Archive for April, 2009
In the End, the Government Claims Everything
Have you ever wondered who owns the rain that falls on your property? Well, it’s not necessarily you. Across the country, resourceful homeowners have embraced rainwater capture as a way of conserving community water supplies while maintaining healthy gardens. Unfortunately, rain barrels are sometimes at odds with the law. Facing certain water scarcity, cities and [...]
Rachel Maddow History FAIL!
I realize that it doesn’t require a lot of intelligence to be a talk-show host on MS-NBC, but shouldn’t you have to at least have the know-how to pass a high school history exam? This is what star host Rachel Maddow had to say on her show the day after the Tea Parties: Rick Perry, [...]
Napolitano the Nincompoop
Andy McCarthy asks: Is Napolitano just a dimwit or is she willfully misrepresenting the law as a rationale for not enforcing it? In any event, this is quite the administration. The president has just turned the attorney general loose to prosecute political adversaries for actions that were not crimes and saved American lives, while the [...]
It’s Yearly Celebration Week (Kind of) at The Shack!
This week, or at least the next few days, is kind of a big deal around these parts. See, April 26th will mark the fifth anniversary of The Sundries Shack. Two days later, April 28th, will be my birthday. I’ll be 41 for those of you keeping score — on the downslope side of “over [...]
Shut Up and Save the Earth, You Evil American!
Today is Earth Day (and Lenin’s Birthday, which I don’t see as a particular coincidence as well as the birthday of St. Francis of Assisi, which is more what I think our enviro-happy friends intended for the day) which means that we will again be harangued with lectured from our betters about what a bunch [...]
That’s What You Said