Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A reader sent me a link to a wonderful site called Israel High Tech TV, which highlights all of the technology Israel has brought to the world, including the speed of the computer you’re using right now. A world without Israel would not be a world free from Islamic grievances
Continue readingDid you know that Rosh Hashanah, along with Yom Kippur, of course, is one of the oldest continuously celebrated holidays in the world? It got its start in Leviticus: 23:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in
Continue readingBetty Ong was one of the flight attendants who died on 9/11. She was also a native San Franciscan. Since 1994, a large mural in San Francisco’s Chinatown has celebrated the Chinese in San Francisco. In 2003, the site’s owners and the artist added a tribute to Ms. Ong to
Continue readingI have a wonderful recipe for an egg and spinach dish, although the rest of the family is less enthusiastic about it than I am. From now on, though, I can say say “Tough! It’s a health food.”
Continue readingI’m reading Gone With The Wind again, for the first time in about 30 years. I didn’t mean to, but I found a lovely, perfectly clean copy at Goodwill for $1.49 and couldn’t resist buying it (such a bargain). And then, of course, once it was in the house, I
Continue readingLorie Byrd has written a thoughtful article about the lessons we’ve learned from 9/11 and, more importantly, the lessons we keep ignoring. She was kind enough to link to one of my posts on the subject, which I really appreciate. She sees, as I do, an overwhelming tension between those
Continue readingWe say we won’t forget, but we do. We forget when we get up in the morning and hustle the kids off to school. And we forget when we rush through our morning ablutions and throw ourselves in the work of the day. We forget when we stand in the
Continue readingOn very rare occasions, you get a phone call during which, as the person speaks to you, you think “That’s a cruel and silly joke for someone — especially an adult — to play on me.” And then, seconds later, you realize the cruel joke isn’t the phone call, it’s
Continue readingThis is what happens in societies that don’t value women: Her relatives had always described her as a colicky baby. When Luo Cuifen was 26, she found out a likely reason why. Doctors discovered more than two dozen sewing needles embedded in her body, some piercing her vital organs. X-rays
Continue readingA conversation between Little Bookworm, who is in fifth grade, and me: LB: Can we watch Little Miss Sunshine [an R rated movie]? Me: No. LB: Why not? Me: Because even though it’s a good movie, it’s not appropriate for you. LB: But Michelle watched it. Why did her parents
Continue readingMr. Bookworm has liked the singing duo Indigo Girls for as long as I can remember, and I’ve disliked them, very much, for equally long. To my ear, there is a bullying, hectoring tone to their singing that is just a complete turn-off. Considering how little I like them, I
Continue readingJane Wyman, a lovely and classy actress whose career spanned fifty years, died at 93. AP has written a nice obituary. This is my favorite part: After Reagan became governor of California and then president of the United States, Wyman kept a decorous silence about her ex-husband, who had married
Continue readingIf you haven’t yet added Cheat-Seeking Missiles to your daily or, at least, your weekly reading list, why not? Laer is burning hot today. I was going to link to and discuss his top post about Kerry and the Petraeus report, but then I got side tracked by another post
Continue readingAt American Digest, you can read a lovely essay about 9/11, the day the smoke rose in the sky. I’m especially envious of its beauty because, as we near the Sixth Anniversary of that day, I find myself with nothing to say. As always, I mourn the dead, but I
Continue readingEvery society has its intelligentsia. By definition, these are the “intellectual elite of a society,” the ones who are — or think they are — better thinkers than the rest of us. What they really are, I think, are people with a better verbal facility than the rest of us.
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