings on you and yours,
It was inevitable that these injuries would come about with age and martial arts practice or any kind of routine physical regimen, Book. That’s why you need to take Taiji Chuan as soon as you can, in order to slow down the decay and make the healing process faster.
RE:Difficulty of typing on your iPad – get a wireless Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard. They are wireless, there are 3rd party ones for about $30, and work quite well. I use one when I am forced to use my iPhone for e-mail when on travel – ONE WHOLE HECK of a LOT better!!!
That’s an interesting idea, harvey. I don’t know if my iPad can handle that. I use an ergonomic wireless keyboard for my regular computer, but it needs a USB flash drive to communicate with the computer. I’ll need to look into what they’ve got for iPads.