Redefining Racism
July 30, 2010
h/t: Leah
Posted in Uncategorized
No Comments »
What’s Up with the Clintons?
July 30, 2010
They aren’t usually this tone-deaf: it’s like they’re wandering into Obama/Kerry/Edwards/Gore territory.
Of course, weddings (like funerals) are a time when the most normal people can become utterly insane. It’s a vulnerable time.
Via Insty.
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment »
Looking at How the Tax Code Really Treats Energy Companies (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Human Events.)
July 30, 2010
The direction we seem to want to go in is to have fewer American oil companies at all, and wipe the smaller “mom and pop” entities off the map entirely (never mind that they provide us with a significant proportion of our domestic supply of oil and natural gas—around 10%).
Meanwhile, energy companies that are controlled overseas can continue to follow the lax environmental regulations in other countries (in many cases, the absurdly lax regulations there), by moving their operations to places less concerned about safety and any need to avoid environmental degradation. So the environment will take more of a whallop, but we won’t have to see it or think about it in this country, so it’ll be okay.
Via Sarah.
UPDATE: There’s more on this at Big Government.
Posted in Uncategorized
No Comments »
Go Give Money to St. Vincent De Paul
July 29, 2010
. . . via Hawkins’ blog. I’ll wait.
Supposedly he’s going to give some of the bloggers who link him free raffle tickets, and a few of those people in turn theoretically might win lovely things, including a trip to New York City.
But with the economy in the shape it’s in this is a really good time to give to the poor, as more and more people slip through the cracks. With or without the potential of prizes.
Posted in Uncategorized
No Comments »
Well, Why Not?
July 29, 2010
“Jewish money” has cooties on it, doesn’t it?
(No, I shouldn’t be giggling, and I haven’t been drinking tonight either. Would it help? It’s just that the antisemitism-as-campaign-strategy makes me all punchy.)
Posted in Uncategorized
5 Comments »
What Are They Smoking at Human Events?
July 29, 2010
Bad President, yes. Spiritually rootless, probably. Closet Muslim? I dunno about that. David Kopel:
According to Curry, “My mother believed in ‘common sense’ testing. She said if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and acts like a duck; it’s a duck….In short, Obama quacks like a Muslim, waddles like a Muslim and acts like a Muslim, so is he a Muslim? My mother would say, ‘Yes! He’s a Muslim through and through.’”
I’ll give Mrs. Curry more credit than that. The looks/talks/waddles test for duck identification involves three characteristics are shared by ducks and by no other animals. Mr. Curry, however, listed only characteristics which are common to some Muslims and many non-Muslims: thinks America is not a Christian nation, dislikes the British, acts obseqiuous around some non-British royals, is anti-Israel, is weak on border security, tries to ingratiate himself with tyrants. Curry might as well have written, “It has two eyes, lives near water, and eats fish.” Sure, it might be a duck, but it also might be a lots of other things. Such as a law school lecturer who agrees with most of the beliefs of the far-left Christian church he attended for twenty years. . . .
It would usually be a sign of bad character for any elected official to proclaim his adherence to one religion while secretly adhering to a very different religion. However, Curry’s strongly-stated conclusion is not even remotely supported by the feeble and poorly-researched evidence which he cobbles together. The article should never have been published by Human Events. Of course even eminent publications such as The Atlantic can have a writer who wallows in malicious speculation based on extremely weak and poorly-considered evidence.
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments »
What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan
July 29, 2010
Kudos to Time for running a picture that’s too strong for my blog on its cover.
They never did that for the Iraqis, though, did they?
Posted in Uncategorized
5 Comments »
Where’s Katie Couric?
July 29, 2010
She’s off-camera . . . a bit to the left.
Via Darrell.
Posted in Uncategorized
25 Comments »
I’m Having Trouble Seeing Why Atheists
July 29, 2010
. . . should be expected to lie about it.
Of course, I dislike lukewarm religion almost as much as I dislike in-your-face religion. (Basically, I’m impossible to please.)
Via . . . who else?
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment »
Eh.
