I lost power for 24 hours, then I got it back. No flooding, save for a trickle that made it into my fusebox and shorted out my smoke detectors, which has since been remedied. Nora even got to have a Halloween. So there’s no way I’m going to bemoan my fate, when New York City… Read More Why I’m Not Blogging About Sandy or the Election
Oh. Yeah, well. O’Keefe! Out of Context! Entrapment! Trolling!
Appeals to Novelty are so obligatory among progressives, aren’t they? Even when they’re not actually germaine to the point. ROMNEY: Our Navy is old — excuse me, our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We’re now at under 285.… Read More Horses and Bayonets and Buggy Whips and Corsets and Fountain Pens, Brylcreem, Un-Ironic Affection for Cheap Beer, Music Videos…
The difference between blogging as a compulsive hobby and blogging for a living lies chiefly in how often you’re allowed to take off. Stacy McCain has a thousand things he’d rather be discussing than whatever insignificant quips and dull gotchas emerge from the latest round of Electoral Competitive Grandstanding, but there he is anyway, twittering… Read More Stacy McCain Blogs the Presidential Debate, so I Don’t Have To
Ace has a nice good long post (which are always the best posts at Ace) on the staggering inanity of deciding that this: is sexual assault. His response, appropriately, is to troll the trollers: Many movements or eras — most, probably — enter a decadent phase at some point. I don’t know of a textbook definition… Read More How Many Rapes Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?: Feminism in Its Decadent Phase
The following piece of Facebook-aimed political wit is Zap Branagan, and I am Kif. That’s right. Read it again. Drink it in. Bask in it. Taste the rainbow. Where to begin? There’s so many things, not just wrong, but tiresome about this, that I wonder if it’s even worth the effort to rebuke. Surely if… Read More Arguing About Religion on Facebook and Other Follies of Man
I did not watch the debates, but I was pretty confident of them. Romney was irritatingly good during the primary debates, weirdly unsinkable despite the efforts of Santorum, Ron Paul et al. He was Iceman: no mistakes. So I knew Romney wasn’t going to screw anything up. And I rather hoped that Romney’s strongest feature… Read More The There, It was Not There.
Walter Russel Mead, in his usual long-but-worth-your-time style, explains the obvious: At bottom press bias is the consequence of honest efforts to report the real news by sincere and thoughtful people. There is a lot going on in our busy world these days, and every reporter and every editor has be selective. They have to… Read More Why Bias is Inevitable
Via The Anchoress, the Parodists of Record wrap a real story in a fake story, causing many to question their true commitment to progressivism: The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every… Read More The Onion Reveals its Raaaaacism
…now that this is out, I assume that everyone who made fun of Romney for being a (*gasp*) Rich Guy What Does Not Care About Teh Poor will now admit that they were wrong, or at least, mistaken? Also, that everyone who took to Teh Intertubes posting various pics of Romney as these: …. will now… Read More So Now That We Know That Mitt Romney Has Paid Every Cent He Owed in Taxes, and Gave 30% of His Income to Charity….
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