Month: October 2010

Watch this video. It is about a minute and a half. I’ll wait. And just in case you are not up to following orders from disembodied voices on the Internet. Good for you. Here is the money quote: “I don’t want to be in Washington another six years and watch the Republican party betray the…

In response to a four year old post I wrote about the bigoted cultural tribalism of Glenn Reynolds (which Glenn has twice acknowledged as true!), reader Alan Massey emailed me this very incriminating photo: He also tried to leave a comment which couldn’t go through because the post is so old, and which I’ll just…

I don’t usually straight up flog books. But this sale is too good to pass up. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) is available for $8.72. And if you order three of them (you have a friend or two who need an education.…

Years ago (geez, at this point it’s almost two decades ago) I was in the night club business, and I got way over my head in debt. It was out of control (as was I), and eventually I ended up filing for bankruptcy. A disgraceful and shameful situation to be in, and of course I…

News Weak says the TEA Party folks have made a fetish out of the Constitution but worse – they get it wrong. In legal circles, constitutional fundamentalism is nothing new. For decades, scholars and judges have debated how the founding document should factor into contemporary legal proceedings. Some experts believe in a so-called living Constitution–a…

A friend emailed me a link to Michelle Malkin’s post about how moronic leftists embarrassed themselves by accusing Palin of being a historical ignoramus. Sarah Palin wisely warned Tea Party activists to keep working hard right up until Election Day — and not to “party like it’s 1773” yet. Intellectually superior leftists from Daily Kos…

Coco is quite the socializer these days, and she has a new friend, a Rhodesian Ridgeback named “Grendel.” Grendel is so big that he makes Coco look like a little dog. Which is good for Coco, as she likes to have an opportunity for unlimited, no-holds-barred, canine roughhousing. Not fighting, just rough play. Coco will…

Well all you boomer haters (hippie punchers) on the right, Real Clear Politics has some news for you. This senior surge is, like the electorate overall, coming from the right. Democratic seniors and baby boomers are less engaged than past midterms. But at least seven in 10 GOP seniors and baby boomers, including right-leaning independents,…

The Weapon Shops of Isher By A.E. Van Vogt is one of my all time favorite science fiction books. It tells of a shadowy organization “The Weapon Shops” designed to redress the grievances of a corrupt galactic empire. It was brought to mind by a story Instapundit linked to about the breakdown in the mortgage…

I often kvetch about activists, and how ordinary people stay the hell away from them. I can’t stand them either, but there is one stubborn problem with activists. Just because you stay away from them does not mean they will stay away from you! Activists are quite happy to have the playing field all to…

Well at least three things. Says E.J. Dionne. 1. Flexible Platform At the first level are the party’s candidates, who can be as reasonable or as angry, as moderate or as conservative, as their circumstances require. You mean the Republicans are not a Borg? I dunno. That sounds like a pretty good feature to me.…

Not much time to blog today, but here are some pics of Coco (who has recovered nicely from her illness) and her friend Pearl. Pearl is a Redtick Coonhound. We didn’t see any raccoons, but there was a carved wooden squirrel statue, and they both checked it out. And now that I’m back, I have…

Buy Low, Sell High = FREE TRADE Buy High, Sell Higher = NO TRADE Any questions? Cross Posted at Power and Control

While the subject is the same, I think this: leaves more to the imagination than this: It’s all a question of scale. Not as in balance, though. MORE: In other news of runny ruins, “Facebook draws 7,000 to anti-Muslim pork sausage party in Paris.” When I was a kid, rebellion took the form of long…

There’s a raging battle over what sort of ads should be allowed on Craigslist. The more Craigslist attempts to comply with the demands of prosecutors and various self-appointed monitoring groups and advocacy organizations, the louder their demands. First it was demanded that they monitor the “Erotic Services” section. Then they had to take it down.…

I am a member of a mostly lefty anti-prohibitionist list. The question to the list was: given Holder’s recent Oct. 2010 announcement that he would go after Calif if Proposition 19 passes, how would the youth vote break? Would Proposition 19 bring them out? Would Holder’s remarks make them vote R? Which made me link…

It turns out that Carl Paladino has an adviser. The adviser is pictured above at the Gay Pride Parade that Palidino said was unfit for Cuomo’s children. Probably. And just so it is clear. He is the person getting his ear licked. His name is Roger Stone and he has a few things to say…

Sometimes I find the statements that come out of our leaders so mind boggling that I don’t know where to begin. Earlier I read that President Obama is complaining about a rise of “tribal attitude”. It’s one of my pet peeves too; I have written several posts about tribalism, which I think is indistinguishable from…

As most of you know by now there has been massive incompetence or fraud (take your pick – the initial net result is about the same) in the mortgage issuance and foreclosure markets. I covered that at Who Has The Title? You might want to visit there for some background. The Financial Times finds that…

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