Saturday, December 31. 2005
Georgetown Univ. to host hatefest: LGF. Isn't "tolerance" a beautiful thing? And isn't it interesting that "tolerance" is always a one-way street (anti-American culture, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, and anti-Western civilization)? But this is Jesuit Georgetown! To whom I pay an extraordinarily hefty and seriously life-cramping annual tuition...say $70,000 pre-tax income. So please forgive me if I ask "WFT?" Front Page covers it in detail. The Idiot's Guide to Victimhood, by Dr. Sanity (H/T, RWNH) ACLU upset by DOJ investigations. Stop the ACLU. May I ask, one more time, why they are supported with taxpayer $ when their mission appears to be to destroy their country? We would be safer and better off giving the money directly to the Al Quaida idiots instead of passing it through the ACLU bureacracy. Pilot maroons drunk passenger on desert island. Telegraph. What is this world coming to? First, they won't let you smoke, which makes everyone cranky and edgy and psychotic, and now they don't want you to get drunk and act up either. What kind of pussy world is this? Dump the bombers out the window without a FISA warrant, and leave the poor drunks alone. But OK, it's a funny story and the jerk deserved it, no doubt. CNN's sleazy and secret deal with Saddam: Atlas Forever young: Powerline says it all here - some people are lost in the 60s.
New Year's Thanks to our soldiers As Mudville quotes George Orwell: "Good men sleep peacefully in their beds because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." This cowgirl sends her best wishes to our men, and says "All cowgirls prefer a military guy." 
Friday, December 30. 2005
Finally, DOJ goes after leakers. Protein covers it, as do many others. And now we see the MSM backing off: Libertarian. Cap'n Ed has the latest leak. Guess it's finally time to bring in the grown-ups.
Chips after silicon: NYT Science Times LAT falls for a whopper. Newsmax The state of the conservative mind, parts one and two: the Prof The year's top ten stories from Latin America. Publius Military recruiting, and parent's "opting out": CSM Consider the Lobster and other Essays by David Foster Wallace: Just finished my first Christmas book, and I can recommend this fellow whose style is unconventional but who is exceeding smart and clever, whether writing a review of a new dictionary or wondering whether lobsters feel pain. The only sour notes are from his politics which are the usual Calif/off-the-shelf/Lefty/condescending/academic in style but it's forgiveable since he lives in Calif., and it doesn't intrude on his abundant curiousity about everything. You could call it Gonzo essays by a guy with a big brain.
Thursday, December 29. 2005
The NYT is unAmerican, says Michelle in her column. Them is fightin' words, but it's worth considering. And more on the ripple effect of the NYT leaks at Protein. And with all this mess, centrist Dems are appalled. Who is doing a better job cleaning up after Katrina? Govt or private companies? Hayek Canada blames US for their gun violence. I blame Canada for the cold fronts they attack us with. Why Big Labor is opposed to socialized medicine. NYT Art needs moral vision. VDH on the new film Munich.
Wednesday, December 28. 2005
From Dan, EOD technician, on the reality of Muslim culture: Willisms The Real Scandal, and the NYT Toys with Treason: NERepub Dem chances in 2006 squandered by Moonbats: Capt'n Ed How does church-going make you wealthier? The Economist Hilary fund-raising annoying Liberals: NYSun Talking and Driving don't mix. Cog. Daily. Surely true with women. Christmas thoughts from Mark Roberts. Bob Dylan on Ricky Nelson: "Ricky's talent was very accessible to me. I felt we had a lot in common. In a few years' time he'd record some of my songs, make them sound like they were his own, like he had written them himself." Review of Ricky's Greatist Hits Taxpayer funding of the ACLU. A terrible, self-destructive thing. Stop the ACLU Cultural suicide: Shrinkwrapped. What kind of mess has the NYT handed us? Am. Future. Can you imagine this during WW2? The Christmas Truce of WW1. The Week.
Candidates for Idiotarian of the Year. Why didn't we think of that? There is a plethora of fine candidates this year. LGF, via Michelle MSM Spreading FUD: Olive Tree (H/T, Instap.) Moslim rape sprees in Europe: Front Page. Let's all be multiculturally sensitive, OK? Paid punditry: we do not approve. Belmont. But somebody try us - give us an offer I can't refuse. Paranoia in Liberalism: Kriston in Wkly Std. How religion and universities led the vanguard of the Left in the US: View from 1776 Movie ticket sales down again in 2005: CSM Francis Bacon's secular politics: McKnight at New Atlantis
Tuesday, December 27. 2005
HH on the multiple political parties in the US right now. Good analysis. Lived on MacDonalds, and LOST weight. Town Hall Repubs may lose some statehouses in 2006. WSJ Bush's 2006 agenda. Yahoo News Dispositions tests at teacher's schools. Is this Stalinist, or what? New Criterion.
