Category: Bits and Pieces

The EU doesn’t need to steal British sovereignty.  Britain just needs to appoint idiots, and the transfer of sovereignty will happen naturally.

As usual, Thomas Sowell nails it.

The other day, I wrote a post in which I concluded that Barack Obama was not evil — he was a politico whose plans could be bad for America, but who hadn’t stepped beyond the pale of ordinary human behavior.  Rick, at Brutally Honest, found an example of something that

Muscle spasm in lower back, which usually means I collapse, kind of like this, only with pain attached.  Took valium.  Helped muscle spasm.  Wiped out brain.  Sitting up still painful, but do-able, but brain so defective, can’t hold on to coherent thought.  Still can’t understand why people take drugs recreationally. 

If you’re in or near Marin, Michael Medved will be at Book Passage this coming Tuesday, at 7 p.m., to read from his book The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation. Barring child care problems, I’m going to try to be there.

Sometimes, when I hear a song, I’m catapulted back, not to some era in my life, but to a very specific moment in time, sometimes mere minutes long.  Running carpools today, I heard two songs that turned me into a very young 20-something all over again. The first, the Thompson

Since my previous post was deep and heavy, here’s something lighter.

Here’s what I know about the Taliban:  (1) They are the ne plus ultra of all that is bad about the sharia mindset and (2) they are the enemy against whom our American troops fight in Afghanistan.  Thanks to Dr. Rusty Shackleford, I now know one more thing about them: 

A neighbor of mine who works in law enforcement showed up at the bus stop today looking incredibly handsome in a beautiful dark suit.  “Going to court?” I asked.  No, the answer was much sadder than a court appearance.  He and a contingent from his office are going to the

Caravaggio’s Narcissus: Rich Terrell’s Obamassus:

If you haven’t read it already, please don’t miss Charlie Nathan’s article at American Thinker, entitled “My Generation’s Moral Recession.”  It’s a saddening piece about the moral vacuum that is so much a part of young life in America.  Charlie obviously doesn’t suffer from that problem, but he’s weighed down

In her morning collection of links, the Anchoress finds very disturbing the direction Obama and the Dems want to take us in terms of service to the State and allegiance to a world economy.

I could blame my blog silence today on work, carpooling, martial arts, cooking, shopping, etc., but it was really that I had nothing to say.  I’ve got a lot of random thoughts chasing around in my head, but none of them seems to be enough for a single post.  In

You know the old philosophical question:  If a tree falls in an empty forest, does it make a sound?  The media is trying an experiment to answer that question:  If huge protests take place across America, but the media refuses to cover them, do they count? Another interesting question will

….It’s unprincipled Republicans. ” The Zo-man knows: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSYQqSKbKbU[/youtube]