Month: May 2006

  • Vote yes! (Or stay in your hot tub!)

    I know this is just a throwaway post, but I have to comment briefly on something I just read — in BOLD TYPE, because it’s Jim Geraghty’s bottom line — at NRO’s TKS: Frustrated with the GOP as a whole? Then support the guys you do like. (Via Glenn Reynolds.) Uh, OK. I just voted…

  • Being an unpaid volunteer will (eventually) drive you insane!

    That last post will serve as an illustration of the problem with blogging (at least for me). For the umpteenth time, I devoted my time to disagreeing with the Philadelphia Inquirer about guns. And once again, I endeavored to show editorial bias (hardly a tough thing when dealing with an editorial . . .) Y-A-W-N…

  • “A good first step”? Towards what?

    In a huge editorial yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer claims that it wants to stop illegal gun purchases: Criminals often get their handguns through an underground market that begins with a transaction called a straw purchase. It works this way: A gun trafficker barred from buying firearms because of a criminal record finds a go-between (a…

  • libertarians who support border controls are all Nazis!

    Via Drudge, my attention was drawn to the views of this Democratic candidate for Alabama Attorney General: BIRMINGHAM — A Democratic candidate for attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend to a “pro-white” organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical,…

  • Three years? Of endless Culture War?

    With a start, I just realized that May 15 is the third blogiversary of Classical Values. How to celebrate something like that? I should just thank you — the readers. Every time I start to feel overwhelmed by the thankless, infuriatingly endless nature of blogging, every time the undeniable blogger burnout syndrome gets to me,…

  • RINOs chase away 39th Birthday Blues

    This week’s Raging RINOs Carnival is hosted by Gary at Ex-Donkey Blog. Gary, who will soon be celebrating his 39th birthday “for the first time,” has “volunteered to host this edition of the carnival to take my mind off of this upcoming event and I was treated to a great round of submissions.” One of…

  • The “Enemy” of my enemy is my “insurgent”!

    As most readers know, war blogging is not my shtick. But I have a quick question: why are admitted al Qaida fighters constantly referred to as “insurgents”? This AP Wire from the Philadelphia Inquirer is typical (the same story is in USA Today): BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter south of Baghdad…

  • The flowering of self expression

    A few pictures from the weekend . . . On the left is the gorgeous Coco, who needs no introduction. To the right is a droolingly glamorous young ladie named Lilly — an English bulldog/American pit bull cross (breeders are trying to resurrect the original bulldog, which is beset with deformities and is difficult to…

  • Never find faults in a perfect storm!

    The current political situation consists of a massive wave of deferred and repressed anger coming from all directions. I don’t know whether to call this elemental force of nature a wave (a political tsunami is more like it), an earthquake (political rupture along creeping fault lines), or a cyclone, but it has grown larger and…

  • Naturally thwarting unnatural laws of nature

    Seeing as it’s still nature appreciation day, I thought I’d reflect on survival of the fishest. A favorite artist, Ray Troll, likes portraying the idea graphically. One of his T-shirt designs: It shouldn’t need much explanation, but there’s a good one here. Even if they’re thousands of miles away and ten years old, once the…

  • You are not ready

    Definitionally speaking, the world has already ended. Regrettably, I’ve been delegated the profoundly depressing, yet inexplicably unavoidable trouble of convincing everyone to stand in line. That’s really what all the gospels were about. Getting people to stand in line. The rest was basically taken care of. I mean, think about it. Loaves, fishes, shelter, companionship,…

  • No time to dissect crimes of nature

    Today must be nature appreciation day. At least it is for Coco — who has been finding owl pellets in the yard, like this one: From the size, it appears to be either a Barred Owl, a Great Horned Owl or a Barn Owl pellet. (They nest in my yard, and one time I heard…

  • Bewildering brutality in ball-banning Berkeley?

    While I dislike moral relativism of any sort, reading about this brutal behavior by a bellicose bull sea lion in Berkeley reminded me that neutering pit bulls (discussed earlier) will not solve the problem of animal violence: Authorities are looking for ways to deter an aggressive sea lion that attacked three people at the Berkeley…

  • Conspiracy to cover up hysterical delusions?

    I heard about a strange new disease today: If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what’s next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that’s surfaced in South Texas. Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to…

  • All bloggers are sexual predators!

    For some time, I’ve been worried about a convergence in hysteria between Luddites who believe the Internet is “seductive,” and people who use children and sex as an excuse to crack down on whatever they don’t like. My fear is that the real target is (or will be) the blogosphere, and unfortunately (via Raw Story)…

  • when pit bull semen is outlawed, only outlaws will have pit bull semen!

    I am ashamed and chagrined to see that certain humans in Berkeley, California are trying to outlaw unneutered pit bulls: The American Kennel Club is howling about a law some members of the Citizens Humane Commission are proposing that would mandate the spaying and neutering of most Berkeley pit bulls, a breed overrepresented in the…

  • Big Balls in Cow Town by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, For the Last Time

    ?Buckle down hot sake!? bellowed the man and his grandfather. Those were all the lyrics the grandfather remembered, all that the man had ever known. It was the bastardization of some distant school?s fight song invented by the grandfather & a fellow alum shortly after the war while getting liquored to the gills on a…

  • Something you might miss below . . .

    (. . . and which isn’t likely to be much reported by the MSM.) I have been very concerned with the need for Islamic reform lately, and I just updated my previous post about the Saudi madrassa in my neighborhood. But because I think this is very important stuff (I know people tend to miss…

  • how to kill tree-killing spam

    A grim factoid: . . . [E]ach year, the Junk Mail Monster destroys about 68 million trees, wastes 28 billion gallons of water, and costs about $450,000,000 of you money to cart its promos, pleas and promises to and from incineratiors, garbage dumps and recycling centers? That equates to about 34 pounds of junk mail…

  • Mongrelizing Subspeciesism

    What is a species? In high school biology class, I learned that the test line for we call “species” is traditionally drawn over whether or not an animal can breed with another animal and produce fertile offspring. (Thus a horse might breed with a donkey, but the fact that sterile mules result means that horses…