Month: August 2003

  • Fog rolls in…

  • NEO (lithic) conservatism?

    Northern California is considerably cooler than the East Coast in summer — and MUCH warmer in winter. When I left the East Coast in late July (and on the drive all the way across the country) it was swelteringly hot. The Bay Area weather, on the other hand, is beautiful, 70-ish, and just gives you…

  • Spider this link….

    Here’s some useful news of bizarre sexual rituals, incolving necrophilia, cannibalism, and the actual use of corpses of suitors as a sort of weird chastity belt. Sexual suicide and “dinner date” anyone?

  • Protected speech?

    Instapundit agrees with Tacitus that fascist hatemongering by Cruz Bustamante is not a good idea. You kinda hafta watch your language too. Indeed. UPDATE AND APOLOGY: I don’t mean to be unfair to Bustamante by highlighting this inconsequential gaffe. Trivialities such as Freudian slips are never held against people, are they?

  • As opposed to being uneasy….

    Let me start with an apology for an excited utterance I made in an earlier post. “Uneasy” and “opposed” are not synonyms, and I should know better. (And opposition to uneasiness does not equal uneasiness about opposition, either.) This is all the fault of that blasted Leon Kass, who opposes the public eating of ice…

  • PEACE — BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

    This is the first time I have republished a post, and I hope it will be the last. This really burns me up! Frank, there is still time! Frank, please! Listen to reason. Give peace a chance! PLEASE READ AND IMPLEMENT THIS PEACE PLAN NOW! EVERYONE PLEASE LINK FOR PEACE! FRANK, DON’T MAKE ME DO…

  • Bear my Grizzly ass!

    Enough of bi polar bears. Sheesh! I probably shouldn’t have posted secret information reported to come from Lavrenti P. “Bearia,” but for you, my readers, only the best! I don’t feel like blogging today, because I exhausted myself doing repairs and frankly, I am a little burned out. I am pissed as hell about this…

  • Pravda Laid Many Bears!

    Broken again? Well, not really. Let me give picture: Is very complicated, Comrade; more than just mysterious issue has cropped up which has broken Ecosystem. We at Novaya Zemlya Bear Collective have summer coming out party this year. We are, how you say? bloggier than your average bear, is true! But that is only part…

  • More Saudi pork?

    Josh Chafetz at OxBlog asks whether this report (that Idi Amin seeks kidney donor) is a sick joke. It sure sounds like a sick joke to me. For once, in this very limited instance, I have to express agreement with Dr. Leon Kass — who opposes organ transplantation. No human organs should go into that…

  • Neo what?

    I just took the “What Matrix Persona Are You?” test, and found out I officially qualify as Neo. What a relief! You are Neo, from “The Matrix.” Youdisplay a perfect fusion of heroism andcompassion. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Link thanks to Chris Short. Just pure, plain simple Neo, I…

  • It can’t happen here?

    A couple of Canadian blogs I just discovered offer timely (and timeless) lessons in freedom. Debbye Stratigacos (Hope I’ve got the name right!) writes a probing, insightful blog titled “Being American in T.O.” If anyone had asked me about Americans in Toronto (where I am told you can go to jail for quoting Howard Stern),…

  • Even Oracles Ejaculate Occasionally…..

    A guy named Howard Veit (whose blog I found via Instapundit) hates gay marriage. I think that maybe he hates more than just gay marriage: There is no purpose in the homosexual relationship other than ejaculation and climax. The means to this end include oral and anal sex, sado masochism, bondage, and homosexual rape together…

  • Home sweet home?

    I really wish I could do a better job of keeping up with everyone in the blogosphere. I try to check in with technorati and truthlaidbear, but with dialup connections on the road, it’s not easy. Not long ago I saw that Howard Owens, one my favorite bloggers, had found a piece I wrote about…

  • Rush to anxiety?

    John Hawkins says he was “very disappointed” to hear Rush Limbaugh (of whom he is a fan) airily dismiss blogging. But had this leading blogger been listening to Rush’s competitor, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, he would have heard his very own blog (about bad reporting by the Washington Post) read on the air, and…

  • Corrupt living at Club Guantanamo?

    Conditions are so appalling at the American “torture camp” at Guantanamo that a Russian mother wants her son to be allowed to stay there: “I am terribly scared of a Russian prison or Russian court for my son,” Amina Khasanova was quoted as saying by Gazeta newspaper on Friday. “At Guantanamo they treat him humanely,…

  • Put one in your front yard now!

    Official LINK here.

  • Disorder?

    Thanks to Daily Pundit (via Instapundit), I just learned that all this time spent blogging does not make me a blogger, a writer, or anything like that; it makes me mentally disordered! I have to say, I am impressed by the timing, coming as it does on the heels of the groundbreaking Berkeley Psychology Department…

  • GOD I’M A LIVE AVID DIVA, EVIL AM I DOG!

    Even though I have absolutely no time for such nonsense, the brilliant Ghost of a Flea has steered me to an online test which is supposed to tell you which political diva you are. According to the test, I am Karen Hughes: You are…Karen Hughes, former White House advisor!You have to be at the heart…

  • Classical sights and sounds — in Sturgis

    I have been in South Dakota for the past few days, attending the 63rd annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. There are so many motorcycles and so many bikers that it is a bit surreal. Downtown Sturgis right now consists of wall to wall motorcycles in all directions. And in a couple of days, there will be…

  • Pop Quiz

    When I am on the road like this, I don’t have time to write, and I was very lucky this morning to find that one of the most knowledgable bloggers among all of my links, Michael McNeil, has sent me the following Pop Quiz. Here it is — and remember, this will be on the…