Month: July 2007

Excuse me while I co-opt Classical Values to solve a little frustrating problem, assuming there are some science fiction readers who may be able to help. I guess I’ve been feeling nostalgic, having recently recovered a very fond memory of a local Philadelphia show called StarStuff. It was like tracking down an old friend. And…

Megan McArdle does not think that Sony VAIO customer service is doing a very good job. She’s being fairly polite; others with similar problems have used the “s-ck” word to describe their plight. But I am determined to improve this blog’s rating, so I will not say that Sony VAIO customer service behaves in a…

This intriguing Pajamas Media analysis by Burt Prelutsky made me wonder: The question some people would ask [about the affair between L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa and reporter Mirthala Salinas] is whether a politician’s personal code of morality should matter to his constituents. Being a right-winger, I’m honest enough to admit that I am far more willing…

If we were to abandon Iraq, can anyone doubt that the flow of jihadists to those other regions, and more, would increase? So asked John Hinderaker in a post linked by Glenn Reynolds yesterday. And here’s MI5 on the Iraq connection to the recent terrorist attack in England: MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, said on…

From A London Child Of The 1870s, by M.V. Hughes Nearest in age to me came Barnholt, and nearest in ideas and pleasant childishness…Lessons of all kinds were a never-ending burden to him. While Tom was good at Latin, Dym at mathematics, and Charles at music and drawing, poor old Barnholt shone in no direction……

From A London Child Of The 1870s, by M.V. Hughes My second brother had mother’s family name of Vivian. This I could not pronounce in my early days, and turned it into Dymond, which soon became Dym. He was the only one who took kindly to school-work, and devoted himself to mathematics. Reserved almost to…

From A London Child Of The 1870s, by M.V. Hughes I have never been able to decide which brother I liked best, for each had some special attraction for me. All four were absurdly unlike in character and appearance, and yet so close in age and size that no stranger could pick out the eldest.…

I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I say! Despite the fact that I go out of my way to avoid obscenity, profanity, pornography, and even nudity, I have been apprised that my blog is nonetheless unsuitable for children under seventeen: Why isn’t there any language about accompanying parents? According to the rating site, the rating “was determined based…

Kudos to the Philadelphia Inquirer for running this story: BAGHDAD – The number-two leader of al-Qaeda called on Muslims in Iraq to unite against their enemies, in a lengthy video released yesterday, at a time when rifts have opened among some Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq and as the U.S. military has detained individuals it…

Via Pajamas Media, I just discovered another reason I shouldn’t be too quick to switch my party registration from Republican to Democrat. As it turns out, jogging is a right-wing activity: Le jogging, originally known as le footing and now more fashionably as le running, caught on in France, as elsewhere, in the 1980s and…

Those who think that the analogies I often draw between sexuality choices and food choices are misplaced ought to consider the scientific evidence that “Soy is making kids ‘gay’“: Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not…

Reading (via the NRO link Glenn Reynolds’ supplied) the details of Al Gore’s benefit featuring Yusuf Islam (notorious Islamist who advocated burning Salman Rushdie to death and even wanted to phone in his location to the Ayatollah Khomeni) made me perversely inclined to sympathize with Gore’s son Al Gore, III: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The…

Glad to see Drudge has linked this: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT “can come into our homes and decide whether our dogs can have gonads,” says Carol Hamilton, “that’s the day I leave California.” She is sitting in the dirt pulling tufts of undercoat from a slight, wheat-colored terrier, using sharp, decisive jerks. Clouds of beige fluff…

An unbelievable find, but I just found it. I’m always looking for video footage of the Grateful Dead featuring Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and here he is, belting out a very immortal (hmm, I guess “immoral” depending on your point of view) version of what was their best Pigpen song — “Turn on Your Lovelight.” When…

A number of socially conservative sites are abuzz over a man named Michael Glatze, described as a “gay rights activist and founding editor of Young Gay America magazine” who “came out” in a “column written for WorldNetDaily.com” and now says he’s straight. I support the right of anyone to change his sexuality as often as…

Here are some very quarky girls you might like to know. When ever I see them my hadrons start to vibrate and my liquid nitrogen begins to boil over. They are The Cernettes. For those of you not familiar with CERN here is a video tour of a CERN LHC project. Especially check out the…

There is supposed to be a battle raging now on the cultural front between Darwinists and the faithful, and I guess for some people that battle seems real. But it’s foolishly shortsighted to treat a theory as a tenet of faith, equally to treat faith as an argument, and doubly so to pit theory against…

Speaking of ridiculous things, I’m trying to figure out whether it’s just the Philadelphia Inquirer which is being ridiculous, or whether the city government, the federal government, or local activists are more to blame. Anyway, for two days now, the Inquirer has been promoting Fourth of July slavery celebrations, and the absurd idea that George…

I don’t know whether this constitutes a “bad review,” but I doubt it. Maybe it’s more along the lines of an anonymous personal attack. But I doubt that too, because I’m not providing pictures or naming names. Anyway, at the supermarket this morning, I saw a commercialized SUV for a franchised physical fitness center I…

We have a winner (finally!) of the I Support Democracy In Iraq contest. No more fitting day either. Thanks to Karl Egenberger of Envision Design/ Plum Creative Associates, Towson, Md 21286, who did the design. And Coyote Organics who supplied the contest prize. Instructions for joining the campaign and putting up the graphic of your…