Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My mother is miserable. With her, it’s always a chicken and egg thing, as we struggle to figure out if her mental misery causes her physical symptoms or vice versa. This question actually matters because, if there’s a genuine health problem, medical care can perhaps alleviate her misery but, if
Continue readingIn 1965, the United States Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut, the first case to enunciate a “right to privacy” under the U.S. Constitution. Before Griswold, notion of a right to privacy had only existed as a common law doctrine, applicable to ones fellow citizens. This was the first time,
Continue readingWhen Obama came to San Francisco, two of my favorite photo-essayists attended the street protests, which marked the rare coming together (sort of) of Tea Partiers and OWSers, all of whom are discontented with Obama. Here’s Zombie. And here’s Fund47. I’d add more but anything I say would be redundant,
Continue readingI had different plans for today, plans that included blogging. As it turns, my plans went wildly awry. I’m regrouping, but in the interim, I leave you with one short post to enjoy and one music video that charmed me because of it’s old-fashioned romanticism. Then, for the time being,
Continue readingMy mother, who lives in a retirement home that, so far as I know, was built in the 1960s, tells me with great aplomb that her room was once occupied by WWII soldiers, and that one of her caregivers has been scolding her for daring to use an oxygen tank
Continue readingThe Daily Mail is one of my go-to places. I love the strange amalgam of real news, crime stories, pop culture, and general miscellanea. Today, that miscellanea included an exquisite, and completely un-antisemitic, photo essay about an ultra-Orthodox wedding in Israel. The pictures are dazzling windows into a different world,
Continue readingBefore I publish the list of the cool stuff at the Watcher’s Council, a couple of announcements. Announcement No. 1 is that Debbie Hamilton of Right Truth has decided that there is more to life than blogging, and has departed to sample those greener, less geeky pastures. Because she left
Continue readingThis is just the week for me to have sex on my mind. It’s not my fault, though, because the culture insists on pushing it into the forefront of my brain. Ours is a sex saturated culture. Progressives like it that way and want it to stay that way. Conservatives
Continue readingMy brain is slowly warming up here so I’m not yet capable of original content. Instead, let me offer other people’s wonderful stuff. To get this set started, you have to begin by reading a speech that the Ayatollah Khomeini made in 1942, in which he stated explicitly that Islam
Continue readingI’ve got sex on the mind today. (How’s that for a great opening sentence?) It actually has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with a confluence of posts and statements that came my way within the last couple of days. It all started when Erick Erickson put
Continue readingAs everyone will remind us, in politics, even a day can be a lifetime. With a little more than eight months to go before the elections, so much can change. But right now, this minute, today, are you optimistic or pessimistic when you think about November 2012. I have to
Continue readingThis was the week that was, and it was a very good week indeed: Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit – Glorifying Evil Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – The Mellow Jihadi- Slab City, Navy Town Third place *t* with 1 vote – The Razor-
Continue readingYou all remember the fun conservatives had with #AttackWatch, when the Obama administration gave them the opportunity to flood the Twitter air waves with silly stuff. The Obama administration has opened itself up again to satire with its new Truth Team. Zombie has created the ultimate action cartoon. As is
Continue readingConservatives of all religious stripes have been attacking the ObamaCare mandate regarding birth control and abortifacients on religious grounds. The Obama administration’s response was to introduce an “accommodation” under which the insurance companies will henceforth offer these medicines and services for “free.” Anybody past the age of five understands that,
Continue readingI was surprised at how many of my “real me” Facebook friends watched the Grammys. (One of them was even in the audience.) Even in my younger days, when pop music mattered more to me, I wouldn’t have watched the Grammys. In past years, though, as I’ve become increasingly aware
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