Okay, I’m going to lay off Senator McCain for a bit. But his Mr. Furious impression in that Senate committee meeting the other day got me thinking. It served as an interesting contrast to the minor surge of blogospheric joviality that ensued when Mitt Romney was heard using the term “golly” as a substitute for something more, shall we say, [...]
Archive for May, 2007
On Faux Swearing, Gosh Darn It
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This explains a lot. . .
Posted in Politics, Satire on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A WSJ Headline
Posted in Satire on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Myspace to Share Data on Sex Offenders“ Apparently this move is designed to provide a counter-balance to their existing service—Allowing Sex Offenders to Share Data on Teens.
“To the Gates of Hell!”
Posted in Politics on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Dean Barnett post is always worth your time. But photoshopped art on this one makes it doubly tasty.
Leaked—John McCain’s Monday “To Do” List
Posted in Politics, Satire on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. ___ Call the Dale Carnegie people; Demand refund. 2. ___ Call Teddy. Thank him for the 32-year-old single malt. 3. ___ Remind those snot-nosed punks on the committee I know more about immigration everything than any of them. 4. ___ Yell at those #%@&! kids about staying off my lawn. 5. ___ Hit GoDaddy. Register www.ballisto-geezer.com. [...]
Hewitt Reads the Fine Print (So you and I don’t have to.)
Posted in Politics on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to the advocates of the current wink-or-turn-a-blind-eye approach to illegal aliens, we need lots of illegals because they “do jobs Americans won’t do.” Well one job this American didn’t want is to attempt to read the 326-page draft of the immigration “reform” bill. Fortunately, Hugh Hewitt has stepped up and done it for the rest [...]
The Coming “Republican Debacle in 2008″
Posted in Politics on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post, I offered my first shocked-and-awed thoughts about the “immigration compromise” to a breathless world, clamoring to know my take. If I am in any way typical, it’s a deep self-inflicted wound for the Republican Party. But maybe I’m not typical. So, how does this Amnesty-in-Drag hurt Republican prospects in the near term. Today David [...]
Am I Still A Republican?
Posted in Politics on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I cast my very first vote in a presidential election in 1980. I was 20 and voted for Ronald Reagan with a heady mixture of zeal, pride and anti-Carter-malaise-dispelling bravado. My only regret was that I could vote only once. So I voted hard to compensate. The bundle of passions and convictions that made me a [...]
A New Inalienable Right for Dem Candidates: Softball Questions
Posted in Kulturkampf, Media, Politics on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“I mean. . .here I am on Fox News. . .” A magenta-faced, sputtering Bill Clinton threw those words at interviewer Chris Wallace and didn’t bother to finish the sentence. He didn’t feel he needed to. And if he had still been inside the insular echo chamber of left-liberal cocktail parties in Manhattan, he wouldn’t have. It’s understood. Fox News is a byword. [...]
Lileks says “Goodbye”. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
. . .to his readers at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, here.
“…astonishingly stupid and suicidal decisions…”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I joined the James Lileks/Minneapolis Star-Tribune blogswarm a couple of days ago. If you remotely care about the topic, this lengthy and thoughtful essay from ABCNews.com’s Michael Malone is must reading. Here’s a tasty nugget: One of the reasons for this intense reaction is that for most of us in the rest of the world, the only thing [...]
Irony Sensors. . .overloading. . .
Posted in Media on May 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The man who filled one of the most anticipated sequels in the history of film with cringe-inducing dialogue and Jar-Jar Binks, has called Spiderman 3, “silly.” In related news, comedian Benny Hill described Victor Borge’s stuff as “lowbrow.” And the head of the White Star Line mocked the seaworthiness of Cunard’s ships.
Madness in Minneapolis
Posted in Media on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The conservative blogosphere is on fire today. The spark was James Lilek’s announcement on his blog this morning that the new owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune are killing his column and reassigning him to cover hard news. On my other blog, I have repeatedly referred to Lileks as “one of the most gifted writers in [...]
Duty, Honor and Spoon Bending
Posted in Kulturkampf on May 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Is it any mystery that huge swaths of our culture seem confused about who the bad guys are in the world today? I mention it because, I caught the last half of a report on NPR about cadets at West Point and the Army’s intensified efforts to teach them ethics—particularly battlefield ethics. Sadly, today’s combat [...]
