Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I quickly wanted to touch on a couple of money matters. First, you may recall the absolute horror Americans experienced a few years ago when they heard about the size of the national debt. We were so broken in many people’s minds that there seemed to very little separating us
Continue readingShocking as it may seem, I actually have to do paying work today, a fact that (sadly) severely limits my valuable blogging time. But do not despair. My favorite bloggers always do good stuff but, today, two of them are on fire. If I were to blog at length right
Continue readingIn the past few days, I’ve done posts in which I asked readers more knowledgeable than I to comment about two New York Times articles that (a) had military personnel criticizing the Surge or (b) had military personnel criticizing military leadership. After having read those two posts, one of my
Continue readingDuring the 1980s, Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County was one of my favorite comic strips. Breathed sometimes crossed the line by running strips that were too silly or gross to be funny, but for the most part he displayed a rare wit and insight into current shibboleths. One of the my
Continue readingThe Confederate Yankee rightly points out that all dishonest war reporting, whether it paints Iraq as a grim hellhole populated by evil US soldiers, or a glorious victory for American-style peace and democracy, is a very bad thing and must be nipped in the bud: If we’re to make any
Continue readingAs you may recall, I thought it was a mistake to stave and dehydrate Terri Schiavo to death. We know so little about the human brain and, as long as her parents were cheerfully willing to care for her, I thought it was out and out murder to bar them
Continue readingUPDATE: Hey, everyone. Thank you so much for taking this post to heart. You can stop calling Orkin now, though, because Orkin has been helpful, honest and responsive regarding this show. Here’s their representative’s latest missive: Just want to circle back to give the final update from Orkin. We had
Continue readingThe New York Times has again thrust before me food for thought — and food that I haven’t seen addressed in the major conservative blogs. Again, it involves military personnel criticizing the war effort. The trigger article is a May 2007 opinion piece in the Armed Forces Journal in which
Continue readingHave a smile about this one, until the moment you suddenly realize there may be a lot more young people out there who are just like her: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww] Hat tip: Hot Air
Continue readingSan Francisco is a small town and I knew Naomi Wolf when we were both young. With the best will in the world, I didn’t like her. Okay, I’m lying — I didn’t have the best will in the world. I was an insecure teenager, and viewed with hostility anyone
Continue readingMr. Bookworm and I just finished watching the second and last season of Rome, the series. At the IMDB link I just gave, 7,600 viewers gave it a staggeringly high rating of 9.2 out of 10 — and, I think, deservedly so. Zhombre suggested that I start a thread on
Continue readingBest Hamster Dance video ever: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kpdSQ1v-4h8]
Continue readingIf it startles a laugh out of me, I pass it on to you. This one, sent by a friend, is too good to keep to myself.
Continue readingJames Lewis has put together the “greatest hits” of liberal wisdom, all culled from conversations with ordinary liberals. It reads like fantasy (or nonsense), but it isn’t. As to almost every single item on the list, I have read or heard someone say it.
Continue readingNo comment, ’cause this one speaks for itself: Despite its numerous calls for Israel’s destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism. The planning committee, which
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