Category: Bits and Pieces

In response to my discussion of the “God’s Jewish Warriors” special, Oceanguy said he was quite disheartened that I could be taken in by the propaganda he saw in that show.  His particular concern centered around the following statement by Ms. Amanpour, ““Intifada, in Arabic, it means ‘shaking off.’ And beginning

Shocking as it may seem, I actually have to do paying work today, a fact that (sadly) severely limits my valuable blogging time.  But do not despair.  My favorite bloggers always do good stuff but, today, two of them are on fire.  If I were to blog at length right

During the 1980s, Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County was one of my favorite comic strips. Breathed sometimes crossed the line by running strips that were too silly or gross to be funny, but for the most part he displayed a rare wit and insight into current shibboleths. One of the my

James Lewis has put together the “greatest hits” of liberal wisdom, all culled from conversations with ordinary liberals.  It reads like fantasy (or nonsense), but it isn’t.  As to almost every single item on the list, I have read or heard someone say it.

My children wearily put up with my joke that our dog is my favorite “child,” because she’s the only one in the house who always listens to me and lives to please me. My kids do know, though, that I’m joking, not about my dogs lovely attributes, but about actually

I won’t paraphrase.  I just suggest you read and enjoy this post at the Captain’s Quarters.

To mangle Jane Austen, when you think of me last night, “Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of [conversation] and sitting down together.” Yes, I did something fun last night, attending a get together of local conservative bloggers and blog readers. Powered by a Coca

Cinnamon Stillwell, a brave and vocal neocon in the San Francisco Bay Area, was trading emails with me about coming out as a conservative, not to people we’ve just met, but to those who knew us when. (Cinnamon, incidentally, is not a closet conservative.)  That conversation led to a great

School starts in a week, so this is one of the last of my lazy mornings of sleeping in a little longer and lolling around before turning on my computer.  I haven’t even read the news at this point! Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the new school year.  Already

I get sweaty thinking about this one: A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb. The 54-year-old office worker was out

Laer has a very interesting question.  At his blog, he relates the tragic story of two immigrants who were murdered by a man who then turned the gun on himself, killing himself before he could be arrested.  Laer asks if justice can ever be served when the perpetrator avoids the

I’m back!  It was a good vacation, and I’ll have some thoughts about it later, but mostly I’m just soooooo glad to be home.  I am, to use an old fashioned expression, a homebody, and I just love the moment of returning from the trip. Returns can be as tiring

A reader was kind enough to send me the following email. It’s true and I took steps to maintain my privacy: Google has implemented a new feature which enables you to type a telephone number into the search bar and hit enter, and you will be given the person’s name

I’m about to head off on my own vacation and Bookworm isn’t due back until Monday, so I don’t know how much blogging she’ll have a chance to do.  Thanks to all of you who have chimed in on the discussions the last few weeks.  The Bookwormroom readers really are the most intelligent,

Sneaking in a little blogging, in bite size pieces. Disney is the most perfectly realized theme park there is — and the best managed.  The others may have great rides or attractions, but they fail complete at the level of detailed perfection that is so natural to Disney. We’ve now