Category: Bits and Pieces

This morning, I asked a question about the sexual innuendo behind the word “teabagging” (since other bloggers have noticed a sneering, locker room quality to MSM reports on the Tea Parties).  To date, there have been 94 comments on that post.  The first few dealt with the question itself.  Then,

Iowahawk is always funny, but sometimes his brilliance is so extraordinary you almost feel like looking away.  This is humor that hurts.  (By the way, although it’s a bit long, be sure to read every word, since it just gets better and better as you work your way through it.)

In response to my “I’m overloaded” post, Charles Martel suggested more of a collaborative effort here.  I would be delighted.  I’ve long wondered why some of my more prolific commenters haven’t used their knowledge, erudition and wit to start their own blogs, and have only been grateful that they haven’t

Can anyone explain to me in non-obscene terms what gays mean when they refer to “teabagging?”  At Power Line, Scott has noticed that more and more CNN and MSNBC employees and talking heads have been making chortling references to teabagging.  I knew about the chortling references, but thought they simply

When I was pregnant with my first child, I took the obligatory Lamaze class.  I mostly found the class creepy and New Age (proving, even then, that I was a nascent conservative).  Indeed, the only thing I took away from the class, and the only thing that’s still stuck in

All kids all the time on this, the last day of Spring Break.  My eyes are spinning around in my head.  I’m sneaking off now to get a much needed haircut, but am hoping to be back at my computer in a few hours, not just with time to write,

No matter how the media tries to downplay or denigrate the tea parties, attendees were happy and inspired.  This report is from Gini David who, with her energy, enthusiasm and bone-deep friendliness, is an asset to any political movement: Dear Friends + PATRIOTS, The Tea Party Revolution has begun! And

Click on this link, and you’ll see wonderful pictures of the San Francisco tea party.  To the extent that local media was reporting “a few dozen” or “300” attendees, you can see that the media was being, at best, lazy, and at worst, duplicitous.  Our own Charles Martel, who actually

In just a few short months, Sally Selikovsky has traveled a long road, from stay-at-home Mom, to Marin County’s major conservative networker, to citizen journalist (at American Thinker), ending as the organizer of the first conservative protest in San Francisco in my lifetime.  She is not funded by or connected

And Mike has the pictures to prove it.

If you’re interested in the very successful Santa Ana Tea Party, Laer has the story (and pictures).

Quisp thought we wouldn’t care about one person’s views, because Sean Hannity broadcast from Atlanta, but I care a lot. The view from the podium (so to speak) is always going to be different from the view from the ground. Quisp observations are also a reminder that, contrary to the

From suek: I went to one in Ventura. It seemed well attended, but I’ve never been to a protest before either…so who knows! In the designated area by the County Courthouse where they had a microphone and speakers, someone said that they had about 500 people. It didn’t look like

From Danny Lemieux: And, here’s the report from Chicago: I counted about 5,000 – 7,000 participants packed into the Federal Plaza. Everyone was very well behaved. It looked like a very diverse crowd – suits, jeans, black, white, Asian, old, young, very young (many people apparently took their kids out

Rockdalian attended the Joliet Tea Party and had this to say: Attended the local ( Joliet, Illinois ) Tea party at the courthouse. Arrived about 11:30am to find about 50 people already gathered. Event began around noon, by then the crowd swelled to more than 300. The event kicked off