My belly laugh for the day
If you want to get at least one sure laugh today, go here.
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Movie review
I'd earlier vowed not to see Munich because I can't abide Steven Spielberg movies. My husband, however, had ordered it from Netflix and, when he begged me to watch it with him, I yielded. I managed to last for an hour an a half (just a little more than half
Continue readingThe illegal immigration travesty continues in Congress
I can't resist including here, in its entirety, Mark Steyn's comment on The Corner about the more insane aspects of the immigration law Congress is trying to foist on us: But how about some of you natives piling on [he was responding to comments by The Corner's British ex-pats]? I
Continue readingThe First Neo-Con/Crypto-Con Carnival
[Another bumped reminder about the carnival.] Working through Blog Carnival, I've decided to go crazy and have a carnival of my own. The goal of this first edition to have people submit posts describing their political conversion to conservatism. You can also submit articles to me, and I'll create a
Continue readingIn the old days, you’d just get fined
It's not uncommon to liken the world envisioned by Islamic fundamentalists to a medieval world, where women are shrouded in heavy draperies and are second class citizens; where beheading and torture are the punishments of choice; and where there is supposed to be one universal religion (with Jews as the
Continue readingTraveling down my Daddy’s memory lane
The Opinion Journal's Best of the Web found this great obituary in London's Daily Telegraph: Lieutenant-Commander John Wellham, who has died aged 87, was the last surviving pilot of the Fleet Air Arm raid on the Italian fleet at Taranto. . . . Wellham remembered meeting a barrage balloon at
Continue readingRemember all the heroes in Iraq
This Memorial Day, the MSM, as usual, will focus vigorously on the ones who didn't make it, or who barely made it. I will say a prayer for them too, but, as does the WSJ, I'll also remember the ones who do make it, and who every day display their
Continue readingWasting my time
Sorry for the blog silence. True to my bookworm credentials, I spent the last seven hours (4 last night; 3 this morning) devouring a nine hundred page novel, The Bronze Horseman. I'll recommend it, although with the strong caveat that it's a girl book. It's about the Siege of Leningrad,
Continue readingTony Snow has a verbal facility I envy
Steve Inskeep interviewed Tony Snow on NPR. It was an interesting display of style. Inskeep was on the attack: You deflect questions by actually focusing on what reporters say, rather than what they mean. (Implicit was the "How dare you?") Are you hiding information from us? Will you hide information
Continue readingCalifornia voters: Vote “No” on Proposition 82
Pick an aphorism, any aphorism — “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” “Big Brother is watching.” Each applies with equal accuracy to Proposition 82, the preschool time bomb waiting to explode in the California primaries. Proposition 82 is a
Continue readingThe modern parenting conundrum
This brilliant statement comes from an op-ed in the WSJ's Opinion Journal that Glenn Reynolds wrote about the fact that parenting is very tiring nowadays, because it has more responsibility — and responsibility of a type that often diminishes rewards: You're responsible for your kids in ways previous generations weren't,
Continue readingPutting Da Vinci into perspective
If you've been troubled by the Da Vinci Code (movie and book) and the anti-Catholicism it represents, read Dave Konig's laugh-out-loud column and put all the religion bashing into wonderful perspective.
Continue readingSelf-delusion
One of the trends I've seen in the years I've been out in the workforce is the one that has employees do self-evaluations. You know the kind of thing: "My strengths are…. My weaknesses are…." I've never been a fan of this approach. I don't mean this an insult (although
Continue readingI love small towns
I've rhapsodized about small towns before. Today came another reminder about why, despite Hollywood's recent spate of "small towns are evil places" type movies, at least some small towns are, in fact, lovely places to live: A duck was reunited with her newborn brood Monday after Marin Humane Society workers
Continue readingOne brave man
If you'd like to read a marvelous tribute to President Bush's moral bravery, go here.
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