Month: January 2005

It was a brisk winter’s morn as Dennis sat, alone, at his wobbling computer desk–purchased in thinner days at an outlet store in some sparse suburban strip mall, all sweat pants and tennis shoes and what the French call les ob?ses–there, in his two bedroom apartment on the hill, that he meditated upon the ……

After a lot of time wasted getting hopelessly lost in the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma (they really don’t do a good job with signs, and the whole system is under construction in that area), I finally put in some decent driving, and right now I am in Amarillo, Texas, and I’ve got decent wirecard connectivity.…

Hey, it finally works! (Earlier I managed to post something at the Classical Values backup blog, and I’m repeating the post here.) Here I am in Jefferson County, Missouri with my aircard, and unable to post to Classical Values because HostMatters and all the blogs associated with it are down. It’s frustrating after a 900…

So blogging will be light for the next few days. But hopefully, not nonexistent; I have a new aircard for my laptop. Thanks everyone!

While I was mulling over Roger L. Simon’s thoughtful post (via InstaPundit) about the two competing schools of journalism (admitted bias versus the pretense of “objectivity”), Justin pointed me to an utterly fascinating new theory: that the tsunami was deliberately triggered by a nuclear device. Who would do such a thing? Why, a conspiracy involving…

Taking cash in exchange for promoting an idea sounds, well, sleazy. All the more so when the idea is a government program and is paid for with taxpayer’s money. Karol at Alarming News discusses the issue as it relates to her work and her blog: As many of my readers know, I work at a…

Ed Morrisey is scaring the bejeezus out of me by resurrecting reports like this: At least eight people who died well before the November general election were credited with voting in King County, raising new questions about the integrity of the vote total in the narrow governor’s race, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review has found. The…

Folks, I’m feeling very guilty, and I’m afraid the time has come for a painful thing called the truth. Considering the pronouncement I made in the last post — “I haven’t known Glenn Reynolds to lie yet!” — I think I’d better address a few remarks I’ve made in the past. Because, I’m beginning to…

I would more easily believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven. — Thomas Jefferson Well, would Jefferson believe a non-Yankee professor? Despite the incoherent innuendo in Wikipedia, I haven’t known Glenn Reynolds to lie yet! And today, the non-Yankee professor links to a report that they’re revising the…

… especially if you’re ‘Loranger’s biggest queer.’ Digital self-defense just might get you expelled, or compared to Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris: “When you have students making threats to other students or groups of students on the Internet, talking about killing someone or blowing up the school or shooting a certain group of people, when…

I’ve heard that nasty little term ‘gun culture’, but what’s all this about a ‘knife culture’ in Scotland? And ‘knife culture’ is the judge’s phrase, approved by a political leader: Today Mr McAveety welcomed Lord Menzies’ comments. He said: “His comments are positive and I welcome the strong sentences he has passed down. “It reaffirms…

This proposed federal legislation looks ominous to me: Under the new bill sponsored by Rep. David Dreier, California Republican and the chairman of the House Rules Committee, anyone applying for a job would have to get a new Social Security card with their photograph and biometric information on it. Employers would be required to verify…

In an earlier post about the tsunami, I opined that “God didn’t do it.” I now see that a growing number of people have a different view: Some spiritual leaders see God’s hand in the destruction. “This is an expression of God’s ire with the world,” Sephardic chief rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of Israel’s top…

That’s right. Vessel of Honour is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Vanities. Maximus reviewed such a gigantic number (the magical 57) of excellent blog posts that he finally crashed with a THUD at the end! I can hardly believe that anyone could review that many, and had I known, I would have been merciful…

This is embarassingly late, but then, I’ve had houseguests. Please forgive the lack of immediacy. Some days ago, I pointed out the work of Australian geologist Edward Bryant. He’s the guy who maintains that Australia has been hit by some truly monstrous tsunamis in the past, perhaps even as recently as five hundred years ago.…

What is one to do on a cold, bleak, rainy day like this? Iced roads tonight, they said on the weather….. I consulted the omens and portents (which means I thought about my balding tires). Then I remembered an established blogging tradition called tireblogging, and realized that I too was destined to share the same…

I just received an email from a friend which deals with passport and border control issues in France: Subject: Fwd: FW: Passport problem Note: This one has been around before but is still good… An elderly gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane. At the French customs desk, the man took a few minutes…

I’m fascinated by this item from Drudge today about a woman who was ordered to stop having children: ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) – A Family Court judge who last year stirred debate about parental responsibilities ordered a second drug-addicted woman to have no more children until she proves she can look after the seven she already…

If there’s one thing worse than missing out on getting an entry into the Bonfire of the Vanities, it’s when that same Bonfire happens to be hosted by one of your favorite bloggers! Alas! That’s the case with this week’s Bonfire, which is hosted by INCITE. Beck does a great job with all of the…

This is creepy on a number of levels, but might interest the lawyers in our midst. What happens when a woman chooses to abort her fetus in um … unconventionally? (link via Drudge) What strikes me about this is that she was complicit, yet the law designates her the victim of the crime because the…