Jun
30
Shameless
June 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
With Pope Benedict XVI set to receive President Obama in a couple of weeks, surely progressive Catholics have too much self respect to try to make some sort of bizarre political hay out of the visit. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Last week witnessed Michael Sean Winters doing what Michael Sean Winters does best: writing logically strained, caricature-laden articles [...]
Jun
29
Gettysburg
June 29, 2009 | 5 Comments
It only took me nearly 8 years of living within an hour and a half drive of the place, but I have finally been to every Civil war buff’s personal mecca: Gettysburg. Some attractions do not live up to the hype. This one exceeds it. It is remarkable that when so many smaller Civil War [...]
Jun
26
My sentiments exactly
June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
Jonah Goldberg captures precisely how I feel about the death of Michael Jackson, or at least the media coverage of it.
Jun
25
A man betrays his vows before God, his wife’s trust, and his children’s faith. Obviously this means that it’s time for the Republicans to jettison social conservatism. As I have argued elsewhere, it is time to purge the Right’s politics of social conservatism. Personal values should be left entirely to the private sphere. The Right [...]
Jun
25
Public greets state-run media propoganda special with yawn
June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Normally I would chastise my fellow Americans for being so dis-interested in public affairs, but I think I will make an exception in this case. President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening. The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, [...]
Jun
24
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
June 24, 2009 | 5 Comments
Not only is this the title of a book, but it will soon be a major motion picture. I have to see this.
Jun
24
You have got be kidding me
June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
Lovely. Sanford confesses to affair Resigning as head of RGA. “Trying to work through something we’ve been working through” Family knew before trip to Argentina Working through the last five months Chokes back tears Says first and only time unfaithful “Way more detail than you ever want”: met this person 8 years ago, and “certain [...]
Jun
24
Episcopalian Priestess: God rejoices in abortion choice
June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Courtesy of Matt Archibold comes this charming comment by an Episcopalian priestes on abortion. After reading the 3 June article, “Pregnancy-loss Prayers”, I found the text for Rachel’s Tears online and was sickened to discover that the rite for abortion is couched wholly in terms of sin and transgression. The Episcopal Church, by resolution, has [...]
Jun
23
Oooooh, that smell
June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Art of Manliness has a list of 15 Manly Smells. I can’t dissagree with any of them, but I do think cigar smoke isn’t that far behind pipe smoke.
Jun
23
Banana
June 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Back some two decades ago or so the New York Post came thisclose to folding up. I remember a front page that simply had a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the newspaper’s founder, with a tear in his eyes. I can’t help but think it’s time to reprint that image considering what has become of his [...]
Jun
22
Still here
June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
So I was with my friend Adam and his family celebrating the bris of his newborn son, when I get a text message basically asking me if I am still alive after the Metro derailment. Then another text. And another. What they referring to was this. Simply horrible. As for me, I had left work [...]
Jun
22
Lazy blogging
June 22, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m a little swamped right now, but I should return to normal blogging activities fairly soon. I would just remind you all that I’m still blogging at First Things, and my latest post just went up. Also, there’s another interesting post in the “what is conservatism?” category, this time from Darwin Catholic over at the [...]
Jun
18
How do you like dem apples?
June 18, 2009 | 5 Comments
I wasn’t really going to comment on the 3578734895723894569783th (give or take) debate on “real conservatism,” this time involving RS McCain, Dan Riehl, and Conor Friedersdorf, but after reading Friedersdorf’s take, I couldn’t help but think of that scene from Good Will Hunting. WILL: Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year grad student. [...]
Jun
18
Baby’s first ball game
June 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Last night we drove (or, more accurately, crawled very slowly) to Baltimore for The Mets-Orioles game. We arrived late, so we missed another first – Matt Wieters’s first major league homer, but I can tell Bernadette that first homerun she ever witnessed in person was hit by Gary Sheffield, who has 507 more than Wieters. [...]
Jun
17
Jesse Jackson fans the flames
June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
The race-bater, shakedown artist, and demagogue Jesse Jackson adds his increasingly inconsequential voice to the nutbags on the left who believe that we’re moments away from a violent right-wing revolution. Last Wednesday in Washington, D.C., James W. von Brunn, an 88-year-old anti-Semite and white supremacist, allegedly took a .22-caliber rifle into the United States Holocaust [...]
Jun
16
Regular Guy Paul is running for Illinois General Assembly
June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Well at least someone is trying to do something about the mess in Illinois. Check out Paul’s campaign website, and if you have a buck or two to spare, throw him some financial support. Kudos to Paul, and good luck.
Jun
16
A day after mocking the state of Illinois, I couldn’t pass without comment the absurdity of the situation in my former home state. (h/t: Dan Riehl) Warring state lawmakers want a judge to decide the fate of the state Senate today after they failed to reach a power-sharing deal. “We need judicial intervention,” turncoat Sen. [...]
Jun
15
Al Capone is starting to look like a model citizen
June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
With apologies to my friends Don McClarey and Regular Guy Paul, and to any other Illinois readers I might have, but seriously, what the hell is the matter with your state? As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares [...]
Jun
15
LA LA Land
June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Because nothing screams MORON quite celebrating your favorite team’s championship by destroying a large portion of the city in which you live. And there is nothing sadder than this contrast: Iranian youth risked their lives to protest election fraud. L.A. youths set cars and buses on fire and took to the streets to riot…after their [...]
Jun
12
Krauthammer dismantles the philosopher king
June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have really nothing else to add to this beatdown. (C) Obama offered Muslims a careful admonition about women’s rights, noting how denying women education impoverishes a country — balanced, of course, with this: “Issues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.” Example? “The struggle for women’s equality continues in [...]