Bookworm Room

Much of what I write at this blog is my opinion.  When I have the facts and the time, I’ll hyperlink to support my argument, but sometimes I just talk.  As part of a larger article attacking the truly execrable Paul Krugman (whose inchoate, mean-spirited, inane opinion-writing helped speed me down the path from liberal [...]

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My blog has enriched my life in so many ways.  At the most obvious level, of course, it’s allowed me to engage in all the political discourse that would be inappropriate in my normal, suburban mom life.  Aside from the fact that I live in a liberal enclave, which makes political discussions very fraught, the [...]

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When I was a young lawyer, I worked for an attorney who liked me to sit in the room and just listen to him dictate his briefs into his little hand-held Dictaphone.  When I expressed concern that I was wasting client time, he assured me I was not.  I was, he said, keeping him honest. [...]

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As you may recall, a couple of days ago I asked why there had been no comment whatsoever in the conservative blogosphere about a New York Times op-ed piece in which seven active duty soldiers criticized the Iraq War. In updates to that same post, I was able to point to a couple of bloggers [...]

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On August 19, the New York Times ran an op-ed by seven military personnel, who were described as follows: Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is a staff sergeant. Jeremy A. [...]

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If any of you bloggers are getting disheartened, don’t. The internet does matter, even if gains are slow and grudging. Case in point: the bombed out mosques in Baghdad. The story began in November when the AP reported that Shiite fights had destroyed four Sunni mosques in Baghdad and burned six men alive. Curt, at [...]

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One of the nice things about having a bit more traffic is that people sometimes find me to deliver interesting information.  I got an email today from someone who owns (manages?) a search engine called Compete.com, which also runs a blog about blog usage.  As far as I can tell, their blog culls computer generated [...]

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I started a series of posts aimed at examining what the Left side of the blogosphere had to say about what I think is one of the biggest stories of our day: Israel’s major military initiative against Hezbollah. What I discovered, and why I’ve sort of dried up on checking out those blogs, is that [...]

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I'm betting that, by now, most of you have already heard of Maryscott O'Connor, the fulminating Left wing blogger profiled in the Washington Post a few days ago.  This is one seriously angry lady: In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her [...]

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Welcome! You found me. Blogger has been so difficult for me lately that I decided to switch to a new host. (I’m apparently not alone with having Blogger problems.) So, here I am, starting all over again, and trying to figure out how to get the word out. If you’ve been kind enough to have [...]

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If you’re curious about what I’ve written before, you can find eighteen months worth of archive material at Bookworm Room, which is my old Blogger site. I was having so many troubles with Blogger, I decided to switch over, so here I am.

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