Miss Cougar America competition. Youth is a state of mind, and body.
Nails it: Teachers unions treat Obama same as Bush
Rangel’s sleaze. And, he’s in charge of writing the US’ tax laws!
No more Chappaquiddick jokes from Kennedy!
“Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” from the same director who did such a fine job on Hank Greenberg. That’s how I grew up. I laugh at myself now with my boys, as sometimes I’ve become my mother, even chasing them down the street with a bagel, “Ess, ess mein kind” ringing in my mind, but it also fondly reminds me how much I loved them and learned from their caring and decency for all. Gertrude Berg shared that caring and decency with all of America.
Aye, Aye Captain
Sammy Goldberg made it big in business, and the first thing he did was to go out and buy a very big yacht. The second thing he did was to invite his mother on board so that she could see him in all his glory. He met her in a lovely uniform he’d designed himself, complete with stripes on the sleeves, gold buttons and captain’s hat.
As his mother boarded, Sammy said to her, “Look at me, Ma. I’m a captain!”
To which his mother replied: “Sammy, by me you’re a captain and by you you’re a captain. But tell me, by captains are you a captain?”
Via BookWormRoom
Hindus and Jews praise Madonna for Roma comments
New bio of Rumsfeld sounds good: fair and balanced.
Remembering the Hebron Massacre: Until 1929, Jews had lived in the city for three millennia. Remember Abraham?
NYTs editorial “is like saying to a mafia boss, ‘You should ferret out the people in your organization who are involved in stealing, bribery, and extortion, and put an end to these abuses.’”
The Least Surprising Correlation of All Time
The NY Times Economix blog offers us the above graph, showing that kids from higher income families get higher average SAT scores….
The key omitted variable here is parents' IQ. Smart parents make more money and pass those good genes on to their offspring.
Suppose we were to graph average SAT scores by the number of bathrooms a student has in his or her family home. That curve would also likely slope upward. (After all, people with more money buy larger homes with more bathrooms.) But it would be a mistake to conclude that installing an extra toilet raises yours kids' SAT scores.
Neither does more toilet paper:
How do you forget you own a $1-million house? Rangel knows.
How do you forget what planet you live on? Rangel’s fellow, Watson, needs to know.
UAE dimes out North Korea-Iran arms shipment. Axis of evil, anyone?
No wonder we have nothing to fear. Senator Dodd won’t let anyone know what’s in his Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s health bill. Get it? If you don’t know what’s in it, you have nothing to fear.
Great news! Charges against LtCol Chessani will stay dismissed. I wrote frequently analyzing the Haditha charges, evidence, and excesses of lawfare and judgment before trial, some of my columns appearing here where you can find many other details. Semper Fidelis, LtCol Chessani.
Is it too late to shoot the ungrateful little bastard? GITMO DETAINEES GO TO THE COURTS
Let’s hear it for the girls! My local 12-and-under girls won the softball World Series. -- Saturday noon EST is the Little League International World Series championship game (Taiwan vs Mexico), followed by the US teams (my local Chula Vista vs Texas) batting it out for their championship. Great games to watch. Champs will play each other Sunday for top honors. High honors, actually, goes to every player on every team.
Reading "The Arabian Nights" is like visiting a medieval lending library. Stories are embedded within stories like Russian dolls, encompassing every narrative genre from instructive fable to swashbuckling adventure to diaphanously veiled pornography.
Remember the very capable general, Russell Honore, who told reporters about Katrina they’re “stuck on stupid”? Well, it’s looking like he may enter the Republican primary for US Senator from Louisiana. Let’s hope so. Washington needs more straight talkers actually capable of doing something right.
Don’t cry. Be back soon.
