Month: December 2005

Via Dr. Helen, I found a fascinating test called the “Bem Sex Role Inventory” and I’m not sure what to make of the result, but here it is: AndrogynousYou scored 53 masculinity and 70 femininity! You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles.…

Coco is more artistic than I thought. (Either that or something unexplainable is going on, which I don’t want to contemplate.) She has a white plastic frisbee, which she normally uses as an exercise plaything in the conventional manner. I throw it, and she catches it (often before it hits the ground). I really have…

“the Japanese had very real grievances….” — Noam Chomsky on Pearl Harbor (Which proves mainly that some people will live in infamy….) I’m not much of a “metablogger,” so I’ll leave it to La Shawn Barber and Michelle Malkin to provide comprehensive links to blog posts about the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. (Glenn, BTW, linked…

Sex education, I often hear, is “none of the schools’ business.” Parents should be able to “opt out” at the very least. It’s true that parenting should be up to the parents, and I certainly agree that schools shouldn’t be parents. But what I want to know is why it seems that so many of…

I don’t mean to sound overly tolerant of the Ebenezer Scrooge school of intolerance, but whatever happened to “Bah Humbug!“? When I was a kid, plenty of people hated Christmas. The grownups used to complain about how the “real meaning” had been lost to crass commercialization, and Christmas was often said to be marred by…

Did you know that RINOs can sing? Well they can! And even I can sing. If you want to see what I’m talking about, don’t miss Rose Nunez’s Raging RINOs Carnival at her fine blog, No Credentials. A lot of work went into this Raging RINO Karaoke fest, and it’s just a hoot! Here’s a…

According to Howard Dean, the idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong! No shock there. What was a shock, though, was seeing Donald Sensing — of all people — voicing similar sentiments: Remember, though, we are losing in Iraq. That terrorists? former allies would…

if you do not conform, if you are too much of a lone wolf or an individualist, you?re going to be shunned…. Tammy Bruce, in an interview with John Hawkins. (Via Glenn Reynolds.) That is so damned true. The paradox, though, is that those who are shunned in this way are victims of the shunning,…

I’m all for restoring honesty. But the prestigiously named RestoreHonesty.com, originally set up by Joe Wilson (and which Glenn Reynolds noted was paid for by Kerry campaign) doesn’t look very honest these days. I mean phentermine Buy Online Pharmacy? No, really. (Check it out.) If my impatience is showing, the reason isn’t so much that…

The first snow of the season! While it didn’t amount to much in my yard, it’s a hint of what’s yet to come. At first, Coco wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, as there hasn’t been any of that white funny stuff since she was a puppy last winter, and I’m not sure…

I agree that correcting Maureen Dowd probably is the “Bunny Slope of blogging,” and that fisking the LA Times is slightly more challenging (although I’m not sure Maureen Dowd would agree). I guess that means I should be properly embarrassed to be spending so much of my time with the Philadelphia Inquirer, especially because I…

Here’s an example of why a gun is a better home self defense weapon than a knife: After being raped inside her Germantown home by a stranger yesterday afternoon, a woman persuaded her attacker to let her take her toddler upstairs – and when she came back down, she had a knife. Her attacker, a…

Michael Demmons (via Glenn Reynolds) reviews a new film called The God Who Wasn’t There — which purports to prove that the historical Jesus never existed: …. 45 minutes into it and they?re already showing picture of Abu Ghraib. This is nothing more than a propaganda film. Unbelievable. But unsurprising. I should have known. Michael…

Those who think New Orleans has “come back to life” should read Gus Van Horn’s account of his recent visit there. Excerpt: It is hard to characterize the general impression of New Orleans succinctly other than to say that it is overwhelming. The eeriest part of being in this ghost city is being there at…

This report (which, quite oddly, has turned up at the web site of my favorite local news radio station, KYW) is intriguing but it will probably go nowhere: FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles…

Global Warming ain’t my thing, folks. But I’m a skeptic, and when more and more people repeat a theory that they can’t prove, and not enough skepticism is expressed on the other side, I feel obligated to say something. I’m no scientist, but I can still read words. The latest Global Warming scare story —…

Bureaucrats at the University of Pennsylvania have a fascinating new definition of privacy. If you take your clothes off and have sex on the street in public, apparently that’s still private, and anyone who takes your picture is chargeable with invasion of privacy. At least, that’s what they were pushing for until Penn professor Alan…

I was happy with Pajamas Media. I was then happy with Open Source Media. I am again happy with Pajamas Media. Yes, still! To understand why, read this post by Vanderleun. Excerpt: If you call and say you’re from something called “Pajamas Media,” that is a perfect formula for never, ever getting the appointment or…

I’m really confused today. Justin’s post about “assisted” reproduction has me all in a dither, both morally and intellectually, because I want to follow the natural law wherever I can find it, but first I have to find it, then analyze it, and then I get all worried about things like logic and the Constitution…