Michael Bloomberg will not run for President. His appeal would have been that of a good manager and successful businessman who could rise above partisanship and an advocate for policies that he thought were right regardless of which banner they… Continue Reading
Today marks the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., the intellectual progenitor of the modern American conservative movement. Though I despise some of the social excess that movement has taken on in recent years, for the most part I remain… Continue Reading
The survey results are in. A slim plurality of NAPP voters (4) agree with me that the best training available to be President of the United States is to be the Governor of one of the several States. Other (3… Continue Reading
I felt about 70% of normal this morning, so I went to work. Still sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. You don’t think about it much when you don’t have to do it, but it seems to take literally every muscle in… Continue Reading
Today’s “kid with a mohawk” story is brought to you by way of Parma, Ohio, where a six-year-old has been suspended from a charter school for having the distinctive haircut. “I understand they have a dress code,” the mother of… Continue Reading
You know those juice boxes? The ones that have just the right amount of juice in them and are handy when you’re sick because you can just grab one and sip on it while you’re trying to comply with the… Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago, I gave up on Day By Day being funny ever again and took it off my blog. It seems, though, that after I did this, the author caused something of a shitstorm by analogizing one of… Continue Reading
Back then, sleeping through this cough would have been a snap:
I wouldn’t have thought that a thousand-page long novel about a generation-long struggle to build a cathedral would have been interesting. But I was really fascinated by The Pillars Of The Earth and its depiction of twelfth-century life in England… Continue Reading
I gained another measure of respect for John McCain, or at least got a refresher in why Republicans ought to be willing to embrace him. He’s a stand up guy, a guy who doesn’t feel the need to mince words… Continue Reading