Category: Bits and Pieces

Heading off to catch the last gasp of the July 4th weekend sales. Hope to blog later. I actually have a lot of stuff lined up that I want to share, but it’s been a very busy, non-computery weekend.

As I say every year, I love the raw energy of this version.  I also like supporting a rock band dedicated to American patriotism:

The washing machine repairman is coming Tuesday, but my family ran out of clothes today, so off I went to our small town’s one and only laundromat. It’s a very nice laundromat: it has surprisingly high-end commercial machines (see the picture, above); its detergent and change machines work; it has

My post yesterday referenced “The Twilight Zone.” So Sadie sent me this cartoon today:

One of my favorite expressions is “moral hazard.” I know you’re thinking that this term describes the risk of exposing innocent children to pot-smoking prostitutes, but it actually refers to a very different topic. I first came across the term “moral hazard” in a Commentary Magazine article by James K.

This isn’t an official round-up, so it doesn’t get my little Victorian posy. It’s just a few quick links to things you might find interesting: At Duffel Blog (a satire site), a canny explanation for America’s schizophrenic Iraq policy. Obama may be assiduously ignoring the fact that Gilad Shaar and

This will be a short post, but it contains three things that really deserve immediate attention because they are so bizarre they could only happen in the Twilight Zone. The first thing — and I’m deliberately using the word “thing” for reasons you will soon discover — is an overwrought,

Ted Cruz is one of the best speakers out there:

I was recently watching Kiss Me Kate for the umpteenth time and thinking, as I always do, that (a) I like Howard Keel’s voice, (b) I like baritones generally, and (c) there are no baritone pop voices today. That didn’t used to be the case, of course. Back in the

I originally, and accidentally, entitled this post “Friday afternoon round-up.” It’s been that kind of week. And scanning the headlines, I can see that it’s been that kind of week not just for me, but for a beleaguered America beset on all sides by Clowardly-Pivenly-esque disasters. I usually like to

We here at the Bookworm Room have said for some time that the West is engaged in an existential war with Islam. Unlike past wars with Islam, though, our leaders refuse to acknowledge that there is an enemy doctrinally focused in our conquest and enslavement (not to mention death for

I am not at the dentist for me, but for one of the kids. Still, I’m here, not at home, which is why I’m not blogging now. On the other hand, I had the pleasure of running into an old friend and discovering that he too is conservative. How cool