Thursday, March 10. 2005
Can political blog speech be regulated by the FEC? Here is where we get into deep and scary waters: Click here: Captain's Quarters The Deterioration of French Wines: Click here: ++ Briefing ++ - and review of the piece by Maggie's Farm expert:The segment of the market that is addressed in the article, the middle, is indeed served better by growers outside of France on price/value analysis as long as you like the sort of big, saturated, fruity wines that they make. I personally don’t. My preference is for the more austere wines that show terrior rather than the sculpted, standardized products from most of these other areas. The article really says that the AOC system is unreliable. Not a surprise to anyone who keeps track of these things or has some sense of what chiselers the frogs are. There are always stories of some poor Algerian truck driver getting lost with a tanker load of highly alcoholic, tannic “bone setting” red from an Algerian vineyard, looking around for the cellar that he is supposed to deliver it to. This and the other practices are well known. I still contend that for $25/bbl, the 1990 Simard is the best value on the market. Load up!Dan Rather - nothing to say, except bye-bye.
You heard it here first - Dylan writing and working on new album for 2005.
Wednesday, March 9. 2005
Complaints about morality in movies - 1917: Click here: The New Republic Online: Movie Morals Speaking of guns, a good shooting game for cat-haters: Click here: Clay Kitten Shooting / CKS 1
Elizabeth Drew, with a critical view of the Republican Revolution and Newt: Click here: The New York Review of Books: He's Back! Another view of Putin - Is it weakness that is making him appear dictatorial?: Click here: The west gets Putin wrong Mary Dejevsky - openDemocracy
Re-posting this critique on Franks' Kansas book - it is too good (the review, not the book): "Kerry did, to be sure, have a message problem, but that problem was and is not just his, but his whole party’s. To sum up in a phrase: the Democrats are a center-left party in a center-right nation. They stumble over their message because if they clearly say what they most deeply believe it gets them in political trouble. Consider the contrast with their opponents. Republicans are conservatives who are proud to say so and who do not fear that saying so will hurt them. Democrats are liberals who, in a correct analysis of their political situation, assiduously avoid using the word that most commonly describes them. Their label discomfits them and their positions give them an edgy relation with the majority of voters." Read entire review: Click here: FT March 2004: The Public Square
Tuesday, March 8. 2005
Christians are the enemies of the environment? Huh? Watch Bill Moyers crack up before your eyes: Click here: The New York Review of Books: Welcome to Doomsday Opie the pup is on the South American story. The Media would be on it if it were right-wing dictators taking over: Click here: Journal of Democracy Movie Reviews: DO NOT watch John Water's Polyester or his Hairspray either. Boring. Good music in Hairspray, tho.
The Dog's review of every movie ever made: "Licked a few Paul Newman popcorns off the floor, lay down and got comfortable, and, quite honestly, I think I slept through it."
Monday, March 7. 2005
Latest on the Anglican dispute - makes the Bird Dog glad he isn't Anglican/Episcopal - most of us Yankees are bred-in-the-bone Congregationalists, and figger such matters are local church decisions, and furthermore does not happen to feel that people's sexual proclivities are anyone's business, nor does he wish to hear about them in public - and our own Blog Shrink advisor, Dr. Joy Bliss, insists that "Private is Private": Click here: FT January 2005: Opinion
The Pope on democracy and faith:Click here: Must democracy rest on faith? | csmonitor.com
Monty Python comes to Broadway- "More shrubberies.": Click here: Spamalot Official Ticket Source Shubert Theatre New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com
Govt support for the arts in the Netherlands: Click here: Taxpayer support for artists: too much of a good thing? | csmonitor.com
John Ashbery - "too hip for the squares, and too square for the hips"? -Click here: The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > Mapping the Unconscious
Friday, March 4. 2005
Yet another Canadian columnist salutes W: Click here: davidwarrenonline.com - ESSAYS ON OUR TIMESMovie Review: DO NOT watch or re-watch John Water's 1972 Pink Flamingos. It is truly the vilest, trashiest movie ever made. But the Mr. Egg Man scene is still memorable after all these years, in a disgusting, Freak Show way. Book Review: Three thumbs down for Tom Wolfe's new book. Grim, humorless, lacking in wisdom and charm. But it can save you tons of money - you won't send your kids to college after you read it.
Thursday, March 3. 2005
Dems gone psychotic - Byrd terms Repubs Nazis: Click here: Captain's Quarters and Dean claims Repubs "evil": Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Via Iowahawk:
MENTALLY DISTURBED NETWORK ANCHORMAN BUNGLES & HALLUCINATIONS "I believe in the dream, the magical mystical kingdom of CBS News. It may exist only in our minds, but that makes it no less real."
Dan Rather, quoted in upcoming New Yorker interview.
