Month: February 2006

Ironically enough my nephew happens to be a Richard III and yesterday was his birthday. I think he’s rather enjoying the snow, but I just spent a few minutes trying to take my girlfriend to a babysitting gig and after two blown stop signs and subsequent skids aided by the comfort of snow banks (more…

I don’t know whether Islam officially hates love, but I do think that a major difference between Islam and Christianity — at the most basic level of each — involves a primal dispute over man’s relationship to God. Christians and Jews are supposed to love God, while Muslims are supposed to fear god. Islam means…

Thick white blanket at sunrise: Coco attempted to do her business, but found herself unable to walk because as soon as she stepped off the porch the snow enveloped and trapped her body, so she hightailed it back into the house as best she could. Walking is tough, as it’s up to my knees. I’ll…

By making a “raghead” remark , Ann Coulter has managed to do what she does best (and which I do poorly), which is to generate traffic, interest, publicity. Via Ryan Sager, here’s what she said: “Rag-head talks tough, rag-head faces thunderous consequences.” In heat of emotion (and sometimes in cold, calculating rage) many of us…

The following came to me via an email, and I thought I’d pass it along here. Titled “World’s easiest quiz,” a passing score requires 4 correct answers. (No peeking!) 1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get catgut? 4) In which…

As if I needed a reminder after the earlier post, a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reminded me how old — how truly old — I am. A nearby costume shop is going out of business, and they’re having an online sale. As it happens, I used to go there when I was a teenager.…

James Kunstler has repaired his archives! The Krispy Kremer werewolf quote is restored to all its former glory… September 19, 2005 Take a good look at America around you now, because when we emerge from the winter of 2005 – 6, we’re going to be another country. The reality-oblivious nation of mall hounds, bargain shoppers,…

Should cops be able to understand simple math? Apparently, the Justice Department doesn’t think so. VIRGINIA BEACH – The U.S. Justice Department has found that the math portion of the Virginia Beach Police Department’s entrance exam discriminates against black and Hispanic applicants. In a letter to the city released Wednesday, the Justice Department said its…

Here’s a photo from Coretta Scott King’s funeral: CAPTION: A dozen members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church from Kansas protested at Coretta Scott King?s funeral on Feb. 7, saying her advocacy for gay rights meant she was doomed to hell. (Photo by Dyana Bagby) FrontPageMag.com has an essay — The “God Hates Fags” Left…

I don’t know whether to call this post “singular wireless” or “the singularity of being,” but news like this makes me feel old: Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) weren’t concerned with such weighty questions when they developed a chip that allows you to listen to an iPod using your…

The editor of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten has decided to print Iran’s Holocaust cartoons: February 8, 2006 (NEW YORK) – The Danish editor behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said Wednesday he’s trying to coordinate with an Iranian paper soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. “My newspaper…

The last post touched on the role of fear in the context of free speech. I think what’s being lost in the debate over the cartoons is not so much the wisdom of printing them, or even the right of any given newspaper to print them. It’s the role of fear. While I’m too old…

A comment to the Confederate Rainbow flag post below reminded me that the issue of fairness is often more complicated than it seems: Eric: It certainly is comical to read your harumphing, if humorous outrage at Julian Bond… given your sidebar ads featuring Hillary and Kerry et al as Stalinist/Soviets… Oh, the irony. Godwin’s Law…

Took this earlier today: I don’t know whether it’s all or nothing. MORE: The above is not a conscious depiction of Muhammad. (Even if it were, without a label, how would anyone know?)

And Americans hate being bored. Americans also hate being told what to do. Or what they can’t wear. That’s why I when I got bored I enjoyed designing the PINO-CHE “T”, which looked like this: But imagine how lifeless and colorless life would be if no one allowed us to display designs on T shirts…

Via Pajamas Media and Michelle Malkin, I see that the Philadelphia Inquirer has received praise from the New York Times for daring to publish one of the forbidden Danish cartoons. Here’s how it appears in the Inquirer’s hard copy: In a post which has drawn comments from all over the world, I had originally chided…

Julian Bond seems to have a fanciful view of the Confederate flag, which he has morphed into an increasingly famous alternate history symbol he calls “the Confederate swastika.” Noting that it’s a “comment that he makes often,” Brendan Loy cites a speech Bond made in Fayetteville, in which he said: “Their (Republicans) idea of equal…

In an obvious attempt to muddy the water, Iran is planning to host a Holocaust cartoon festival: IRAN’S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. “It will be an international cartoon contest about…

A brief word on an irony which shouldn’t go unnoticed. More and more stories have confirmed the truth of what I believe was pointed out first by Gateway Pundit: that the worst of the cartoons are not “the cartoons.” The really bad ones (the ones which show Muhammad as a pedophile, with a pig face,…

Unless this 1997 report is incorrect, the statue of Muhammad on the United States Supreme Court building triggered riots on the other side of the world nearly a decade ago: March 14, 1997 No sooner had the United States Supreme Court rejected a petition from domestic Muslim groups to remove a 66-year-old depiction of the…