Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m off to fight imaginary bad guys at the dojo, but I didn’t want my Saturday morning blog to be a complete blank. So I went to the other extreme and offer you riches galore, with Friday’s Watcher’s Council results. Council Winners *First place with 4 votes! Bookworm Room –The
Continue readingI don’t quite know what to make of this story about the FBI’s decision to stop protecting people from a computer virus. It doesn’t come through as an email rumor; it comes through as an actual AP article. Although AP is always suspect in my mind when it comes to
Continue readingIt’s been another all family, all the time day. Here are three interesting links, and then it’s Open Thread time: What’s going on with the GSA and the Secret Service reflects a failure of leadership. Are people buying guns because they’re afraid? And Pelosi says we don’t need no stinking
Continue readingThe ludicrous spectacle of the two parties fighting over which candidate has treated dogs more cruelly over the past decade has, quite appropriately, given rise to an endless stream of jokes. There is one serious point, though, that my friend Lulu noticed about this whole man eat dog story. Before
Continue readingUsually, Marines are there to help us. Today, though, you can help out a Marine — America’s Sergeant Major, who blogs at Castra Praetoria, is in a dead heat at the Milbloggies for best Marine Milblogger. Mike’s not only a friend of mine, but he runs a wonderful blog, one
Continue readingHow do those Council members do it? Week after week, it’s just good stuff: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Hiding Behind Names The Political Commentator – North Korea Camp 14: Why rogue nations cannot be negotiated with! Joshuapundit–John Derbyshire And A Talk About Race Simply Jews – This is
Continue readingDo you remember those old Ginsu knife commercials? You’d get about 1 minute of marvelous patter about the way the Ginsu knife could slice and dice everything from tomatoes to concrete. Just in case that sell wasn’t enough, though, the hard sell would end with a marvelous line: “But, wait!
Continue readingAs a Jew, the Holocaust is always with me. When I whine about something (which I often do), I’m instantly stricken with guilt because I know that, 70 years ago, across Europe, women with lives similar to mine (middle-aged, middle-class) were suddenly pitched into a nightmarish maelstrom from which there
Continue readingEverything flows from the top. I’m not saying that Obama encouraged his advance Security Service team to have riotous orgies, but I’m also not surprised that a corrupt administration ends up having corrupt employees. A leader’s ethos will always trickle down. Speaking of which, I see a continuum between Michelle
Continue readingThe debate about “which candidate treats dogs worse” inevitably descended into farce, with almost no intermediate steps. Putting aside the insanity of spinning a presidential campaign around decades’ old decisions about dogs, Americans are probably going to be sympathetic to putting a dog in a protected hutch on the roof
Continue readingI remember the hippies as dirty, drugged-out, pathetic human beings lying on the streets in the Haight Ashbury. Their continuing legacy is one of drugs, sexual self-indulgence, and mindless statism wrapped up in equally mindless slogans of “love” and “fairness,” as if a government is capable of giving love or
Continue readingFrom Season 1 of The Simpsons (waaaay back in 1990), comes “Bart the General“: After defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz, Bart becomes Nelson’s latest target. Sick of the harassment and torment, Bart, Grampa Simpson, and Herman (a slightly deranged military antique store dealer with a missing arm) rally
Continue readingYet another sterling week from your friend Watcher’s Council. If you haven’t yet read these posts, don’t deny yourself the pleasure of reading them now: Council Winners *First place with 2 1/3 votes! The Razor –Why There Are No Such Things As Unnecessary Tests Second place *t* with 1 2/3
Continue readingFriedrich Nietzsche: “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” (From Twilight of the Idols, 1888) Kelly Clarkson:
Continue readingI went to see a doctor this morning about my intractable migraines. (And yes, I did get useful advice, which I think will help.) The doctor was very nice, although not the most personable guy. He endeared himself to me forever, though, when he looked through my chart murmuring to
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