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Women, Sex & Antisex
2007-09-19 06:55:00 (photo: Helene Pom) April Gavaza trains her ever sharp eye on the sexual contradictions that beset the world of third wave feminism: I read these pieces by overeducated, ultrasophisticated feminists who characterize sex as such a pedestrian chore that must be endured and wonder why they bother. I could hypothesize that boredom is a result of sleeping ... More About: Women , General , Feminism
ACLU Finds Sudden Virtue in Larry Craig
2007-09-19 04:41:00 Looking for another reason to dislike Larry the Loathsome? The American Civil Liberties Union has just come to his defense. Yeah, it’s that bad. Now, being a mendacious, revolting scoundrel is a timeworn trail to the ACLU’s heart. A romance typically consummated when the ACLU rests a defense for her suitor on a tenuous technicality at ... More About: General , Craig , Virtue , Larry Craig
The Best Fight Ever Fought
2007-09-19 03:37:00 When anyone asks me what the best boxing match I’ve ever seen is, it’s an easy answer: George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle, Las Vegas, January 24th, 1976. Serious aficionados of the sport point out the absence of artistry, the leaden footwork of the fighters, the low stakes of the outcome, the lack of defense and the ... More About: Sports , Boxing , General , Fight
The Methodology of Deception
2007-09-19 03:15:00 You may be surprised to learn that the percentage of the public favoring withdrawal from Iraq in the CBS poll actually increased after General Petraeus’ testimony before congress. But you will likely be unsurprised to learn that CBS was able to uncover this unexpected finding only by manipulating the terms of the poll, as ... More About: Deception , Ology , Method
Failure is Success
2007-09-17 18:54:00 Bad environment, or bad business model? (photo: LawGeek) Our friend Lance over at ASHC was recently interviewed about urban planning strategies for Baton Rouge. Unbeknownst to me, he’s something of an expert on the subject. Now the interview is perhaps too locally focused for much interest outside of Louisiana . But there is this little Lance ... More About: Success , Failure , Lure
Greenspan Reduction
2007-09-17 17:42:00 Apparently we mistook Alan Greenspan at first blush, being the partisan hotheads we are….although he doesn’t seem to come out the better for the misunderstanding. It seems it wasn’t that he thought the Bush Administration went to war for oil, but that he believes it should have gone to war for oil. Well, I take ... More About: Iraq , General , Span , Reduction
Internet Dating is Not a Victimless Crime
2007-09-17 09:39:00 I’m your average Sunday night insomniac. After laying in bed this evening counting sheep to no avail, I decided to jump in the car and head down to IHOP for pancakes. I’d grabbed a book off my shelf and over my early breakfast, had become engrossed in rereading Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing. About a third of ... More About: Internet , Dating , Crime , Rime , Victim
The Last Supper of the Liberation Theologist
2007-09-16 08:18:00 If you thought the Da Vinci Code was grotesque for its blasphemy, get a load of the image above. This is a mural our friend Ms. Feathers found in a socialist neighborhood in Caracas. In it a “liberation theology” devotee of a particularly deranged sort has recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper . But in an ... More About: Christianity , General , Venezuela , Hugo Chavez
Be Wary of Libertarians
2007-09-16 04:48:00 Randian minarchist Alan Greenspan, adds a little more timber to the old “capitalist leftist” complaint conservatives have often had about their alleged libertarian allies, with cut-rate contheorizing of the basest sort: ?I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil? (The Times) Time Magazine said in 2003 ... More About: General , Libertarians , Libertarian
Cautious Buzzards
2007-09-11 22:00:00 Over the weekend I was re-reading Walter Miller’s Catholic post-apocalyptic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. There’s a moment in the final chapter of the first book, where the wanderer comes upon the body of Brother Francis, which has been carved up by the cannibalistic Children of the Fallout for food. The wanderer keeps his distance ... More About: Congress , Iraq , Democrats , General
Oops.
2007-09-11 11:04:00 As we’ve occasionally observed here, Fred Thompson has a knack for upsetting all the right people, in all the right ways. Case in point. Recently, a gaggle of Leftist and Ronpaulist nitwits pounced on him when he mentioned that the Al Qaeda prohibition on smoking, had significantly contributed to their unpopularity in Anbar Province. The usual ... More About: Iraq , General
Korean Baseball is Odd
2007-09-11 08:08:00 Bench-clearing brawls are a little different in the South Korean leagues. (TBH via With Leather) More About: Humor , Baseball , General , Base
The Most Shockingly Misleading Poll in History
2007-09-11 06:36:00 Oh alright, it’s not the most misleading in history, but this is a homage to a dead and lamented post of similar name. You see, earlier today Right Wing Nuthouse called the new BBC poll of the Iraq i people the ?The Most Shockingly Dishonest Poll in the History of the Media,” but later pulled the post ... More About: General , Al Qaeda
Obligatory Soap Knob Love
2007-09-11 05:24:00 The lewdest thing you might ever see on postpolitical. More About: Love , General , Soap , Tory , Gator
Appomattox in Baghdad?
