Category: Bits and Pieces

Allen Guelzo has written one of the absolute best articles I’ve seen on the Left’s response to the Tucson shooting.  This is a hard thing to do — write one of the “absolute best articles” — because everyone who is conservative or sane has been writing wonderful articles about the

I’m very slow to anger, and with reason — I’m a mean angry person.  I don’t do the liberal thing of wishing people dead or threatening them or imagining violence or bloodshed.  When I’m hot under the collar, though, I up the rhetorical ante, big time, usually with high doses

Considering how frequently I include “conversations with a liberal” at this blog, it seemed appropriate to see if xtranormal was a good forum for those dialogs.  Here’s my first attempt, which pastes together dialog from two of my older posts, one recounting, verbatim, a conversation with a liberal angry about

Will you surprised that Sarah walks away from this conversation the victor? Hat tip: Ace

Barry Rubin has a wonderful post about real hate speech, not the vapid American version, and the very real effects that speech has on world politics. H/t:  Sadie

If you are, as I am, one of the Anchoress’s fans, you’ll want to know that she has a new home page.  It’s great, because it’s got a clean, new look, while still having the same wonderful Anchoress.

One of those who died was nine year old Christina Greene.  I am not superstitious (far from it), but I find it somehow especially tragic that she was born on September 11, 2001.

My daughter came home from a school dance — a dance especially for the 13-15 year old crowd — saying that the boys were vying to “freak” dance with a friend of hers.  I went ballistic. “You’re not allowed to freak dance.” “I know, Mom.  And I didn’t.” I believe

Right Wing News has the 40 most obnoxious quotes liberals uttered in 2010.  It makes for amusing and infuriating reading. And while you’re checking RWN out, take a second and look at Ed Driscoll’s photo essay which shoots to pieces the whole “Obama is cool” meme.  You have to feel

Quick question.  In a comment on another thread jj already has decided that the Republicans are not going to do what they were elected to do.  I’m not ready to pass judgment, but I fear and suspect this will be the case.  So, my question, especially to the Tea Party

I did something today that I’ve never done before:  I talked back to my 88 year old mother.  Despite my post caption, I didn’t actually yell at her, but I did scold her soundly.  The problem was that she gave voice to the straw that broke this camel’s back.  That

I’ve been going through some of my old blog posts since I’m still thinking about pulling them together into a book (yeah, that’ll be the day).  It’s been fun to peer back into time and see what was going on in the world and in my life.  One of the

Even as Mark Twain gets bowdlerized, those of us who pay attention can find deep wisdom from the dead white men.

Except I don’t think my Marin neighbors would appreciate it.