Category: Bits and Pieces

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When I was in high school, I was in a very bad car accident.  While traveling at 70 miles an hour over an overpass, the car I was in spun out of control and flipped off the side of the freeway, ending up upside-down some 20 feet below.  Had the

I had lunch today with Don Quixote and his wife.  We were talking about the fact that we all feel a little down, a combination of work pressures, the economy, political news, etc.  Looking at all these factors, I said I was suffering from the “Malaise of 2010.”  DQ and

Wouldn’t it be delightful if the authors of disaster were also the only ones who suffered from their creation?  Sadly, that’s seldom how it works.  The power players get roll their balls, and the ordinary people suddenly find themselves as the innocent nine pins, hoping that the ball hits the

I’ve been thinking a lot about crazy people, which is an interesting thing to do because it’s very hard to get a handle on what constitutes a crazy person.  I know for pretty darn certain that the guy who used to stand on a corner in downtown San Francisco all

A few days ago, Danny Lemieux, in a comment to this blog, asked a very important question: If more than 50% of wage earners pay no income tax and can vote themselves (i.e. parasitize) the labor and assets of the 20% of the population that pays the large majority of

I’m not quite sure of the language one uses for Palm Sunday:  “I wish you a happy Palm Sunday?”   “I wish you a peaceful Palm Sunday?”  “I wish you a joyous Palm Sunday?”  “I wish you a meaningful Palm Sunday?” Whatever the correct wish is, for those of my friends

History is written by the victors.  We know that.  But I’m apparently not the only one who considers it unconscionable to make up history out of whole cloth. You see, Germany has a Holocaust memorial commemorating the thousands of homosexuals who suffered terrible persecution (imprisonment, torture and death) at Nazi

The previous post was a collection of links organized around a single topic — sudden Liberal claims of conservative violence.  This post is more loosely organized, since it simply has links of things I found interesting.  Here goes: National Review/Michael Fumento:  The People Speak, which holds up the truth to

My Internet is dead this morning, so blogging will temporarily be limited to this iPhone generated open thread. Have at it! I’ll be back as soon as I can — probably in a couple of hours.