Author: Ed Driscoll

I originally produced the above clip, “Mugging For The Camera,” back in early April as part of my Silicon Graffiti series of videoblogs, and uploaded it first to my primary video server, where I posted it here and it got a fair chunk of traffic in the Blogosphere. I then uploaded it to YouTube for […]

CNN’s John Roberts can be witnessed between 6:50 and 7:30 point in the above edition of Silicon Graffiti doing an amazing aerial 180 worthy of both Tony Hawk and Joseph Stalin–and here with the very definition of a Freudian slip. And yet, he seems surprisingly incredulous when one of October’s chief hit and run victims […]

In his profile of Paul Weyrich for the DC Examiner, Lee Edwards writes: He was born on October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of working-class German Catholics. His father tended the boilers of St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital for 50 years. He was politically active from an early age: at 19, he and his […]

Glenn Reynolds links to James Surowiecki in the New Yorker, who asks, “Are Newspapers Doomed?“ “There’s no mystery as to the source of all the trouble: advertising revenue has dried up. In the third quarter alone, it dropped eighteen per cent, or almost two billion dollars, from last year.” He also suggests something that I’ve […]

In his 2001 book, The CEO of the Sofa, P.J. O’Rourke wrote: The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take 100 of its most prominent numskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm. But of course, with every new bailout, the […]