Month: February 2007

This week’s Carnival of the RINOs has been posted at Barry Campbell’s Enrevanche, and the theme is “RINOs rampant.” Barry shares his thoughts about how the real RINOs are no longer the proud dissenters, but the “movement conservatives”: as I consider the GOP’s sad slow-motion implosion in recent years, and their gradual desertion of core…

After having written three posts on the subject of Amanda Marcotte (all of which have mentioned John Edwards), I’m now realizing that because this involves an election, my political motives might be suspect, and I want to remind my readers that I have no interest in taking sides one way or the other vis-a-vis the…

This is curious. Three people entered Guilford College dorms looking for the football players involved in the fight with some Palestinians that took place on Jan 20th. GREENSBORO, N.C. Police are investigating an apparent intrusion by three people into a Guilford College dormitory. Authorities say the three were looking for the football players connected to…

I was so into sexism yesterday that I missed the Superbowl. Seriously, I didn’t know who played or won, but I just looked at the front page of the Inky and I see that the Colts beat the Bears. (Ewww! I don’t like the sound of that. It evokes images of mean male guns like…

The ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank are holding with continuous violations. GAZA, Palestine, February 5,2007 (IPC+ Agencies) – -Hamas and Fateh movements traded accusations over violating the ninth agreement of halting internecine fighting while the co-room continues to exert efforts to fully hold the agreement effect on the ground as tenuous and attentive…

Can any one tell me what the proper setting for the Earth’s thermostat is? And who is in charge? Cross Posted at Power and Control

Far be it from me to offer career advice to others, especially to people who are more successful than I am. But I find success almost as intriguing as failure, and the reasons why people succeed in life are at least as worthy of study as the reasons they fail, as are the reasons why…

So they’re making a live action movie of Transformers. Big freaking deal. I never watched it as a cartoon, so why should I care about it on the big screen? Perhaps if I’d been born later, I could have invested it with the meaning that others have found there, and gotten properly stoked about it.…

It looks like Angry Studies are alive and well at Guilford College. They have gotten Duke Fever (a desire to persecute the innocent in the name of some cause). As evidence in the case is coming out, it tends to support the idea that the Palestinians have turned an assault by them into an attack…

How do colleges and universities report crime? We have a small part of the answer due to the Guilford College case. GREENSBORO — If students involved in the recent fight at Guilford College had not gone to the magistrate’s office to file charges, chances are good that word of the event might never have left…

Anybody remember Valerie Solanas? Founder of SCUM. The Society for Cutting Up Men. Writer of the SCUM Manifesto. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system,…

If we in Congress don’t end this war before January 2009, as president, I will. — Hillary Clinton Well, at least she’s finally made her position clear. (In analyzing her remark, it probably should be kept in mind that when she says “end” she does not mean “win.”) Democrats who still support the war (or…

It’s that time of year for gruesome scenes in Lebanon like this: A victim of Israeli atrocities, perhaps? I mean, why not? It looks like something Israel would have done, and we all know that Israel is the source of all the world’s evil, so why not just admit the truth? The Israelis routinely wound…

There was a ceasefire called last night, but nobody came. Less than a day after another ceasefire agreement was attained between Fatah and Hamas, on Saturday morning violence between the factions erupted anew, and eight Palestinian were wounded. Severe gun battles erupted on the streets of Gaza City, nearby President Mahmoud Abbas’ office and the…

In a discussion of politics in Latin America the Drug War came up. My position is that drug users are self medicating. So a commenter chimes up with the usual: “People in pain will do what ever it takes to get pain relief” In other words, it’s not the crackhead’s fault he’s a crackhead. Comment…

It appears that top (unnamed) Democrats had a pow wow with Hamas in Europe. The Palestinian news agency Maan, quoting a senior member of the Palestinian government, reported Wednesday that “ministers of the Hamas-led government recently held talks with European countries and with a delegation of the American Democratic Party. According to the source, in…

What is hatred? I think of it as a strong, overpowering emotion, which often blinds people to reason. Hating people you don’t know is often a sign of bigotry, but not always. If I say that I hate John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy, I’m not really expected to know them. Just know of them.…

Via Justin, I just learned that in a visit to the Caterpillar factory in Peoria, Illinois, President Bush got behind the controls of a giant tractor and literally tried to run over the press corps! The full story is here: Wearing a pair of stylish safety glasses–at least more stylish than most safety glasses–Bush got…

Why this isn’t getting more attention I don’t know. But in a stunning announcement that ought to be good news for Giuliani, Gingrich, McCain, Brownback and the rest of the crowded playing field, Florida’s Mark Foley will withdraw from the 2008 presidential race! Local Florida lawmaker Mark Foley has withdrawn his name from consideration for…

In a shocker of a post at Pajamas Media Fausta has the details of how Venezuela, a once democratic country, has now officially become a Communist dictatorship. Freedom is gone. Tal Cual calls the new [Enabling] law, “giving Chávez all, absolutely all, special powers”. In plain words, Hugo Chávez is now officially a dictator. Read…