Month: December 2010

Tim Blair learns from an unlikely source that imprisoned Nobel Prize winning dissident Liu Xiaobo not only supports greater political and economic freedom for the Chinese, but also enthusiastically supports our campaigns to liberate Iraq and Afghanistan, and argues in favor of the U.S. interventions in Vietnam and Korea. Xiaobo even bucks international opinion and…

In an article at The Hill discussing Sarah Palin’s electability, I read something a bit unsettling: …there are other names closely associated with the Tea Party movement, of which Palin is a prominent member, who might run: Rep. Mike Pence (R) of Indiana, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) and former Speaker of the House…

In the course of salting and scraping the sidewalk, I have been throwing road salt from a bucket. No big deal there. Just a plain five gallon bucket. But as Veeshir says, this blog is dedicated to overthinking things, and on the way up the stairs earlier I happened to notice something on the bucket…

I just came across an interesting book at Amazon: Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews It is about the inventiveness of Americans when it comes to sex. Or to put it it in a somewhat more social context: men designing power tools for women. From the product description: Through astonishing images and the surprisingly touching words…

Via Glenn, Joshua Micah Mackie Packie Paisely Marshall writes perhaps the most ridiculous thing ever rendered in pixels: “Amazing. A year ago, no one took seriously the idea that a federal health care mandate was unconstitutional. And the idea that buying health care coverage does not amount to ‘economic activity’ seems preposterous on its face.…

It has come to my attention that this blog now has an entirely new way to embed hyperlinks. It strikes me as not only lazy, but possibly dishonest, because all I have to do is write a post (presumably on any subject), and the new software will identify certain key words, then automatically suggest links…

Getting this kind of finger is a good thing. The results of numeracy and literacy tests for seven-year-old children can be predicted by measuring the length of their fingers, shows new research. In a study to be published in the British Journal of Psychology, scientists compared the finger lengths of 75 children with their Standardised…

Ever since some asshole of a leftist professor I’d never heard of before was discovered to be screwing his 24-year old daughter, there has been a raging debate over incest in the blogosphere. (Hmmm… I don’t like the way that came out; I think I should say “debate in the blogosphere over incest.”) For a…

This blog is in the middle of an upgrade! Regular readers may have noticed difficulty leaving comments; last night it was impossible and now the comments are working, but the new spam catcher is mean and intolerant, so I have had to adjust the settings. (At least now I can leave test comments….) But there…

Oh yes indeed. She wants to impose her morality on Santa Cruz County and make it a Bag-Free Zone: For the most part, complaints about a ban on plastic bags come from three constituencies: dog owners that don’t want to pay for puppy poo bags, grannies that reuse their CVS bags as garbage can liners…

The first mate says that if you want to get the other 75% off you have to do it yourself. 25% Off Women’s Intimate Apparel My mate also notes that the equipment being sold at the above link is not particularly stylish. From a man’s point of view I must say that after looking at…

A Michigan professor of journalism thinks the Westboro Baptist Church is important enough to warrant a lot of class time. He has previously had members of the crackpot group speak to his class, ostensibly to teach them about “the breadth of First Amendment protections.” (At that lecture, Shirley Phelps-Roper called Obama an “antichrist” and said…

Future Pundit makes me want to get down and dirty. I often worry that I am too clean. I mean, I bathe daily, I brush my teeth and I floss, I do my laundry every week, and it sometimes gets to be a real drag, and I wonder what’s it all for? Am I going…

Regular readers know I have an occasional penchant for verifying the accuracy and sources of popular quotes attributed to famous and respected people. There is a widely circulated quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln that I just haven’t been able to verify: The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could…

S.M. (what a great set of initials) McCain is blogging about a blogger busted for incest. Since it is a political hit piece you know how it runs. The miscreant is a left wing blogger who was a big Obama supporter. It is just a matter of time (human nature being what it is) until…

Over at HotAir, Ed Morissey asks if Obama’s triangulation has flopped. We’ve been hearing a lot about 1994 lately, but people tend to forget that Ross Perot made a real showing in 1992 and was a major factor in 1996 — for Clinton, moving toward the middle meant squeezing the space his 1996 challenger could…

The copyright slimebags have gone after Matt Drudge for using an allegedly copyrighted photo in the Drudge Report. What I find especially remarkable about the lawsuit is their damage demand: As the Wild West of online copyright enforcement very, very slowly sorts itself out, a group that seems to be trying to enforce — or,…

An FBI alert over a Barbie doll with a video camera has generated a lot of interesting discussion by people who are worried that the dolls might somehow be used by pedophiles to make kiddie porn: …that the new “Video Girl Barbie” comes with a hidden camera, which could be used to record child pornography.…

The man’s sex obsession is on view for all to see. My kinda guy. The book: Lube Jobs: A Woman’s Guide to Great Maintenance Sex If you buy the book from the above link it is almost $2 cheaper than the Instapundit link. I wonder why? And if I use this link the price is…

Not only did I love Sarah’s latest post (“Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m Human“), I also loved her comment: …if I hear ONE MORE twit-line (or read it) in move or book saying something like “We are a plague on the Earth” I’m going to… become even more angry than I am. Those who say…