Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The headline made it sound as if another British school was abandoning any pretense of teaching children about their own nation: “Brighton College drops history, geography and RE [whatever the heck RE is]” The article’s body, though, tells a different and heartening story: Lessons in the “story of our land”
Continue reading…and we deserve some beauty in our lives: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vlvp8PUnC2Y&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingWhen I was growing up, my best friend had the most wonderful grandparents. They were an incredibly flamboyant Polish couple who escaped the Holocaust because the woman was so charming she was able to talk the Nazis into letting them leave (with the help of some diamonds as bribes). He
Continue readingI’ve been the beneficiary of spectacular dumb luck three times in my life. When I went on my student year abroad, I was randomly assigned to a student housing building that proved to be an amazing social hub. I was the only American there, and my year was a wonderful
Continue readingToday is the day for voting on this week’s Watcher’s Council submissions. This is always a fun time, because the submissions, whether council written or from other sources, are invariably excellent. Here’s what I’ll be reading today: Council links: Death and the Madam Done With Mirrors Obama As Marley Wolf
Continue readingA liberal friend sent me an article from the Winston Salem Chronicle (written by John Mendez, who is identified as the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church and a longtime community activist). In the article, Mendez attempts to defend Wright. I sent the friend my comments on the article and thought the article and the
Continue readingIn the late 1980s, I went to a party at a beautiful Victorian house that a young white yuppie couple had bought — cheap — and begun to remodel. The reason this house was cheap was because it was in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood, which was (at least then)
Continue readingMichelle Malkin takes on Michelle Obama’s endless flow of whining and bile. It’s not surprising. As I pointed out in my Anger on the Left post, Leftism once seemed logically congruent with anger because Leftism was the politics of the underclass. In recent years, though, Leftism has shifted to become
Continue readingI’ve always been fond of this 1928 popular song, performed by Gus Van and Joe Schenck, urging people out into the night as an antidote to boredom: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rHhMe9TON4c&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingI like Ibuprofin. It gets me past many low grade migraines and, lately, it’s the only thing that keeps me going at martial arts. (A couple of pregnancies left me with some back and hip problems.) I’ve yet to experience any side effects, although I’ve always worried about its effects
Continue readingMy daughter and a large group of her friends are on a swim team with three coaches. All three coaches work the children hard, all do a good job, all three are strict,and all use a fair amount of humor to motivate the kids. The kids dislike one, tolerate another,
Continue readingIf you use Windows Outlook, you need to check this out: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amRkMds177A[/youtube] Read more about it here.
Continue readingI wonder how many Marin residents, reading this innocuous sounding article about various churches and synagogues getting together for social causes realizes that there is a huge political agenda going on here. (The giveaway is in the second paragraph.) And this being Marin, I wonder how many would care if
Continue readingLast night, we attended the 24th annual Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival national championships. From my point of view, it was a mixed bag. Harmony used to be focused on the melody — as was certainly the case with last year’s winners, Moira Smiley and VOCO, who did really lovely
Continue readingBlogging will be nonexistent this morning, although I may be able to pick it up a little in the afternoon. This is one of those “all about the kids” Saturdays, with my son having a musical performance 40 miles from here, my daughter having swimming time trials all morning, my
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