Category: Bits and Pieces

Michelle Malkin’s cousin is still missing.  The police are currently disinclined to call her disappearance foul play.  However, because she has been on anti-depressants, there seems to be a concern that she might have harmed — or be contemplating harm to — herself.  Merely taking anti-depressants doesn’t mean one has

Michelle Malkin’s cousin, who lives in Seattle, has vanished.  Michelle is asking for help locating her.  Please go here for specific information. Remember, all it takes is one person to make a difference. My prayers are with Michelle and her family.

This is a lovely matched set, because I know the New York Times editors would be horrified to realize that they’ve perfectly proved Bill Whittle’s point.  First, watch Bill Whittle, who is about 90% right.  (What he misses, I think, is that while consumerism is diffused amongst individuals, manufacturing, to

I don’t normally look to the U.K. Guardian for humor, but this time, the Guardian has hit one right out of the park.  If you go here, you can find a quiz that has you trying to figure out whether Gaddafi or Sheen uttered such unforgettable lines as “I have

What we see in Madison, Cairo and Tripoli today is a glimpse of the new information-based age in its birth pangs. Bill Whittle of Pajamas Media provides a helpful view of progressivism in its historical perspective. Basically, he observes, the “Progressive age” is coming to its logical end game as

Gaddafi is not going gently into the good night.  With the bitter end staring him in the face, he’s bombing his own countrymen and threatening to kill them by the thousands and tens of thousands if they don’t leave him his throne.  In his honor, I reprint my Passover post

Fascinating. In our great Western civilization, we’ve had Feudalist, Mercantilist, Capitalist, Marxist, Keynesian, Austrian School and Monetarist Economics and, now (drum roll)…Noodlesian economics. Here is a wonderfully entertaining summary on Noodlesian economics, as explained by earnest young minds full of mush through the dark prisms of a moronic convergence. This,

Sorry I haven’t written today, but I’ve spent the morning working on family finances.  One of the reasons those finances matter, aside from day-to-day expenses and the hope of a comfortable retirement, is making sure we can fund the kids’ education.  Although, honestly, I’m increasingly unsure whether it’s worth it. 

You’ve long suspected it, but now we know it’s true:  objectively speaking, conservative political candidates are indeed better looking: Rightwing candidates are better looking than their leftwing counterparts, something they benefit from during elections, according to a study conducted by Swedish and Finnish economists. The economists who conducted the study

For chronic pain sufferers, sometimes the only thing that helps is faith and philosophy.  My mother is a chronic pain sufferer and has no such comfort.  I haven’t reached that point in my life, and have no idea how I’ll bear up under the strain.  Well, I hope, but considering

I recognize that we of the Bookworm Room set do tend to be trend setters and prognosticators in intellectual discourse, but I take a special pride in the fact that we have established, through previous discussion threads, the template allowing none-other than distinguished Harvard historian and financial economist, Prof. Niall

I am so proud that a person like this can articulate so well what we believe: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_z1hcp1CNk[/youtube] May the angels of discourse burnish the silver on his tongue. ***UPDATED***new link!

Reading stories about the uproar in the Middle East, it occurred to me that, like teenagers, the citizens of those nations are rebelling (although, unlike most teenagers, they actually have cause to do so) without any clean plan beyond the rebellion itself.  In this regard, they differ significantly from America’s

I’ve been working this morning on booking our vacation.  It’s not a task I particularly enjoy.  The internet makes massive amounts of information available, which is a good thing, but I find it unnerving to try to winnow all that information down in the hope that I’m making good choices.