2007-09-11 03:18:00 For me, this was Petraeus’ most dramatic slide in his presentation on Capitol Hill today. It illustrates the gradual collapse of the ethnic/religious civil war in Baghdad . This conflict within, represents the most material threat to an enduring stability of the central government and if it continues to evaporate, that’s a genuinely meaningful condition for ... More About: Iraq , General
Protest and Pessimism in the Maghreb
2007-09-11 00:08:00 The left-leaning (if allegedly nonpartisan) 501(c)(3) group Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), has taken exception to our reposting from June, of SnappedShot’s enormously amusing Islamic Rage Boy project. AID notes that there seems little interest on our part by contrast, in heartening nationwide demonstrations in Algeria to protest Al Qaeda ’s brutal terrorist operations there. The weekend ... More About: Africa , Morocco , Protest
The New York Times Can Still Surprise Me
2007-09-10 13:55:00 I was reading this morning’s article by Steven Lee Myers and Megan Thee, on the NYT’s new poll revealing 68% of Americans trust the military command to resolve the Iraq conflict. An intriguing finding ahead of the Petraeus report to say the least. But then I came across this stupefying piece of analysis in the fourth ... More About: New York , General , York , New York Times
When Brookhiser Attacks
2007-09-10 08:37:00 MichaelW over at ASHC points out a rotten little post by Richard Brookhiser on Fred Thompson . In it Richard warns us that by supporting FDT for the presidency we are fools at the wheel of history: He has done nothing, anywhere, ever. The Hubble Telescope could not find what he has done, because he has not ... More About: Elections , Republicans , General , Three Amigos
Unnecessary Stress for the Secretary of Defense
2007-09-09 23:04:00 (photo: Cliff & Katie Allen) It’s not all that well known outside of certain corners of the web, but the Secretary of Defense , Robert M. Gates, regularly hangs out at the TexAgs football message board (screen name ranger65). Consumed with the situation in Iraq and a deteriorating global security environment, Texas A&M’s truly embarrassing triple overtime ... More About: Football , College Football , General , Stress
Unity!
2007-09-07 15:24:00 (image: townhall) Why would a conservative senator from Tennessee, whose politics outline a vision of V-Tech students defending themselves with guns, where Roe vs Wade is bad science and bad medicine, and where entitlement programs need to be overhauled, talk about a word like “unity”? Lee and I were discussing this yesterday. He was admittedly less enthusiastic ... More About: War On Terror , General , Islamic Extremism , Unity , Unit
Marketing The Fred
2007-09-07 14:43:00 Call me strange for choosing the topic of marketing to base my first post-announcement Fred Thompson story on, but something is irking me a bit. See, I’m a guy that likes to buy shirts and signs and political memorabilia. Just a hobby of mine. I’m really digging the purple and gold “Fred Thompson 2008″ logo ... More About: Marketing , General
Option Atavism
2007-09-03 22:55:00 Bill Callahan calls the option against Nevada. I never thought I’d type that, but it was a glorious homage to the old order. (via BRB) More About: General , Nebraska , Avis
The Psychopathic Politics of Alex Jones
2007-09-03 22:15:00 This as an audio clip from Alex Jones ’ truly vile radio show. It made the rounds on the blogs in mid-August, but in stumbling into it again today I figured it’s worth a another post for the degree to which it illustrates how ideological fanaticism can poison the mind. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a ... More About: Politics , General , Fanaticism
Viceroy of the Common Republican
2007-09-03 21:23:00 (Fred Thompson) Newsweek’s well-researched Thompson cover story is of considerable interest if you haven’t yet read it. Broadly, it depicts an entirely human face and an extraordinarily reluctant candidate, who has seen enough of Washington to know he shouldn’t be eager for the job he’s pursuing. A commendable attribute if you ask me. There’s also a significant ... More About: Elections , Republican , Bill Clinton , General , Common
Barely Golden
2007-09-03 00:42:00 I’ve seen the notorious drug induced on-air meltdown of Jessica Savitch many times since it aired in 1983, but I’d never seen her earlier update from the same day until just now. This clip was shot two hours before the disastrous broadcast. She’s just slightly buzzed, so apparently her evening got worse (or better) as ... More About: The Media , General , Barely , Golden
Schadenfreude
2007-09-02 16:57:00 Penn State fans reacting to Michigan losing to tiny Appalachian State University. Crass, but amusing all the same: Frankly I’m shocked by all the shock in the press. Once again Michigan was preposterously over-hyped in the preseason, with no real business being near anyone’s top 10 list (including a list of the Big10+1 itself, after ... More About: Football , General , Schadenfreude
Cut!
2007-09-01 21:19:00 (image: philly.com) It seems as though Lee was right on his early prediction that Jeremy Bloom would fall short of achieving a stellar NFL career. Word leaked early this morning that the second year punt returner and Philadelphia Eagle would be officially removed from the finalized 53 man roster. Bloom had been sidelined throughout the 2006 NFL ... More About: Football , General , Philadelphia Eagles
Dutch Gunships Over Afghanistan
2007-08-29 22:32:00 Fairly interesting little clip of our friends from the Netherlands in action: More About: Afghanistan , General , Dutch , Ghan
The Omega Man Gun Battle
2007-08-29 19:49:00 I love the scene in the first part of this clip from 1971’s The Omega Man. When Neville is battling the Luddite pseudo-vampires with his S&W M76, the gentle mournful music is so lovely. More About: Films , General , Battle , The O
On Vietnam: A Response to Joshua Foust
More articles from this author:2007-08-29 09:57:00 (image: Charles Major) Joshua Foust had a post yesterday which I meant to get round to saying a few words about, but I ran out of caffeine in my blood and fell asleep watching Mr. Ed. So we’ll give it a whirl tonight. This will probably be a long post, so beware. In fact, there’s two ... More About: Iraq , History , Vietnam , General 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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