The Bookworm Beat 12/9/17 — the illustrated edition and open thread
Give yourself a gift this weekend and read my Illustrated Edition. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder what the heck is going on in America!
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Give yourself a gift this weekend and read my Illustrated Edition. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder what the heck is going on in America!
Continue readingSomething is very wrong in the West, and it’s not just creepy men such as Joe Biden. We’re also missing “manly men” protectors for women and children. With Joe Biden making noises about running in 2020, when he’ll be a young-at-heart 77 going on 78, people are starting to focus
Continue readingI’ve assembled a small (but solid) collection of sex scandals posters, plus a few of my own comments about Left//Right differences vis-a-vis the scandals. First, the posters: And now my comments about these roiling, boiling, continuously new and (if hyper-hypocritical Progs are involved) enjoyable sex scandals:
Continue readingThere’s something for everyone (at least everyone with sound common sense, an informed mind, and a good brain) in my latest illustrated edition. I had a post I wanted to write today, but haven’t yet figured out how to do it without violating someone’s privacy. So, while I wrestle with
Continue readingThe sex scandals we read about are all different and require different responses, ranging from letting the voters speak to criminal prosecution. Except for hysterical stories about President Trump drinking water or feeding fish the wrong way, it seems as if the news is entirely taken over with breaking sex
Continue readingWhile posters about sex scandals take pride of place in this illustrated edition, you’ll find more here than just the sordid state of our nation.
Continue readingShowing its anti-Americanism, The New Yorker celebrates the treasonous Bradley Manning as a mover and shaker who was more sinned against than sinning. Mr. Bookworm has a subscription to print version of The New Yorker. Most of the time I ignore this weekly magazine, finding it alternately banal, pompous, and
Continue readingIf you’re thinking ahead to 2020, the ads for a ticket made up of Al Franken and Jill Stein — Franken-Stein, right? — simply write themselves. As you all are so much more clever about these things than I am, I’d love to see your suggestions for bumper stickers and
Continue readingAl Franken, the rude buffoon from Minnesota deserved to be taken to task, and John McCain did it. The set-up: Joe Lieberman ran out of time to finish his talk; he asked, as Senators do, for a couple of extra minutes; and Al Franken, who was chairing, refused, something Senators
Continue readingThe National Republican Senatorial Committee puts out this timely public service announcement: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3QM_p73oI[/youtube] I’ll echo Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which gets the hat tip for this video): “Yeah, I know the GOP is hardly perfect and has a ton of lessons to learn, but I have to say, this message
Continue reading….And everything that’s wrong with modern liberal political discourse is summed up in these two beautiful paragraphs that Michael Gerson wrote about Al Franken (emphasis mine): Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word, and at cartoons
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