Feel the rich, cool salve of healing!* **** update: “WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF THE DIALOGUE, YOU FILTHY NAZI ENABLER YOU?”
July 2005
July 5, 2005
If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s developing a “secret sauce” recipe for his proto-fast food chain’s signature burger
Kerouac: “Who cares? Just mix tartar sauce and catsup. Now, what’s say we go do something important, like maybe smoke a little reefer and dress our angst in the finery of words, man…”
July 5, 2005
Whence come our private property rights?
Powerline’s John Hinderaker is having Second Thoughts on Kelo: Today most significant development projects involve multiple uses and cooperation between public and private entities. While such projects can no doubt be subject to various abuses, they can also be enormously successful and of great public benefit–to take just one example, consider the spectacular renovation of Baltimore’s inner harbor. Moreover, two factors minimize the danger that economic development projects pose to
July 5, 2005
Odds, Ends (post-holiday weekend catch up edition)
1. Tom Elia says the Left is coming unhinged. In other news, oxygen is important to humans, certain rocks make excellent paperweights, and Michael Moore is hungry. 2. A very good cause. Please, click over, read, and then do what you can to help him out. 3. Post-July 4 reflections on freedom, from Mac. 4. Patterico finds the LA Times engaging in a bit of peculiar math in the service
July 5, 2005
post-holiday weekend ennui
Sorry, all—I’ve spent the morning deleting Texas holdem trackbacks and reading through the fascinating arguments in this INDC Journal thread on a potential Alberto Gonzalez Supreme Court nomination. My take, very quickly: Gonzalez, like O’Connor, is in disposition more of a politician than a potential Supreme Court justice—and his opinions, to the degree that I know them (he supports an assault weapons ban, he’s status quo on affirmative action, he
July 4, 2005
Happy 4th of July!
And remember: nothing says freedom quite like that second spoonful of macaroni salad. **** update Except maybe country music. Or a game of Risk with Sean Hannity.
July 3, 2005
3 Things
1. Burgers and dogs on the grill 2. Baseball and beer 3. Jaws and The Bad News Bears What a country, eh? God Bless America.
July 2, 2005
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 58
Deadbeat neighbor: “So, I’m thinking about heading out to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival today.” Me: “CHICKEN ARTS SUPPORTER!” Deadbeat neighbor: “I beg your pardon –” Me: “– You heard me. YELLOW-BELLIED PHONY!” Deadbeat neighbor: “Yeah, I heard you. I’m just not sure I follow –” Me: “– Tell me, pussy, have you ever even lived in Cherry Creek?” Deadbeat neighbor: “No, but I –” Me: “– Are you an
July 2, 2005
Holy Jesus, Jeff! We almost forgot that it’s Friday, which, as you know, means—
—Stop right there, people. Unless you’ve strapped on a shell and danced your own Friday jig for the pleasure of a gang of creepy voyeurs, you have no right showing up here and making demands on my rodent.¹ BECAUSE OF THE—well, you know. **** ¹ actually, armadillos are of the family Dasypodidae. The author apologizes for his racism.
July 1, 2005
9 OTHER analogies NBC’S Brian Williams would like us to consider in the name of showy, PC intellectualism*
Is cutting off the head of a civilian contractor on videotape really all that different from the Republican practice of cutting off the funding to social programs that benefit the poor? The Iraqi freedom fighters routinely kill their enemies and dump their bodies into shallow graves—just as our very own freedom fighters once dumped tea into the Boston harbor! Sure, hardcore Muslims beat women and engage in both honor killings