July 29, 2010
I hope that I’m not required to come down on the side of Breitbart or Sherrod on the NAACP saga. Though this qualifies as an overreaction almost as good as the one from the White House.
Memo to Sherrod: the fact that your father was murdered by whites does not entitle you to accuse Andrew Breitbart of wanting to reinstate slavery. And given the fact that you’ve said that, the lawsuit is a joke.
Posted in Uncategorized
No Comments »
Oh, for Heaven’s Sake.
July 29, 2010
Can’t we simply acknowledge that most men like curves more than fashion editors do? And, no, Dr. H—it isn’t because the women look “easy.” It’s because they look sexy.
Posted in Uncategorized
6 Comments »
Palin’s New Book Cover!
July 29, 2010
This is just to keep Ponce happy. Insatiable for All Things Sarah, that one . . .
Comin' at ya; goin' strong.
Posted in Uncategorized
11 Comments »
Juliette Is Having a Book Release Party
July 29, 2010
. . . for Tale of the Tigers in October.
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment »
The Daily Beast Takes on the WikiLeaks D-Bag
July 29, 2010
Tunku Varadarajan on the Wikileaks affair and Wikileaks’ founder, asswipe Julian Assange:
When asked at a London press conference whether he thought his leaks would compromise national security, Assange’s “visibly annoyed” response . . . stripped bare the adamantly adversarial quality of his mind-set: “You often hear that something may be a threat to U.S. national security. This must be shot down, whenever this statement is made.”
For the security of the numerous Afghan informants who work with U.S. troops, he cares not a jot. As The Times of London has pointed out, hundreds of names of such local collaborators in the war effort can be found in the documents in the WikiLeaks archive, including details of their villages. How does Assange justify putting these people at mortal risk? Predictably, he does not, taking refuge behind a weasel-worded insistence that he and his team had edited the material so that there was “harm minimization,” a morally teasing phrase that might, so ironically, be part of the Pentagon’s own lexicon. So are we to assume that the Afghan informants whose names were left in the WikiLeaks texts amount, in Assange’s reckoning, to an acceptable quantum of collateral damage in his Quixotic war against the warmongers?
Well, yes. That’s it in a nutshell.
Via Insty.
Posted in Uncategorized
10 Comments »
It’s Okay; I Wasn’t Using My Civil Liberties Anyway
July 29, 2010
Apparently the gubmint thinks it should be able to find out whom I’m emailing, without a court order. That sounds perfectly delightful.
UPDATE: Joyner has more.
Posted in Uncategorized
No Comments »
There Is Nothing More Practical Than Buying a Chevy Volt.
July 29, 2010
Nothing, I tell you.
If I were a car manufacturer, I’d be designing hybrids that didn’t look weird—or flex-fuel vehicles. But then again, that’s me.
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments »
“Cocktails Are Liquid Forgiveness”
July 29, 2010
Bartender/writer Andrew Bohrer discusses Tom Waits’ song “Down There by the Train”: “it is fairly obvious that this is a song about death . . . In a less dramatic way, for me it is just a song about being done, and being tired, [of] needing relief and forgiveness. Cocktails are liquid forgiveness.”
Bohrer’s post enumerates the drinks based on songs from Tom Waits’s oeuvre, providing recipes and in most cases pictures. It’s an extensive collection, as one might imagine.
Which leads me to wonder (around closing time, natch) just how many drinks have been spawned by the work of Leonard Cohen. Certainly, there is the King Cohen, and the drink Leonard himself invented, the Red Needle.
I’m working on a drink based on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, but it’s slow-going so far. I do know that it’ll be served on the rocks.
(X-posted at Attila Girl; hat tip to A. J. Rathbun at Al Dente.)
UPDATE: Related.
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Americana, City Life, Music, Whine and Spirits
No Comments »
On “Acting White”
July 28, 2010
Do we need more all-black schools? They might be part of the solution in some communities.
At some point we got so busy desegregating schools that on some level the educational establishment began to get lost, and fetishize the presence of white students.
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment »
How Not to Congratulate Your Ex on Her Wedding Day
July 28, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments »
Join the 
