Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Most people harbor bad thoughts. It’s the civilizing instincts we learn over a lifetime that help us tamp down those thoughts. Thus, while we may hate, really hate, the boss who destroyed our career, we don’t kill that boss — or at least most of us don’t. “Going postal,” for
Continue readingSince I have a sometimes embarrassing fondness for romance novels (Mr. Bookworm teases me a lot), I’ve written about romance novels before (once about British chick-lit, which I think is demeaning to women; and once about the conservative morals underpinning American romances). I was therefore intrigued when AP did a
Continue readingIsn’t it judo where you use your enemy’s own power and momentum to destroy him? I know it’s one of the martial arts. I was thinking of that principle when I read Mark Steyn’s accurate diagnosis of the problems with the mighty American military: We live in an age of
Continue readingIf you’re doing Yoga, be sure to bring the disinfectant: In the last two years, Dr. Cohen said, he has seen a 50 percent spike in patients with athlete’s foot and plantar warts. The likely culprit? Unclean exercise mats, he said. Gyms have long been hothouses for unwanted viruses, fungi
Continue readingFor several of my posts, there’s been a very vigorous exchange about American foreign policy. Just recently, one of my readers, who espouses what I would call a conservative viewpoint, commented about “fundamental truths” common to all people. Another reader who, on foreign policy, is I think hostile to current
Continue readingToday, in my mail, I found our local free paper, the Pacific Sun. This week’s cover story is on the cover as “A Farewell to Arms : Iraq war veterans reject their mission– and now may have to fight for their own freedom.” In the body of the magazine, it
Continue readingSometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you
Continue readingWhen two people leave me messages saying I must, absolutely must, read a movie review, I take that seriously. I therefore headed over to the Washington Post and read the review for Ant Bully. I can now tell you that you must, absolutely must, read the Ant Bully review. Even
Continue readingDo you wear logo-wear? By that I mean anything from a t-shirt that says “Drink Coca Cola” to a Mickey Mouse shirt or hat? I don’t. I’ve never figured out why I should pay to advertise someone else’s product. It seems to be that, if the Coca Cola company wants
Continue readingSince I can’t say it better, I won’t try. Here’s just the opening of Charles Krauthammer’s most recent column about the world pile-up against Israel and what Israel should do it about it: What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put
Continue readingWhether you’re Hammurabi or W. S. Gilbert, you know that the punishment must fit the crime. Check out this post to find out how to make a suitable punishment when you’re neighbor piggy-backs on your wireless. Hat tip: Done With Mirrors FacebookTweet
Continue readingI’ve rather slacked off on blogging about the war. I’ve made my position very clear, and am only dragging in stories that particularly catch my eye. At Seraphic Secret, however, Robert Avrech is blogging up a storm about the war itself, and about coverage of the war. Since he’s an
Continue readingI love NY Times bashing, in part because I think it’s a dreadfully misguided paper that has way too much reach, and in part because it’s a cheap and easy target, and I don’t always have the time or energy to make subtle arguments against more challenging targets. What I
Continue readingI’ve heard a lot in the past week or so about the underground tunnels Hezbollah has built all along Lebanon’s southern (and Israel’s northern) border. These reports led me to wonder why Israel, which has a very well equipped army, didn’t have bunker busters, of the type we heard about
Continue readingWhat’s the big deal, many ask? Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped some Israeli soldiers, turning them into prisoners, and they’ll readily release these prisoners if Israel, in turn, will release some prisoners it holds. It all sounds so beautifully symmetrical. Except it’s not. The kidnapped Israeli soldiers had done absolutely nothing
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