Sorry, but I am unable to resist Chef’s voice. (Also, I have no dog in this fight as my daughter’s school district had a half-day today ( Read more... )

Surfing the Web, I came across The Perfect Wagnerite, commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw and now have the burning desire to go to Washington, D.C. and read this to Barack Obama:

Now I do not pretend to be perfect myself. Heaven knows I have to struggle hard enough every day with what the Germans call my higher impulses. I ( Read more... )

… to be David P Goldman, associate editor of First Things. As with many of Spengler’s posts, it is a rollicking good read. As is his article on Demographics & Depression.
 

If you'd like to see dozens of links to John McCain's vice presidential pick, please visit http://delicious.com/somercet/sarah_palinMcCain surprised everyone Stateside with his pick. Mitt Romney: nice guy, too rich. Tim Kaine: Democrat (a split base), not even a full term as governor. Joe Lieberman: Democrat, pro-choice (split base), another long- ( Read more... )

Montaigne was a conservative in politics… I sometimes wonder if we could reform the American government, but Montaigne would no doubt reply that we were created a lawyerly republic and should not change.

- Gore Vidal (from memory)
Dr. Helen reports a sad milestone on the Reign of Terror of the trial lawyers: two twelve year-old boys were arrested ( Read more... )

Well, if it works for this guy…I've already been thwacked a bit for elsewhere relating that a Ron Paul supporter sent me a private message at a comics board, asking how a conservative libertarian could support Rudy Giuliani over a paragon of Libertarianism such as Ron Paul. The thwacker suggested I was implying that RP minions were engaged in a net ( Read more... )

Is it not indeed strange? America, made up of all, cheerfully from the beginning opening her arms to all, the result and justifier of all, of Britain, Germany, France, and Spain-all here-the accepter, the friend, hope, last resource and general house of all-she who has harmed none, but been bounteous to so many, to millions, the mother of strangers ( Read more... )

… is the media ( Read more... )

Busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest I feel, yessiree.

Time to take time out to ponder some imponderables, to relax…

A bunch of Dems voted against the "occupation" of Iraq. This is the occupation that 85% of Iraqis want to end… but not yet they hasten to add. Even a much thinner majority of Arab Sunni Iraqis (the principle ( Read more... )

nemo_gravis has a raging debate on the limits of free speech. Nemo, the devil's advocate, says that gangsta rap (one of my least favorite forms of music) could be considered assault. Others take the quite popular position that "chilling effects" are the worst of all possible outcomes.

( My two cents )