Archive for: September 2009

“With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”
– William Lloyd Garrison

The young man was given three choices: get turned over to the police, go one-on-one in a fight with a seasoned war veteran, or be duct-taped to a flagpole for six hours with a sign around his neck identifying …

Exceptionally good piece by Mark Steyn at NRO.  While I got a chuckle at the premise,
It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the …

On the title bar at the top, the name of the essay is less offensive: “We Need to Talk About Death.”  But on the main page, Evan Thomas’ title is strikingly to-the-point: “The Case for Killing Granny: Rethinking end-of-life …

Good grief, people. I see these stupid analyses of the Couric interview and That Infamous Assertion, and they totally limit themselves to the video of the interview without referring to anything Glenn said afterward to explain himself. Here’s a transcript …

Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European …

My brother E-Mailed me this article, written last week. Below is my response to the author and to him.

Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News is all verklempt over the behavior of so-called conservatives. In fact he’s so forlorn about his fellow ideologues that he’s convinced that we’ve become “zombies.”
It would be a pleasant surprise if conservatives who took the president of the United States addressing youths as an opportunity to stumble toward the fainting couch realized that they had made fools of themselves. Fat chance. Obama Derangement Syndrome is pandemic on the right – and it’s leaving conservatives like me politically homeless.

I’ll pause at this point and give you an opportunity to weep for poor, homeless Rod.

Come to think about it, they probably aren’t that big of a threat.

A prison log blames a condemned Ohio inmate’s past drug use for problems finding a usable vein during an execution attempt that was stopped Tuesday after an …

No prizes, just for fun.

Enjoy!
All good!
Kevin B points out that Jim Treacher’s put up some good stuff (his image has a fellow with a nosepicking). But Kevin B, you forgot your caption!I’m surprised, but no …

Ric is posting a science fiction novel over at his place. I’ve been following along as he posts it and so far I have been entertained. If you like science fiction, I recommend it.