Wednesday, March 2. 2005
This is Brit grouse, not the Dog's beloved ruffed grouse, but might it apply? Click here: The New York Times > Science > Observatory: What's Good for the Grouse Campus conservatives getting louder: Click here: City Journal Winter 2005 | On Campus, Conservatives Talk Back by Brian C. Anderson Another knee-jerk Liberal yields to the wisdom of W: Click here: ProfessorBainbridge.com: Kinsley on Bush Jack Kelly on the "insurgency" - which is no insurgency - they are called terrorists, and darn few of them are Iraquis: Click here: toledoblade.com
Tuesday, March 1. 2005
First, Freedom - just as those evil neo-cons predicted, the dominoes are falling - Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon...Iran next? Let's hope so. It has to bring pleasure to every American heart to see tyranny fall.Even the NYT must admit it: Click here: The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Mideast Climate Change Second, Free Speech. Students (remember Mario Fazio or whatever his name was?) are rebelling against the Stalinist tendencies of the modern universities at the University of AlabamaClick here: The Volokh Conspiracy - and at Dartmouth Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy - and here Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy - Also:
What I did on Monday: Ate same old breakfast. Chewed on a bone for two hours. Got snow-pills caked between my paws - so came in and took a nap. Then back out to gnaw some more. Then back in. Exhausting day. Think I'll do the same today. Do you call this a life?
Monday, February 28. 2005
Snow Day, here in New England. Should be beautiful. Bird Dog will take a few more photos to demonstrate God's grandeur. Good site, plus lots of information about hops - the more the better, it seems: Click here: All About Beer Magazine-Online A brand-new blogger: Click here: TigerHawk Can't get decent crab-cakes in Yankee-land - they are full of bread crumbs, but these are the real thing from Chesapeake Bay: Click here: Faidleys Award Winning Crab Cakes
Sunday, February 27. 2005
Christian blogs and websites are proliferating like loaves and fishes. Here are a few good ones:
Saturday, February 26. 2005
One of the clueless gets a clue on the ongoing Harvard tempest in a teapot: Click here: The New Republic Online: Self Interest Immediately after claiming we don't do breaking news, I'll break that policy and post this remarkable development: Click here: Yahoo! News - Mubarak Orders Egypt Election Law Changes Does anything further need to be said?
Friday, February 25. 2005
Primates come down from trees to debate homosexuality: Click here: FOXNews.com - Anglican Church Asks U.S., Canada to Leave The American Library Association: Bravely leading the vanguard into the past: Click here: Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People! Lighter fare - See video - The bird Einstein is good, but the Iams advt ain't bad either: Click here: Animal Planet :: Video :: Pet Star 3 Can't stop wondering...if America is so Evil, why does the whole world want to live here? One more example of media's reflexive anti-American bias:Click here: The Kerry Spot on National Review Online Race and Class and Education: The Left always makes every issue into a racial or class issue. It's a highly reductionistic, highly manipulative, and highly monotonous propaganda device. Bradley doesn't buy it: Click here: Commentary: Modern Myths about Race and School Performance
The Scrapple-Man reports on the Harvard flap: Click here: ScrappleFace: Harvard Chief Likens Women to Nazis, Saves Job
Euristan decides Bush was right...no - not that dumb goofy redneck Bible-thumping fascist cowboy who says nucular?: Click here: OpinionJournal - Featured Article Iranians like Americans. Are we supposed to be surprised that they can think for themselves?:Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Thank you baby for my tea. The Revolution is long past. Best Tea site on the web: Click here: Mighty Leaf Tea Company
Thursday, February 24. 2005
X-Rated. No, this isn't satire: Click here: AOL News - Court Rules Man Can Sue Over Surprise Pregnancy Thanks, pals- Canada refuses to help with missile shield. The Euristan community, including Canada, is either self-destructive or in a psychotic denial of the existence of evil: Click here: The Washington Times: AP Crybabies? Guess only a woman would be allowed to write this, eh?:Click here: Feminists Get Hysterical by Heather Mac Donald
Peggy Noonan on almost everything: Click here: OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
If 130 felons voted, does that put the Repub in? :Click here: GOP Says Felons Voted in Wash. Governor's Race
Tom Wolfe on Hunter Thompson: Click here: OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts -and Tim Blair also: Click here: Tim Blair
News Flash ! - Click here: Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM
Wednesday, February 23. 2005
Dear Maggie's Farm Readers - I received the note below, and sent the money, in cash. Now I am beginning to wonder whether that was wise. I like to think of myself as being a trusting animal. I do have good pedigree, but have been insulated from bad Gods. I am not wealthy, but have carefully saved my weekly allowance. Advice? Am I being a paranoid Rottweiler? I have my retirement to consider. The Dog
Dear Sir:
I am Mugnbo Mibidgi, treasury secretary of the Republic of Nigeria. I need a trustworthy person to accept a transfer of $50 million for safekeeping. If you would be so kind as to wire transfer me $2,000 for my adminstrative expenses, I will send you these millions immediately.
Wise old Doc Higgins reminds us never to confuse a correlation with causation, but this is interesting. It doesn't prove cause and effect, tho. Click here: Friends fortify women's hearts / The Washington Times INSIDER
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