“There are no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze Humor.”
17 June, 2008
16 June, 2008
Even a Loose Cannon Points The Right Way Sometimes
This new direction for McCain is a good one.
Gas Expensive?
Ten reasons to blame the Democrats.
Now if McCain would just drop this anthropogenic global warming hysteria and club Obama over the head with this issue, he’d win in a landslide.
I’m not holding my breath. I’ll need it to also blame the Republicans.
How the Nasty Little Man Helped Mugabe
I guess that when you’re the worst president ever there’s no thug like a Marxist thug.
Messrs. Carter and Young would only countenance a settlement in which Mr. Mugabe, a Marxist who had repeatedly made clear his intention to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party state, played a leading role. Mr. Young, displaying the willful naiveté that came to characterize Mr. Carter’s mindset, told the London Times that Mr. Mugabe was a “very gentle man” whom he “can’t imagine … ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone.”
Give ‘Em Heller
Contrasting with the low-brow punny, unserious title of this post is this highly-informed speculation on what to expect from the Supreme Court’s Heller decision.
15 June, 2008
13 June, 2008
Intellectual Rigor
That’s what the Washington Post finds, straight-faced, in the Ninth Circus judge with an apparent conflict of interest – in an obscenity case.
“If you found this kind of thing in your kid’s bedroom you would wash your kid’s mouth out with soap,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at Loyola University Law School. “Character counts for judges because they have so much power and affect so many people’s lives.”
Write your own punch lines, folks. I’m busy.
An Important Lesson Learned
Just not the one the idiot teachers thought they were going to teach.
Wrong Questions
Megan McArdle has some very good points.
Brutality is pretty much the norm for most of human history; as we’ve gotten richer, we’ve gotten less violent in all sorts of ways–we’ve stamped out (mostly) once common practices like infanticide, torture, wife beating, and the stoning of adulterers. Hunter gatherers are vastly more likely to die from homicide than people living in the developed world. Goodness is, in some sense, a luxury good. The most valuable luxury good we have.
12 June, 2008
The PODS People
Melanie Phillips on Princess Obama Derangement Syndrome.
First, it is quite clear that any questioning at all of Obama’s background is entirely off-limits. Next, the posters fail totally to grasp that the real point isn’t what faith he professed or was brought up in as a child – it is the fact that he has not told the truth about his early background. Then, some even compare such questioning with the ‘truthers’ who allege that 9/11 was perpetrated by a conspiracy between America and Israel. They thus demonstrate that they cannot tell the difference between rationality and lunacy, evidence and fantasy, failing to grasp that the sole reason for the questions about Obama is the many discrepancies in the accounts of his early life — including his own accounts — plus his many questionable associations.
All the hubbub started with this.
We are entitled therefore to ask whether the Muslim world supports him because it believes he is still a Muslim. We are entitled to ask precisely when he stopped being a Muslim, and why. Did Obama embrace Christianity as a tactical manoeuvre to get himself elected? Why indeed has he dissembled about his family background if not for that end?
These multiple known deceptions by someone who may become President of the United States are deeply alarming. The concealment is the issue. To dismiss such concerns and the related questions they provoke as a smear campaign is to attempt to browbeat into silence those who legitimately raise them and require urgent answers as a matter of the most acute public interest.
Why Judges Matter
I’m afraid of who McCain would pick, because he says he’ll pick judges who disagree with his own policies.
I’m terrified of who Obama would pick.
Update:
If you’re looking for comfort from John McCain I have concerning news.
Portland Used to Be Literate
This reminded me of a joke my dad used to tell. Back in the 50’s, long before it became Berkeley North, Portland, Oregon had quite the reputation for literacy. Dad was part of an active group of freelance writers. The story is of a man who arrived from Boston and hailed a cab at the airport. Feeling peckish he asked the cabbie, “Where can I get scrod?”
After a thoughtful pause, the driver replied, “I’ve had that request many times, but this is the first in the pluperfect subjunctive.”
11 June, 2008
Oh, Canada
Kathy Shaidle has a roundup of the latest on Mark Steyn’s Kafkaesque Kangaroo Court experience.
Update:
A “serene” CHRC employee sends hired muscle to harass Ezra Levant’s parents in their home.
10 June, 2008
Woo Hoo Indeed
This entry is here so there’ll be another link to these questions when someone looks up WaMu or Washington Mutual on the web.
Open Carry
This strikes me as a good idea even though I can’t, of course, do it here in the PRK. Amazingly enough these guys got a sympathetic write-up in the Chicago Tribune.
The Wheels on the Bus
go thump, thump, thump.
I think the most crowded place in America has to be under Barak Obama’s bus. This is so pathetic I nearly feel sorry for the guy:
It makes me hear Vizzini’s voice saying, “Do my ears decieve me, or did the word judgment just escape your lips?”
Update:
Sympathy gone. Sowell has summed up Obama pithily: Cocky Ignorance.
Vaccinate!
When your first child is born you feel very protective. It is, frankly, a vulnerable time. I feel like an idiot for ever having been (partially) taken in by the anti-vaccine crowd. At first it sounded reasonable. Fortunately I only grumbled, but let my daughter have all the vaccinations. And I’ve totally repented of my error.
Read this long, but vital, post on a wonderful blog called Science-Based Medicine. Everybody should read it – especially anybody harboring doubts about vaccinating their kids.
(Among the great surprises: Jim Carrey is a raving moron. Who would have guessed?)
The irresponsibility of the luddites fighting against the greatest life-saving technology in history is nothing short of criminal. Don’t be taken in.
Vaccinate your kids.
Marxism in the Senate
A breathtaking failure of Econ 101 is being discussed in the Senate. Not satisfied with mere socialism, Marxist Barak Obama also wants to send “stimulus checks” to help us pay for gas.
I’d love to be able to ask these morons in a public setting just where they think the money comes from.
9 June, 2008
Was this supposed to happen?
Doesn’t seem to fit the narrative. I somehow doubt it makes a splash in that other New York newspaper.
“Al Qaeda is an ideology,” Sheik Ahmad said. “We can defeat them inside Iraq and we can defeat them in any country.” The tribal leader arrived in Washington last week. All of his meetings, including an audience with President Bush, have been closed to the public, in part because the Anbari sheiks, while likely to win future electoral contests, are not themselves part of Iraq’s elected government.
It’s a question of competence
Michelle Malkin on why the MyBO moonbat blogs matter.
There’s so much going on over there that I suggest you keep reloading LGF for a day or two. Charles is finding all kinds of stuff, and I can’t hope to keep up with it on this blog.
