Category: Bits and Pieces

Israel is being urged to walk away from a war that isn’t finished.  America is being asked to walk away from a war that isn’t finished (and this is a fact whether you believe she should be in Iraq or not).  I can’t get out of my head an old

After Time Magazine did an on line puff piece extolling the virtues of burkhas, Michelle Malkin came back with a video attacking that piece. To be honest, I don’t think it’s a very effective comeback to the “burkhas are good” implications in the Time piece, consisting mostly of silly rock

Christopher Chantrill, writing at the American Thinker, has a quick rundown about capitalism’s civilizing influence in the world.  I don’t want to steal his thunder (because it builds well) by quoting any here, so I just suggest you go over there and check it out.

Check out the Michael Ramirez cartoon Anna found and highlighted on her blog.  It demonstrates again that, in vile and ridiculous times, only cartoons are really up to the challenge of exposing just how vile and ridiculous the times really are.  Anna’s comment also nails the world’s obsession with small

Yup, it’s still me.  It didn’t look as if WordPress was going to be able to deal with the block quotation problem any time soon, so I switched templates.  I’m not sure I like this one yet, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it — and you won’t have

In June, my daughter crashed into me while wearing cleats and ripped off half my toenail. I refrained from fainting, and did a post wondering why my vasovagal syndrome is so much more profound when I hurt a toe than when I hurt any other part of me. Today, I

I have noticed that, whatever WordPress did to make the colors more electric on my blog, to change the sidebars somewhat, and to allow author attribution, it also managed to mess with the formatting for quotations.  When I do a block quote, I lose paragraph spacing.  A little investigation has

You know the Occam’s razor principle, don’t you?  Nowadays it’s boiled down to mean that, if you’ve got a simple answer, you often don’t need to look for something more complex.  At medical school, students who are all excited about rare diseases they’ve read about in books often need to

Iran may be positioning itself as the epicenter of the Muslim world, as the place where elite Muslims meet to greet and die, but those who leave don’t always want to go back.  In Denmark, five of them, after starving themselves almost to death to make the point, are now

Phibian has a fact-filled post about the resurgence of an old problem, about its ability to spread uncontrollably, and about the reason this problem, long dormant, is back. His post is good, so I don’t want to give anything away here. I just think you should go read it yourself.

My blog suddenly boasts a new look. I had nothing to do with it — WordPress spontaneously made these changes.  I’m a little unsure how much I like the new look (the color is a bit more electric on my screen), but I do like it that you can see

     DQ here.  In an earlier comment, Clint puts forth the premise that the Palestinians would accept a two-state solution, his proof being a 30-year-old Syrian UN resolution.  Well, being the least well informed of anyone in this discussion, this sent me off to do a little research.  I found some

When we were school age, and we whined that “everybody’s doing it,” our parents always responded with some variation of “If everybody jumped off a cliff, does that mean you would too?” Good advice. We knew it then, but we’ve forgotten it now. Fortunately, Jewish über-parent, Dennis Prager, is here