Yes, every now and then I’m going to refresh the theme of this place. I liked the Chunky Theme: it was uncluttered, and displayed everything in big bold letters. But I felt the need for some brightness, and Chunky was sedate in a turquoise kind of way. So welcome to Esquire. I’ve been eyeing it… Read More One Wants a Splash of Color
Exploding sinuses, gross phlegm expelling from all parts of my body. And the baby is teething, so I can’t quite get enough sleep. So that’s why no blog. You get to that point where you leave work and the last thing you want to do is aggregate the internet for ideas worth commenting on. It’s the… Read More I’ve Been Sick…
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
And he shoots first!
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.
Not one of the best starts to the week. In fact, this is one of those mornings when you feel like telling all Creation in its wonder and splendor to go screw itself with a piece of lawn furniture. Overslept, rushed, unprepared. Making it to work on time was the only triumph. Fortunately Friday was… Read More Ride, Boldly Ride, to the End of the Rainbow
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….
