Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m enjoying a very nice vacation right now, helped by the fact that DQ has been writing such interesting stuff (as I knew he would). I’m anticipating checking in every couple of days, but it really is a relief to know I left things in good hands. I discovered what
Continue readingAssume he’s guilty (as most people do, “innocent until proven guilty” being for the court fo law, not the court of public opinion. What is all the fuss about? Granted, he did a terrible thing, as I’m sure anyone who has a dog will tell you. Dogs are man’s best
Continue readingDQ here. I’ll be dropping in while Bookworm is on vacation. Danny L. picked up on one of my earlier comments and suggested I make a topic out of my belief that we should legalize drugs. Good idea. I’d also legalize gambling, prostitution, and other “victimless” crimes. I take this
Continue readingTell me honestly — how are the state prison systems supposed to deal with the following true scenario? The person at issue was born a man, and started taking hormones to feminize his appearance. At some point, he committed a crime and ended up in California’s state prison system. He
Continue readingIf you’ve been thinking that I haven’t been blogging very vigorously the last couple of days, you’re right. I’ve had a big work project, that started out grim and got rather interesting, and I’ve been getting ready for a trip. I’ll probably blog during the trip, so I’m not signing
Continue readingThis is very bad news: The Lincoln Avenue rapist is free to walk Lincoln Avenue again, or anywhere else he pleases – without a tracking device. Patrick Henry Ghilotti, the notorious San Rafael serial rapist, was released from state supervision Thursday and may travel wherever he chooses. Although living at
Continue readingAnother week, another vote over at the Watcher of Weasels. I’m very proud of the fact that I won on the Council side, because I think my post was good on its own merits, and because I’m pleased (in a kind of sad way) by how prescient I was when
Continue readingIf this guy is correct it’s really good news, both in terms of saving the world’s vanishing bee population and in terms of taking some of the heat off of global warming (if you’ll pardon the pun). If he’s wrong, that would be a shame, because the culprit he’s identified
Continue readingI used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered.
Continue readingNeo-neocon is an elegant writer, so I like her summary of the theater in which the Democrats engaged last night when they called for a slumber party to dramatize their desire to withdraw from the Iraq War immediately. I left a comment at her blog, which I like enough that
Continue readingSean Hannity isn’t one of my favorite conservative talking heads. He has some good points, but he functions off of an anger and emotionalism that stops just short of (or maybe drifts over into) demagoguery. I thought this was very clearly displayed in his attack last night on Johnny Sutton,
Continue readingI’ve never liked the idea of John McCain as a presidential candidate. He’s a little too iconoclastic for my tastes and, as with so many senators in the run for President, he has way too much baggage trailing behind him and too little administrative experience. Another reason I don’t want
Continue readingDrudge gives appropriate prominence to a report that the military caught one of the top guys of Al Qaeda (“which doesn’t exist”) in Iraq: The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group’s
Continue readingI was fortunate enough several months ago to get in on the ground floor of something big. In the wake of the Jamil Hussein and Fauxtography scandals, some bloggers got together to create a wiki the sole focus of which is exposing media myths. And so Media Mythbusters was born.
Continue readingLondon, one of the greatest cities in the world for the last 1,000 years or so, continues to slide down, down, down. If you’re unlucky enough to live in the wrong section of London, this is what it’s like to do business: A corner shop run by an Asian couple
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