Month: August 2005

Colby Cosh has penned the ultimate “primer on Drug War panic for morons in journalism.” The list is quite comprehensive, and just about every known and unknown feature of every known or unknown drug is covered. All you need to do is identify one of the drug’s features, and viola! The spin’s ready to go.…

Yeah, that’s what I keep saying — not only about same sex marriage (or “gay marriage” for those who demand inexactitude), but about the whole issue of tolerance for homosexuals. Ridiculous as it may be to consider starting a civil war over these things, at the rate things are going with certain scholars on the…

Notwithstanding his claim to be a peacemaker, James Wolcott has been repeatedly insistent that he’s onto some new form of NeoCon evil, which strikes him as a form of dishonesty: Totten and compadres seem to think that I consider anyone who simply voted for Bush as morally culpable for everything Bush has done since on…

(…but I’m afraid Classical Values is stuck with being his prophet…) Well, I am glad to see it’s finally official. Via a link at LGF, I see that Baghdad Bob has been officially designated as the spokesman for Air America! The fellow who recognized Bob’s authority was also kind enough to stick pretty closely to…

During the usual course of things, August is one of those months in which not much happens. (Last year was decidedly different, because of the frenzy over the upcoming election.) However via InstaPundit (Michael Totten, guest blogging), I did find an interesting new Iraqi blog, where I found this post explaining a mystery I posted…

Via Megan McArdle (guest blogging at InstaPundit), I see evidence of a disturbing new trend: an apparent claim — by gay activists, no less — that marriage should be restricted on the basis of sexual preference. This tired issue (same sex heterosexual marriage) is by no means new to this blog. As I said previously:…

I don’t like to dwell on stuff like this unless I can’t help it. So I tried to ignore the pathetic picture in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer of one Cindy Sheehan, who believes that she can end the Iraq War by meeting with President Bush. I looked at her picture (another one at Drudge) and found…

Analysts opposed to the Iraq War love to speak of a quagmire, and they cite the Vietnam War in support of their theories. Two-plus years into this war, American deaths number some 1800, and there will be many more. Whether they’ll approach the Vietnam level of 58,000 killed is highly debatable. (And, I think, highly…

My mom always tried to say nice things about people, as she believed in that old fashioned saying that “if you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say it.” This same rule applies all the more to the recently deceased. I offer this by way of explanation for my silence about Peter…

Did you complacent people out there know that there’s a war on? That people are being killed? And how could I have forgotten that there’s a war going on? Well, I’m being scolded for precisely that — and today’s Inquirer woke me up to the hard reality I’ve been avoiding: Has the war finally hit…

Via Daniel Rubin, I got quite a chuckle out of Instapunk’s reappraisal of the 60th Hiroshima reappraisal by the new 60-something generation: The history may not be so important anymore, because nobody cares about history since the baby boomers reduced it to a pulpy list of crimes against political correctness. What is important is what…

The government is creating jobs and aiding industry! Social! I mean capital! “Highways just don’t happen,” Mr. Bush went on. “People have got to show up and do the work to refit a highway or build a bridge, and they need new equipment to do so. So the bill I’m signing is going to help…

Yes, that’s what this week’s Carnival of the Vanities is called, and it has it all. Host Greg at Generic Confusion does a great job with a staggeringly large number of posts which he divides into six categories: Politics, Business and Advice, Current Events, Culture and Life, Blogging, and Humor. All in all, a crisp,…

Via Michael Totten (guest blogging at InstaPundit), I found another gem from James Wolcott: The fact is that by subscribing to Bush’s War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq with every corpuscle of your tired body you’ve made common cause with Republican conservatives, neoconservatives, and Christian fundamentalists who are dedicated to destroying those parcels…

I’m not up to snuff on the intricacies of Geek Law, which is obviously a still emerging field. But I have a legal question which is also a philosophical and ethical question, and I don’t know where to go with it, so I thought I’d start with this blog. Hopefully, there are readers better versed…

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin is blaming the Iranian nuclear program on the war in Iraq (the latter is a “quagmire” of course): President Bush’s gross miscalculations about Iraq have emboldened Iran’s mullahs. The cost of these mistakes was in full view this week. Iranian leaders defied U.S. and European warnings and restarted early stages…

Well, now that I’ve messed up one post today, let’s see if I can get this one, uh, straight. The Rolling Stones (one of my favorite bands) are accused of bashing Bush and Rice in a new song, “My Sweet Neo-Con.” According to Drudge, here’s the story and the lyrics: JAGGER ROCKS BUSH, RICE: ‘HOW…

I had to delete a previous post written in haste, in which I accused Greg Palast of advocating the assassination of Bill Frist. He did not do that, and I thought it would be irresponsible for me to leave it up. What I thought I saw (via a link from my blogfather Jeff Soyer) was…

Here’s Harry Belafonte on Adolf Hitler: Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. (Via the G. Gordon Liddy Show) Belafonte’s statement is an outrageous lie, but it was intended as an attack on black conservatives, so I don’t…

If you thought the debate over human cloning was bad, read on…. Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer features an Op Ed by Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States. In a piece called “Cloning is cruelty to animals and people” Pacelle comes out swinging against animal cloning: [W]ith millions of healthy and adoptable…