Month: July 2003

The “dumb” Mr. Bush? Are Democrats stampeding into an ambush? Former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force Jack Kelly, (also former Green Beret, and national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers the following warning: ?.Democrats can dig themselves into a deep hole if they make extravagant antiwar and anti-Bush statements now that prove…

Disturbing thoughts I sincerely hope are wrong Are words like “privatization” and “competitive sourcing” becoming code language for increased entanglement between big government and big business? Leading Objectivist scholar Arthur Silber has a very interesting post on the subject. It is long, but worth reading carefully. Arthur warns: Leave aside for the moment your particular…

The Ultimate Ad Somebody has finally figured it all out. Stream and scream! (Link courtesy of Vodkapundit, via Horologium, via Instapundit.) Jeez, do I really have to put all those links in just to avoid plagiarizing what I really didn’t plagiarize?

URGENT: PLEASE HELP MY BLOGFATHER! I haven’t been blogging all that long, and the last thing I would do would be to ask for money. Not that I oppose the free market system, but blogging is largely an idea sharing network which operates as an alternative to the commercialized information infrastructure, and I see a…

Now you see it, now you don’t! Years of news stories do not provide evidence? Late last week, Glenn Reynolds linked to this article by his former employer, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, described as “a lifelong Democrat and a man of unimpeachable integrity.” Then yesterday, Instapundit offered plenty…

From guilt to innocence and back Ah, the good old days. Before the War. There is no experience like the feelings of nostalgia that can sneak up on you when you take a lazy Sunday drive in the country, in a pre-war automobile. Which war is that, you ask? Let’s see…. That would have been…

Once again, I stand accused, misunderstood! Mike Silverman posted this test, and I just took it. In the interests of fairness, I think I should disclose that I am a very bad person, even though I am not. I am NOT a lustful, prodigal, avaricious, wrathful, gloomy, violent, fraudulent, malicious panderer! What I cannot understand…

Is this a matter of bright and wrong? Thanks to the Imperialist Dog, I just found the most complete dissection yet of an annoying topic which is fast becoming tedious: the use of the highly manipulative term “bright.” Why the constant need to come up with new, exclusive, elitist terms designed to make like-minded people…

Sins of the flesh…. Baptist Cannibals? Now that’s a new one. (Again, thanks to Instapundit.) Read all about it here. Really now, I thought I’d heard everything. Remember the good old days, when cannibalism used to be a charge only leveled at pagans? Remember “heathen cannibals”? How times change! For years, guys like Robertson have…

States’ Rights for Me, But Not for Thee What the hell happened to “states’ rights?” asks Arthur Silber. A good question, and one which I’ve blogged about before. As Arthur says, conservatives only use that doctrine when it gives them the result they want. When it doesn’t, forget about it, and let’s federalize everything. That’s…

URGENT UPDATE AND NOTICE Apparently I must make it clear once again that this website engages in satire! I am already getting apparently genuine hate mail from people who imagine that I am a supporter of the Orange Order! While it is ridiculous on its face that such a thing would happen, I think because…

“Third” Way or “Fourth” Way? No Way! This statement — from Bill Clinton to Tony Blair — appeared in today’s Drudge Report: “I say to you there’s a fourth way out there. It’s not a do nothing conservatism, it’s an aggressive pro-change conservatism. “It survives on enemies and attack and triumphs our evidence and argument.”…

First Chastity Belts, then Blogger’s Itch, and now this? WAIT! Before any of you dear readers venture out for the weekend, read this…. Another Blogospheric genius, Don Watkins, has just linked to an unbelievable story about a boy with a very strange medical condition: [H]e first felt pain in his abdomen almost a month ago.…

Blogger’s Itch Agenda Bender, a true genius of the Blogosphere (not just me talking; he was described by Colby Cosh as “one of about five or six hitherto undiscovered genuine American geniuses that have been unearthed by the emergence of blogotopia”), posts this from his vacation site, where he is forced to use a wood-burning…

Fire me for writing this! Hey what’s with this O’Reilly guy anyway? Why doesn’t he like bloggers? His biggest complaint about bloggers seems to be that “they work for no one” and thus they cannot be fired. (Thanks to Instapundit for this link.) Satirically helping myself to a Victorian expression (after all I work for…

A friend recently asked my opinion about this ebay item (if you hurry you can still see it while the pictures are up) — an apparently authentic Victorian chastity belt. He was rightly suspicious, because he assumed things like this had gone out of fashion in the Middle Ages (where, I guess, things like that…

Patient answers As I earlier vowed that I would endeavor to address my errors fully, I think I should answer a criticism of me by another blogger. I want to be fair, so here is his critique of me, in full: NO STRANGERS — JUST LUNATICS I HAVEN’T MET YET. The Ole Perfesser links to…

More Savage conservatism In yet another remarkable twist in the story, Michael Savage, instead of facing up to his own remarks, is blaming another radio show for them. He now claims that the man he called a sodomite and whom he hoped would get AIDS was put up to it by or somehow working for…

The real Michael Savage? More questions abound? I was fascinated to read this post from Clayton Cramer (a conservative supporter of sodomy laws) which raised even more questions about Michael Savage. Cramer disdains the fact that Savage’s anti-homosexual remarks got more play than his blatant racism (which Cramer attributes to “the relative acceptability of racism…

A note to all new visitors (especially those referred by Instapundit’s recent link): Thank you for visiting this site! I am a 48 year old longtime gay activist (who disagrees with many of the premises of the “gay movement”), a Second Amendment supporter, Deadhead, pit bull breeder, a (gulp) lawyer in recovery, and in general,…