Category: Bits and Pieces

I mentioned in an earlier post that Michelle Malkin has excellent coverage about the New York Times'/LA Times' decision to blab intelligence information to Al Qaeda and its fellow travelers.  Malkin included in that coverage several WWII posters that were created to warn people to keep their mouths shut for

Burt Prelutsky agrees with Ann Coulter's underlying point, which is that the Left likes to hide behind people who, through sheer sad and bad luck, lost their loved ones in the course of a well-publicized event, whether 9/11, the Iraq war, or Al-Zarqawi's sadism.  He then has this to say:

Can anyone familiar with human physiology explain this one to me:  When I cut my hands (cooking or cleaning, or something), it's no big deal; when I get a cut on my feet (today my daughter's cleets took off most of one of my toenails), I start to black out. 

I don't have time to blog right now but, in any event, why settle for margarine when you can have butter? Yes, folks, there's a wonderful Mark Steyn column to be had, and it should satisfy all your daily reading cravings. UPDATE:  I'm so sorry for misleading those of you

While the MSM has been very, very interested lately in killers, someone is remembering victims — 9/11 victims to be precise.  D.Challener Roe set up a blog called 2,996, which is the number of people who died on 9/11.  Here, I'll let him explain his plan: 2,996 is a tribute

Newsweek dove in with the best of them last week to smear the Marines regarding Haditha.  Its readers, apparently, weren't buying it: Readers, while deeply troubled by our June 12 report on the alleged civilian massacre in Haditha, overwhelmingly chose to stand by the Marines. One said, "These Marines deserve

Do you remember the music of the 1980s?  I listened to it obsessively right up until 1987, when a switch turned off in my brain and I tuned off music and onto news.  Music from that era, though, triggers a gazillion memories in my brain (mostly pretty good ones, fortunately),

Not to put too fine a point on it, where the heck is everybody? I only got three comments on my blog today. I know that I wasn't putting forth my most scintillating writing (it's one of those days) but I still expect some scintillation from you guys. I love

. . . from the Best of the Web Today: Having Already Achieved the Decline "Democrats Outline a Platform for the Fall"–headline, New York Times, June 17

Jason Lee Steorts, writing at the National Review Online, suggests the possibility that Iran, like Poland in 1980, could be poised for a worker-triggered regime change. Apparently despite the vast oil wealth pouring into Iran, the Iranian economy is in chaos — something not uncommon under a regime that stifles

To celebrate Father's Day, the NY Times published an op-ed by a physician pointing out that women have it much better physiologically.  In Western culture, since modern medicine made childbirth a relatively safe endeavor, it's men who struggle against biological destiny: What emerges when one studies male biology in a

Sometimes, people make just wonderful connections.  Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, made such a connection the other day, when he sewed together, on the one hand, events at George Lucas's special effects factory and, on the other hand, a culture of disbelief (and make believe) in the modern political world.  Read

I commented a few days ago about a news headline that showcased the usual Hamas threats of revenge. Today, A-Qaeda is issuing a threat to avenge Al-Zarqawi's death, to wit: Al-Qaeda threatened to avenge the killing by US forces last week of the terror network's chief in Iraq, Abu Musab

Michael Barone has been thinking about the hits the MSM took this week (Al-Zarqawi killed, Rove not indicted, primaries that were not a Republican death knell), and he reaches this conclusion: Historians may regard it as a curious thing that the left and the press have been so determined to

We're having one of our periodic heatwaves here, and I'm just miserable.  I have a fairly narrow comfort range, and 90+ degree days do not make me happy.  So far, the only time I've been comfortable today was driving around in my air conditioned car.  Sadly, these temperatures are supposed