IN a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.       “Why not come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?”       “I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant,

Obligatory: “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia…” From the UK Daily Mail: While her character Marcia Brady was winning over audiences with her fresh-faced charm, McCormick was spiralling into depression and resorting to drug drug abuse, she admits in a shocking tell-all book. In her memoir Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady And Finding My True Voice, she opens up about her battle with cocaine addiction, trading sex for drugs, two abortions and

But remember: it can’t be racist, because Whites Hold All the Power. Incidentally, I never gave much credence to that power dynamic qualification for what comes to count as “racism” until — still feeling under the weather this morning — I took a flier and dialed up Pam Grier, demanding that she come over immediately and draw my bath. And I’ll be damned if she wasn’t at my house within

From the WaPo: The sign went up Sunday evening, bold black letters against the stark white background of the marquee at the Colony South Hotel & Conference Center in Clinton: “Country First. McCain/Palin.” By daybreak, pandemonium had broken loose all across heavily Democratic Prince George’s County. Many local supporters of Democrat Barack Obama, jolted by the message as they headed down Branch Avenue on their Monday morning commutes, grabbed cellphones

…continues apace — this time through ACORN, who is endeavoring to cast doubt on the validity of representative democracy and free and fair elections. At least, that’s what Jimmie Bise argues: Let me restate something in this post.. ACORN has no intention for these illegal registrations to be voted on election day. Its aim is to create a crisis of confidence in our electoral system so that later it can

…at least, according to Patterico. Instead, the context indicates that one man advocated the killing of Bill Ayers, which, while hardly appropriate, does have a sense of karmic irony to it: “And, according to the New York Times, he [referring to Ayers — P] was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’” [Palin]

compiled from media sources by Dan at Gaypatriot. Remember, though: before you get all ‘whiney’ and whatnot, most of those who have been fraudulently signed up to vote will probably be too drunk or hopped up from huffing aerosal to vote anyway. So, like, what’s the big deal? If anything, the “intense scrutiny” brought about by these allegations of voter fraud are likely to hurt the Democrats, who are the

Will post as I can today. New material will be available at the Pub, however.

he white. I’ve been making some of the same points, too, with respect to Obama’s dad’s ideas of Afro-Socialism, which differ from regular socialism mostly insofar as they are Afro. Being of “Black Irish” extraction, I’ve been busily formulating my own socialism, Wafro-Socialism, which differs from regular socialism mostly insofar as it is Wafro.