Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
To my shame, I only sort of paid attention to the story of Irena Sendlerowa, the Polish Catholic nurse who saved 2,500 Jewish children, was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, and escaped death by minutes through a well-placed bribe. Fortunately, the Webloggin editor was on the case, and he’s
Continue readingWhen I was a law student at a fairly prestigious school, I interviewed with a fairly prestigious law firm. One of the interviewers, when he heard I was from the Bay Area (although that’s not where I went to law school), told me that his firm almost never hired people
Continue readingI’ve heard that the Dems are excited because they believe that the fractious Republicans are falling apart at the seams as they fight over the different candidates heading to the primaries. Funnily enough, I don’t see what’s happening as a self-destructive battle to the death. Rather, I think the Republicans
Continue readingThe American public, rightly, is refusing to get excited about the eight US attorneys that got fired. It’s apparent that Bush simply passed on complaints without making any recommendations or demands, and equally apparent that Gonzales did not go overboard in firing people (unlike the Clintons’ housecleaning in 1993). I
Continue readingI volunteer with a youth choral group. In music theory today, one of the boys, who is learning sight singing, laboriously sounded out several tunes, and was then asked to name each of them. He was able to name Frere Jacques, Happy Birthday to You, and even My Bonny Lies
Continue readingDoes anyone pay attention any more when one of the fluffy dames in network television has a cozy, non-confrontational fireside chat with a megalomaniac?
Continue readingEveryone one in my liberal, environmentally conscious community wants a Prius. The only reason Mr. Bookworm didn’t buy one when his last car gave up the ghost was because it was too small for him to sit comfortably. The first of our neighbors to get the Prius was congratulated by
Continue readingYou’ve probably heard that the Flying Imams are going after US Airways for refusing to let them fly after they made a loud, scary spectacle of themselves, that seemed intentionally to mimic the behavior in which the 9/11 murders engaged. (Bravo, US Air!). What you didn’t know is that the
Continue readingBob Myer, writing at American Thinker, says that, faced with flat-lining student performance, American schools are thinking about making the school day longer. He doesn’t think that’s a good idea, and neither do I. Bob’s reasons focus on the very limited potential benefit conferred by extending a kids’ school day
Continue readingIs it just me, or is this a really, really unattractive look for a pregnant lady. The actress pictured is Tori Spelling. Maybe it’s just that Tori Spelling can’t carry it off, but it’s so not flattering. del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingThe confessed crime — kidnapping a 9 year old girl, raping her, then burying her alive in garbage bags so she slowly smothered to death. They recommended punishment, thank God — death: A jury decided Wednesday that a convicted sex offender should get the death penalty for the kidnapping, rape
Continue readingSometimes life in the suburbs is good. With the later sunset and the warm weather, we’ve opened our pool. There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than sitting in the garden, surrounded by spring flowers, reading a book, while every few minutes doing a head count to make sure
Continue readingBusy, busy morning, followed by a busy mid-afternoon, to be followed by a sort of busy late afternoon — and that late afternoon is when I’ll resume blogging with a comprehensive unloading of all the stuff swirling in my brain. Until then, keep coming at me with your comments about
Continue readingI’m seeing pieces of a puzzle, but I’m having a problem discerning a larger pattern (maybe there isn’t one). Here are the pieces, and I’d like it if you’d chime in with what I’m missing. It starts with Marines. The first piece of the puzzle is that Marine show I
Continue readingThe BBC is worried because one of its reporters has gone missing in Gaza, and some groups have already stepped forward to claim that he’s been kidnapping. This bad news all around. First, I sincerely hope that the reporter is safe and has not been forced to convert. Second, this
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