Month: April 2004

Via Drudge, I found a wonderful essay by Camille Paglia, which everyone should read. I can’t do justice to the entire post, but here’s something I especially liked, because it touches on why I blog: The computer, with its multiplying forums for spontaneous free expression from e-mail to listservs and blogs, has increased facility and…

Today’s Bonfire of the Vanities is hilarious. It is hosted by Ryan at soundfury, a natural comedian of the first order. I am not going to spoil the posts by spilling their contents here, but I insist that you go read them. Ghost of a flea offers something every man and every woman will want…

My blogfather Jeff has outdone himself. He not only started a new blog devoted to pets, but he has redesigned the indispensible Alphecca site by installing Movable Type. Irascible leftist commenters and particularly SPAM commenters be forewarned; Jeff is well-armed! Not only that, Jeff’s latest post about the new “war on porn” has shamed me…

This completely undermines the charge that Bush ignored warnings about Osama bin Laden: The final policy paper on national security that President Clinton submitted to Congress ? 45,000 words long ? makes no mention of al Qaeda and refers to Osama bin Laden by name just four times. The scarce references to bin Laden and…

Mondays remind me the tension between people who hate what they do and people who love what they do. Mondays make me think about envy. Monday is a day when violations of the Tenth Commandment are the rule and not the exception. In extreme cases, envy can take the form of hating people who simply…

And a simple apology would be much easier to find. I am having a great deal of trouble keeping up with the ins and outs of the Daily Kos fallout. For those who are still unaware of one of the biggest blogscandals so far (I hesitate to call it “Kosgate” — although others have) Glenn…

Last night something happened to me which ought to be a question for Miss Manners. I attended a musical event at a large church in Philadelphia, and during the break, I decided to take a simple leak. The bathrooms were upstairs, and when I got up there I saw a couple of men standing around…

Glenn Reynolds has reminded me of something I really didn’t want to remember: the fact that those who would rule over us exempt themselves from the rules they impose. (Or enforce.) Policemen and their families have long held a de facto exemption, and now they want a de jure one. In Pennsylvania, the governor has…

This is UNBELIEVABLE! Richard Clarke’s contradictory performance must have been found less than satisfactory. For the get-Bush-at-all-costs crowd is now getting assistance from that most infamous serial perjurer John Dean, who has just penned a new book in which he crows that Bush is worse than Nixon, and that his administration is “Worse than Watergate.”…

I am spending too much time deleting SPAM comments, which involves first laboriously entering the IP numbers of each blasted SPAMMER into the “IP blocking” list, then deleting each comment. Earlier, the SPAM comments were coming in at the rate of twelve in fifteen minutes! It’s getting bad — and there’s simply no way I…

What do you do when the candidate you support is widely perceived as arrogant, aloof, and downright rude? You need to say stuff like this: …..[A]s the crowd dispersed and the band packed up, he spoke for 28 minutes more with the few dozen who had made their way to the front rows. He nodded…

By now, most bloggers know about the burglary of the home of author Gary Nicosia, in which thousands of pages of Senator Kerry’s FBI files were stolen. (Actually, some have called it “second rate“…. but bear in mind that Watergate was called “third rate”….) Will anyone invoke “national security” concerns? As to Nicosia’s credibility, it…

(And this is as ridiculous a post as the title suggests….) Welcome to Friday Online Testing at Classical Values. This weekly tradition invariably forces me to confront things about myself I’d never confront, and bare them to the world. The first test — “What Kind of Shoe Are You?” — I thought would reveal more…

This is unbelievable. A group is targeting blogs it doesn’t like by buying them up — I guess in the hope that buying a site stops the site’s author from continuing to blog anywhere else. While some of the commenters to the above post think it’s an April Fools joke, I’ll treat it as serious…

Here at Classical Values, April Fools Day is taken very seriously. It really should be an official day of mourning, because today is really New Years Day, but alas! The modern fools destroyed the old calendar! You think I’m joking? Read this. Today is New Years Day. Anyone who believes it was on January 1st…

And I disagree. A little more than two years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and murdered, his head cut off and displayed as a grisly trophy, and all of this was put into the famous Islamofascist snuff film. Viewing this film was thought to be bad for morale. The FBI even…