Ten Most Unhinged news video clips of the year: Michelle Trying to equate Bush with Nixon. Daily Pundit rebuts. Is racial bias a psychiatric illness? Classical Values A third of Tsunami donations wasted. LGF A war without (named) heroes. GOP Bloggers Freedom advancing in the world. Norm Is the Reformation over? First Things Christian Left labels Fed. budget cruel to the poor. Am Spectator. I thought religion was supposed to stay out of politics. You religious folks are better at caring for the unfortunate than the govt, anyway. Do you want a Theocracy? Assimilation of Moslems: Does it matter if immigrants enjoy strip joints? Steyn For guys: Secrets to a happy marriage. Evangelical Outpost
Monday, December 26. 2005
Future i-Pods: A VC Do sports teams help a region's eonomy? Probably not. The ongoing saga of DC and The Nationals. Reason All About Ice: book review in the NYT Something new in politics: The NYT stoops lower and lower: Dinocrat
Why are the non-radical mulsims silent? They are intimidated. Schwartz at TCS The well-paid limo liberals at the Beeb. Am. Thinker/ Tax-supported Leftist propaganda. Do you know about the New Yorker's Film File? It's online and you can check their movie reviews. The campus war against Christian organizations. Tapsscott at Town Hall Governors giving up Christmas cards. The Hill The warrantless Geiger counter. Are we at war, or not? RWNH
What they are taking in college these days: Am. Future. You won't believe some of these courses. The End of Bolivia? Front Page Who are the leakers? Bird of Paradise. And why no investigations? Intell. Cons. Tories make a left turn. Cap'n Ed Impreachment nonsense: Krauthammer Bad Science: Alcohol and obesity. Guardian. One good thing about The Guardian - a Bad Science feature. Always back up your PhD thesis: a true story. WaPo
Friday, December 23. 2005
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Deeply disturbing. Nuclear monitoring done without warrants. How absolutely awful. How dare this dictatorship of Bush look for our private, personal nuclear weapons? This is a privacy matter. Let's get the ACLU on the case here. Truly deeply disturbing. Amex played games with currencies. That is a no-no and we are supposed to be able to trust Amex. The Vatican finally takes a close look at Islam. View from 1776 Scruton on the EU: Voting doesn't matter if if doesn't fit the leftist agenda. Open Democracy Bin Ladin's neice: A cutie-pie. Those arabs have BIG families, don't they? 20 wives - and each one with a Platinum American Express Card. Jeez. And every kid in private school in the US, the UK, or Switzerland. Oil is good stuff. Too bad we can't find any in New England or Virginia. I could handle one lousy well in the basement of my condo. A fed-up Dem rants about Dem politics: Front Page Americans growing in wealth and standard of living: Cafe Hayek. No kidding. It is obvious everywhere you go. The poorest in the US have cell phones and multiple TVs. The middle class is filthy rich, by world standards, and our bus drivers retire at 55 and spend their winters in Florida. What a country! Al Quaida targeted Bush: Newsmax Spying on bad guys was OK with the NYT in 1982: Ankle Biter. Suddenly, it's not OK with them? Pure partisan BS. The great, booming US economy, and the press: Gainor at RCP Kofi Annan's Mercedes, and the UN debacle: NRO The Google Deal. They bought the names. Long term, I would be short Google. American girls torture Christmas Barbies. Haha. And they should - a wholesome outlet, and good practice for us evil, evil Americans for when we catch the dastardly Moslem terrorists. Put goop in their hair, make them listen to Eminem, and cut their heads off. Good clean fun. Marginal Rev. Reason, Faith, and Kristof (?)- Am. Thinker: Indeed, it is now science that strains our credulity. Relativity and quantum mechanics were preposterous enough but we are now asked to swallow absurdities like black holes, wormholes, and superstrings that would make Baron Munchausen blush. Compared to these, belief in the Virgin Birth is easy.
A True Quagmire (Thanks to American Future): 
God is a Republican and Santa is a Democrat From PJ O'Rourke via RTLC
Worried Some folks have got to be worried right now. Pline. And Jeff nails it: "With few exceptions, I don’t think many of them actually believe this story. But what such allegations provide for, however hypothetical and farfetched they turn out to be (and NSA oversight is some of the tightest in the country), is an ethos of romanticism, intrigue, and—for those hoping to experience or recapture that heady counterculture ethos—heroism, in precisely the mode of the antiheroes who peopled the political dramas of the early 70s, from 3 Days of the Condor and Parallax View to All the President’s Men and The Candidate."
Working for the enemy is not heroic.
