Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You know you live in a ridiculous era when satire is regularly trumped by reality: It’s no secret that Germany has a problem with ageism. Workers here who lose their jobs after the age of 50 are virtually assured of spending the rest of their lives on the dole. A
Continue readingBill Clinton deserves huge kudos for this: Clinton’s 50-minute speech, which started about an hour behind schedule, was derailed briefly by several hecklers in the audience who shouted that the 2001 terrorist attacks were a fraud. Rather than ignoring them, Clinton seemed to relish a direct confrontation. “A fraud? No,
Continue readingI got a sort of perverse pleasure out of reading the intro to SF Chron’s coverage of the most recent death of the DREAM Act, right down to the fact that the young people at issue are respectfully referred to as “undocumented,” rather than “illegal aliens”: The Senate killed help
Continue readingWhen I lived in England, one of my friends went for the one and only time to a professional soccer game. Although she found it exciting, she vowed not to go back when she learned the hard way that serious soccer fans, rather than leaving the stands, would just pee
Continue readingUPDATE V (which deserves to be at the top): It’s been more than two hours since Drudge broke the story and TNR has not come up with any response. It’s web page is completely static, and its blogs seem to have gone into hibernation. I would have thought that smart
Continue readingThis is just another reminder, as if we needed it, to distrust most press reports. As the reporters showed during Katrina, they are profoundly lazy, and will quickly report rumor as news without bothering to investigate. Most of the time it’s harmless. Sometimes, though, as in reporting about Israel or
Continue readingI can take or leave Halle Berry. I consider her a phenomenally pretty women, but otherwise don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about her. She popped up in the news, though, for making a catty comment on the Jay Leno show about Jewish people’s noses: The Oscar-winning actress
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Continue readingCan anyone explain to me why I periodically get between 5-10 links per day from random Tigerhawk posts when there is no, zero, nada, nothing connecting to my blog on the referring page? See this page, for example. Not a hint of my presence there, yet I’ve already received 5
Continue reading(I think I finally got the image to show up, so I’ve bumped this back to the top) WS sent me this wonderful picture of one of the vets listening to Hillary address the Veterans of Foreign Wars. UPDATE: Normally, when I get “too good to be true” emails, I
Continue readingVery funny: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEXywdSpNQ] UPDATE: YouTube deleted the above video. However, you can still see it here. Hat tip: Hot Air
Continue readingAs you recall, people cheered wildly at Rowling’s announcement that Dumbledore is gay, and many in the media have been thrilled. Certainly Dumbledore is one of the best and most honorable characters in the Harry Potter series. But think about it: Dumbledore’s first and only love was a murderous psychopath
Continue readingA few days ago, I saw a headline about oil selling at $90 per barrel. Perhaps that was the peak, because prices are dropping: Oil prices dropped further Wednesday ahead of the release of weekly U.S. fuel data expected to show crude stocks rose last week. Light, sweet crude for
Continue readingToday’s generation of kids tends to get dreadfully confused, and ends up thinking that blow-dried, plastic, vapid actors are heroes because they take on those roles in movies. It would be great if these guys could go around wearing signs warning “I’m not a hero, but I play one on
Continue readingI wanted to say here that I haven’t forgotten the fire engulfing Southern California. I just have nothing intelligent to add. All I can do is keep the residents in my thoughts and hope that as many as possible return safely to their homes, without suffering anything more than inconvenience.
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