Bad Dental News
I don’t normally mind a trip to the dentist and I like having clean teeth. And after The Wife’s bad experience recently, I wasn’t going to use the dentist she went to (she won’t, either) so I went to a… Continue Reading
Month: April 2007
Isn’t That The President’s Job?
The President has proposed the idea of creating a “War Czar” who is to have the ability to coordinate war efforts across governmental agencies. And here’s the rub — no one wants the job. Hmm. Is this too obviously the… Continue Reading
Snarky Exchange
Hoover Institution scholar Dinesh D’Souza uses the VT killings as an opportunity to take some cheap shots at atheists. So, Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings snarks right on back. It’s nothing D’Souza didn’t invite. You don’t have to believe in God… Continue Reading
Three-Way Tie
The best “Best Picture” was a three-way tie — Lord of the Rings, Million Dollar Baby, and American Beauty.
Meanwhile On The Lower Middle Corner Of Page Five
I’d been doing a good job of keeping my thoughts brief, until I perused the Fish Wrapper site today looking for news of something other than the massacre at Virginia Tech. Not that those terrible events weren’t worthy of considerable… Continue Reading
Oh, We’ll All Go See It..
…but it does seem to me that Harrison Ford (65 years old) is getting just a little long in the tooth to be doing something like this. Maybe the movie will hand the reins of the franchise off to a… Continue Reading
Dropping Out Of The Electoral College
Maryland enacted a law that would give its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote — if enough other states do the same. So for the time being, Maryland is still in the Electoral College. Thing is,… Continue Reading
The Hero
Further to my thoughts below about the Virginia Tech killings, there is a sad but heroic story from within the massacre to tell. Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Israel from Communist Romania, and a world-acclaimed aeronautical… Continue Reading
The Killer
It seems that earlier Internet rumors about the Virginia Tech shooter were about half right. The guy who killed 32 other people and then himself had a history of stalking women, according to CNN. Also, he had a recent traffic… Continue Reading
Drag Queen Rudy
For some reason, some old footage of then-Mayor Giuliani in drag during a skit with Donald Trump is getting a lot of folks upset right now. Jeez. It was supposed to be a joke. It’s not like he made fun… Continue Reading