Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m off crutches — hurrah! — for the first time in a month and a half. It’s wonderful to be free of them. I used them as awkwardly and inelegantly on the last day as I did on the first, something that was both frustrating and painful. Today I’m learning
Continue readingThoughtful Jews are increasingly thinking one thought: the notion of a two-state solution is ridiculous. Moshe Philips and Benyamin Korn explain why it’s ridiculous. And in a superior interview on the Glenn Beck show, Caroline Glick offers a single-state alternative. *** When I was on vacation a few years ago,
Continue readingI have a busy morning coming up, but will be back at my computer by about noon Pacific Time. Until then, please enjoy this open thread. Oh, and a question for you: The headlines for the last few days have been overwhelming, with everything, at home and abroad, in politics
Continue readingI have learned something about myself over the past 5.5 weeks: I will never master crutches. After all this time, I still fall going up the stairs, get vertigo going down the stairs, topple over when trying to reach light switches, get abrasions on my skin, and exhaust my injured
Continue readingI’ve ranted here before about the fact that, when discussing the Left’s insistence that government should be able to give the Pill to young girls, no one mentions how dangerous hormone-based birth control devices are. It seems, though, that people are finally waking up to the fact that there’s a
Continue readingWhew! I was quite productive today. I think those iron pills I’ve been taking because of mild anemia have helped. I felt much less sluggish. I still have a lot of stuff in my inbox, but these articles are a good start: The always-astute Lee Smith has a surprising take
Continue readingI took my mother to the doctor and the bank today, she on her walker and I on my crutches. It was physically tiring for me, partly because the crutches exacerbate a shoulder problem and partly because I had to get my mom and her walker in and out of
Continue readingIt’s time for my car’s smog check. I’ll be gone a couple of hours, so I hope this Open Thread more than adequately compensates for my absence.
Continue readingYesterday, I was in a blogging frenzy. Today? Not so much…. I’m a little depleted after having spent more than an hour trying to reach someone at the Social Security administration to resend my mother’s tax info, which had gotten lost in the mail. The first half hour was spent
Continue readingCaped Crusader sent me a rash of wonderful internet posters. Not only are they good on their own, they tie in so well with points we’ve discussed in the past:
Continue readingFor those of us who believe in free speech, the antidote to bad speech isn’t censorship, it’s good speech. The problem for France, which is trying to censor an antisemitic, pro-Nazi “comic”, is that it has no good speech to counter the antisemitism that is breeding in France’s toxic stew
Continue readingAnother day, another apology. The fact is that the last day and a half have been Murphy’s Law every step of the way. Yesterday morning started out bad and then went downhill. Nothing earth-shattering — we’re all alive and in one piece, the house didn’t burn down, and no wars
Continue readingIt’s been one of those days. I’m regrouping.
Continue readingThere are a lot of things I miss about being young. Today, I miss the ability to sleep even if the house if falling down around me. I can’t do that anymore. I somehow lost the sleeping knack when I had babies and I’ve never gotten it back. Sleep seems
Continue readingThis has been a crazily chaotic day. I got thrown off my stride by my morning swim (phase 2 in physical therapy for my knee, now that I’m off the perpetual motion machine), and just couldn’t catch up anymore. Throw in a few unexpected demands on my time and —
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