Month: January 2008

Via Sean Kinsell, I learned that Jeff Percifield of Beautiful Atrocities (who’s incidentally now back after a too-long hiatus from blogging) has a letter to Camille Paglia published in her Salon.com column. Excerpt: Longtime fan here. As a Reaganite homo, couldn’t disagree with you more on politics, but who cares? Surely a drag aficionado like…

Link: sevenload.com Jeri talks about the campaign and the Huckabee vs Thompson fight. The question of the moment is: where is the Reagan Coalition? The smaller government is better government people. Is the heart of the Republican Party left/populist or right/libertarian? HT Instapundit

Brendan Loy is discussing the eruption of a mini race war in the Democrat party over some recent remarks by the Clintons. One commenter had some nice things to say about this comment I made: It is time for Obama to have a Sistah Soljah moment. Let him denounce the race hustlers like Al Sharpton…

This is dedicated to the crazies at talk.polywell who are working on technology, that if it pans out, will take us to Jupiter and beyond.

That’s what Brendan Loy says about Barack Obama’s deliberate decision not to take the high road, and instead “let this racial stew fester”: At a conference call with reporters this morning, somebody asked Barack Obama about the Clintons’ recent controversial remarks and Hillary Clinton’s response to the kerfuffle. Thus, Obama had a golden opportunity to…

Despite the fact that I was a McCain supporter in 2000, I haven’t written much about John McCain, largely because I long ago wrote him off after the disastrous and unconstitutional McCain Feingold bill. (Well, there was one exception; when James Wolcott went out of his way to call McCain an “insatiable warrior,” and a…

When I was going to ET school in the Navy on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, I had a girlfriend, Nancy, whose parents owned a victrola similar to this machine as well as a number of other music makers from the 1870s to 1920s. One kind they were especially fond of was a…

Fred gave the right non-answer to the question. However, he looked pained. I think he knows more than he is letting on. If my reading of his expressions is any good. Which is going to lead next to some rampant speculation. Fred and Hillary were both Watergate lawyers. This is a fact. Here is an…

Yes we are. But not all doom is equal. Scott Wickstein compares the state religion of modern environmentalism to the rise of the early Christian Roman state, and says he feels like a Pagan: I am not sure what will really qualify as comparable milestones in the rise of environmentalism as the official faith of…

Larry Elder has Sharpton’s rap sheet. The music is not pretty. Capitalism Magazine says the Rev. Al. is The Democrat’s David Duke. Networks of the Left looks at Al’s connections to the left side of American politics. Rich Lowry on Sharpton’s business. Race hustling. Rich thinks Al would like to be #1 in the business.…

While I didn’t have any time to think it over yesterday, I did notice Glenn’s link to the seemingly horrendous development in men’s fashion now being promoted at Brooks Brothers. If you think the one Glenn linked was bad, by all means check out these other outfits. (The last one is a real killer if…

video two video three video four Transcript of Ezra Levant’s opening statement. He has a donate button at Ezra Levant. Brit blog Samizdata comments. Instapundit has more links.

I saw Lenny Bruce live at the Gate of Horn in Chicago a day or two before he got busted. I went with my girlfriend Joan who I met at the University of Chicago campus radio station. Before the gig we hung out in front of the Playboy Club and after we went to eat…

Senator Obama is the New Hope from Chicago, Illinois. A uniter, not a divider. Obama’s dealings with Nation of Islam member Tony Rezko are above reproach. Fortunately Tony was involved with the top cadre of politicians in Illinois. All of whom are under investigation. I don’t think such investigations will have any effect though. They…

From the Fred ’08 Campaign: I can’t even begin to thank you enough for your support of our Red Truck Challenge 2. Thanks to you we have funded Fred’s entire South Carolina media campaign and have gone on to start funding critical voter contact programs that will complement our excellent ground game and give Fred…

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Well it does: It was clear from the op-ed that Rove wrote a few weeks ago that the Republicans, whose own candidates run the gamut from the ridiculous (Fred Thompson) to the psychopathic (Rudolph Giuliani) and the theocratic (Huckabee) have already begun to see finagling the Democratic primary…

This is a trailer number two for Hillary the Movie. It is for sale. You can see more trailers and advertising clips and buy the movie here. If it comes down to it that we are going to elect a Socialist from the Democrat Party I’d prefer Obama or Edwards. They don’t screech. Welcome Punditeers…