Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When both Left and Right are outraged about something, it’s reasonable to believe that the something that inspired their collective ire is a bad idea. Such is the case with the University of California’s dreadful idea for a new logo. In the face of a rising tide of protest and
Continue readingDespite being fairly decent at both sympathy and empathy, I truly cannot imagine what the survivors of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, are experiencing, and that’s true whether I think of the ones in the line of fire or the family and friends whose loved ones were at the
Continue readingWhen we think of herd immunity, we think of vaccinations. Fewer parents are vaccinating their children nowadays because of their fears about negative reactions to vaccinations (including the now-debunked theory about vaccinations causing autism). Those parents skipping vaccination point triumphantly to the fact that, despite their children’s vaccination-free status, there
Continue readingI didn’t enjoy my time at UC Berkeley. Even though I didn’t realize it at the time, already then I was fighting Marxist tropes so I found my classes nonsensical. This isn’t sour grapes speaking. Although I found the classes foolish, I still managed to graduate Phi Beta Kappa, etc.
Continue readingOne of the books that saw me traverse from Left to Right was Myrna Blyth’s Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — and Liberalism — to the Women of America, which exposed the profound Leftist tilt of decidedly non-political magazines. Until reading that, I’d never thought
Continue readingThe problem with blogging as a hobby is that it always has to yield to other demands on my time. Today was one of those “yielding” days. I didn’t realize the day would slip away from me so quickly. If I had, I would have posted these Watcher’s Council submissions
Continue readingSome of you may have noticed that I now boast a Newsmax widget in my sidebar. I’m actually pretty pleased, because you can’t just find and post that widget. Instead, Newsmax invites people to host the widget. The fact that Newsmax was willing to have me as one of their
Continue readingRobert Avrech, who blogs at Seraphic Secret, flattered me tremendously when he asked me to read his e-book How I Married Karen and, if I felt so inclined to write a pre-publication blurb. As it turned out, I felt very inclined, because the book was a pleasure from beginning to
Continue readingApproximately every ten years, Marin County floods. Thinking back, the last big flood year in our neighborhood was around 2002 or 2003. I remember taking the kids down from the hill on which we live to the marshy flat-lands nearby. We waded through water that came up past our knees.
Continue readingThe State Bar of California, which I have to pay into in order to practice law in the State of California, long-ago abandoned its core responsibility of ensuring that people who hold themselves out as lawyers to California citizens are at least minimally qualified. As with all these mandatory organizations,
Continue readingI wrote a few days ago about the fact that the State of California Department of Education has gone after the Kentfield School District in Marin County, because the District’s food program relies on PTA volunteers, rather than on paid union members. Our local paper has an update on the
Continue readingI promise that this post will be about what Sheldon Adelson had to say in an interview with Alana Goodman of Commentary Magazine. Before I get there, though, I need to begin with a little story of my own. Readers of my newsletter know that I had lunch last week
Continue readingThe rule of war used to be that you hated your enemy. That made it easy to fight your enemy. Then, starting with the first Gulf War, the new rule was that you felt sorry for your enemy. By the Iraq War, the rule had become, you’ve got to like
Continue readingI’ve spent today being very productive in a non-blogging way, but there are still a few things I’d like to share with you. If you’re feeling in a giving mood, the National Review needs help in its fight against the lawsuit Michael Mann (yes, climate change Michael Mann) filed against
Continue readingI have a new post up at PJ Lifestyle, and I would like it to get as much readership and distribution as possible, because it’s about a very special young man and a very important topic: Autism is a painfully mysterious syndrome. We don’t know what causes it, although we
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