Month: September 2003

Might this story be another missing piece in the top-secret Hillary for President puzzle? Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean has asked General Wesley Clark to join his campaign. For something like this to be happening so early in the race, something has to be happening — or about to happen. Dean is suddenly running to…

Every once in a while, those who want to control us are forced to watch helplessly while the basically decent folks in this country engage in spontaneous outbursts of simple, American, morality. I saw this firsthand on October 17, 1989 after the San Francisco Earthquake (where ordinary people who had never met went out of…

I agree with Glenn Reynolds that the debate over the John Lott coding error question is seemingly interminable. But I say, the hell with “econometrics,” “running regressions,” “coding errors,” and “clustering adjustments!” I care only about two simple statistics. Since September 11, 2001: 1. the number of guns in this country has gone up; 2.…

First, an announcement. My blogfather has helped put together a wonderful new co-op gun blog! The first thing I did was link to it with their logo over on the left. And it is great! Where else can you learn how to build an AR-15 from parts? Or something too many gun owners forget: the…

I have some very serious news. The gods themselves may be at war. For the past week, Mars has been knocking on my door. His planet has come the closest it has been to Earth for 60,000 years. And what have I been doing while Mars approached? I have been pushing “PEACE?.” Coincidence? With a…

What is this country coming to? I mean, when the Ten Commandments are taken down by court order in one Southern city…. While in another Southern city, this disgraceful pagan statue sits in the public square in plain sight? The statue was a gift from Benito Mussolini, no less. I am even embarrassed to tell…

Considering some of my previous posts, I never thought I’d see the day when I would state a case for gay marriage. But there are a couple of ideas I have wanted to explore for some time now, and I guess this blog is as good a place as any. It is true that there…

It’s nostalgia time, so please indulge me as I revisit some (mostly) old news. (It may be paranoia on my part, but I think it is very easy for us as Americans — and I include myself — to forget the value of our freedom, and the nature of those who would jump at the…

While it probably won’t last long (because most of the links expire), I found myself today bumped up into TTLB‘s “Marauding Marsupial” category. Upon my first examination of the Ecosystem, when I was a Slimy Mollusc, I vowed that if I ever reached the level of Marauding Marsupial I would have to announce to the…

Can someone please tell me exactly what the connection is here between a picture of President Bush dropping his poor dog (which fortunately seemed none the worse for wear) and the economy? I have leftist friends I love dearly, and I always endeavor to be polite, and engage in reasoned dialogue. But there seems to…

Boy am I outraged! I not only got insulted, but my attacker used a term which went out of style last year! The sheer nerve! L’audace! Not only that, but getting into foreign policy debates with Oxford Arabist scholars really sucks because they have all the facts and figures right there in front of them…

Here’s a real mess which defies easy logical analysis. Governments around the world are asserting that they own anything which is defined as an “antiquity.” And worse yet, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that, “foreign national ownership laws can make antiquities “stolen” under the US National Stolen Property Act (NSPA)”…

“Conservative” Michael Savage is at it again. Don’t say you weren’t warned, because I tried. Repeatedly. (Yup.) This time, he is doing his level best to ruin Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chances of winning the California election. Not that Savage isn’t smart enough to know this, of course. With Bustamante in, his radio show will have much…

Well, hell, am I glad to see that the unfairly maligned La Voz de Aztlan has at least one defender in the blogosphere. I previously highlighted Aztlan’s brilliant attack on sodomites. No word yet from Bustamante on whether he agrees. Well good old Oraculations — a master satirist if ever there was one — finds…

I finally found out where my soul originated, thanks to another online test: You come from Dark Water. You are solitary andfind peace in yourself, or maybe you’returmoiled but pull off peace. Where Did Your Soul Originate? brought to you by Quizilla Link to test courtesy of the ever scintillating Mind of Mog. Hmmm….. “turmoiled…

I finally found out where my soul originated, thanks to another online test: You come from Dark Water. You are solitary andfind peace in yourself, or maybe you’returmoiled but pull off peace. Where Did Your Soul Originate? brought to you by Quizilla Link to test courtesy of the ever scintillating Mind of Mog. Hmmm….. “turmoiled…

A poet I am not. But I tried my hand using Agenda Bender‘s remarkable new “Chicago Pneumatic Linear Sandburg” poetry generating machine! Read and follow the rules carefully, and you too can create poems like this: halitosis grammy awards calendar 2004 e-mail gratis; marriage counseling love bank concepto de capacidad de produccion maple download, stern…

Frank J. thinks my analysis of the Blog War went too far. But, after reading Don Watkins’ final installment of the History of the Blog War, I think that if anything, my piece suffers from underanalysis. (And, please bear in mind that I held back, in the interests of peace?, as well as decorum.) Thanks…

No blogging yesterday, as I finally made it — literally — all the way to the East Coast! Here’s Puff on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey wondering what’s Out There. I guess that was why I did two long posts on Tuesday….. I cannot believe the kind words my blogfather posted about me!…

A friend of Ukrainian ancestry sent me this song, which is unlabeled but authentic Ukrainian music. I guess that makes it the mystery tune of the day. If I am lucky, some knowledgable blogger will come to my aid once again, and tell me what it is. Listening to it, I was intrigued by the…