Archive for November, 2009
Mote? Meet Giant Beam of Delusion
One of the things I despise when reading movie or music reviews is the unwanted and ill-informed insertion of a political opinion into a piece that ought not to be even a little bit political. That sort of intrusion is a lot like finding a cockroach baked into a delicious brownie that you’ve already half-eaten, [...]
Bar the Doors and Hide Your Daughters — Blogging Will Occur Tonight!
It’s a grey, windy, rainy day today — the sort of day that practically demands that you hole up under a small mountain of blankets with some sort of delicious comfort food and watch cheesy movies well into the evening hours. That would be, in fact, the perfect way to spend the day and I’d [...]
Oh, So He Wants Job Creation Ideas, Does He?
I have the feeling the President really isn’t being completely forthright with this statement: “We are open to any demonstrably good idea to supplement the steps we’ve already taken to put America back to work,” Obama said. There are a couple reasons I say that. First, he hasn’t really put anyone back to work. The [...]
If You Can’t Beat Them, Stick Them in Their Own Literary Ghetto
What is it about progressives that the very notion of competition should turn their bowels to water? It’s as if the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” is the intellectual equivalent of a rotten fish stuffed with limburger and wrapped in the pelt of a road-killed skunk. In a Nov. 9 entry on The Huffington Post [...]
Eek! A Gun!
This is some Olympic-class snark from my friend Paula. Really, the old saw, “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” is one of the dumber things you can say in an argument about the propriety of firearms. Like Eddie Izzard says, “the gun helps, you know?” Guns do kill people and, as it happens, they kill [...]
Senator Kay Bailey BO-ring!
I hope Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson does better with her campaing speeches than this snoozefest of an editorial in The Washington Times. I get what she’s trying to say: Republicans have forgotten to make their policies, which at their core are conservative policies, relevant to ordinary Americans and here are a couple ways we can [...]
Funny How Those Medieval Notions Complement Each Other
Quote of the day, from Smitty. Human diversity cannot exceed 23 chromosomes. Anyone continuing to perpetuate the myth that the thin veneer of genetic variation that makes people physically distinguishable Means Anything needs to go take a biochemistry course and disabuse themselves of their medieval notions. When modern people adopt medieval notions based on political [...]
The Delivery Presents: The Unremoveable Health Care Hook and How Not to Get a Chicken Sandwich
Episode 11 of The Delivery is sitting right here for the taking. As usual, you can listen to it here, download it directly here, or pluck it from iTunes like the fine, ripe berry of commentary it is. SuperMegaProducer Mike has served up another gem of a graphic. Before you ask, that really is Big [...]
That’s What You Said