Category: Open Threads

[As you might have noticed, I’m updating this as I go, with new links, and videos, added at the bottom of this post.] It’s dripping today, weather I like, but that I also find slightly enervating.  My instincts are to grab my dog, a book and some chocolate, and to

[I’ll be updating over the course of the day, so check back in.  Last updated at 2:55 p.m. Pacific Time, daylight savings version.] John Hawkins assembles a damning collection of quotations about the health care bill . . . from Democrats! Amazing, really amazing, cakes. Thomas Lifson finally says it: 

I’ve never understood what the big deal is with inert landfill.  Whether what lies under the ground is a pile of dirt and rocks, or some inert garbage seems to me to be perfectly irrelevant.  I understand that, if the garbage creates toxic byproducts, that should be addressed (and it

It has been an epic Monday on the domestic front (nothing bad, just lots of frustrations and inconveniences), and it’s looking as if the afternoon will be only marginally better.  I’ll blog when I can, but would be delighted if you’d use this as an open thread.

Sorry for the blog silence.  I’m getting better, but I pinched a nerve in my back, and have found it very difficult to sit for the last few days.  Worse, when I have been sitting, the Valium I’ve taken to enable that sitting has left me typing in Swahili —

Have at it my friends.  I’m regrouping:  reading news, thinking, and (gasp!) doing actual legal work. I do have a few suggestions, though: I’ve always known it’s an irrational way for me to think, but I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that there’s something symbolic about the Muslim

Just stuff I found interesting: As a word person, I was delighted with Jeannie DeAngelis’ American Thinker article explaining why George Bush’s vocabulary errors didn’t matter, and why Obama’s should. “Corpse-man” is just the gilding on the lily of Obama’s disconnection from the world of true communication and real values.

I’ve had a few thoughts swirling around my brain today, so I thought I’d toss them in the mix. Thought one:  Rahm Emanuel’s been getting heat for insulting the mentally disabled by using “retarded” as an insult.  The focus has been on the hurt feelings of the mentally disabled, and

You can read my favorite opinion/news story of the day, while I get down to work I really don’t want to do. After you read the story, here’s the interview that’s referenced in the story, with Tim Tebow showing remarkable composure as the media giggles nervously in the face of

Sorry for not posting today, but I just haven’t felt like it.  I feel that, today, my contribution to my blog should be about Ryan and Viola, rather than about politics.  That doesn’t mean, though, that you should be shut out, so please consider this an Open Thread.

Just haven’t had a chance to blog this morning or even to process the day’s stories. Here’s an open thread for all of you, since I assume you are much more on the ball than I am.