Disclaimer: I don’t care which team wins the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I’m not an alumnus of any of the schools, and, even if I were, I’m not sure that I would identify with the professional athletes who compete in big-time college hoops.
It seems that others have noticed; noticed that the outstanding athletes [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Go, Hoyas?
Posted in Culture, race on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pesky Piskies
Posted in Religion on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Episcopal Church is easy to make fun of. Easy to do, but it’s akin to shooting a tuna in a barrel. Not very sporting. But Episcopalians have brought much of this grief on themselves over the past few decades. Today they are perhaps best known as a collection of guilty [...]
A different time
Posted in Iran, War and Peace on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There was a time when child-like nations such as Iran would not annoy John Bull. There was a time when John Bull, otherwise known as Great Britain, had a real, and not just a pretty-boy Navy. A time when the Royal Navy would not have let 15 of its men be captured on [...]
Influences
Posted in Politics on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first questions asked of aspiring musicians who wish to join a band is, “who are your influences?” An obvious question; a metalhead likely wouldn’t do well in a string quartet specializing in Mozart. The same is true of politicians. Case in point is an all-too typical uncritical analysis of [...]
Cheese eating surrender monkeys 2.0
Posted in Politics, War and Peace on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Back a few years ago, it was fun to abuse our friends the French by calling them fromage-manging cowardly apes. Heck, we even renamed our favorite trans-fat saturated snack as “freedom fries.” Now we seem to be on Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, version 2.0.
The House of Representatives, in a pork-laden war funding [...]
If it feels good, it must be constitutional
Posted in Liberty, Politics on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the operating principle that appears to be behind H.R.5388, “To provide for the treatment of the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.” Right now, of course, the citizens of the Federal District of Columbia have only a non-voting [...]
The moon is made of green cheese
Posted in Arabs. Israel on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is more truth to the title than there is in this interesting opinion voiced by another moonbat Arab (via YNet):
The Palestinian Authority’s “governor of Jerusalem” …asserted that “no historian or archeaologist [sic] – even Israeli ones – have ever succeeded in proving that there is a historically based religious or political link between the [...]
You don’t say…
Posted in Iraq on March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seems that at least some Iraqis believe that things are better now than they were back then. Not most, but close to half of those surveyed, according to this story in the Sunday Times (London). This is good news for the Bush administration — to a point. From the story, the [...]
GodMen
Posted in Christianity, Culture on March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
muscular Jesus” style=”margin-right:14px; margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px;”>I caught a snippet of GodMen this morning on the tube; my first reaction was, “oh crap, another Robert Bly-drum-beating escape mechanism for men who can’t cope.”
But I was curious, and found the website GodMen – When Faith Gets Dangerous. GodMen appears to be a hormonal reaction to the tameness [...]
"All our children are above average"
Posted in Culture on March 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thus it is in Lake Wobegon; thus it should be in America. This would be the next logical step for the government’s ill-conceived plan to “Leave No Child Behind.” In the good news department, there appears to be some serious debate on the feel-good but ultimately foolish No Child Left Behind law, or, [...]
Profiled
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The mainstream media must operate on logic that works in some alternate universe. That alternate universe allows for illogical stories, in which the thesis is disproven in the first paragraph. Case in point is this WaPo story headlined “Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile.”
The opening paragraph states something that is internally contradictadory:
On [...]
"keep and bear arms"
Posted in Liberty on March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Second Amendment in full states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The would-be Stalinists of the People’s Republic of Columbia, otherwise known as Washington, DC, are more than willing to trample [...]
Arthur Branch for President
Posted in Culture, Politics on March 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You know; Arthur Branch, the southern-fried district attorney of New York County. Native New Yorkers, including you friendly blogger, know that in the real world, it would be close to impossible for an Arthur Branch to be elected D.A. in Manhatten.
But, in DickWolfWorld, one may suspend one’s disbelief and enjoy the Branch’s [...]
Pardon Libby
Posted in Politics on March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The president should pardon Scooter Libby, convicted of lying about a passel of lies. Well, we’ve all been less than truthful at some points in our lives. Libby suffered by his long association with Dick Cheney, one of the most honorable men to have ever graced the nation with his service.
Lying under any [...]
The First Black President
Posted in Politics on March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hillary was in full pander mode down there in Alabama. She, and, of course, Barack Obama, were competing to get that vital black vote, and were celebrating a key event in our national civil rights turmoil.
Obama would seem to have the inside track on becoming the first black president — [...]
What’s in a name?
Posted in Culture on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My first name is John. I go by Jack in this blog, which is one of the usual nicknames for John. Also to honor my late uncle Jack, who was a writer. John is, of course, in the Bible, and I’m named specifically for John the Evangelist. OK, what about everyone [...]
Blood is thicker than water
Posted in Political Correctness, race on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Especially when fat casino profits are on the line. So, in what’s become business as usual in the racialist biz, we see the headline “Cherokee Nation To Vote on Expelling Slaves’ Descendants”. Seems that these noble Red Men might not have been quite so noble, back in the day.
The Cherokee and other [...]
