Mar
31
Long Way Home
March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s funny how a ten mile, 30 minute car ride home can seem like a 3,000 mile, 10 day drive home when you have a crying baby in the back seat. It’s also amazing how such a journey induces one to think evil thoughts of the complete idiots who were responsible for setting the timing [...]
Mar
31
2009 MLB preview: NL East
March 31, 2009 | Comments Off
You didn’t think I’d let the season start without offering up my fearless predictions? And let’s start off with the division I am most interested in. 1. New York Mets. I debated myself intensely over this. If I picked the Mets, I reasoned, I was being a homer. But if I picked the Phillies, was [...]
Mar
31
A bunch of Hot Air
March 31, 2009 | 14 Comments
Over the past few weeks Sydney Carton has been documenting the anti-Catholic bigotry that has been displayed by a few commenters over at the otherwise excellent Hot Air blog. Today, Donald McClarey at The American Catholic posted on this problem, and I will just add my voice to their chorus. I also agree with Donald’s [...]
Mar
30
Give me a break
March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
I know that by blogging about the story I only draw attention to it, but this is the sort of crap that makes sane people stay away from politics. Evidently there’s some sort of tape making the rounds that shows Joe Biden’s daughter sniffing cocaine. The New York Post and Radar online reported that lawyers [...]
Mar
30
Sir Paul
March 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Now here’s a Paul who could sing. Here’s a good selection for today.
Mar
29
A daughter of God
March 29, 2009 | 6 Comments
Whew. That’s the sentiment that comes to mind as this joyous yet exhausting weekend comes to a close. Despite the fact that the Zummo family kept shedding numbers to the point that only one of my brothers along with my mother made it down, it was a good to see everyone. Bernadette Lily, as the [...]
Mar
27
Book Check
March 27, 2009 | 6 Comments
Here’s a quick mini-review of the books I’ve been reading over the past month or so. The Count of Monte Cristo. Revenge is good? That seems to be the underlying message. Oh, sure, there are some innocent bystanders impacted along the way, but the Count manages to satisfy a couple of decades of pent up [...]
Mar
26
At least I don’t have to hop in the car
March 26, 2009 | 5 Comments
So, evidently one of the ways to sooth my screaming daugther is to walk her up and down the stairs. She can be hollering with all of her might, as though I had just plucked an eyebrow from her head, but as soon as I hit those stairs all is right with the world. I [...]
Mar
26
ICCI roundup – 3/26/09
March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
- Now they tell us: For the second day in a row, the AP actually does its job and questions some of the claims made by the Obama administration. If space exploration were conducted like the job forecasts under the government’s new stimulus law, man surely would have missed the moon. But this isn’t rocket [...]
Mar
26
Dale is the man!
March 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Leave it to Dale Price to artfully get down to the heart of the matter. Sheer brilliance, with just an epic finish. So, the University “hopes” for the basis of an engagement with the President, eh? Well, I suppose a hooker can hope for a cuddle after giving a blow job, too, President Jenkins. If [...]
Mar
25
ICCI roundup – 3/25
March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
- Obama a socialist? That’s just crazy talk. Right? The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document. The government at [...]
Mar
25
It’s not a misunderstanding
March 25, 2009 | Comments Off
During an interview some time ago, that bastion of integrity Barney Frank called Antonin Scalia a homophobe, a charge aptly rebutted by Ed Whelan. Frank dug in his deels and defended calling Scalia a homophobe. Rasmesh Ponnuru pointed out the deep flaw in Frank’s reasoning. Ed Whelan added: Frank evidently doesn’t understand that the role [...]
Mar
24
The greatest match ever
March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
With Wrestlemania around the corner, it’s nostalgia time as various websites review all the past Wrestlemanias. The basic consensus is that not only was Wrestleman X-Seven the greatest of them all, it was perhaps the greatest pay-per-view of all time, and I am inclined to agree. I watched this live, and it was the most [...]
Mar
24
World’s largest miniature train set
March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
A friend sent me the link to this story. This is simply unbelievable. The Miniatur Wunderland model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout [...]
Mar
23
Daily ICCI – 3/23/09
March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
- We’re spending trillions of dollars, so naturally the Obama administration has made it a priority to make sure the Treasury Department is fully staffed. Ummm, not exactly. Barack Obama hasn’t nominated 17 of 18 positions at Treasury needing Senate confirmation after more than two months on the job. The Financial Stability Oversight Board (FINSOB) [...]
Mar
23
Obama at NDU
March 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to be its commencement speaker has rightfully drawn howls of protests from Catholic quarters. (Though some faithful Catholics think that such protesters ought to grow up. Such maturity.) National Review hosted an online symposium, asking the question, “Should the University of Notre Dame honor our most anti-life president?” [...]
Mar
23
Horrors! Good teams advance in tournament
March 23, 2009 | Comments Off
I watched about two hours more of the NCAA tournament this weekend than I had anticipated, meaning, I watched for about two hours. And that’s two more hours than I watched of college basketball all season. I was reminded why I no longer watch that much basketball by the endings of these games. This seems [...]
Mar
23
George vs. Kmiec
March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Princeton Professor Robert P. George recently debated, if you will, Doug Kmiec via an email exchange reprinted at US News and World Report. The subject was the President’s supposed ban on human cloning, which, as Professor George rightly points out, was no ban at all. It’s really not fair to call this a debate, because [...]
Mar
20
Juan Williams – Moron
March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
On the Fox All-Stars they were discussing Nancy Pelosi’s comments about the “un-patriotic” midnight raids on illegal aliens. Juan Williams defended Pelosi’s comments, and went a step further, saying that they were comparable to the days when runaway slaves would be hunted down and returned to their masters. Yes, Juan Williams compared the enforcement of [...]
Mar
20
Gee, I can’t imagine why newspapers are dying
March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
Especially when we have gifted writers like this person writing editorials for college newspapers. A disturbing trend that also effects newspapers is the rise of the bloggers and the steady increase in their following. There are multiple problems with blogs. It is impossible to decipher whether or not a blog is being posted by legitimate [...]