Of all the world’s civilizations, past and present, none is more critical of its own history than the West. Does it get overdone? Carried to absurdity? Lead all too often to a spiral of moral equivalency? Hello, McFly! The impulse to “more is better” is as human as hagiography (for the uninterested, that means ‘the opposite of hypercriticalism’). In the history of Western progress, though, the willingness to question the
February 2015
February 23, 2015
Jesus v Muhammad [Darleen Click]
I don’t know how I missed this one before, but one of the better of the Steve Crowder videos …
February 23, 2015
“We in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims” [Darleen Click]
We in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims living in this country and the discrimination that they face. And so I personally have committed to speak out about the situation that very often people in the Muslim community in this country face. The fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and the Islamic faith is one about peace and brotherhood.
February 23, 2015
“Anti-Aircraft Round located in the desert” [Darleen Click]
Interesting … On Sunday, February 22, 2015, at approximately 4:30pm, Deputies received information that an explosive round was in the desert in the area of Bryman Road and Sunflower Lane in Oro Grande. Deputies immediately responded to the area and located the device approximately 15’ east of the roadway and approximately 15’ from the Railroad Tracks. As a safety precaution, deputies evacuated residences in the immediate area and notified BNSF
February 23, 2015
ObamaCare tax forms sent out with errors to 800,000 taxpayers … [Darleen Click]
So what? According the White House, that’s just not a significant amount of sheep people to worry about. The administration’s admission last Friday—it’s always a Friday—that it had sent out 800,000 Obamacare tax forms with mistaken information is merely the latest confirmation that, when it comes to President Obama’s signature health law, the White House and its bureaucratic operatives are in way over their heads. The tax forms, which document
February 22, 2015
Sally Kohn and Lesbian Privilege [Darleen Click]
“I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too” I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our
February 22, 2015
Obama channels his inner junior high school mean girl [Darleen Click]
The White House in a fit of childish pique WASHINGTON (AP) — In what is becoming an increasingly nasty grudge match, the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world. There are limits. Administration officials have discarded the idea of President Barack Obama himself
February 22, 2015
No-True-Muslim Extremists announce since they can’t get jobs at malls, they will attack them. Randomly. [Darleen Click]
“Al Shabab Calls for ‘Westgate’-Style Attack in U.S., Canada and U.K.” LONDON — Terrorist group al Shabab released a video Saturday calling for attacks on shopping malls in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The video, released by the Somalia-based group’s official media wing, calls for attacks in the style of al Shabab’s 2013 siege on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in which more than 60 people were killed.
February 21, 2015
SNL — a skit that could never be done today [Darleen Click]
Thanks, Obama, for making America even more divided and racist than 1975.
February 21, 2015
If you like “This is Spinal Tap” … [Darleen Click]
Parodies and satires are an acquired taste. I happen to love This is Spinal Tap because it finds the right balance of voice in bringing every earnest cliche present in rock biographies to the fore while skewering the genre with twists of the absurd. And if there is one current head-scratching cultural phenom more worthy of parody than Fifty Shades of Grey, I haven’t seen it. So I bring to