Aug
31
A tale of two Kennedys
August 31, 2009 | 9 Comments
Kathryn Lopez links to an excellent (no, really) Ross Douthat column that puts into perspective the different lives of a pair of Kennedy siblings. For abortion opponents, cruel ironies abounded in this sibling disagreement. Because of Eunice Shriver’s work with the developmentally disabled, a group of Americans who had once been marginalized and hidden away [...]
Aug
31
Reason #287585783 we’re thinking of raising our children Amish
August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Read about our hurried flight into Gomorrah at Robert Stacy McCain’s place. Now excuse me while I go close on a house I am starting to think isn’t far enough removed from civilization.
Aug
28
Addictive timewaster
August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Not that I have the time to waste, but thanks to Scott Keith, I’ve discovered Flickchart. The way it works is that you are presented two movie choices, and you pick which one you like better. It goes on and on and on until you have a good sense of what your favorite movies are. [...]
Aug
28
“Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Donald McClarey links to Melissa Lafsky’s bit of sheer lunacy. Lafsky touches upon Mary Jo Kopechne’s death and writes: Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and [...]
Aug
27
What media bias?
August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Really, there is no such thing as media bias. Until now, the controversy over the Rather/Mapes story has centered almost entirely on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents – a very important issue, indeed. But it turns out that there was another very important issue, one that goes to the very heart of what [...]
Aug
27
Amen
August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Jay Anderson says all that needs to be said about Ted Kennedy. But I do feel very sad at the man’s passing. Not for who and what he was, but for who and what he might have been. Ted Kennedy was the only man in the Senate who could have assured that history turned out [...]
Aug
27
Book Purgatory
August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments
I seem to be on some sort of bad book streak. Not only did I endure the hell that was Atlas Shrugged, but the last two books I’ve read have been major disappointments. A couple of weeks ago I picked up Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne trilogy (as well as Atlas Shrugged) at a used book [...]
Aug
26
Read it and weep
August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Blue and Orange’s review of the Mets season is the depressing read of the day. When will the nightmare end? H/t: Amazin’ Avenue.
Aug
25
Take It Easy
August 25, 2009 | 6 Comments
In the wake of the electoral nightmare that took place last November, Republicans attempted to comfort themselves with the idea that the party would bounce back in the midterm elections. Visions of a repeat of 1994 danced in their heads. Barack Obama and his Congressional minions would overreach, and the American public would soundly reject [...]
Aug
24
A life’s mission
August 24, 2009 | 5 Comments
Last week, while on vacation in Galveston, I got to hear a bit of the Michael Medved show. He’s not on in DC, so it was nice to get to hear him, especially since I have enjoyed the program the few times I have been able to listen (and of course I have subsequently learned [...]
Aug
24
A (brief) review of Atlas Shrugged (Updated x2)
August 24, 2009 | 41 Comments
Well, anything is brief compared to that insipid read. In short, my feelings about the book are akin to those of Officer Barbrady. Though I will not discontinue reading for all eternity, the book did nearly sap me of my life precious. I did have a few positive reactions to the book. It wasn’t nearly [...]
Aug
20
“Europeans are disgusted” Redux
August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments
Because as we all know, Europeans always display superior judgment.
Aug
20
“Europeans are disgusted”
August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
Here’s my response to anyone who chimes into an argument about health care politics, or any other issue for that matter, that Europeans disapprove of our course of action:
Aug
20
Lying Liars
August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
MSNBC bemoans white people with guns showing up to health care rallies, and then shows a closeup of such a person to demonstrate their point. Unfortunately the closeup was of a black guy with a gun, but they deliberately just didn’t show his face. What media bias? More at Newsbusters and Hot Air. But remember [...]
Aug
19
Mark McKinnon is a vile piece of human waste
August 19, 2009 | 5 Comments
Slublog links to a blogspost by Mark McKinnon, in which he mocks Senator Rick Santorum for bringing home his deceased son to his other children. I’m a pretty tolerant guy, but beyond his ideology, some of Santorum’s behavior is just a little bizarre. For example, Santorum has six children. In 1996, he had son born [...]
Aug
18
NRO vs. Steyn, McCarthy, and pretty much everyone else
August 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
National Review Online published an editorial regarding rationing, but snuck in a jab at Sarah Palin. To conclude from these possibilities to the accusation that President Obama’s favored legislation will lead to “death panels” deciding whose life has sufficient value to be saved — let alone that Obama desires this outcome — is to leap [...]
Aug
17
It couldn’t happen here
August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
“Our government could never do . . .” Oh yes it can. The president of a small Catholic college said Friday he would rather close the school’s doors than violate the church’s teachings on contraception should the college lose the latest battle involving health-insurance laws and religious freedom. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) [...]
Aug
15
Escape hatch from the echo chamber
August 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
My good friend and former co-blogger mouldfan has started his first solo blogging venture. Mouldy is the most reasonable person I’ve ever met from the other side of the political aisle, and I’m not merely damning with faint praise. I’m glad he’s finally started blogging again. Check it out – but play nice.
Aug
15
Random Observations at the Airport
August 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
- Normally when you go out in public with a baby, you get a lot of smiles directed in your direction. At the airport, people avoid eye contact and generally look frightened, as if thinking, “Oh, crap, this thing’s gonna be screaming on my plane for three hours.” Mercifully, she didn’t. – There is a [...]
Aug
13
Bad luck for the Giants
August 13, 2009 | Comments Off
With the Mets season speedily heading off the cliff, I was beginning to look forward to the beginning of the NFL season. The Giants should be considered one of the four or five Super Bowl favorites heading into the season, and I think that they’ll be looking to wipe out the memories of last season’s [...]