Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Okay, I’ll admit that my post title is awkward, but it sums up what California State Senator Mark Leno is trying to do in California public schools: namely, put a person’s sexuality front and center, with a tag-on coda about the person’s actual accomplishments. This isn’t the first time a
Continue readingMy mother is very old. This means that she no longer actively contributes to society. Her working and child-rearing days are over. She lives off of her diminishing savings, a small pension and her social security checks. In a utilitarian world, she has no value. Because — thankfully — we
Continue readingPosting will be light today, as my Mom has been hospitalized with a recurring condition, so I have to go take care of that. I’m optimistic that she’ll be back in her own home by this evening, but it’s still a concern. The morning after, therefore, is less than thrilling.
Continue readingThe Muslims, the UN, the Europeans, the Left — they all imagine a world without Israel as a world that will be peaceful and calm. Doubtful. Very doubtful. What we know for certain is that a world without Israel is a less rich world — not in terms of wealth,
Continue readingThere’s a fiery debate over whether Republicans won or lost the budget round over discretionary spending. Good examples of the pros and cons on that debate are Peter Wehner (Boehner did great) and Dick Morris (Boehner was a spaghetti-spined disaster). What do you think?
Continue readingI started blogging in 2004, right before the election, and was hooked. After years of churning out legal briefs, it was an endless pleasure to write about politics, pop culture, education, social issues, national security, the media, and whatever else caught my attention. It was wonderful, too, to develop a
Continue readingEven though my computer crash meant reading approximately 24 articles on my iPhone (oy, my eyes!), I still managed to be very impressed by this past week’s entries at the Watcher’s Council. Here are the winners: Council Winners *First place with 1 2/3 votes! –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD–The Little Satan Posse Second
Continue readingI have two notices and two requests. On the notice side: First, I’m going to be including automatically at the end of future posts links to my book. (This post has such a notice, although I’d be delighted if any of you can come up with something jazzier, although still
Continue readingObama has already thrown his hat in the ring. Democrats therefore have a “payee” for their political donations. The money can start rolling in instantly. Republicans, however, don’t know yet who is going to be opposing Obama. Pawlenty? Trump? Palin? Bachmann? Paul? Cain? An as yet unknown candidate? The fact
Continue readingLooking back over the past few weeks, one can see a little history play out: People rose up against Gaddafi. The West dithered. The tide was in favor of the Libya rebels. The West dithered. The tide turned in Gaddafi’s favor. The West — i.e., a few NATO states plus
Continue readingDQ again. Sometime, I’m going to do a post on pop lyrics, on how the young men pine for the love of a young lady while the young ladies are sluts. But one song so stands out as downright scary that it can’t wait. We all know that rap lyrics are filthy
Continue readingTo get from my house to the freeway, one needs to drive down a fairly well traveled four lane access road (two lanes in each direction) that’s a little over a mile long. The speed limit on the road varies between 30 and 35 miles an hour. There are three
Continue readingMy son asked me “Is Princeton a good school?” I didn’t quite know how to answer that. It’s an old school. It’s a school with a great reputation. It’s expensive. It has its pick of the nation’s best students. It also employs Paul Krugman and Peter Singer. What!? You don’t
Continue readingThe malware that hit me yesterday left my operating system dysfunctional, although it didn’t touch my data. The whole experience falls into the “incredibly inconvenient” category, which is so much better than the “devastating” or “disastrous” categories. I’m limping along right now with bizarre settings (e.g., I can’t confuse the
Continue readingI don’t know how many Bookwormroom readers follow American Idol, but the American Idol crowd is all abuzz at the voting out of Pia Toscano last night. Ms. Toscano has an amazing voice, probably the best of all of the candidates. Nearly everyone is shocked that she is gone. I’m not. She
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