Bookworm on Sep 11 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet There are two thinkers on the Left whom I credit with helping me become more conservative: Paul Krugman and Andrew Sullivan. Both of them wrote (and still write) incredible horse pucky in publications I routinely read as a yuppie liberal. I eventually realized that, if these two were lauded as the shining intellectual lights [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2012 | Filed under: Uplifting stories
Tweet My mother is a testament to the wonders of modern medicine. But for the drugs, surgery, and implanted equipment upon which she relies, she would have been dead a long time ago. Perhaps even more importantly, to the extent that she’s not dead, she has a fairly good quality of life. Thanks to cataract [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters, Presidential elections
Tweet Funnily enough, the MSM isn’t picking up on this story, the one that provides proof (proof that can easily be replicated) that the Obama campaign machine is set up to encourage completely fraudulent campaign donations. The same proof exercise shows that the Republican candidates have set up their donations to block fraud. Hmm. Obama [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2011 | Filed under: Education
Tweet Regular readers know Marica, who occasionally comments here. If you like her comments, as I do, you might want to check out the blog she’s started, Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life. While you’re there, be sure to read this post, about the Left’s smug belief in the righteousness of its “scientific” views, and [...]
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 Mar 15 2011 | Filed under: Japan
Tweet Mr. Bookworm, New York Times reader, was telling the children that there was a total catastrophe in Japan, with the Japanese and the world exposed to the possibility of massive radiation poisoning. I calmed the children’s fears by telling them that the paper could be right, but it could be wrong. First, newspapers sell [...]
Danny Lemieux on Feb 20 2011 | Filed under: Climate change, Conservative ideology, Education
Tweet Most of us here in the Bookworm Room express a healthy skepticism of “experts” in general. Most of us revel in our ability to think and discourse critically for ourselves, while others lament that socially-anointed “experts” are not solemnly revered through incense, incantations and burnt offerings made before the Temple of Orthodoxy. Ah well. [...]
Bookworm on May 07 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I always enjoy James Taranto’s writing. Today, however, he wrote something almost transcendent about the liberal misunderstanding of science’s incredibly important role in a healthy, functioning modern society: The notion that conservatives or Republicans are “antiscience” is a liberal Democratic talking point of long standing, but what exactly does it mean? Largely it is [...]
Bookworm on Feb 24 2010 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I’ve been reading Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, by Simon Singh. Normally, I’d shy away from a book like this — after all, it’s about math! — but it was required reading for my book club, and it’s proven to be delightful. To the extent there is [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet The whole sordid story of the corruption of science at one of the world’s premier institutions that has been pushing the man-made global warming theory sounded vaguely familiar to me, but I couldn’t figure out why. It was only last night that I finally realized that the debate perfectly parallels a major plot point [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
Tweet The media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change. That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans (particularly American humans) are [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Health
Tweet Michelle Malkin puts it together: the administration’s insistence that blind-folded science (untouched by greed or human feeling) will ensure the proper treatments in all situations plus the person who is the President’s voice for those “scientific” treatments. If you recall Zombie’s expose about the new science czar, John Holdren, you’ll realize that the person [...]
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