The perverted, inverted world in which we live
This about sums it up: This is from The People’s Cube. Gates of Vienna picked it up, and I found it a Michelle Malkin. FacebookTweet
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On cultural degradation
My mother and I put our heads together tonight and began bemoaning the absence of charm in our modern world. The subject came up when, a propos something in our conversation, I quoted a line from “Singing in the Rain.” We fell silent a moment as we thought of that
Continue readingVictorian laments
Sometimes I’m lucky enough to stumble across an unusually beautiful post, that takes a familiar subject, fleshes it out, and brings fresh insights to what has became nothing more than a faded Victorian post card. This time, believe it or not, that subject is the high mortality rate that plagued
Continue readingThe missing piece in Israel’s defeat
This is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today: An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967,
Continue readingHonest debate about marriage and gay marriage
Whenever I do a gay marriage post, I feel like prefacing it by saying “some of my best friends are gay.” In fact, that statement is no longer true. I didn’t turn on my friends, but I did settle down to marriage with children in the suburbs. In this community
Continue readingMulticulturalism as the root of Britain’s evils
I haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort
Continue readingThe Few, the Proud
No disrespect to any other branches of the military, but there are some really good stories about Marines. Here’s one that just broke: For years, authorities wondered about the identity of a U.S. Marine who appeared at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, helped find a pair of
Continue readingFame has a price
Curt, who blogs at the excellent Flopping Aces, dug around at the Democratic Underground to find out what the guests there were saying about the kidnapped reporters. Apparently what they were saying did not reflect well on them, and Michelle Malkin’s site (which is being guest hosted right now), picked
Continue readingGood news about the missing Egyptians
All the missing Egyptian students have been rounded up. It’s entirely possible that they were just on a little lark, sight-seeing when they should have been reporting to school, but it was bizarre and unnerving how quickly they dispersed throughout the United States. They didn’t go to tourist destinations, and
Continue readingCNN Bias
I don’t have to demonstrate it, because YNET news does. In the same vein, Gail, at Crossing the Rubicon, shows the WaPo’s fun little games with facts that will undermine Israel. FacebookTweet
Continue readingVaccines and proportionate risk
I live in an area where most of the parents I know are college grads. It is amazing to me how many of them (not the majority, but a significant number) have decided not to vaccinate their children because of the “risk.” The risk, of course, is the possibility that
Continue readingThe manly common denominator
This is an interesting NPR story about efforts to identify and deal with violently aggressive boys before they go postal. A little tidbit buried in the story, and quickly passed over, is a denominator common to “most” (not just “many”) of these violent boys — they have no father in
Continue readingIt’s the spin
I’m a word person. I’m very, very, very verbal and I prefer to get my information through reading. Maybe that’s why I’m so sensitive to, and really obsess about, the nuances news coverage about events in the Middle East. For example, there’s a BBC story boldly headlined “Palestinians killed in
Continue readingBeing thankful for small favors
From Jay Leno, via Townhall: “British authorities said they were able to detect the terrorist plot using a surveillance program that the “New York Times” hadn’t got around to exposing yet.” FacebookTweet
Continue readingGood can stand up to evil
I’ve been depressed lately by the sheer volume of scary and bad news: the Israeli/Hezbollah war and its pathetic outcome, with Israel actually believing that signing on to the defeatist UN ceasefire will improve her standing in world opinion; the planned London airplane bombings, which included mothers intentionally using their
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