Half of Americans have had "moments of truth" that led to a religious awakening of their souls: CSM Unions equivalent to organized crime. Polipundit. The union problem in NYC: A New Class War in NYPost Zarky moving into Europe. LGF Blogging at 30,000 feet. A VC. (Not our Yankee politics, but a good, personal blog with a venture capitalist, deal-oriented angle.) 6th Circuit gives ACLU a lump of coal in their Christmas Holiday stocking, next to their Christmas Winter Solstice Tree Bush? Pol. Teen The human cost of freedom: a good post by Confed. Yank China's economy set to surpass that of Britain. Samiz. The NSA: The "big" NYT story is unravelling. Am Thinker. Where is the outrage about the NSA leaks? Max Boot (woops- they are Dems - what happens to Senators when they leak top secret intel? Jail, perhaps? I would just love to be running against those guys right now, but my job is better.). It's insanity: Willisms - and I agree. Christmas defended. Yes, Virginia, the Founding Fathers did celebrate Christmas. And how! With parties, booze, and dancing. They were not barbarians. They did love life, they trusted in God, and they wanted freedom from State Power and viewed government as a necessary evil, and not as a free lunch. God Bless those brave, optimistic patriots who risked their lives and their sacred honor, and who continue to inspire us today.
Thursday, December 22. 2005
Powerline's exchange with the NYT re legality. Pelosi's religious litmus test. Bird of Paradise Enviros buying up hunting licenses. Env. Econ. Judge says AZ must spend more to teach English to illegals. Edn. Week
Wednesday, December 21. 2005
Shopping in the Renaissance: Guardian Book Reviews Spying question, cleared up by the Princess. Also discussed in some detail on a blog Mr. Gumshoe referred us to - another group-effort, eclectic blog that looks good: YARGB Yiyun Yu and her immigration problems. WaPo. Why are they going after her, amongst the millions who need deportation?
Winter Solstice After today, in the northern hemisphere the daylight begins to lengthen. The ancient astronomers had it all figured out - the bottom of the year, after which re-birth begins: "between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year."The precursor of Christmas festivities: Saturnalia. And, symbolically, a great place to put Christmas, regardless of whether Christ was actually born in April, because the themes of birth and re-birth, and the coming of the light, run strong and deep in the human soul.
"The President is not the Enemy", by Ed Koch. For rabid Dems, he is the enemy. Bush is at war with the bad guys, and the Dems are at war with Bush. Feeling powerless makes immature people feel mean and angry, and pushes them towards hysterical extremes. Please tell me, Dem readers of Maggie's, of whom there are plenty - why no focus on the real enemy? Iraq vote pushes Iraq in Islamist direction. Too bad, but it's their country. CSM Brandy contains healthful antioxidants. Science Daily The politics of the cruel and destructive NYC transit strike. NY Sun New Bolivian President Morales praises Castro, plans to "liberate" Bolivia. Paxety. And you can scroll down and read about how Castro banned Christmas.
Tuesday, December 20. 2005
Thanks for the wiretaps. WSJ Updike's new book (essays) on the visual arts. CSM Peace prevails in Sadr City. CSM Resurrection of the Wooly Mammoth? Cool. Cenozoic Park? Everything about Ice Ages here. Those primitive Iraqi voters. Squaring the Boston Globe The ugly sources of the Kennedy millions. The Prof
Taken Sunday night, with cell phone camera: 
Monday, December 19. 2005
Auto-translation Found it amusing when I pushed the autotranslation button on Google for this French recipe for boeuf bourguignon. Given that the translation is mechanical, it is actually comprehensible, mostly. Wasn't sure what 1 cup of flour soup meant, or 100 gms. of plugs. Translating boeuf to ox is curious. Or maybe they really mean 1 kg. of ox. Hard to find that hereabouts. And can I assume that purpose of the "grass of Provence" is to enhance the appetite? (grass is mixed herbs, plugs are lardons)
Gladiators - new book reviewed by Gillette Media bias quantified by UCLA researchers. And it's worse than I thought. Friedman's new book - if you haven't read it yet. The World is Flat. How near is legal polygamy? If done right, it could be a good deal for guys. I can see 4 or 5 beautiful young women, all working at lucrative executive jobs and "fulfilling themselves" in the modern way, while I hunt and fish all day, and blog, read, stop by the gym and maybe Starbucks afterwards to read the papers, have my nails done, take naps, have a few beers, do some online trading, and conserve my strength for the arduous evenings of husbandly duty. I might let them rotate cooking me dinner. This could be good. I'm ready, plus it's Biblically OK. Old Testament, anyway: only losers have just one. Monogamy is monotony. Pre-nups for all though, gals, and tuitions for any kiddies are not my problem. We will all be very modern and progressive. Kurtz in Wkly Std.
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