Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve known about it all day, and almost didn’t blog about it, since news gets stale so quickly. Nevertheless, it seemed almost morally wrong not to applaud the Dutch for their recent moment of spine: they’ve banned the burqa. The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the
Continue readingClear an hour on your timetable. Then, watch Glenn Beck’s Exposed : The Extremist Agenda, about the footage CNN, MSNBC and the Times/Discovery Channel aren’t showing you. The Nuremburg rallies look like high school talent shows compared to these things: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWIK8YTZS8] Hat tip: Little Green Footballs del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingIf you haven’t already done so, take the time to check out 30 Rock. The fact that Tina Fey, the head writer, and the star, was head writer at Saturday Night Live actually wasn’t much of a recommendation as far as I was concerned. Happily, I overcame that prejudice, because
Continue reading“Today, your child is bringing home their report card to go over with you.” ‘Nuff said. del.icio.us | digg it FacebookTweet
Continue readingMr. Bookworm must be the only parent in the world who, upon finding his children quietly reading together at bedtime, insists they abandon their books and beds, and come watch TV with him. Maybe there’s psychology here — one day, with luck, they’ll come to hate the enforced TV watching
Continue readingI hate, loathe, despite, and deeply, deeply disrespect the BBC. So does Peter Glover, but he brings much more depth to his disdain for that institution: he’s British, he knows the facts and, while I am only forced to pay a little bit for the insignificant BBC wannabe in American
Continue readingI consider myself a beneficiary of the saner side of Women’s Lib. (For the insane side, amuse yourself reading Christina Hoff Sommers’ Who Stole Feminism : How Women Have Betrayed Women.) After all, I was effortlessly able to launch myself into the traditionally male preserve of law. Over the years,
Continue readingAs part of my ongoing effort to spread joy through Fred Astaire, allow me to introduce you to the Cole Porter song “Don’t Monkey With Broadway,” which Astaire sings with George Murphy. (Yes, that George Murphy.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDVp_DVORk] FacebookTweet
Continue readingLittle Bookworm had a spelling test on Halloween based on a list of holiday inspired words. To that end, among other words, the list had the words “ghoulish,” “ghastly,” “glowing,” “spooky” and, to my surprise, “florescent.” “Interesting,” I thought, “that the teacher should include in this ghoulish list a fairly
Continue readingPatrick O’Hannigan, my friend the Paragraph Farmer, used as the jumping off point for a wonderful article in The American Spectator a post of mine that had, in turn, commented favorably on a Dennis Prager article. Dennis Prager’s point, which was one I applauded, was that no one could have
Continue readingLast night, Mr. Bookworm pointed out to me that gasoline prices have started to rise again. “They fall right before an election and go back up again after. If that isn’t a Republican conspiracy, I don’t know what is.” I told him that this is a regular annual cycle, with
Continue readingWhat were Jewish voters doing last Tuesday? To hear the MSM tout it, they were returning to the Democratic fold in droves, at least according to one exit poll. However, Richard Baehr rides to the rescue to say, “Not so fast, my fine MSM friends.” It turns out that the
Continue readingMy husband and I started watching Prime Suspect when it first appeared on American television and liked it enough to keep watching it every time episodes showed up. It’s a very gritty crime drama (the producers love showing partially decomposed women’s corpses) that follows the unlovable but effective DCI Jane
Continue readingDonald Hagen, who blogs at Rhymes with Right, took the time to prepare a lengthy satirical quiz, looking at the probable political attitudes of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and communists. Although the quiz isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, I definitely fall on the conservative/libertarian scale (or would, if I
Continue readingAt the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy
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