Month: June 2004

I am being subjected to serious amounts of comment SPAM. Last night there were 205 of them from a single author in India, who is selling “Cialis.” The spammer’s IP address — 61.247.228.224 — is in New Delhi. As a public service I am also providing the contact information (obtained from APNIC) for the registrant…

Here’s an excellent argument against having kids: a schoolteacher working for American defeat who believes that her public school students should be indoctrinated with socialist doctrines. And here are teachers who lost their jobs for trying to answer students’ questions. (Via Glenn Reynolds.) Lesson? Don’t have children, and don’t teach! It is unreasonable to expect…

The Bonfire is crackling at IMFO this week, with Camille describing the posts described as “sadly daft.” Nice combination; here are some of the dafter ones. Kevin is into some very kinky sounding ultraporn. The very esteemed Ghost of a flea offers a quiz near and dear to my heart — the Barking Moonbat Quiz!…

In a post at Tech Central Station (via InstaPundit), Professor Bainbridge does an excellent job of defending Ronald Reagan’s small government philosophy: Reagan was a proponent of negative rights; most notably, Reagan espoused the right to be left alone. Bainbridge takes issue with so-called “positive rights” — the nonsensical notion that there is (or should…

I didn’t want to contaminate my post about Ronald Reagan by reporting Ted Rall’s especially vicious remarks on the occasion of his death. But now I see that the link to Rall’s hate site has been down for 24 hours. This may mean that Rall has backed off his remarks, although I doubt it. Nonetheless,…

While it’s a bit late to call this a movie review, I saw D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation in its entirety over the weekend. For a silent film, it’s quite watchable, notwithstanding its outrageous racism and shameless advocacy of a crackpot cause. It’s artistic qualities rank with Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will,…

I won’t have much time for blogging until tomorrow (like my blogfather, I have had some social obligations), but I can’t let the 60th anniversary of D-Day pass without at least mentioning this excellent collection of links. (Via InstaPundit.) People forget the sacrifices which were made. Jeff also has a very thoughtful and articulate post…

Damn! A whole day went by without a post! I just returned from a long drive in horrid driving weather, and I’m going to attempt to use my blog as a way of processing my unresolved anti-traffic bigotry. While I normally hesitate to stereotype or judge people, I wish to offer a few observations and…

New York pictures are in vogue right now: both the beautiful (via InstaPundit), and the forbidden (id). I don’t know whether the following photos fall into the beautiful or the forbidden categories, but while walking through New York’s Grand Central Station last weekend, I noticed (and believe me, it was hard not to notice!) Air…

Amidst the recent chaos, I missed something which I think most Americans were intended to miss: more evidence of the malevolent nature of the hateful Wahhabi strain of Islam which, thanks to politically correct media complacency, has gained much cultural hegemony among Muslims living in the United States. Recent accounts about accused terrorist Adam Gadahn…

An article in the Christian Science Monitor points out that only seven percent of journalists will dare to call themselves conservatives. Examining the Pew Research study itself, I am more than a little annoyed that the only choices given are liberal, conservative, moderate, and “don’t know.” Were I asked to measure myself this way, I’d…

I haven’t had as much time as I would like for blogging lately, but there’s a particularly good post by Professor Bainbridge which merits attention. He begins by quoting G. K. Chesterton on the ancients, and correctly concludes, Chesterton’s point is that the evils of militarism tend to arise when the martial vitues cease to…

Here’s a local story — “Mosque raid shakes community” — which has attracted international attention: PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Federal agents raided a mosque and two homes in Philadelphia on Thursday and took a Muslim cleric into custody on immigration charges, authorities and witnesses said. Internal Revenue Service agents executed a search warrant at the Ansaar…

Here’s an interesting, controversial, story which is not being reported in the mainstream media: John Kerry gave the finger to a heckler. Democratic senator – and certain presidential nominee – John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned. Ted Sampley,…