Refreshing If you’re in the habit of shopping for the holidays early and want to get a head start this year on Thanksgiving Day, don’t bother stopping at Nordstrom. It’ll be closed. The leading fashion retailer announced its doors will close Thursday, Nov. 28. Affecting more than 100 stores in 35 states, the closure is part of a Nordstrom full-line and Nordstrom Rack tradition. “This is how we’ve approached the
November 2013
November 19, 2013
On the heels of a chest cold
…a rather nasty stomach virus has made its way through our house, beginning with Satch, who picked it up at school, then making its way into Tanner, then my wife, and finally — though I resisted mightily — into me, where it now lives like that demon who once gave Linda Blair a frighteningly ambitious rogering with a crucifix. Were I not so miserable — and so frequently indisposed —
November 18, 2013
President Asterisk … [Darleen Click]
It wasn’t just the IRS neutralizing the TEA Party-minded voters prior to the 2012 elections … In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source,
November 17, 2013
Please, someone do an intervention on HuffPo’s Matthew Lynch [Darleen Click]
If this isn’t parody, Lynch is in serious need of a 5150. A lot has happened since then. I am loyal to the Democratic Party and to my president, but I am not blind, deaf or dumb. I recognize that Obama has made more than one controversial decision and rocked the boat a time or two during his presidency. Sure, he has committed his share of blunders and tripped over
November 17, 2013
Sunday Football Open Thread [Darleen Click]
It may be tough going in the Midwest due to weather, but I’m a happy camper today after USC Trojans became relevant again last night.
November 16, 2013
Newspeak: hijacking the language for political ends [Darleen Click]
Regardless of whether one considers “transgender” as just another point on human identity spectrum, or a psychological condition best dealt with by mental therapy, the politics of this fundamentally dishonest ad is blatant: No one is denying the “gender non-conforming” basic care. I know of no cases where a person has broken a leg, is diabetic and needs insulin, suffers from asthma or needs a flu shot and is refused
November 16, 2013
A sampling of compassionate misspokennessity
Sure, some of this was “not as clear as it could have been.” So what? Remember, the ends justify the means, because the ends are reached on a rose petal-covered road of compassion and caring. But stop your fretting: if you lose your coverage, that’s a good thing. Because then Obama will make sure you get better coverage, cheaper. Through subsidies. Taken from taxes, or from fake money issued through
November 15, 2013
a reminder
On his show last evening, Mark Levin broke down how all of the legal and societal dislocation we’re seeing and feeling under fundamental transformation is tied directly to the subversion or deconstruction of our Constitution, rendering us a representative republic in title only, ummoored from the original ideals and intentions of the Founders and Framers. I’m going to now take that one step further, even at the risk of sounding
November 14, 2013
On “substandard plans” and the new egalitarianism
So. Earlier today I wrote that “after a nap I hope to return and post on the now prevalent progressive talking point that cancellation of ‘substandard’ (read: not egalitarian plans written by social engineers and progressive Utopians) plans is actually a good thing. It’s just that the bulk of Americans who aren’t them [progressives and ACA boosters] are too stupid to recognize it, and too ill-equipped even to pretend to