Category: Bits and Pieces

Lately, I’ve noticed people leaving seven or eight comments in a row on a single post.  Please do not do this.  It clutters up other people’s email boxes and constitutes a form of spam.  This is a warning that, if someone does engage in this abusive behavior, I will delete

The stupidity is overwhelming and all-encompassing.  Two quotations keep springing my my mind.  Tacitus, of course (“They make a desert and call it peace”) and the Rev. Sydney Smith (1771-1845): In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth, England], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was

What’s the most joyous, happy piece of music you know?  (And Beethoven’s Ode to Joy doesn’t count, because it’s too obvious.)  The music can be any genre, such as classical, pop, country, etc. I ask because, since I woke up, I’ve had the Black Eyed Peas “I got a feelin’”

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I don’t watch American Idol, but I follow it vicariously, because Don Quixote watches it.  He and I were both mulling over the significance of Scotty McCreery’s ascendency.  I posited — and later discovered that I wasn’t the only one thinking these thoughts — that McCreery may be a bellwether

Yes, we won the war in Iraq and, as the inimitable Walter Russell Mead points out, we may have changed the course of history. Sure, it’s still early and there are many events that still have to play themselves out, but Iraq today is a country at relative peace surrounded

Because, we know, people in government really, really care about you, special you, and want to take care of you. Because, just like your cat, they truly, truly love you, no matter what Republicans say. That’s why it makes sense to have Father Government take care of us, so that

Chris Muir nails it with fiendish puns. To do Weiner justice, he claims his account was hacked, which is either the truth (we’ve all been hacked at one time or another) or a brilliant falsehood (’cause we’ve all been hacked at one time or another).

Here is an intriguing article about a dilemma faced by the United Kingdom: its wind power farms are running out of wind. Climate change? The article offers plenty of ideas as to why this may be. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8545306/Wind-farms-Britain-is-running-out-of-wind.html The U.K., along with a few other EUropean countries like Denmark and Spain,

As Ace said after getting a look see at Ah-nold’s most recent girlfriend, a hound dog isn’t looking for better, just different. Case in point.

Well, I managed to lose this Saturday entirely. Between trying to catch up on my chronically lost sleep, running a few necessary errands (which included the great, and unexpected, pleasure of running into Charles Martel at our local Staples), and an emergency meeting of one of my volunteer committees, I

Barney Frank is one of the least savory figures in government.  I disagree strongly with his politics and his ethics hover somewhere around the zero level.  Michelle Malkin details his habit of giving his friends nice gifts at taxpayer expense.  But here’s what I want to say in his defense,