But what many of us have long suspected is turning out to be true: Leftists who know the score won’t tell it, because it might help President Bush. And it’s true outside the US, too. And University of Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein tells the Democrats: “keep terrorism out of the news”, because it helps George Bush. Gee…does that mean the Democrats have serious control over the news? Really, now, who’dathunkit? This is perhaps the most pathetic and shrivelled-soul crap... Read more
Bulldog Pundit has a terrific post up on a new squabble among PC and reactionary denizens concerning a newly created Sesame Street character: Apparently, there’s a new female character named “Abby”, whose character traits are as follows: She’s 3, talkative, but shy around strangers. Sometimes she gets so nervous that she disappears. She’s capable of turning things into pumpkins, but not so good at turning them back. Above all, she is modeling how to make friends and how to fit... Read more
Just found this in the archives and thought as September approaches and the video cameras are hauled to the bus-stops and the “reality shows” begin again, it was worth a re-post: February 14, 2005 Playing to the cameras; a theory about why In response to my revealing my utter disinterest in growing the blog much beyond “playful primate” status or getting this Irish mug on camera somewhere, Dirty Harry has written a very funny personal confession (and some nice remarks... Read more
A busy schedule precludes any writing until tonight, but because so many of you asked, these are the six books which currently comprise the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, in order. I’ve had both men and women tell me that Outlander is a specific “Top-5-on-a-deserted-isle” book for them (but really, mostly women). I’ve read the first four, and I counted the first three as her best…I couldn’t get through The Fiery Cross, but I’m hearing good things about the last... Read more
A masterful exposition by Aussiegirl. H/T Beverly. Read more
And The New Yorker is pettiness defined as it struggles to come to grips with the fact that President Bush is reading Camus – so taken aback are they by the president’s climbing gall in reading Camus that they feel they must lecture him about it. Nonetheless, it is hard not to brood, in old-fashioned Kremlinological style, on the meanings of George W. Bush’s syllabus for this particular summer. Where in summers past he has read fiction by Tom Wolfe,... Read more
Yes, it’s horrible tasting stuff, this piece by Ben Stein in the NY Times, but it’s got to be had, if we’re ever going to be a healthy society, again. Now, who’s fighting for us in the fight of our lives? Brave, idealistic Southerners. Hispanics from New Mexico. Rural men and women from upstate New York. Small-town boys and girls from the Midwest. Do the children of the powers on Wall Street resign to go off and fight? Fight for... Read more
Hot Air has the video. Seems like all the little martyrdom tapes had been video’d. But it’s all just fakery by Bush and Blair, you know. So were these bombs in Germany. Michael Barone looks at enemies foreign and domestic and ends brilliantly, thusly: We have always had our covert enemies, but their numbers were few until the 1960s. But then the elite young men who declined to serve in the military during the Vietnam War set out to write... Read more
Okay, so we’re going to try comment moderation for a while, just to see if I like it. So far, I’ve approved everything, so I’m either not much of a moderator, or you folks are basically the polite types. Maybe both. If you don’t see your comment right away, it’s just in the line. Read more
NOLA Police Chief Eddie Compass finally talks straight about Katrina. Too little too late. “In hindsight, I guess I heightened people’s fears by me being the superintendent of police, reporting these things that were reported to me,” Mr. Compass said of the unverified accounts of crime and disorder in flooded New Orleans that he repeated to the press and on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “But there was really no way for me to check definitively. So instead I erred on... Read more
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