Month: November 2007

  • Careful with “Unnecessary” “quotes,” lest you “mock” the “meaning” of the “text”

    The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in some time. If you need a laugh, check it out! (Via CG Hill.)

  • Who is responsible for John Lewis?

    It’s not every day that an editorial has a picture of a person, but this one does. While it is normally a matter of indifference to me what a criminal suspect looks like, it obviously matters to the Inquirer, for the editorial (titled “Wage war on causes“) begins with a reference to the self-confessed cop…

  • Gone but forgotten – NOT!

    Longtime Classical Values blogger Dennis and I got together last night, and had dinner at the official Classical Values restaurant. This picture was taken later: The reason I’m looking a bit askance is because I had to balance the camera on the uneven banister post at the bottom of the stairway, set off the 10…

  • Barely into the 60s…

    It’s the Dovells, singing their 1961 hit, “The Bristol Stomp”: As I keep saying, you never know what is going to turn up on YouTube next! Incidentally, the Dovells, while a white Doowop group, copied the style of several black Doowop groups. Indeed, some would argue that they came pretty close to copying this —…

  • Gun control, gun control, and more gun control!

    This piece of, um, legislation, is an outrage. Among other things, it would allow the city of Philadelphia to outlaw all guns, in direct violation of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions: (3) A city of the first class may adopt ordinances doing any of the following: (i) Limiting the ownership, possession, transfer or transportation…

  • Victory Has Another Father

    The KOS Kids are going to show the wingers how supporting the troops is supposed to be done. Today, I’m calling all kossacks with an invitation to show the wingers how to walk the walk by supporting the troops with some good old fashioned care packages. It’s a great way to support those men and…

  • I Can See It Coming

    If things are still going well in Iraq by the beginning of next summer or a little earlier, expect all those Congress Critters who didn’t support the war to come out for more dollars for Veterans hospitals, college benefits, pay, and what not to cover for being on the wrong side. Victory will not be…

  • Just a few ordinary citizens?

    Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Dan Riehl identified one planted questioner from last night’s debate. It turns out that Suzanne Jackson, (mother of a three term Iraq War veteran) is a fairly well known antiwar activist. Activists have just as much right to ask questions as anyone else. It’s just that when their activist…

  • Victim fights back (if you read the story carefully…)

    I was fascinated to stumble upon a report of citizen heroism, buried deep in a Philadelphia Inquirer local news piece about carjackers targeting “high-end SUVs.” A very brave woman resisted a pair of armed thugs who were trying to take her SUV away with her daughter in the back seat, and she actually managed to…

  • a shyer coyer feminism

    I watched tonight’s debate, and Hillary turned things around. With the help of hecklers and (I think) CNN. The following argumentative rhetorical question appeared across the bottom of the screen (at around 8:25 p.m. EST): IS IT FAIR TO ACCUSE SEN. CLINTON OF FLIP-FLOPPING, BUT CHANGE YOUR OWN POSITIONS? The most interesting question of the…

  • The heartbreaking truth about what Hillary did not know
    (and when she didn’t know it…)

    Here’s Glenn Reynolds on Wolf Blitzer’s bind: If he doesn’t pound on Hillary tonight, it’ll look like he’s given in to intimidation. If he does, of course, Clinton fans will call him names, or say that he should be shot. Well, she can always say “Oh, Wolf, I don’t even want to dignify that with…

  • A tacky solution to a constitutional inconvenience

    While I don’t know whether she’ll sparkle in tonight’s debate, I have to say that watching this video of Hillary slugging it out in Iowa was no fun. The blogger who linked it titled the post The Hillary Scream. Not to disagree in a major way, but I’m afraid that it’s more along the lines…

  • Hilliot Spitzer, the cause and cure

    What the hell is it with Elliot Spitzer? Every time I turn around, he’s trying to implement another insanely stupid idea (his latest being taxes on Internet sales just in time to muck up Christmas). But Spitzer has a long history as a control freak, whether it’s constantly messing with ebay for things like gambling…

  • Double Bill – Too Much Of Everything

    Eric says in a previous post: Hope you Dead haters will indulge me; I realize not everyone shares my tastes. Well I’m going to indulge you Eric – with more Dead. I note a tad belatedly that Eric has posted lyrics. Good idea. I Need A Miracle I need a woman ’bout twice my age…

  • China Cat Sunflower

    Another vintage classic from the Grateful Dead, this one from 2/4/70. (Hope you Dead haters will indulge me; I realize not everyone shares my tastes.) It gives a pretty good picture of what they sounded like when I first started calling myself a “Deadhead.” I only wish the sound quality was better, but considering how…

  • Sauce for the goose?

    At Pajamas Media, Amy Alkon looks at “When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill”: Jennifer Spenner for the Saginaw News and Kathy Barks Hoffman for the AP wrote about a Michigan man who recently challenged being forced to pay child support for his girlfriend’s baby — despite what he alleges were her assurances…

  • Liberals are snobs and conservatives are boors!

    No, that’s not what this wonderful post by Connie du Toit says. Nor is the title even my characterization of what Connie says. It’s my satirical reaction to it by way of deliberately grotesque oversimplification. But why should liberals feel out of place at a gun range? And why should conservatives feel out of place…

  • What part of “make no law” don’t they understand?

    The Universal Life Church has been around for 47 years. Founded by the late Kirby Hensley (a man I met many years ago), the church takes an extremely broad, extremely liberal view of man’s relationship to the unknown force or forces that many people call deities. Do only that which is right. (Lord knows I…

  • Santa is Satan! (And other lessons for small children….)

    At least, that’s what’s on the sign that got the man in the video arrested. The arrested man is the Reverend Orlando Bethel, and he is running for president of the United States as the Christian Reform Party candidate. He is waving his “SANTA IS SATAN” sign across the street from a school, apparently in…

  • Hard Rock