While my wife curses TurboTax in the kitchen, I find myself listening to Billy Joel’s “Great Suburban Showdown” and thinking that, if I ever get the chance to grow old and crotchety, I’m going to wear black socks with shorts and sandals in public just so that younger married men can use me as an object lesson to reinforce their tenuous and largely illusory self-images. Because—as you all know—I’m a

Before the start of the season’s first game, the Rockies rewarded manager Clint Hurdle and GM Dan O’Dowd with 2-year contract extensions (so much for performance incentives, I guess).  By way of celebrating, Hurdle managed the game in the same predictable way he always has—Manny Corpas breezed through the heart of the Diamondbacks’ order in seventh inning with dominating stuff, only to be replaced in the eighth by LaTroy Hawkins,

Somebody wheel Country Joe and the Fish on stage and give the dusty old farts a celebratory kazoo: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces. The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from

From AFP: US warplanes have violated Iranian airspace in the southwestern oil province of Khuzestan, the Arabic language channel of Iranian state television quoted a local military chief as saying on Sunday. However, a US military spokesman said he had checked into reports of an airspace violation and denied that any took place. “Two US aircraft trespassed into Iranian airspace northwest of (the port city of) Abadan before flying southwest

One step forward, two steps back for Brits trying to come to grips with the pernicious boutique multiculturalism the left intelligensia has insinuated into the European social fabric like so much razor wire.  Now, amazingly, horrifically, and—worst of all—dangerously, the Brits, in order to appease the “sensibilities” of Muslims, are willing to treat history itself as if it is a seminar in “tolerance”.  From the UK Daily Mail: Schools are

…rub a little dirt on the khaki’s, and when they ask you about the ‘surge,’ try to mock it with your ‘Eastwood eyes.’ McCain may have been a POW, but remember:  YOU’VE broken bread with real-live insurgents.  Hell, were Chuck Norris to cross you, you’d roll him over and bugger him like a horny koala.  Now, ready?  LET’S GO EAT SOME NAILS…!”* **** update:  “…And wash them down with a

From Powerline, a particularly dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, purportedly from a Human Intelligence collector (no name is given, so I’m going to take it at face value): We want to succeed in Iraq. Because we want to succeed we continually look for ways and opportunities to contribute. This desire to succeed also spawns an eternal optimism that maybe somehow someway things will get better. Wanting to succeed

From the New York Times: “ZOO,” the new film by the Seattle director Robinson Devor, arrived at this year’s Sundance Film Festival better known as “the horse sex documentary.” But as festival audiences discovered, this description, while not incorrect, was also misleading. The film revisits the true story of a man who died in July 2005 after a sexual encounter with a horse in rural Washington State but does so