Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The sign at the baseball game said “Mike’s Lemonade $7.00.” So, when Christopher Ratt asked his 7 year old son what drink he’d like, and the boy said Lemonade, Ratt ponied up the money. It was only later in the game that a security guard noticed the bottle in the
Continue readingSorry for the silence. I get my internet through the same company that gives us our cable TV. Last week, Mr. Bookworm ordered High Definition service, which requires a new box. The box never came, but they disconnected us from Turner Classic Movies, which is really the only channel I
Continue readingI got pretty nauseous watching this one. The villagers insist that no babies were harmed in the making of this bizarre religious ritual, but the mere fact that these villagers doing the throwing must themselves have been thrown as infants is itself a good indication that it causes brain damage.
Continue readingI got this wonderful Mama Cass song stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio Saturday. Perhaps if I pass it to your brain, it will leave mine. It’s a great song, but there’s only so much musical perseveration one can take: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=A9k0eyViceE&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingI already knew that UC Berkeley was going to host a “scholarly” conference aimed at reconstructing Islamophobia. The promotional material, complete with the names of radical Islamist speakers, made it pretty clear that the conference’s focus would be on whitewashing Islam, as opposed to addressing a canker in one of
Continue readingIt’s always disheartening when some liberal political body, long after conservative tocsins have been ringing a frantic warning, suddenly — and too late — realizes that the warning was in fact valid. For example, conservatives kept saying that biofuels would cause food shortages, a thought liberals pooh-poohed. Now that there
Continue readingI have been an Ella Fitzgerald fan for decades. To my mind, there are few pleasures greater than hearing Ella sing one of the classics from the heyday of American popular music. I was therefore delighted to see the graceful homage the guys at Power Line paid to her today,
Continue readingThe Mohammad al-Dura film that France2 TV showed sparked the second, bloody Intifatah, since the video appeared to show a 12 year old boy being killed by Israeli gun fire. In the years since then, analysts have demonstrated that, given where the Israelis were positioned, it would have been virtually
Continue readingI’m a wee bit hampered today with my writing, because I suffered the kind of sports injury that only happens to old(ish) people. I had a martial arts work-out yesterday and managed to emerge unscathed through the kicking and punching exercises, the grappling exercises, and the bag work. What got
Continue readingExPreacherman sent along to me a warning about a credit card scam that’s a bit more sophisticated than the usual scam, because the victim is never asked to provide a credit card number. Instead, it appears that, by trolling garbage cans, the scammers get hold of copies of old credit
Continue readingI found a flea on my dog! A flea! The laundry machine is going like crazy to wash her blankets, I’ve got Borax (which has boric acid in it) sprinkled on her favorite bits of chair and carpet, and she has suffered the indignity of a heavy duty bath. We’re
Continue readingAs the mother of growing children, this strikes me as a brilliant idea.
Continue readingOne of the reasons I blog is because, while I shifted Left Right after 9/11, Mr. Bookworm didn’t. He still gets his news only from the old media — the New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR — while I, as you know, continue to read the old, but added
Continue readingI’m picking up here where parts 1 and 2 left off: Ocean Guy sees a big war coming, and has just the right thing to say about our continued refusal to face that reality: The trouble is that the cessation of hostilities on one side does not equal peace. Blinded
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