Month: November 2004

The 113th Carnival of the Vanities is hosted at Food Basics: Why on earth is a foodie hosting this wordie event? Because man does not live by bread alone. What I did not know until today was that the blog author’s (Trudy Schuett’s) father just passed away. I’m really impressed that she hosted a blog…

E-Roc at the Dave pointed us toward this piece of blatant neo-con propaganda from FOXsnooze which purports to further damage the U.N.’s heroic Oil for Food program by citing its support of terrorism insurgency. Next they’ll be telling us that Yusuf Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens) didn’t deserve the Man for Peace…

Via a friend whose name I shall not give, here’s some good news: WASHINGTON – The government promises anyone with a computer will have access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation’s…

Condoleeza’s place in the spotlight has been somewhat stolen by this ridiculous Monday Night Football stunt, in which a woman was, well, not covered sufficiently enough to satisfy the “religious police.” Surely, it’s no coincidence that the Broadcast Decency Act is being ramrodded through Congress as I write this post. (Via Jeff Jarvis, who I…

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The first amendment was never intended as a blunt instrument to punish contrary points of view. — Tom Brokaw, Ohio University Commencement, May, 2004. Let’s see. The First Amendment exists to prevent government from restricting or abridging free speech, and to prevent official establishment of religion while protecting the free exercise thereof. It’s there to…

Regular readers know how I hate to impose rules, so it is with a heavy heart that I find myself forced to write this post. But it has come to my attention that there is a serious shortage of expertise and of intellectual horsepower — on all sides — being displayed on this blog. Most…

Justin’s post on H. G. Wells (a must read, of course) reminded me of the hopeless confusion so often created when political differences are shaped by differing perceptions of human nature. As I opined in a comment I just left below, advocates of political liberalism (which I think includes one-world socialism of the sort advocated…

I was reading Lileks the other night, and thought I would check out the excerpts from his new book. One passage in particular caught my eye. In another era these items would have been a symbol of shame. In the Seventies they thrived. Everyone knew someone whose mom was into this crap, and stuffed the…

Ferocious battle in the park today between two contestants: a red-nosed American Pit Bull Terrier and a French blueblood bulldog. The American redneck dog, “Growly,” and the Frenchie, “Georgina” (no idea why anyone would give such a name to a French dog) started out by evaluating each other carefully: Notice that Frenchie is a female,…

My apologies for not posting much this weekend; I have out of town guests and between entertaining them and attending late right parties, the blog has been neglected. (I realize I’ve neglected some annoying but overdue business, but the dog ate my homework, OK?) My InstaLanched satire — a sort of comparison between Michael Moore…

Charles Krauthammer explores (and explodes) the “Moral Values Myth”: The way the question was set up, moral values were sure to be ranked disproportionately high. Why? Because it was a multiple-choice question, and moral values cover a group of issues, while all the other choices were individual issues. Chop up the alternatives finely enough, and…

My sense of humor must be out of touch with the national mood. A few days ago, I thought it was quite funny when Greg Palast reported that Kerry actually won the election. Now I see that this wacky idea spread; first to the point where Peter Jennings gave it serious attention on the national…

Who is responsible for this slogan? BUSH, CHENEY, POWELL, SHARON, and BLAIR. The true Axis of Evil. And who said this? How well do you sleep at night Mr. Bush? 160 million dollars? That is a great deal of money you have raised Mr. Bush! These soldiers you have murdered, how much of that money…

By now most people have read about Bush getting 23% of the gay vote. I’m beginning to think that the left is not too happy about such “treason.” I think it’s interesting that Andrew Sullivan is being targeted with such a vengeance even though he supported Kerry, and I don’t think this is an accident.…

Hugh Hewitt asks a good question in the Weekly Standard: George W. Bush collected around 59,750,000 votes, about 3.5 million more than did John Kerry. What percentage of Bush’s votes were pro-choice, I wonder? Thirty? Twenty? Ten? Even if it is only 10 percent, those 5.7 million votes provided Bush with his margin of popular-vote…

Happy Veterans Day everyone! I am not going to have much time for blogging, because this is one of those semi-holidays when things are supposed to get done. I’m going to try to stop at Valley Forge for a moment of contemplation. Today is also the Marine Corps birthday, and we owe a huge debt…

The sign of a true pomposity in the making is when a man begins quoting himself. — James Wolcott I want to add something before it slips through the, um, cracks. I think that another sign of a true pomposity in the making is when a blogger ridicules what another blogger says without even having…

I don’t often reprint cartoons, but I saw this one posted by Craig at mtpolitics.net, and it was too precious not to lift. Via Cox and Forkum.

According to John O’Neill, U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan cheered President Bush’s re-election — but it’s not being reported: U.S. troops stationed in Iraq were visibly heartened when they got the news that President Bush had defeated John Kerry in last week’s election – but the media are refusing to report their reaction to…