And meow for something completely different
A very funny parody here, so check it out.
Continue readingMonth: September 2007
A petition to sign regarding freedom of truthful information
As you probably know, both the Second Intifadah and a sudden and dramatic nosedive in Israel’s already low standing around the world got their impetus from a horrific video shown on French TV: the death of 12 year old Palestinian boy as collateral damage in a shoot out between Palestinians
Continue readingMass killer killed
One more mass murderer is off the streets in Iraq: An Iraqi militant who was behind last month’s attacks that killed more than 400 members of the minority Yazidi community has been killed, the US says. Abu Mohammed al-Afri, also known as Abu Jassam, was killed in an air strike
Continue readingThe feeding fenzy that won’t happen **BUMPED**
Is it me, or is the political scene in our country getting stupider? In the last few days, I’ve read story after story where politics seems to be happening in an alternate reality where common sense and logic are entirely absent. The most recent example is the plan in San
Continue readingInternet synergy
One of my favorite sites in the blogsphere is American Thinker — and I don’t say that just because it’s been kind enough to publish a few of my longer articles. I think that, on a daily basis, editor Thomas Lifson offers readers a wonderful potpourri of quality writings about
Continue readingWhy are those people licking the highway?
Berliners saw a surrealistic accident the other day, when a truck carrying 13 tons of chocolate (yes, 13 tons) caught fire: Thursday evening . . . a semi-truck loaded with 13 tons of chocolate bars had a small accident on the German Autobahn. Apparently, the truck suddenly caught on fire
Continue readingMan’s brilliant best friend
They’re not just loving companions and helpmates, they’re also smart and have been programmed over the generations to read us like books.
Continue readingThe results from the Watcher’s Council
The Watcher Council results are in, and they are good. On the Council side, the winning post was Done With Mirrors’ Contemptible, the title of which already tells you everything you need to know about Callimachus’ attitude towards Brian De Palma’s latest piece of anti-American military propaganda. The post, though,
Continue readingAutres temps, autres moeurs
DQ forwarded this email to me today. As he commented, it’s an exaggeration, but not by much: Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1977 – Vice principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets
Continue readingVery naughty boys
Our pasts always return to haunt us. As Larry Craig continues to dodge and weave around his Fred Astaire moment in the airport stall, enterprising people have, of course, resurrected his own words to use against him. There’s just something about his tone…. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lvMYgIAAkk]
Continue readingThankfully, the “blessed moment” may not be so soon after all
I’ve got to head off to get the kids, but I wanted to tip you off to a post at The Jawa Report that’s disturbing at so many levels, not least of which is WordPress’s apparently cavalier approach to a blog it was hosting that seems to be intimating another
Continue readingIt’s a very small world (if you’re a conservative in the Bay Area)
I just read that a federal judge has temporarily canceled the Patriot Act’s wire tapping provisions. I’m very much not a Constitutional lawyer, so I can’t comment on the validity of this decision at a legal level. Immediately upon reading that story, though, I was pretty willing to bet that
Continue readingPC abuse
Political correctness is deeply invested in affirming all possible positive stereotypes about whatever group happens to be classified as the victim of straight white male culture (and that would be usually Jewish or Christian straight white male culture). To that end, it shies away from any unpleasant realities that might
Continue readingA cold day in January 2009
William Katz, a man of many careers, including a long stint on The Tonight Show during the Carson years, was also a comedy writer. He’s been feeding bits and pieces of his memoirs to the guys at Power Line, intermixing old memories with new facts, especially political facts. In a
Continue readingCue up the Twilight Zone music
It’s a little before 8 in the morning here and, for the last half hour, my house has been filled with an eerie red glow, coming from the bright red sun in the sky. I know that it’s probably because of a big fire that has been burning within a
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