Month: September 2007

I’m probably more of a poop than I should be about these things, but there’s nothing like a dare to get my juices flowing. So, when Megan McArdle defied me to watch this without thinking “I clearly am not doing enough drugs,” I couldn’t resist the urge to click. That really is great fun, but…

At least, that’s the only logical interpretation I have to give this characterization of what the country will be if Hillary Clinton is elected president: Yesterday, before hundreds of union members and their families at a Labor Day picnic in Sioux City, Iowa, Mrs. Clinton suggested one role for her husband should she be elected:…

Actually, I’m having a hell of a time finding what I guess has to be called a news report with that headline. It’s on page two of the Philadelphia Inquirer, but (surprise!) it does not appear at the Inquirer’s web site, but it carries the New York Times byline. So why can’t I find “When…

My mother visited John Edwards in Osceola, Iowa, Monday. Mom is a die hard Democrat and likes Edwards. My mom met Edwards and told him she was a breast cancer survivor and had lost a young son (my brother Jeff). Edwards put an arm on mom’s shoulder said “God Bless You” and gave her a…

Speaking of 1942, I happened to notice that an old torn banknote I have lying around is from the same year as the Salvador Dalí print I wrote about earlier. The note is dated November 16, 1942, just a few days after the successful conclusion of an Allied campaign known as Operation TORCH. TORCH was…

The Brits are not just carbon neutral, they are carbon positive. Using previous international research into climate change, the report estimated that covering the social cost of carbon emissions would have cost £11.7 billion in 2005. But receipts from green taxes such as fuel duty, road tax and the Climate Change Levy totalled £21.9 billion.…

[Yeah, I probably should have named this post “Pellets, and slugs, and butts, oh my!” but I was trying to Keep It Simple!] I love nature, and as most people know, one of nature’s laws is that owls eat rodents. But the former don’t do a good job of digesting the bones and the hair…

Dale Carpenter noticed something that not only are very few bloggers are discussing, but neither are any of the prominent leftist commentators who would normally be expected to weigh in and inveigh on these things — an almost casual insinuation of race by the officer who arrested Larry Craig, in his attempt to shame a…

Needless to say, in 1942, FDR was president, and we were at war. Artist Salvador Dalí (my favorite), having fled fascist Europe with his wife Gala, spent the war hopping between the East and West coasts, and occasionally dishing up his typically provocative, eccentric forms of war propaganda like this: As you can see, that’s…

Having just read about Larry Craig’s resignation, and listened carefully to the audio of his extended argument with the arresting officer (transcript here), I’m once again struck by the man’s astounding stupidity in not having had the common sense to get a lawyer. No jury would have convicted him. But does that matter? Let’s assume…

WARNING: Graphic language and offensive opinions follow. Sunday School GOPers, consider yourselves warned. In my last post, I said that “perhaps I should try again” to defend the seemingly-indefensible Larry Craig. At the end of the post I asked in desperation whatever had happened to the South Park Republicans, and worried that “Jimmy Carter Republicans”…

Larry Craig has few defenders. (Hey, I tried — and eventually gave up — a defense of the sanctity of his closet. In light of this post, perhaps I should try again?) The main reason that no one can do anything for Senator Craig is that there are no charges for him or his lawyers…

That would be one little change that could help put off the advent of catastrophic global warming. Soda pop drinkers and the companies that supply the soda drinkers are intentionally destroying the planet. One thing soda drinkers could do is to put one can out of every six they drink in storage. That would sequester…

While it might not seem like it because of all the fuss over Larry Craig, the phrase I’ve seen most repeated today has had nothing to do with Republican sex scandals, real or imagined. It has to do with donations to charity. There’s a whole lot of donating going on! So many Democrats are donating…