Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Roger Simon is a little wrong when he talks about A&E’s decision to fire Phil Robertson violating the First Amendment. Only government can violate the First Amendment. Having said that, Simon is right about everything else, insofar as it boils down to this: What we are seeing is the ascendency
Continue readingStella Paul notes something I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere when it comes to Obamacare: the devastating effect it will have on people who travel or divide their time between two locations. The new policies are narrowly locked into local care providers. But people aren’t always in the same locality. Both
Continue readingMy husband was working on a Word document that needed to have paragraphs and subparagraphs numbered. As I’m sure you know, if you start inserting paragraph numbers without creating distinct styles, Word takes on a life of its own, and starts generating multiple styles. Eventually, every paragraph in my husband’s
Continue readingThere’s so much good stuff out there on Mondays. All the pent-up writer’s instinct and energy from the weekend seems to pour over into this day. Here’s some of that good stuff: Camille Paglia points out the obvious: it’s false that a woman without a man is like a fish
Continue readingA rising San Francisco tech yuppie said what all the hard-working young San Franciscans think about the homeless and derelicts who swarm San Francisco’s streets but that none dare to say aloud. (I remember well the quiet grumbling about the homeless back in my young days as a downtown yuppie,
Continue readingOne of my children had technical difficulties with a project (it hadn’t occurred to her to download a trial video editor software that she needed for a project), so I’ve been up quite late putting that project to bed. That’s okay — it’s why I’m the grown-up and she’s still
Continue readingPalestinians only destroy. Israelis not only create, they resurrect. It’s amazing to see sophisticated plumbing emerge from the earth after 12 centuries. Even the New York Times is being forced to tell the truth about those new Obamacare policies — they’re really expensive. In isolation, high deductibles might not be
Continue readingThis one’s a little bouquet of stuff, hence the little bouquet “branding” photo: Queen Victoria was famous for using the royal “we” because she understood that all of her public utterances were on the nation’s behalf. Barack Obama and Joe Biden don’t get that. The road to Hell is paved
Continue readingI need to take care of some things for my Mom, so I won’t be blogging until about 11 a.m. PST. Until then, Open Thread!!!! Yay!!!!
Continue readingSorry for the silence, but since yesterday, my computer has been commandeered for a family project and I’ve not had any access to it. Blogging on my iPad is not an option, because of the same family project. I might get my computer back this afternoon and I’ll definitely have
Continue readingThat I am an indifferent cook is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that my proudest boast about my Thanksgiving dinner is that nobody got food poisoning. Other than that, the food, over which I labored for two days, was more than adequate. I had the whole Thanksgiving megillah: Turkey
Continue readingI’d reached critical mass in the inbox. It was either spend the day working through it or go nuclear which, in my case, doesn’t mean blowing up Israel, but does mean simply deleting everything in my inbox, knowing that there’s no way I will ever read what’s in there. I
Continue reading(Yes, I know it’s already afternoon for some of you, but it’s morning here, and I’m rolling with that.) So . . . yeah . . . whatever. My brain is devoid of inspiration. If any of you are doing better than I am (probably all of you are), please
Continue readingA small Sunday morning round-up…. The Navy: doing the right thing and doing it right. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Not. (It’s worth remembering that, by the time the Soviet Union collapsed, being a doctor there was a women-only job, with about as much cachet
Continue readingSorry about the silence, but this has been a very domestic day. The greatest amount of time has been given over to shopping for and preparing to cook chicken soup and matzoh balls. Although I’m usually a truly terrible cook, my chicken soup with matzoh balls could easily win a
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