Month: September 2007

Ever since its invention discovery in 1985, the Ozone Hole has been hovering malevolently over our sore earth’s southernmost spot, and like a cosmic hemorrhoid, it causes the earth great pain — right in the axis! Last year, the Ozone Hole was the biggest on record, according to NASA. (The biggest since 1985, of course.)…

Eric says the mere mention of the following names gets him in trouble with long time readers. Since I’m looking for trouble. Vince Foster           Ron Brown Bring it on.

That’s right. There is Nazi S&M porn in Hebrew. Written by Jews. In lurid comic book style. Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were set. The books told perverse tales of captured…

Judging from the front page of today’s Inquirer, the most important issue Philadelphia faces is the need for gun control. Yes, in a quadruple-authored article, Police Commissioner Johnson is quoted today as blaming the “availability” of guns for the fact that young thugs shot at each other last night, spraying a city bus with bullets…

If you are, then do not miss miss the premiere of the new comedy webcast called “NewsBusted.” The premise is simple, and stated by Matthew Sheffield along the following lines: Politics is absurd, so is most of what we call”news.” Why not have a few laughs along the way? I can’t argue with that. One…

Glenn Reynolds links a piece by Kay Hymowitz in the Wall Street Journal, and my purpose here is not to debate the merits of my alleged “freedom fetishism” or even whether I should be judged guilty of the “libertarianism” claimed by Ron Paul. I simply noticed an error in the Hymowitz piece: Murray Rothbard, for…

I’m into Clinton nostalgia lately, and I hope readers will indulge me, because the patterns in the recent campaign scandals are so similar to the old scandals that it’s downright spooky. I mean, check this out this vintage Washington Post piece from 1997: The exploits of indefatigable Clinton bag man Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie produced…

This essay Freedom Fetishists by Kay Hymowitz is making the rounds in libertarian and conservative circles. Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy has some things to say about Kay Hymowitz, Libertarianism, and Lifestyle Excesses: To reiterate a simple but oft-misunderstood point: that which should be legal is not coextensive with that which is desirable or…

This could be the biggest election financing fraud in history, even surpassing the Nixon crimes committed during the 1972 election. Strong words from Rick Moran, but he’s been doing some careful investigating of the Hsu money, and he smells something fishy about Joel “Woodstock” Rosenman’s story. So do I. So does American Thinker. And so…

I found an old book in the basement which I can only partially understand because it’s in Ukrainian, so call I can do is look at the pictures. It’s very dogeared and it’s been scribbled on in a lot of places, and because it starts out with the alphabet, I think its purpose is to…

I hate it when I make up a word that’s already been pre-anticipated for me and “invented” by others. In this case, it’s been pre-anticipated 3400 times, but numbers are not the issue, and have nothing to do with the uniquely original originality of what I originated first! Naturally the fact that I’m saying I…

Don’t ask me what happened then. Seriously, I barely remember that awful year. Truly one of the worst in my life. So it’s easy for me to forgive Fred Thompson’s 1992, er, transgression. Even if he was a “lobbyist for Libya,” which Glenn now says was a mistaken assertion. While I don’t think there was…

There’s an old Watergate saying (it may go back further) that “the coverup is worse than the crime.” I guess I’ve been blogging too long to get terribly worked up over — what did the Romney ad say? — oh yes, “Fancy Fred, Five O’clock Fred, Flip-Flop Fred, McCain Fred, Moron Fred, Playboy Fred, Pro-Choice…

Because I was attacked that day. Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention 2004 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

A year ago (on what was the fifth anniversary of September 11), I felt the need to italicize what people seemed so eager to forget: We are at war. Nevertheless, 9/11 Truthers were (then as now) being hired to actually teach, and while it’s easy to write them off as hardline fringe, a growing chorus…

Conditioned as people have become to endless “quagmire,” “when-do-we-pull-out” thinking, many Americans seem to have trouble adjusting even to the possibility that after all this time, operations in Iraq might be paying off. Success in the war in Iraq? The very idea sounds like rank heresy to most leftists, and most war supporters who talk…

Sorry for the silly title, but sometimes I get confused by emerging definitions of tolerance and one-size-fits-all approaches to morality. I’m especially uncomfortable with political indoctrination of children masquerading as moral indoctrination, and my antennae were raised by some of the code language used in today’s Inquirer editorial. Titled “Lessons in tolerance,” the ostensible purpose…

No seriously. I know the Hsu case is getting weirder by the day, but I couldn’t make up some of these details if I tried: Fugitive Democratic donor Norman Hsu’s behavior on a train he hopped last week resembled a drug smuggler or someone having a heart attack, fellow passengers on the train reported. Hsu,…

Salvador Dalí is hardly known as a political cartoonist. But it is well known that he became convinced that Soviet Communism was doomed, long before it fell. And in an ink drawing from the early 1950s, he predicted the future of Russia: In retrospect, this looks prophetic, but from a political standpoint at the height…

If this isn’t the grimmest possible news, I don’t know what could be. Glenn Reynolds has welcomed what he calls “our new alien overlords.” What I cannot understand is the almost insouciantly nonchalant manner he links a damning picture to prove it. What I find especially significant about this is not the presence of an…