Friends Forever
From the deeply disturbing Comic Blasphemy. Seriously, this is about the tamest comic they have.
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It’ll Never Get Old But It’ll Always Be Obscure
I’ve done enough reading about the seventeenth century recently that this one from XKCD is really funny to me.\Which reminds me. Did you hear the one about Beethoven’s career after he died? He started decomposing! Har har har!!! Okay, I’ll… Continue Reading
Taking Predictions (Updated)
Over at TOries_and_WingNuts_ALL.com Townhall.com, another example of a thoughtful writer manifesting sanity and principle in the face of the shriller, more headline-generating style of what gets called “conservative” in political debate these days. In essence, Steve Chapman points out that… Continue Reading
A Christian’s Evaluation Of How Christians Treat Non-Believers
As always, I enjoy thoughtful Christian thoughts on how non-believers are to be treated. This is a particularly damning evaluation of the behavior of a particular institution, from which frankly I had low expectations to begin with. The author, whose… Continue Reading
What She Said
Preaching to the Choir: What part of no don’t you understand?
Parallel Politics
Bearing in mind the biases of its author, this Juan Cole essay is nevertheless interesting in its analysis of populist politics. The point is that there are substantial similarities between the political tactics, strategy, appeal, and goals of Sarah Palin… Continue Reading
Norma Rae Ought To Retire
Found on WillCollier.com.: Yes, my liberal Readers, that is really what we right-of-center folks think of unions. It’s pretty much because of the UAW and the Teamsters as opposed to other unions. I understand that the commercial relies on caricature… Continue Reading
Beautiful Fast Food
I don’t know if I like the looks of the Popeye’s Fried Chicken Sushi or the BK Quiche more. The Taco Bell Tortellini look great but I’m sure they taste terrible. I’m not sure that the author really pulled it… Continue Reading
For The Record: This Blog Is Subject To Periodic Editing For Grammar
Like publius, I permit myself only a fairly short amount of time to change the substance of something I post. I may update or make a follow-up post, but after a relatively short window of time, when I’ve posted something… Continue Reading
Good Intentions Mask A Failure Of Political Courage
I know that the Supreme Court has narrowly upheld certain kinds of hate crimes laws. I think those laws, and those decisions, are ultimately contrary to the First Amendment — which is to say I think the Supremes blew the… Continue Reading