Month: November 2003

Gay Guns. What is it about putting those words together which pushes so many hot buttons? Considering recent controversies, I see no better way to plumb the depths of tolerance in the blogosphere than to juxtapose these issues again. John Kusch writes very well, better than most bloggers, and certainly better than I do. Dean…

Clearly, America is losing control of the “street” — at least in Florida. Reading this article, I found myself asking: Is the US in a quagmire? Hundreds of police in riot gear braced for a crescendo of dawn-to-dark protest in Miami today in a heavily guarded city center that has taken on the surreal look…

Emperor Misha, who has been kind enough to add me to the Mark Steyn Fiskers Brigade, offers this post on an absolutely sickening situation: a child prison in Jamaica (named “Tranquility Bay”), where children are subjected to grotesque abuse — paid for by rich American parents who shell out big bucks to the offshore torturers…

Fierce winds and a heavy rainstorm have knocked out my power! For how long, I do not know…. I would blog by candlelight, but my old-tech laptop’s battery doesn’t last long. Meanwhile here I sit blogging at Starbucks’ local WiFi hotspot. I decided to check my Yahoo email (which I never get except when I…

This is not Friday, and therefore NOT the right day for Online Testing, but I am posting the results of the latest test anyway. This test — “Which Animal Spirit Totem Are You?” — gave me results which will guarantee me trouble with two of my favorite bloggers, Frank J. (who hates all monkeys) and…

Sayeed Qutb stands for the noteworthy proposition that Muslims who do not conform to his view of Islam are not Muslims, but, rather “shirk.” (If you read the link above, you will see that sex was a core issue for poor Mr. Qutb’s religious mania.) Such a notion of ideological purity is worrisome to me,…

I am more than a day late with this, and other bloggers have beaten me to it, but here I go anyway. Jennifer Howard asks whether the Blogosphere has gotten a little too cozy: What began as the ultimate outsider activity — a way to break the newspaper and TV stranglehold on the gathering and…

Hey, I may have been wrong. Really wrong. And when I am wrong, I believe in correcting my errors. So, let’s just get a few things straight! Believe it or not, George W. Bush may be planning to suspend the 2004 elections! I just read Ted Rall’s predictions. If he is right, most bloggers (myself…

Some of the comments to my Instalanched post display a misunderstanding of my remarks, and accuse me of slighting Ted Rall merely for not allowing comments. Example: Why snipe at Rall for not allowing comments on his blog while ignoring that Reynolds doesn’t allow them either? Pick a position and stick to it. My position…

I just found out that a favorite new blogger (new to me, anyway) is threatening to quit, a week after I started reading him! I hate stuff like this, and I wish there were some way to make him change his mind. Partially out of gratitude (I can’t forget words like these), and partially out…

More online tests. Why? Because it’s still Friday (Online Testing Day at Classical Values), that’s why! In two more hours I will turn into a pumpkin, and then it will be too late. The first test comes from Ghost of a flea (a professor who actually gives tests as part of his job), and I…

Warning: this isn’t Southern — and it ain’t Communism neither! But since everyone hates compromisers, and since I have gotten so many hits from the very gracious Dean Esmay, I have decided to have fun satirizing compromise, while simultaneously compromising satire — something never before attempted! Ahem…. Confederate Rainbow! The Battle Rainbow? An idea whose…

It’s Friday and therefore…… ONLINE TEST DAY AT CLASSICAL VALUES! First, I want to hold hands. (But that’s not all!) hand holding – you like to be in constant physicalcontact with your special someone but you don’twant to take things too quickly. What Sign of Affection Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Next I…

Here’s an experience I cannot share: MINNEAPOLIS, MN?In a turn of events the 30-year-old characterized as “horrifying,” Kevin Widmar announced Tuesday that his mother Lillian has discovered his weblog. (I found this twice — here and there — and I honestly don’t know which link I saw first.) The reason I can’t share the above…

Something intrigued me about all this cartoon business over at InstaPundit, so I decided to take a closer look. I dislike loathsome human beings, so I really wanted to find out more about Ted Rall’s personality. Sure, I had seen his cartoons, but never liked them that much, as they just seemed rather strained. The…

….then who else does God hate? I did a little research, and found out. Did you know that: Jews made the Romans butcher 6 million Christians! Homosexuals and Jews ran Nazi Germany! Jews perpetrated a Holocaust in (of all places) Topeka, Kansas! The only true Jews are Christians! I didn’t know any of these things…

Or can you?

Here’s something which has been on my mind. I had a long discussion about feminization (pussification, perhaps?) with a female friend the other day, and found myself troubled by a few things that do not quite fit the equation. I’ll give just one local example. Not far from where I live, there used to be…

My blogfather makes a good point here about Veterans Day: This is not a day for joy. It is not a day for a “Sale.” It is or should be a solemn day where we remember those who have or are at this very moment serving our country. Many have made the ultimate sacrifice to…

Mondays suck, in blogging as well as in life. Today was even worse, as I had to drive on the World’s Worst Road, Route 206 in New Jersey. But thanks to a fellow blogger, I gained some insight which compensated for the pain. To give a little background, I had to wait to use a…