Having heard a clip from the President's speech about offshore drilling, I wonder if the robotic tone he delivered it in has anything to do with even he realizing it's utter bullshit:

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So I've written all of four comments (or "letters") at Salon.com, and the most recent one was marked as "Editor's Choice." Very nice. It was in response to an article which pointed out similarities in the rhetoric between slavery apologists of the 19th century (including John C. Calhoun, whom, oddly enough, I'm related to by marriage) and the folks ( Read more... )

The University of Florida researcher who invented Gatorade in 1965 has died at the age of 80, according to this article in The Statesman. The article doesn't mention the first occasion when football players dumped a huge cooler of the stuff over their coach's head, but I'm sure someone out there remembers it ( Read more... )

There are a lot of wankers out there in the mainstream media, but there's only one that I've actually emailed to tell him so: Alleged sports writer Gregg Easterbrook. As they note at Sadly, No, plenty of people are wrong about plenty of things plenty of the time, but it takes a special kind of guy to be constantly wrong on a wide variety of ( Read more... )

After seeing the news this morning about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize (along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but how many people can name one of them), my first thought was: "Wow, more than a few people are going to have a fit over this." Heh, I'm so mature. I blame all of those foul-mouthed liberal bloggers I've ( Read more... )

But it's actually appropriate, I think. A tapeworm is a destructive parasitic creature, and the late, unlamented Rev. Falwell was ( Read more... )

OK, seriously. I've wanted to write this post on exceptionalism for a while, but I never felt quite exceptional enough. Or perhaps I needed a hook, and this is as good a one as any.

I've grown (as I said previously) somewhat bored with this season of Veronica Mars. The Dean's murder investigation never grabbed me, really, the Logan/Veronica angst ( Read more... )

First of all, {{very positive vibes}} to gunderpants, who is having a rough time of it at present. Hoping for better news, Gun.

Now on to the thing that's giving yours truly a headache: The brouhaha among right-wing bloggers such as Dan Riehl and Michelle Malkin after liberal feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte (best known for her writing at Pandagon was hired ( Read more... )

Unlike that other famously murderous dictator, Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein will not die peacefully of natural causes and so escape justice. Nor, I think, will he be called a great man and the savior of his country by many (at least in public ( Read more... )

Michael Moore's Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives, while faintly tongue-in-cheek in places, is a pretty good expression of liberal values. Liberals, at the best of times anyway, want what is best for the entire public... not just white people, English speakers, men, people who make over $50K a year; for that matter, not just Americans ( Read more... )