Bookworm Beat 2/2/24: The “Don’t Mess With Texas” illustrated edition
I’m back, and everything is weirder than ever, whether it’s the border, the election, or the Republican primaries. But at least we can laugh.
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Austin is trying to deter crime the ‘Minority Report’ way
By shifting money from policing to encouraging abortions, Austin is fulfilling the eugenicists’ dream of a world in which no criminals exist. The Minority Report was a 2002 movie (based upon a Philip K. Dick short story). The premise was that law enforcement had moved to a point at which
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History, Holidays & Observances on December 29, the 5th Day of Christmas
5th Day of Christmas, Feasts of the Holy Family, Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Occupation of Savannah, Texas, HMS Warrior, USS Constitution, Mary Tyler Moore, Father of English Medicine, and More. . . . Holidays and Observances on December 29 Today is the 5th Day of Christmas Feast of the
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History, Holidays & Observances on December 21
Today: Doubting Thomas, Plymouth Colony, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, the Lockerbie Bombing, Bloody Christmas, George Patton, Bethlehem, Christmas Music, And More . . . Holidays and Observances on December 21 Feast Day of Thomas the Apostle. Thomas was one of the twelve apostles of Christ. He is most
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History, Holidays & Observances on December 9
Today: Slavery, Dunmore’s Proclamation, Small Pox & The Ethiopian Regiment in the Revolutionary War; England’s Glorious Revolution; Lutefisk; John Milton; Christmas Music . . . AND MORE . . .
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Bookworm Beat 11/27/18 — the Samizdat Twitter edition and open thread
Because I’m a small target, Twitter is the perfect Samizdat vehicle to pass on news about Leftist insanity — news I later develop here, at Bookworm Room Why I’m still on Twitter. Even as Glenn Reynolds has backed off of Twitter, many of you have probably noticed that I’ve seriously
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The Bookworm Beat 9-8-17 — the illustrated edition and open thread UPDATED
Hurricanes and dictators threaten, the earth shakes, the deep state digs deeper — and smart people still provide wit and wisdom for my illustrated edition.
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California travel ban: Blatant hypocrisy about LGBTQ (etc.) rights
The California travel ban against US states for claimed anti-LGBTQ laws follows its attack on the travel stay for Islamic countries that routinely kill gays. In January and then again in March 2017, President Trump issued a temporary travel ban aimed at six countries that the Obama administration identified as
Continue readingThe best “manly man” Craigslist car ad ever
To some, it just might be a plain-old Jeep Wrangler Sahara with 155,000 miles on it. But if this website is to be believed, to one man in Texas, the car he was selling was much more than an object that gets you there and takes you back. It is
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Got this one from a relative. Made me laugh. A young Texan grew up wanting to be a lawman. He grew up big, 6′ 2″, strong as a longhorn, and fast as a mustang. He could shoot a bottle cap tossed in the air at 40 paces. When he finally
Continue readingThe inconveniences (big and small) of environmentalism
Conservatives have been aware for a while that the Texas oil industry is being threatened by a lizard. It’s not being threatened this way: Godzilla Movie Poster Instead, it’s being threatened this way: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Logo It turns out that the sand dune lizard, an innocuous little
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There’s a new bad guy in town in West Texas. He’s called the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. He’s actually kind of cute, as lizards go. He’s about three inches long, a nice tan color, and has a vaguely Winston Churchill-esque expression. He seems harmless enough, but he comes packing a huge,
Continue readingSitting on my spindle *UPDATED*
For the past two days, I’ve been gathering links that I’ve meant to use in stand-alone posts. That’s clearly not going to happen, though, so let me pass the links onto you, in the hope that you find them as interesting as I did. Here’s something of a public service
Continue readingA real shame *UPDATED*
The 152-year old Governor’s Mansion in Austin, Texas, is just about one of the prettiest Southern, Greek-revival style buildings you’ll ever see. Or should I say, you ever saw (past tense). News is out this morning that a “catastrophic” fire raced through the building, and the photo accompanying this story
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