Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This is very bad news: The Lincoln Avenue rapist is free to walk Lincoln Avenue again, or anywhere else he pleases – without a tracking device. Patrick Henry Ghilotti, the notorious San Rafael serial rapist, was released from state supervision Thursday and may travel wherever he chooses. Although living at
Continue readingAnother week, another vote over at the Watcher of Weasels. I’m very proud of the fact that I won on the Council side, because I think my post was good on its own merits, and because I’m pleased (in a kind of sad way) by how prescient I was when
Continue readingIf this guy is correct it’s really good news, both in terms of saving the world’s vanishing bee population and in terms of taking some of the heat off of global warming (if you’ll pardon the pun). If he’s wrong, that would be a shame, because the culprit he’s identified
Continue readingI used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered.
Continue readingNeo-neocon is an elegant writer, so I like her summary of the theater in which the Democrats engaged last night when they called for a slumber party to dramatize their desire to withdraw from the Iraq War immediately. I left a comment at her blog, which I like enough that
Continue readingSean Hannity isn’t one of my favorite conservative talking heads. He has some good points, but he functions off of an anger and emotionalism that stops just short of (or maybe drifts over into) demagoguery. I thought this was very clearly displayed in his attack last night on Johnny Sutton,
Continue readingI’ve never liked the idea of John McCain as a presidential candidate. He’s a little too iconoclastic for my tastes and, as with so many senators in the run for President, he has way too much baggage trailing behind him and too little administrative experience. Another reason I don’t want
Continue readingDrudge gives appropriate prominence to a report that the military caught one of the top guys of Al Qaeda (“which doesn’t exist”) in Iraq: The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group’s
Continue readingI was fortunate enough several months ago to get in on the ground floor of something big. In the wake of the Jamil Hussein and Fauxtography scandals, some bloggers got together to create a wiki the sole focus of which is exposing media myths. And so Media Mythbusters was born.
Continue readingLondon, one of the greatest cities in the world for the last 1,000 years or so, continues to slide down, down, down. If you’re unlucky enough to live in the wrong section of London, this is what it’s like to do business: A corner shop run by an Asian couple
Continue readingLife imprisonment for a crime you didn’t commit is a bad thing, but it’s a lesser evil than execution for that same uncommitted crime. The nurses and doctor in Libya, originally sentenced to death for allegedly transmitting HIV to children, have had their sentence commuted to life in prison: Death
Continue readingThis post doesn’t actually have anything to do with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but it falls in the genre of people elevating animals over humans — hence the post title. If you’re at all familiar with San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, you know that it is an
Continue readingThe definition for “goon,” from Dictionary.com: American Heritage Dictionary – Cite This Source goon (gōōn) Pronunciation Key n. Slang A thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents. A stupid or oafish person. [Probably ultimately short for gooney, simpleton.] ********************* That pretty much sums up the 9/11 Truthers behind this dreadful
Continue readingCan anyone explain to me why Britain is taking such a hard line with regard to Russia right now, while it’s taking the weakest approach possible in the face of rising and real Islamist violence?
Continue readingI’ve had a few thoughts swarming my brain, so I thought I’d jot them down. Have you ever watched a conversation between one of those people who talks without pause (indeed, without even breathing), and a person who interrupts compulsively? It’s part painful, part humorous. Incidentally, the hands-down winner in
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