Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
After a couple of days of being unable to spend any meaningful time at my computer, I am regrouping. I have several hundred emails to get through before I can start serious blogging. In the meantime, I have some wonderful cartoons and posters to share with you. (With thanks to
Continue readingMy house guest is sleeping off jet lag in the next room, so I’m doing two-finger typing to silence the normal click-clack of my keyboard. This will therefore be brief. The UN: Killing Muslims with kindness The Marines and Special Forces are good, but are 130 of them really necessary
Continue readingNo ruminations today. I’m just diving into the post: We have met the enemy, and it isn’t us, it’s ISIS One of the tocsins I’m relentlessly ringing on my “real me” Facebook is that what we’re seeing in the Middle East — in Syria, in Israel, in Iraq, in Egypt
Continue readingThe last few days have been perfectly nice, but without repose. My brain churns frantically, but I don’t get the time to process the information through my keyboard. My apologies. I think things will even out a little in the next few days (although that may just be wishful thinking
Continue readingWe are at sixes and sevens today. Our house guest arrives and my twice monthly cleaning service. Between the two, we’ve purged the house of as much extraneous material as possible. I swear that, if you could put my house on a scale, it would weigh substantially less. There’s still
Continue readingSchool starts in a week and a half, our house guest arrives tomorrow, and I have a million things to do. I will blog later today, but I’m now hitting the road to send old useless things to Goodwill and to buy new (useful?) things in their place. Please post
Continue readingA moment of calm, so I’m resuming my round-up. Things are not good all over Richard Fernandez does a quick survey of the three main issues on America’s plate — Russia, Iraq, and Ebola — and is not sanguine. He’s not screaming that the end is near, but he thinks
Continue readingWe have a house guest arriving in a couple of days, which necessitated my cleaning out the guest room, which has inexorably morphed into a storage room. I have thrown away a great deal of unnecessary stuff that we hung onto for no good reason, and I’ve neatly stored other
Continue readingBusy day. Very busy day and not a bad one either, because I got a lot accomplished. Just about the only thing I didn’t get done today was spending time at my computer. I’ve got a pile of open tabs left over from yesterday, though, all of which have aged
Continue readingI’m very excited, because I’m meeting for lunch today with an old friend whom I haven’t seen in about 25 years. He was a lovely human being when I knew him way back when, and I’m assuming that he hasn’t changed in this regard. What will be new will be
Continue readingThis was one of those days in which, due to a combination of duty and sloth, I watched my time just go sucking down the drain. In the morning, I spent several hours caring for my mother, recycling electronics, donating to Goodwill, and shopping. When I got home, instead of
Continue readingNot to boast — okay, never mind, I’m boasting — but the reason I didn’t write more this afternoon was that I met up in the City with Neo Neocon. It was, I must say, a delightful way to spend an afternoon. Neo is, as you would expect, thoughtful, informed,
Continue readingThis is one of those days that sees my obligations as a mother and a homemaker trump everything, at least for the morning. I’m going to slam through as many links as I can before I have to hit the road. Since I’m running out the door, let me apologize
Continue readingAs you’ve probably noticed, I’ve re-jiggered these portmanteau posts, with a new name and a new image. I’d like to thank all of you for your suggestions. I’ve gone with a vaguely newsy title and a picture from one of my favorite illustrators, and it just feels right. I’ll continue
Continue readingIt’s quite flattering that, during the weekends, everyone in my world wants a piece of me. It also precludes blogging. I’ve saved a whole bunch of interesting sites, but didn’t have the time to write anything. I do, however, have some pictures to share with you. (And many thanks to
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