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ThinkProgress is highly indignant over it, and you’ll see so are some of the comment-writer-complainers over at the YouTube channel. “Highly offensive and inappropriate.” You’ve heard that if a conservative doesn’t like what’s on the radio, he turns the dial, whereas when a liberal doesn’t like it he wants the FCC to revoke the station’s […]

In comments under a previous post, rhjunior puts it all together, it’s one of my Mother’s favorite stories about the three blind men and the elephant (although, behind the link, I see it has become six blind men). Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told […]

It’s not like it’s a shock to anyone that Illinois is full of corruption. Heck, of the last seven governors, five spent their twilight years stamping license plates in orange jumpsuits (the governors, not the license plates). Even the low level bureaucrats in Illinois can taste the dream of one day owning the spotlight and […]

You can: sign me up.

We could be happy that the Democrats are at least noticing the Constitution now, except that they’re really not. House Democrats want President Obama to take a new approach to Republican resistance over raising the debt ceiling — by simply ignoring it. More than 20 Democratic members of Congress have signed onto a letter urging […]

Total joy kill (US News) A “Death Star” won’t be a part of the U.S. military’s arsenal any time soon. More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to build the “Star Wars” inspired super-weapon to spur job growth and bolster national defense. But in a posting Friday on […]

Excellent. (Link via: Mike Munger.)

Santa Claus came, and brought me an audio disc of The Art of War by Sun-Tzu. I’d already read some of the transcriptions and various interpretations, but wanted a CD with yet another run-through because when I go to pick up my son & drop him off, it’s several hundreds of miles through the most […]

We’re down to just a few absolutely-must-do things today, one of which is to memorize the wedding vows. Uh, the ones I wrote myself. Yeah. Probably better get that done. There’s a phrase in there about my bride-to-be’s “positive energy.” This may perhaps get into things that ought not be part of a wedding ceremony, […]

Camille Paglia goes off. It’s staggering that 22-year-old: Taylor Swift: earned $57 million and: Katy Perry: $45 million. How is it possible that such monumental fortunes could be accumulated by performers whose songs have barely escaped the hackneyed teenybopper genre?

If you run around the news sites, you’ll see lots of stories of “optimism” regarding a fiscal cliff deal, which kinda is belied by the long faces (and Nancy Pelosi being unable to find her car) post meeting. Ah, but a barely publicized story comes from the AP via WRAL A person familiar with the […]

So, a White Plains newspaper, The Journal-News, published the names and addresses of every licensed pistol permit holder in three New York counties. Just unbelievable. It just proves the: sanctimonious self righteous attitude of liberals like the publisher and reporters that see the ends justifying the means of their agenda, even if it invades the privacy […]

The only rule to open thread is no cut and pastes without your own commentary. Otherwise, have at it.

I’m off this week and will return on Tuesday of next week, which is 1/1/2013. In the interim, enjoy the other columnists and bloggers while you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year. See you in 2013, everyone!

When I mention Pong to my undergraduates, they have no idea. When I mention it to my MBAs, they: laugh.

Call me nuts, but I think American politics go in cycles. Reagan’s victories, coupled with Obama’s, prove this. At the same time, I think there is some legitimacy to the idea that our sense of “right” and “left” drift around across time. Reagan was not about the same issues as Obama; those who seek to […]

Consider this an open thread about coming dooooooom. Or cats. Whatever

So back in October, Atlas Shrugged Part II came out. I said since the very beginning that this is a significant step, since if Part II failed to cross the finish line it would’ve been a simple matter for Part I to pass into history as a cinematic brain fart, but now that the first […]

Peter Wehner explores the obsession in Commentary Magazine: For Obama, the top two percent are the Great White Whale—and he is Captain Ahab. The question is why. Captain Ahab’s neurotic obsession was understandable (Moby Dick, after all, had destroyed his boat and bit off his leg). So what explains Mr. Obama’s obsession? It can’t be […]

Blogger advises boycotting firms that “are cutting back on employees and employee hours to avoid paying for healthcare”. I say patronize the: heck: out of them.

Sounds like a winner to me.

I sure hope I’m not starting some new Apocalyptic conspiracy theory by mentioning that, though. Why am I mentioning it, you ask? Hell if I know. Just some silly factoid I ran across after I saw this story: Presidential Campaigns Cost $2 Billion Two billion! Oh, my God! That story, by the way, details some […]

Okay, look, a 200-year drought is nothing to sneeze at. Still: A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for the Sumerian demise, the conclusions rely on indirect clues. But several pieces of archaeological and geological […]

Steven Goddard asks the rhetorical question: How do you get an organism to destroy itself? Simple — convince it that something essential for its survival is making it sick. A great example of this is bulimia. If an individual believes that food is unhealthy, it eventually will self-destruct and die. As far as I can […]