Month: August 2005

Glenn Reynolds (who has repeatedly complained that he doesn’t want to be prey), has today linked to Ann Althouse (also a spoilsport where it comes to “re-wilding” America by introducing predatory animals). Here’s the “huge issue“: “Obviously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators,” said…

So says Bob Herbert — who is particularly upset that President Bush has been spotted riding a bicycle: Mr. Bush is the commander in chief who launched a savage war in Iraq and now spends his days happily riding his bicycle in Texas. This is eerie. Scary. Surreal. Well, the president is a known physical…

Just made it back from an evening of dinner and drinking with John Beck of Incite and yours truly of Classical Values. After hooking up at Philadelphia’s 30th Street train station, John and I went to “Ludwig’s” — and old German bar with mounted animal heads on the wall. It’s a charming place with great…

Every once in a while I like to check my political litmus — stuff like whether I’m still a libertarian, or how much of a libertarian I am, or how I score in tests purporting to tell me that. So once again, I took Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian Purity Test (which I found via Incite). My…

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s writing an authentic film review (that’s why I prefer to write film reviews about films I’ve never seen). But if there’s one thing I hate more than writing a film review, it’s when I have to write about a film I hate. Unfortunately, that’s the case with Me…

While I’m on the subject of apologizing for crimes committed in the past, here’s another meme making the rounds: the United States as the inspiration for Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. As God commanded in Deuteronomy, Americans destroyed sacred Indian poles and shrines and Germans destroyed sacred Jewish books and temples. If Aryan Americans had…

Here’s a gutsy report from the New York Times: Despite the objections of Florida’s Anatomical Board, an exhibition of 20 cadavers and 260 body parts, stripped of their skin to show their muscles, organs and blood vessels, opened a scheduled six-month run at the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry yesterday, The Associated Press reported.…

I’ve posted before on secession, but that involved a small minority of fringe type people moving to a state in the hope of making it secede. (In reality they stand little chance of seeing it happen.) Today I see a new idea: secession by means of multiculturalism. That link is very tough to open, so…

While I’m on the subject of “activism,” I thought I’d try to make sense out of modern trend which is loaded with communitarian emotion, and that is the castration of dogs. In the past twenty years, times have changed so dramatically that what were once normal and commonplace — dogs who still have their nuts…

The 152nd Carnival of the Vanities has been posted by Will Franklin at WILLisms.com. Will has an original idea (at least I don’t think I’ve seen it before) of actually rating each post. They’re rated 0 through 10 — something sure to displease bloggers who rated lower than a 10. Will explains the system: 0…

I hate it when I have to repeat myself but here we go again. 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, about whose conflict of interest I’ve complained for years, is once again being criticized — by others who had also warned about her conflict of interest. The real story here folks is that when “Able Danger” passed…

Before the Supreme Court issued the notorious Kelo decision, Institute for Justice’s Chip Mellor warned of an unholy alliance between “judicial activism” and “judicial restraint” (in which freedom is the loser): Without realizing it, liberals and conservatives are working from opposite ends of the political spectrum, under opposing rationales, to reach the same end: expanded…

I think so. Although James Wolcott doesn’t seem terribly in love with John McCain. Not if this venom-dripping screed is any indicator: I’m watching “maverick” John McCain on Fox News Sunday. I hereby declare Operation Reach-Out over. There’s no reasoning with these madmen. Certainly not this insatiable warrior. At the time I thought my friend…

I like the convenience of having a laptop computer, and mine was a good deal at $400.00. But even if it had been a total steal I don’t think I would have been willing to die for it. Much less wet my pants. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into…

Iraq War blogger Michael Yon makes a very good point about the misuse of words like “martyr”: In an effort to be culturally sensitive and almost compulsively polite, we’ve mangled the meanings of words like: “martyr,” and “suicide” to such a degree that we’re using them to label mass murderers. While American and foreign media…

The couple’s eldest son, Casey, was killed in April 2004 in Iraq while serving in the U.S. Army. His mother has emerged as a leading critic of the war in Iraq by pitching a tent near the Bush ranch and refusing to leave until he speaks to her. Quoth a nameless Reuters writer. Pardon me.…

I don’t know if this is a first or not, but according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a local blog is being used to solve a hit and run case: For almost a month, dozens of people protested outside the East Falls home of Susanna Goihman, a restaurateur and owner of the 2002 white Lexus that…

This week’s RINO Sightings Carnival has been posted by super blogger John Cole. John says he doesn’t have creative bone in his body, but that didn’t stop him from posting a couple of RINO pictures, which are not only artistic, but which might be considered, well, sexy. (I mean, to another, er, RINO… But is…

“let readers decide who sings most like a nightingale.” — James Wolcott In a comment recently, blogger “Slartibartfast” left a friendly warning (which reminded me of the probationary nature of my blogging): I wouldn’t mess with Wolcott if I were you. I mean, that guy can write. How true. I replied that Barbra Streisand is…

John Beck links to a brilliant post by Done with Mirrors* contrasting Hollywood propaganda of World War II to that of our present war in Iraq. Here’s what he said about Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11: How ironic is it that the most significant piece of Hollywood propaganda produced in this current war is lauded by…