Archive for October, 2010
Time to Put Optimus Pork Back in the Toybox
We conservatives know that no matter what happens at the polls next Tuesday, we will still be several light-years from our goal of turning around the economy and bringing Washington’s big-government insanity to heel. This is not exactly a popular sentiment among the pie-eyed mooncalves on the right who are more partisan than principled, but [...]
Such a Difference a Century Makes
This photo was taken in 1908 in in a city that today boasts a metropolitan area (the city and surrounding suburbs) of several million people. Any guesses? I’ll put the answer and the link to a high-resolution version of the picture after the jump. No cheating and clicking on the picture to get the filename [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Why Does Tuesday Never Get the Publicity of Monday?
It’s not like Tuesday is a bad day. After Monday, Tuesday is a down-to-business day, a day when you have reckoned yourself to the work-week and can get things done. Tuesday is also the day when you can reward yourself and join the growing number of discerning podcast fans who catch “The Delivery — Live!” [...]
John Williams’ Music Translates Well to Classical? Who Knew?
I get that web sites want to be hip and culturally edgy. I even get that the easiest way to do that is to hire a bunch of hipster writers yearning to hit it big with some ironically-titled book. But at some point, one of those young hipsters will post something like this, which’ll make [...]
What’s That Saying: Feed a Bureaucracy, Starve a FOIA Request?
How dedicated is this administration to transparency and open government? Well, shortly after his election the President issued forth a memorandum to all his department and agency heads that said our government was henceforth “committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government”. Not long after that he issued another memeorandum to those same [...]
Liz Carter Outraises Halting Hank Johnson. She Could Use More!
Those of you who listen to The Delivery know about Liz Carter, who is running to unseat Hank “OH NOES! There goes Guam!” Johnson in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District. She is a rock-solid conservative who knows that the real answer to our contry’s economic woes involve prying the government off our backs and letting the [...]
Please, God. Just Give Us Regular Plagues?
Dear God in Heaven, why won’t Nancy Pelosi stop whining? Have we Americans committed some sort of unique wickedness that the Almighty should plague us with her incessant whinging instead of giving us a few proper plagues? I, for one, would rather have had a rain of frogs and maybe a little locust action than [...]
The Television Series is Afoot!
I did not get to see the American premiere of the BBC’s new Sherlock Holmes series, but it’s tucked into the digital safety of my DVR, so I’ll get to it this week when I have time to settle in and give it a good watch. I’m usually very hesitant to watch “reimagined” television shows [...]
That’s What You Said