We’re having both connection difficulties and spam problems over here. And, kids going back to college. A little distracting, to say the least. Until I get the spamming under control I am turning off comments…hopefully things will be better this evening. UPDATED: Well, connections seem like they’re finally stable. Spamming is manageable? We shall see. Comments are back on. Read more
A while back I wrote this confession: “…we all know that while I’m kind of helpless around the olive-skinned Italian and Jewish men…and well, basically all Mediterranean types…I’m also a pretty quick surrender to a Celt… (…one of the best afternoons of my life was spent eating scones, drinking Guinness and dancing with the lovely giant firefighters of the FDNY – in their kilts and knee socks! When a lad is secure enough about himself to kick up his heels... Read more
Fighting for Dear Life by Schindler Attorney David Gibbs. Published by Bethany House, this looks pretty good. I’ll try to read it this week and give you my take, assuming yer interested. You can order it through this button, too. Read more
Fausta has a terrific post up – I meant to link to it yesterday, actually – on just how difficult it is to be a man in our society. It’s a long piece that doesn’t “read” long because it is so interesting. Fausta writes: The main reason I believe that women have easier lives than men is that I’ve had an easier life as a woman than my brother has had as a man. I can not, and will not,... Read more
He wonders what nuclear weapons will mean for Islam. A fascinating read. One to print out and ponder. Read more
Lileks – my hero – wrote this three years ago, almost, and it could have been written this week. It’s too good to excerpt, it really must be read as a whole (and it’s not terribly long)…but a teasers: Now I am resigned, in advance, to the loss of an American city by a nuclear weapon. The End of the World now looks like a comic-book premise, a Heston-movie conceit. We feared it would all be gone in a day,... Read more
I have so much stuff opened on this, I’ll just put it all together for your easy reference: Check out Jonah Goldberg’s smart piece on constitutional double standards. BEAR IN MIND: The tools Judge Taylor and the left want out of the reach of the US are the tools which are foiling terror attacks in England. Read Ann Althouse’s excellent, rich-in-irony Op-ed in the NY Times, and she’s got a rousing comments thread as well. And Volokh also has a... Read more
Two absolute must-reads on the whole issue of Big-Time-Professional-Journalism’s devolution into something shaky, and the Upstart-New-Media’s evolution into…well, what, exactly is not yet known. Check out AllahPundit’s comprehensive and angry recap of faked and choreographed photojournalism, those who have witnessed it, those who seem to defend it (or would wish it away into something small) and the evidence at hand. It’s a hard-drive keeper. Then go to Patterico for more thoughts. The issue of where the professional press is headed... Read more
This is beginning to look like a serious story. Blue Crab Boulevard is keeping on top of it. As you can see from this report, the press is having trouble talking about the nationality of those arrested. “South Asian” is the new “North African,” I guess. These “South Asians” were hauling out their cell phones. A U.S. passenger named Alpa, who did not wish to use her last name, told AP television reporters she had seen police handcuff and remove... Read more
Over at PJM’s Politics Central our favorite cybershrinks are yakking it up, again, this time covering “Poll Crafting, Iraq, George Bush, Personal Responsibility, Mass Murder, Gunter Grass in the Waffen SS, the Value Systems of Free vs. Repressive Societies, and Apocalypse Maybe.” It doesn’t get much more comprehensive. They’re entertaining and thought provoking, too. Go have a listen! Read more
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