Category: Bits and Pieces

I hate flus.  I will try to blog later today, assuming I uncurl from the moaning fetal position.

     DQ here.  I just read a brochure from XM radio that demonstrates the liberal bias-blindspot.  Each XM station gets a little (always positive) write-up in the brochure.  They are advertising their product, after all.  To serve their diverse audience, XM includes a variety of talk stations, including AmericaRight and AirAmerica.  Here

We spent another fruitless couple of hours at our local humane society.  This is not the type of humane society that euthanizes dogs, so it doesn’t have any real impetus to get dogs out of the shelter.  Instead, it’s goal is to find the perfect home for every dog.  And

There’s an NPR story here about music being used as a therapy to aid chronic pain sufferers or the dying.  Anecdotal reports are good, but there are no scientific, double-blind, replicable studies yet to back it up.  I have my own concern about the practice.  I like listening to music,

Sorry for the silence today.  I was on the road all day long, and never came near a computer.  I’ll be back tonight or tomorrow morning, especially since I’ve had ideas brewing all day long.

Okay, this is the kind of story that puts me in a panic: Senior moments, such as forgetting a recent conversation, may be a sign of the process that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. US scientists examined the brains of 134 older people who had appeared mentally sharp,

You all recall the almighty hooha when Stanley “Tookie” Williams, an Original Gang member for the Cribs, and a convicted killer of four, was put to death last year. You’d have thought the State of California was executing Mother Theresa. Today, with almost no fanfare, the State of Texas put

I found something that amused me at the Arab News, which calls itself “The Middle East’s Leading English Language Daily.” It was a religious advice column, with someone writing in with this question: Nowadays Islam is under so much assault with some non-Muslim saying that it is not a peaceful

I don’t like the ACLU. I think it’s an agenda drive organization, in thrall to Bush Derangement Syndrome. This means it takes its theoretical focus — the preservation of individual rights against the state — and simply attempts, time and time again, to subvert that goal to striking out at

I think Heather MacDonald has an excellent summary of the fundamental errors lying behind the NY Times’ hubristic thinking that it is the appropriate gatekeeper of this nation’s security secrets: The bottom line is this: No classified secret necessary to fight terrorism is safe once the Times hears of it,

My father, who knew what he was talking about, always said, "You fight a war to win."  I don't remember him having a pro or con view regarding Vietnam.  I do remember that he was disgusted by the fact that the biggest military superpower in the world couldn't just go

Check here for another wonderful batch of photoshopped WWII posters, all aimed at exposing the LA & NY Times's reprehensible, murderous, arrogant behavior.

The article, at the New York Times, is called "Another Kennedy Living Dangerously."  The little promo for it at the NY Times website — the one that's supposed to have you clicking over to read the full article, says "The environmentalist turns crusader and goes out on a political limb.

For Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, British Muslims had to endure this horror: You recall, of course, when the Brits banned Piglet for fear of offending their delicate Muslim compatriots.