Month: April 2008

  • Pin The Flag On The Donkey

    Don Surber has a nice bit on how Obama is self destructing. Or is it self deconstructing. Well what ever Obama is doing to himself there are a lot of twists and turns. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them. He’s looking less like Kennedy, and more like Steve Urkel. In the 1980s, a…

  • metering the cycles of scales in my eyes

    A comment to M. Simon’s earlier post (about the video linked by Glenn earlier) made me search for the original, because I’m too “vane” to need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows…. And no, I don’t follow leaders, I watch the parking meters! (But that’s Allen Ginsburg in the background so Look…

  • Classic Trance Music

    If you don’t want to listen, just watch it spin… It’ll work! ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………

  • The battle of the bilge

    In a PJM piece titled “Where Have All the Smart Media Moguls Gone?” Burt Prelutsky asks a couple of good questions about the news media: ….if you are a conservative and every time you pick up your daily newspaper, you find that everything you believe, not to mention all the things you hold dear, are…

  • encouraging lawbreakers while scolding the ethical

    The National Rifle Association has more on Philadelphia Mayor Nutter’s attempted enforcement of illegal and unconstitutional gun laws, and slams new Police Commissioner Ramsey for ignoring clear legal warnings from the District Attorney: ….while District Attorney Lynne Abraham previously advised Philadelphia’s city council and mayor that their gun control proposals were unconstitutional, the city pressed…

  • Compare And Contrast

    H/T Insty

  • This Is No Joke

  • the phobia of my phobia is my philia!

    At the risk of sounding like a bitter asshole, I want to make another stab at explaining my ongoing fascination with the synergistic relationship between McCain Derangement Syndrome (MDS) and Obamaphobia. (See “Real conservatives want their party to lose, but only to Hillary”.) This is not to say that there’s a 100% overlap; only that…

  • The Drug War’s St. Valentines Day Massacre?

    The Chicago Sun Times has an editorial about the surge in violence in Chicago with the advent of Spring weather. A lot of hand wringing. What to do? What to do? We can’t stop trying. The problem is guns. No, it’s not about guns. The problem is bad parents. No, we can’t make bad parents…

  • The Coming Upheaval

    This is a look back and a look forward. I was one of those “revolutionaries” back in the 60s. It all seems so stupid and puerile now. It must be by definition a youth thing, because despite the obvious failures kids 40 years later are still falling for it. I have no romantic illusions to…

  • Worse than Jeremiah Wright? As bad as David Duke?

    Here’s something Ben Stein calls interesting, and I think it is interesting: Interestingly, McCain chooses Ayers as a line of attack, rather than Wright (perhaps because he has his own troublesome pastor). “I think not only a repudiation, but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American…

  • not difficult, just hard

    “Listen, I’m a f—ing steamroller and I’ll roll over you and anybody else.” — Eliot Spizter While I’m a bit surprised, I’m nonetheless very relieved to know that as sex clients go, Eliot Spitzer was not “difficult“: Spitzer – identified in the Emperors Club criminal complaint as “Client-9” – was caught Feb. 13 on a…

  • A bitch who prefers a cackling tone…

    …singling out Clinton’s voice as horrible necessarily invokes the woman-specific sexist context, even if that is not your intent. So says the common-sense-challenged Melissa McEwan, regarding a political souvenir pen that plays the famous Hillary Clinton laugh. Adds McEwan, So if you’re inexorably compelled to criticize Hillary’s voice, just know that you’ve got to own…

  • Lest We Forget

    Further eco-folly from long ago, a few Paul Ehrlich quotes for your enjoyment. The first is from 1970… I’m scared. I have a 14 year old daughter whom I love very much. I know a lot of young people, and their world is being destroyed. My world is being destroyed. I’m 37 and I’d kind…

  • Wing nut joins the ring nuts. (A classical advance in science!)

    For years now, ordinary lay people have been beaten down and subjected to “ringing” indictments of human activity by “scientific experts” who claim to know everything about past climates by reading tree rings. In a manner reminiscent of (and at least as accurate as) the ancient Romans’ practices of auguring and divining, they have determined…

  • It Is To Laugh

    Doug Kmiec writing at Slate says he is an Obama supporter. He also gives evidence that he is a Republican. He actually has reasons or rationalizations or a rich fantasy life. Come to your own conclusions. Today I endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States. I believe him to be a person of…

  • What Is It About Obama?

    Obama says I can take that punk Indiana. He ain’t nothin. NEW ALBANY, Ind. – In a state he has called a potential “tiebreaker,” Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday predicted victory in the Indiana primary, despite an electorate that closely mirrors states where he has recently suffered sizable losses. The day after Sen. Hillary Clinton…

  • Bob Barr’s borderline Libertarianism

    If you’re one of those people who has already dismissed the idea of Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party candidacy being a serious threat to the GOP, check out Martha Zoller’s thought-provoking piece at Pajamas Media. Barr seems to have learned a thing or two from the previous joke candidates: One of the big stumbling blocks for…

  • Satan weighs in

    By “Satan” I of course mean the left’s favorite Satan, in the form of Karl Rove (author of every last sinister scheme to disrupt, divide, and destroy the Democrats — the recent “Crash the Convention” plot being a perfect example). Today, Rove fiendishly offers the Democrats free advice on Barack Obama’s candidacy, in a WSJ…

  • Hillary’s health plan?

    From a silly AP story (that also attributes Hillary’s lie about Bosnia to a lack of sleep): For her part, Clinton is a veteran of her husband’s back-to-back White House races and is keenly aware of the toll it takes on body and spirit. She, too, takes short naps on her plane and eats a…