It’s time for Bible stories. And they’re awful. In fact, they’re so bad I feel compelled to put them below a jump so that squeamish Readers can avoid them. Disclaimers first, and then the blood. So you can skip the… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I wondered about whether our military activities in Asia were “war” or something else. Then at about four in the morning I awoke after a flash of the kind of thinking that only comes with sleep,*… Continue Reading
Straight from Tokyo to your next ballroom event: Atuendos Hechos con Globos! (Related: Domo-kun on the runway.) An interesting factoid about Chelsea Clinton’s fiance. So much for the myth of a classless society in America, as if anyone ever believed… Continue Reading
Representative David Obey has proposed a “war tax” in the Share Our Sacrifice Act. This is, I presume, a progressive’s idea of fiscal responsibility. Most families would pay an additional 1% of their net income as a surtax to their… Continue Reading
I can feel confident that everyone reading this has one thing in common: internet access. That means that everyone reading this also has at least access to a computer. This means that everyone reading this possesses at least sufficient affluence… Continue Reading
Thank you very much, Attorney General Eric Holder, for mooting all of my high-falutin’ Constitutional ideals. I’ve gone to some length here and elsewhere to argue that it is very important to give even a dirtsack like Khalid Sheik Mohammed… Continue Reading
On November 9, 1989, an obscure post commander in the (perversely-named) German Democratic Republic named Harald Jäger, perhaps unwittingly, ended European Communism as a global political force, setting in motion unleashing a chain of events that led to the collapse… Continue Reading
Bread will kill you! Here’s proof. You might need to know your latitude and longitude. If you’re one of those social conservatives who has been wondering how it could be that Sarah Palin didn’t stop Obama from being elected President,… Continue Reading
This guy takes his Christianity seriously* and he is quite clear about what it means — if you are going to take Christianity seriously, you must accept that you have no God-given rights of any kind. (H/T here) God hasn’t given you any… Continue Reading
The Old Bailey is London’s primary criminal courthouse and has been for quite some time. Someone has done something rather extraordinary — compiled and made searchable on the internet records of every case the Bailey handled from 1674 to 1913. … Continue Reading