Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I am not using the phrase “gathering clouds” as a metaphor for the darkness that seems to be washing over the world. My statement has nothing to do with Ebola, amnesty, Iran and Russia ascendant, polio-like viruses, recession, racial tension, or any of the other blessings in Obama’s America. Instead,
Continue readingI went to the doctor yesterday for an ear infection and discovered that I have high blood pressure. The doctor’s not treating the problem yet, in case my blood pressure was spiked from my ear pain. I certainly hope that’s transitory pain is the reason. In two months, we’ll check again and see
Continue readingYes, there will be more blogging today but, until then, I’ve got a quite amazing collection of pictures, thanks to Caped Crusader and Sadie:
Continue readingMea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa for today’s silence. It’s been family, family, family since I posted my review of Dennis Koller’s Kissed By The Snow: A Rob Kincaid Thriller. No complaints, though. My sister arrived in town unexpectedly and it’s a real and rare pleasure to see her.
Continue readingSaturdays are busy days for me. I spend my time being a domestic Goddess, usually to the exclusion of everything else, blogging included. Thankfully, though, Caped Crusader sent me an excellent batch of posters. I honestly have no idea how he is able to find so many good things day
Continue readingMy friend Sally Zelikovsky came up with the pun about a new sport called “E-bowling” after word emerged that the New York physician, who was ostensibly “self-isolating” himself, actually trawled all over the New York, using subways and Uber, to engage in activities ranging from dining out to bowling. I
Continue readingI’m working on a post with words. This post is pictures only (with many thanks to Caped Crusader):
Continue readingNo time to talk. I’ll just dive right in. The Canadian shooter: “Fox Butterfield, is that you?” If you recognize the quoted phrase above, it’s because you’ve seen it often enough in James Taranto’s Best of the Web. The “Fox Butterfield Fallacy,” Taranto explains, “consists in misidentifying as a paradox
Continue readingI did it! I went through all umpteen hundred emails in all my accounts and I feel positively purified. I also have twenty-seven tabs open, all of them with content that’s just begging to go into a round-up. This is not that round-up. Instead, while I work on that round-up,
Continue readingTwo-hundred emails down, another one-hundred-fifty to go. While I struggle through the list, and apologize profusely to all the people I wrongly neglected, please enjoy this Open Thread. Oh, and some music: I love that image of a bird “throwing his heart at the sky.”
Continue readingIt’s always the same: Over the weekend, because of family demands, I get almost no time at my computer, and my email starts to back up. By Tuesday, between my two email accounts, I have several hundred unread emails. I then do the logical thing: I cravenly avoid my computer.
Continue readingAfter a day of wholesome domesticity, what could be better than a little political commentary? As was the case yesterday, I want to begin with a comment about a Facebook poster a liberal friend put up. This one has to do with complaints about the Obama administration’s anything-but-rapid response to Ebola,
Continue readingBefore I dive into my round-up, I wanted to discuss with you a poster that a very liberal friend of mine put up on Facebook. It’s the Leftist version of various posters you’ve seen here discussing Leftist logic (e.g., as Dixon Diaz says, “A liberal is someone who lives in
Continue readingSorry for the downer title, but the news is anything but good, wherever one looks. At the home front we’ve had flat tires, broken bones, and dead phones. (The broken bone belongs to my exchange student, who is disappointed, but not too terribly damaged, thank goodness.) The past few day’s
Continue readingI was thinking of calling this post the “doggy breath” edition, but realized that it would make for a more than usually meaningless caption. But honestly, it is the doggy breath edition. I have a great round-up post I’d like to write, but I can’t this morning because I have to
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