Apr
29
Weekend amusement
April 29, 2005 | Comments Off
They say that everyone has a blog now, and that just might be true. I present to you the blog of Darth Vader. Enjoy.
Apr
29
Try picking another
April 29, 2005 | Comments Off
This is one of those stories that sends me into Hulk-like levels of rage. Andrew on Confirm Them reported about the Democrats protesting in front of the Jefferson Memorial in order to “urge their colleagues not to give in to what a Democratic release termed ‘White House pressure’” regarding the judicial filibusters. Listen, I am [...]
Apr
28
How readable are we?
April 28, 2005 | Comments Off
This readability test has been making its way through the blogosphere. It measures the content of your website and determines how readable it is. Here are the results for the Political Spectrum: Summary Value Total sentences 705 Total words 10,160 Average words per Sentence 14.41 Words with 1 Syllable 6,665 Words with 2 Syllables 2,035 [...]
Apr
27
The Man Nobody Knows
April 27, 2005 | Comments Off
This week’s Coalition for Darfur post. On February 24, 2004, an op-ed entitled “The Unnoticed Genocide” appeared in the pages of the Washington Post warning that without humanitarian intervention in Darfur “tens of thousands of civilians [would] die in the weeks and months ahead in what will be continuing genocidal destruction.” Written by Eric Reeves, [...]
Apr
25
MNR
April 25, 2005 | Comments Off
I walk alone and I walk alone . . .My shadow’s the only one who walks besides meWell somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriendMy shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beatingSometimes I wish someone out there will find meThat I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidentialI’ve [...]
Apr
23
Happy Pesach
April 23, 2005 | Comments Off
Tonight begins one of the most important periods of the Jewish year, that being Passover. Even the most unobservant of Jews take time tonight or at some point in the next eight days to commemorate their liberation from Egypt. And yet Christians will barely take notice, and I must wonder why. This is something that [...]
Apr
20
While We Were Distracted
April 20, 2005 | Comments Off
From the Coalition for Darfur. In 1994, a genocide took place in Rwanda and it is probably safe to say that few of us remember hearing much about it. How was it possible, we now ask ourselves, that we could have so easily ignored the brutal slaughter of nearly one million people. A look back [...]
Apr
19
White smoke
April 19, 2005 | Comments Off
White smoke has risen, and the bells have rung, signifying we have a new Pope. The announcement of his name will come soon. Glory be. Update: It’s Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, who shall take the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Apr
19
MLB slipping into parody, err parity?
April 19, 2005 | Comments Off
The constant lament about major league baseball is that big-market teams have an unfair advantage over all the rest, and so few teams have a real shot at winning the pennant. Most of the scorn is focused upon the New York Yankees (a vile organization, to be sure), who dominated the game in the late [...]
Apr
18
MNR
April 18, 2005 | Comments Off
I do not know if I can really rant tonight. It has been a tough day, and I’m still feeling a tad uneasy over an experience I had at work this afternoon. Oh, it was so awful. My boss came in and . . . and . . . (sob) he had this really perturbed [...]
Apr
13
Lacking the Political Will
April 13, 2005 | Comments Off
The weekly Coalition post In the last few days, international donors have pledged $4.5 billion in reconstruction aid to Sudan as part of the north/south peace process. And though much if this aid is nominally contingent on Khartoum’s ability and willingness to end the violence in Darfur, it remains to be seen if the international [...]
Apr
12
Thanks for the advice, but no thanks
April 12, 2005 | Comments Off
In the spirit of Uncomfirmable, I would like to thank William Rees-Mogg for the advice he gives to the prospective Pope, but would like to also tell him to take a flying leap. Normally I would be the first one to stick up for capitalist principles, but Mogg’s piece is fundamentally incorrect in two areas, [...]
Apr
11
24 rant
April 11, 2005 | Comments Off
Note: Do not read the following if you have not yet seen this week’s episode of 24. Okay, so the nuclear football is missing, and the United States government sends ONE fucking helicopter to go retrieve it? I mean the thing was gone for an entire hour, and after all that time they can only [...]
Apr
11
I’m a cannibal?
April 11, 2005 | Comments Off
Have you ever read something so profoundly stupid that you almost feel like banging your head against the table, or perhaps have even done so? Well, if you have, you can relate to how I felt after reading this story in the Daily Telegraph. Teachers are being told not to mention that Communion bread and [...]
Apr
8
A little weekend amusement
April 8, 2005 | Comments Off
Sorry, but I just had to link to this re-enactment of the final scene of the movie Seven, as performed by stuffed animals. Hat tip to Garfield Ridge.
Apr
7
Death Penalty
April 7, 2005 | Comments Off
Ramesh Ponnuru over on NRO discusses Rick Santorum’s conversion on the death penalty issue. Santorum is rethinking his support for it, though it is not for the same reason that I converted a few years ago. The Senator is concerned that DNA evidence suggests a number of innocccent people were assigned to death row and [...]
Apr
6
Darfur vs. Martha Stewart
April 6, 2005 | Comments Off
The latest from the Coalition for Darfur. Eleven years ago today, the president of Rwanda was killed when his plane was shot down over Kigali. His death served as a catalyst to a genocide that quickly engulfed the country – within one month, an estimated 500,000 people had been killed and by the time the [...]
Apr
4
Pope John Paul II
April 4, 2005 | Comments Off
So much has been written about this man that it seems spilling digital ink is a severe waste of time, and yet I feel compelled to add my own two cents, however unworthy. Et introibo ad altare Dei; ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam I have known only one Pope in my lifetime. He came [...]
Apr
4
Baseball’s Back, Baby!
April 4, 2005 | Comments Off
So I am sitting at home on my late and extended lunch break (it helps when your office is across the street from your apartment) watching the first Mets game of the baseball season. Yes, the sun is shining in DC for the first time ever, or so it seems, and I am in my [...]
Apr
4
Interesting article on gay marriage
April 4, 2005 | Comments Off
Here’s a link to a rather thoughtful article on gay marriage written by libertarian Jane Galt. Her perspective is similar to mine in that she is ambivalent about this issue. Surprising as it may be to some readers, I am not necessarily opposed to gay marriage, and have in fact leaned more to favoring it. [...]