Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Almost a year ago, I wrote an American Thinker column praising small town America — or at least the modern suburban life that passes for old-time small town America — as an exceptionally friendly, connected way to live. That column was just based on my personal observations as an ex-city
Continue readingDuring a stimulating lunch time conversation, DQ expressed genuine mystification at my post asking whether the media was right all along. In that post, I said I wasn’t going to quarrel with whether the media was right or not about getting into the war (and some post commentors correctly noted
Continue readingOne of the problems with oppositional behavior is that, while you may think you’re in control, you’re not — you’re just in constant reactive mode. Thus, if you ask me to sit down and I reflexively refuse to sit down (“you can’t boss me around”), I’ve ceded a form of
Continue readingI’m an indifferent cook but, as I’ve blogged once before, I make a very, very good chicken soup. Good as it is, I didn’t use to make it very often because of the incredible mess. After it had simmered for several hours, the chicken had fallen completely apart, with edible
Continue readingOne of the little Bookworms is required to do a book report. FacebookTweet
Continue readingIn some recent writings, Rich Lowry and Max Boot have announced that the MSM was right all along in claiming the war a disaster from the get-go. J.R. Dunn, writing at American Thinker, disagrees, and carefully explains why. As for me, I was not a huge hawk at the war’s
Continue readingWe’ve all laughed at Billy Crystal’s savage caricature of Fernando Lamas, a sketch character reportedly born when Crystal heard Lamas, on The Tonight Show, announce that “it is better to look good than to feel good.” That quotation popped into my mind when I read a New York Times style
Continue readingBy gaining control of Congress, the Democrats suddenly found themselves with a problem. It’s one thing, when you have to power to effect changes, to demand that the US withdraws from Iraq; it’s another thing, when power is yours, to have to figure out a way to make that withdrawal
Continue readingI’m in the midst of doing a rush edit on a brief that has to get to the publisher tomorrow morning. FacebookTweet
Continue readingI can never figure out if the extraordinary number of errors in the written materials the schools send me result from ignorance or carelessness. FacebookTweet
Continue readingNancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra — raised Catholic, but not currently practicing her religion — is selling her new movie, which focuses on Evangelical Christians. Her San Francisco Chronicle interview is worth reading, to my mind, for a couple of things. To begin with, it’s interesting to see Pelosi’s embarrassed, guilt-stricken
Continue readingAs we know, reporters in war zones get hurt. In just the most recent war, Michael Kelly died and Bob Woodruff was seriously injured. It’s not new. The famed Robert Capa died in Indochina reporting on the war there. Indeed, reporting can often be a dangerous business, and we can
Continue readingIn his later portraits, and in so many caricatures, Napoleon is shown with his hand tucked in his jacket, holding his stomach. Turns out he may have had a good reason for doing so. Modern research indicates that those who autopsied Napoleon immediately after his death were right — he
Continue readingI am getting a whole bunch of hits from a blog called “Ihmissuhteet ja tasa-arvo,” since that blog linked to a post I wrote about women’s lib having caused men to cease feeling protective towards women. FacebookTweet
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