Category: Bits and Pieces

Have you noticed that the same party that has rigorously opposed merit pay for public school teachers is now insisting on implementing government-imposed merit pay on private corporations?  Smells like class warfare to me.

I hit the ground running this morning and expect to be in perpetual motion until this evening.  I have thoughts percolating, but not the time to write them. I do have a recommendation, though.  For my book group, I’m reading Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, written in 1951, on the

I have a lot of work to do tomorrow (Monday) morning, so I won’t blog.  However, since I posted like a fiend on Sunday, I suspect that there’s more than enough new material on my blog to offset my Monday silence.

A friend of mine told me of wise words he once heard.  When in despair, don’t stop moving. Or, as he said, “keep your fly wheel spinning.”  It takes less momentum to keep moving than to start moving.  I think Robert Hall, who blogs at The Old Jarhead, would agree,

Gobble, gobble.

From a news report describing the usual leftist/statist suspects at an anti-War parade: Bruce Yurgil, a cartoonist from San Rafael, was trying to unload 80 homemade T-shirts showing former President George W. Bush’s brain spilling from his head. The T-shirts were marked down half-price, to $10. “It’s no fun being

Since I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, I came of age in an era when policemen were routinely referred to as “pigs.”  That, I’m happy to say, was not the sentiment in my home, and I’ve always had a deep and abiding respect for the men and women

I’m getting more and more reports on my email list of liberals turning on Obama.  (For example, this.)  That their eyes are opening is a good thing. When you hear a liberal make the dismaying discovery that Obama has feet of clay, rather than sneering “I told you so,” which

At Mike’s request, I’m reprinting here an updated version of a post I wrote back in May 2008, long before Obama’s election.  I’ve also added a brilliant video showing in a very graphic way that, regardless of the appellation, the real difference between various political ideologies is the level of

Drudge’s latest headline is to the effect that Obama wishes to exert ever tighter controls over American businesses by having the government establish limits on salaries.  (Now we know why he was whipping up AIG hysteria, don’t we?) Obama is busy creating the slippery socialist slope and, unless we put

I don’t watch the Ellen Degeneres show, although I often find her one very funny lady.  She’s in fine form here, with a little help from an infomercial product. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqVygN-w0[/youtube]

I’ve been very, very conflicted about the fact that I’ve come to the point in my life where I feel as if I’m looking over a giant chasm when I speak with my gay friends from my youth (or read their input on Facebook).  I grew up in the Stonewall

I threw a book away yesterday.  I mean, I really threw it away.  Into the garbage.  Shocked the heck out of my son, who has never seen me treat a book with disrespect.  “What was that book, Mommy?”  I answered, “It was called Book by a Complete Idiot.” What it

Jim Treacher discovered the missing outtakes. UPDATE:  Incidentally, we all make slips and this blog is no defender of the stultification of speech that results from hypersensitivity.  As Thomas Lifson explains, Obama’s gaffe matters for a different reason: Generally, I am inclined to cut a lot of slack for people

The media types were right:  Richardson died from a blunt impact, which ruptured an artery and caused an epidural hematoma.  My Mom actually had that happen to her after a fall, but she had a smaller bleed, and it took a week for the severe trauma to develop.  Fortunately, she