Category: Bits and Pieces

At Brutally Honest, I learned for the first time that radical Muslims have established well-funded outposts in the US and Canada directed at a total Islamic takeover of North America.  That Muslims want to take over is not the surprise.  That they’re attempting to do so is not a surprising. 

One of the blessings/curses of an affluent community is that, because so many people go skiing, the school systems have yielded to the inevitable and simply created a mid-winter break entitled (appropriately enough) “ski week.” Our ski week is upon us, and I will be going out of town.  I

David Swindle’s article today about the conservative themes in action hero movies and my own article of a few years ago about the conservative themes in blockbuster children’s adventure movies.

Here’s a nice matched set:  Burt Prelutsky’s wisdom about the actual perils Israel faces in the Middle East and the uninformed relativistic pap spewed by Jimmy Carter fans.

Sudden death is awful.  Plane crashes fall into that category.  Death that has a “there but for the grace of God go I” quality — that is, a death that takes us beyond mere sympathy to actual empathy — is even more awful. Plane crashes fall into that category too.

As an aficionado of fashion history, I’m well aware that for centuries, men wore many of the accoutrements that characterized women’s clothes.  Long dress-like clothes, stockings, high heels, bows, long curly hair were de rigeur for the well-to-do, with Louis XIV exemplifying so many of these trends: Of course, while

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DQ asked me why the spendulus bill is being called, not just a “stimulus” plan, but also a spending bill, even though it includes tax cuts. My answer was that the Democrats view those cuts as government expenditures because the government, instead of seeing it as our money, which we

Got this in an email from Lorie Byrd of Wizbang: The Republican Whip’s Office just released the following information: DEMOCRATS MADE TAX RELIEF SMALLER… · Cut car credit (potentially from $11.5 billion to $2 billion) · Cut “Make Work Pay” credit from $500/individual to $400/individual, and from $1,000/couple to $800/couple

There are so many layers in this story:  false accusations of child abuse that actually had their root in bad medical advice, adopted children who have had three years to adapt to another family, a bureaucracy run amok.  It all adds up to awful: A judge yesterday ruled that a

If you’d like a beautiful microcosm of spendulus, check out this use of Berkeley taxpayer dollars: Decorative medallions depicting dogs sniffing, dumping and humping each other have recently been added to the base of one of a pair of sculptures commissioned by the city on either end of the pedestrian

True to his nature, Stewart attacks.  I can’t think of a more worthy target: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – The Stimulus Package Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things With Demetri Martin Funny Political News Joke of the Day

I was watching a delightful, but surprisingly little known. WWII movie called The More the Merrier, which puts a romantic spin on the housing shortage that plagued Washington, D.C., during the war.  In it, a young woman (Jean Arthur) who has her own apartment, decides to act patriotically and let

Which is why I haven’t been writing today.  I’ve been scurrying around collecting papers for my accountant.  Still, mid-scurry, I caught this wonderful Kyle-Anne Shiver article, which I think you’ll enjoy.

Believe it or not, I have been trying to write the following two sentences for six hours now.  So goes my day. All I’ve been trying to say today is that Obama has spent time whining for a while now about the fact that nothing he’s dealing with his is