Month: October 2003

  • Test your art movement!

    Finally, an online test bearing some relation to Classical Values! (Well, at least a revival thereof.) I am pleased with the results, too! which art movement are you? this quiz was made by Caitlin (From the blog which is an art movement all its own, the ever-talented Ghost of a Flea.)

  • Street! Bush! Race!

    Anti-incumbent rage? Not here in Philadelphia. I guess I shouldn’t place too much stock in the conventional, post-Schwarzenegger victory spin, should I? Actually, there was a certain degree of dissatisfaction with Philadelphia’s current mayor, Democrat John Street. Up until about a month ago, Street’s Republican challenger Sam Katz was shown as ahead in the polls.…

  • Is marriage “heterosexual”?

    In a witty post, Arthur Silber agrees with Hillary Clinton for “doing the devil’s work”. Arthur cites this article: Speaking last Thursday to homosexual activists at a New York fundraiser for the Empire State Pride Agenda, Clinton called the Bush-supported effort to protect marriage as “taking away rights and undermining the ability of Americans to…

  • Islamofascists deserve marital law!

    I am deeply, deeply honored. I have been blogging for less than six months, and I now find that I have been shut down by none other than Al Qaeda! I saw that I was down (along with all the HostMatters blogs last night) but had no idea what had happened. This Al Qaeda story…

  • Whose side is Satan on, anyway?

    This general does not get it. “Our enemy is a spiritual enemy because we are a nation of believers…. His name is Satan.” Atheists do not get it. Christian fundamentalists do not get it. Islamic theocrats who have declared war against this country did far more than declare war on Christianity. Or on Judaism. Or…

  • SAVE OUR SODOMY LAWS!

    Here’s a new wrinkle: in at least one state, certain religious zealots are pushing to keep unconstitutional sodomy laws on the books — because they think it will help block gay marriage. By not repealing the law, the legislature will protect the definitions and institutions of marriage and family in the face of the court’s…

  • Caesar had a palace?

    I must have been on a dry drunk last night! The test results prove it….. (From The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler)

  • A new bull, or a new matador?

    Is this country headed for an irreconcilable culture war — something which will dwarf the best efforts of this blog to stop? I mean, despite the soothing remarks by many bloggers, it is harder and harder to ignore the seething rage just beneath the surface of so much that passes for ordinary politics. It has…

  • Life and death issues in the blogosphere

    My blogfather recently lamented the long absence of Bill Quick, and I am glad he’s finally back. I was starting to worry, especially because Jeff has been at this far longer than I, and he had said this just last week: Bill, please come back. You’re one of the folks who started this whole thing…

  • Heel Hitler!

    A man in Germany has been charged with “using symbols of unconstitutional organisations” for teaching his dog to perform the Nazi salute on command. According to the report, a local animal protection official “says the dog shouldn’t be judged for what its owner taught it.” The owner faces up to three years in prison. No…

  • Practical feeding

    As recent psychological testing revealed (see previous post), I am not a practical person. Well, finally, here is a practical thing that I very much needed. A very thorough RSS resource guide! My thanks to “Who is Ronald?” for a link so valuable I thought I should pass it on. UPDATE: And here is a…

  • Traditional differences

    Anyone who has not done so already must, repeat MUST — read this speech by Stephen Pinker at the American Enterprise Institute. (Link via OxBlog.) Read the whole thing, as they say. But here; have dessert first: ….[A]s soon as one is dependent on the behavior of other people, it is incoherent to insist that…

  • Get a net!

    For a variety of reasons, I am so disgusted that I might as well share some very personal test results with my readers. Charles Hill (of Dustbury) steered me to a test which irritated me to no end by daring to question my practicality! The Big Five Personality Test Extroverted |||||||||||||| 54% Introverted |||||||||||| 46%…

  • Is being bicoastal really possible?

    Yesterday, I found little bit of a West Coast right here on the East Coast! I mean this literally — the West Coast of New Jersey. Cape May, to be exact. Higbee Beach, to be more exact. In a state of blissfully naive innocence (I had been told about the place by a nature lover),…

  • Day of rest….

    Details later? (Maybe; no time to blog!)

  • Group blink; group think!

    Born gay? If you insist, fine. What’s wrong with having been born gay? What’s wrong with becoming gay later? And what is a homosexual? What is a “bisexual”? It has been seriously maintained that the latter do not exist. A leading proponent of that theory bases his thesis on his claim never to have met…

  • Divorced from reality?

    Another test — “Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?” — and I turned out to be Galadriel. (Via Radley Balko.) My resistance to programming (or, possibly, my cultural illiteracy) may be showing, but I wasn’t completely convinced that I was Galadriel, so I went to a more official-looking site, and took another test. The results were…

  • Whose soul is showing?

    Is showing this picture an ad hominem attack? (Link via Andrew Sullivan.) If there is anyone who lures me into the evil temptation to engage in ad hominem attacks, it is this man, because he has long championed ad hominem attacks against people for their lifestyles, for the content of their orgasms. (Also, I haven’t…

  • Truly outspooken!

    The indefatigably scintillating Ghost of a Flea has saved my butt again! Meaning that it was Friday, and therefore MANDATORY ONLINE TESTING DAY at Classical Values, it was getting late, and I didn’t have any tests at the ready. Not only did the Flea come through, but when I took the Random Actor Compatablity test,…

  • Binding tradition?

    Stephen Green quite properly fisks one David Warren — a very talented writer who, in my opinion, has misused his talent and misstated history. Here’s David Warren: Behind the notion that homosexuality is sin is not only Christian doctrine, nor also the doctrines of the other “great religions”. Behind it is the wealth of accumulated…