We may not have Tim Conway, But we have YouTube
Some folks mentioned Tim Conway in other comments so I just had to share this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY[/youtube] Some things never get old!
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Some folks mentioned Tim Conway in other comments so I just had to share this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY[/youtube] Some things never get old!
Continue readingIt’s always fun to track the little memes that creep into and out of leftist discourse. Back in the day, they included “premature anti-fascism,” “McCarthyite witch hunt,” “peaceful co-existence,” “Venceremos!,” “Bush Lied, Children Died,” and other absurdities. Here’s a look at some of the current crop of “progressive” memes: Shared
Continue readingSadie sent me two posts which struck me as connected and possibly contradictory. First off: “Forget the crude scribblings of San Francisco anti-circumcision comic Monster Mohel, which missed its original publication date in Berlin by only seven decades, and think about the underlying idea behind the campaign instead. That direct
Continue readingWow! Ephesus is a wow! Or maybe an “Oh, my God!” A former Greek and Roman port city near the modern Turkish port of Kusadasi (from roughly 300 B.C. to, very roughly, the 4th century), Ephesus is breathtaking. Although it lost its port through silt, had its buildings knocked down
Continue readingVermont attempted to save $200,000 on bottled water for state employees until …. But when word went out, the complaints started coming in. “As a dedicated state employee, I am offended at the small mind thinking and petty penny pinching decision to have us fend for ourselves for water,” wrote
Continue readingWe’ve been in some pretty serious discussions the last couple of weeks since Bookworm left for vacation, so today I thought I’d ask a different question. What makes something funny? And please feel free to give examples of things you find particularly humorous. I thought of this topic while reading
Continue readingBesides all the fine links Sadie has been providing in comments, she’s been sending some to me. Here is one of her latest goodies: It’s biblical – stealing from Peter to pay Paul. If it were baseball, it would be a foul ball and anywhere else it’s: One lies
Continue readingI know of several people of considerable net worth who have already left the U.S. to settle elsewhere. I know others who have opted out of the workforce altogether to retire on what they have, knowing that their futures look grim. This morning, I listened to the founder and former
Continue readingFrom Sadie (Thank you!): If Greece defaults, American banks will be on the hook for $41.4 billion, according to Bank for International Settlements data. But U.S. banks are dangerously undercapitalized. Where are they going to get that kind of money from? And it gets worse. If Portugal collapses, American
Continue readingI could have done without Santorini. It’s very picturesque, but that’s all. The problem is that it’s not my kind of picturesque, meaning that once I’ve oohed and aahed over how it sits all whitely on the top of a cliff overlooking the sparkling blue waters, there’s not much left
Continue readingZach has repeatedly emphasized the point that top income tax rate brackets in the United States are lower than they have been in the past. This ignores, of course, that other taxes (social security, state income taxes, state sales taxes, etc.) are generally higher. But it is true, as far
Continue readingThanks for all your wishes for my little Bookworm’s recovery. She is doing well, but the clinic is holding her hostage, e.g. not giving her travel certificates, so that it gets more American dollars. That’s not me being paranoid. That’s what everyone says. Socialized medicine funded by unwitting, unwary and
Continue readingNot anymore and not in Wisconsin. Do we need cursive? Or is the next generation going to have an app for that. Even my generation of baby boomers pays their bills online. E-Weddings today and who knows E-Divorces tomorrow. Is this the beginning of the end of handwriting analysis? And
Continue readingSpenditol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoYYc1APr8&feature=player_embedded
Continue readingWe have some access to the NYT on the ship, so I caught the headline it gave to its report yesterday about Anders Behring Breivik, the man who carried out the slaughter in Oslo. Right there, in the lede, the NYT id’d him as a “Christian fundamentalist”. This was interesting
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