Category: Bits and Pieces

Just a head’s up:  Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, is back from a two week trip to S. Korea (wow!).  He promises that he’ll be posting photographs.  He’s already proven himself to be a wonderful photographer, so those should be worth checking out.  I’m also willing to bet that those photographs

Usually Webloggin cites to me.  Today I’m citing to Webloggin, which has an excellent summary tying together Israel’s ability to fight a war on two fronts (an analysis that references an equally good story the Captain wrote), and the New York Times‘ despicable bias regarding this war.  It harmonizes well

If you want a reminder that children are the most effective, lethal weapon a foul ideology can harness to carry out its aims, read this.  In many ways, it’s a companion to this.  And it explains my heartlessness when I wrote this.  The only way to save the children is

I wanted to remind you, if you haven’t already signed up, that there’s still time to be part of D.Challener Roe’s lovely tribute on the 5th Anniversary of 9/11.  Roe is assigning to each volunteer the name of a 9/11 victim.  The volunteer, in turn, undertakes to write a tribute

I’m pretty careful with my Hitler analogies. I tend to reserve them for people who, through their acts, have proven that they are willing to do precisely what he did (Pol Pot, for example), or for people who, through their rhetoric, indicate a willingness to act precisely as he did

I’m a carnivore, but a guilty one. That is, I appreciate that, in order for me to enjoy my sauted chicken breast or grilled burger, some animal had to die. Long ago, as a result of an article I read (New Yorker? New Republic?), I decided to aim for meat

Eliza Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, sang the words of my title.  I thought of this when I listened to Jeff Nunnberg, NPR’s resident linguist, tout his book opining that the Right uses language better and that’s why conservatives are defeating liberals in the marketplace of ideas. It doesn’t seem

I can’t summarize it adequately, but Robert Alt offers a nice article detailing the peculiarities of the liberal response to the Hamdan ruling.  Suffice to say that, even if one concedes for the sake of argument that the liberals’ legal position is and was correct, their spin is distinctly off-putting.

In an interview at Front Page, Theodore Dalrymple tackles the conventional wisdom about Heroin (how people start, how addicted they actually get, and how bad withdrawal really is). Regarding withdrawal, he has this to say: With regard to withdrawal, it is grossly exaggerated as a phenomenon. Unlike withdrawal from barbiturates

Long-time readers know that I can’t stand Steven Spielberg movies.  I’ve never seen one (and I’ve seen many, so I know what I’m talking about) that hasn’t left me bitterly regretting the time and money I lost on the movie.  I was therefore just thrilled with Diana West’s take on

My blogging will be light to nonexistent today. However, before this flu knocked me off my pins, I had put together a few thoughts about patriotism, which you can read at American Thinker. UPDATE:  Like death and taxes, it is inevitable that, when I write about something, someone smarter and

If you like Christian vocal jazz (mostly a cappella stuff) you should definitely check out Take 6.  We saw them yesterday.  Even though I didn’t feel well (turned out I was coming down with the flu that’s making me miserable today), I still managed to enjoy this group, a lot.