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Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

If I really wanted to, I could make this post look exactly like it was printed on a 1972 IBM Selectric typewriter.  But what good would that do?

To every thing, turn turn turn…

Jonah Goldberg, NRO: The folks at Powerline compare the willingness of Dan Rather to chase a partisan hit job into the land of fiction to the revolution of suicide bombing. The sudden willingness, indeed eagerness, of terrorists to die with their victims changed the whole paradigm of national security. Similarly, Rather was willing to destroy himself in pursuit of a partisan attack. It’s an okay analogy, but it misses a

The Tragedy of Om’let, Prince of Massachusetts, cont.

Om’let | Act 3, Scene 1 Click here. **** Om’let | Act 5, Scene 1 SCENE I. A field in Red Bank, New Jersey.  Prince Omlet examines the skull of a famous news anchor. PRINCE OM’LET      Alas, poor Rather! I knew him, Teddy: a fellow      of fine buzzcuttery, of most excellent folksiness: he hath      borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how      abhorred in my imagination it

A friendly note to confused software designer Richard Katz

When in doubt, stay home and make yourself a nice pastrami on rye, instead. With one of those crunchy Claussen dill pickles on the side.  And maybe some chips. **** h/t Allah, who has another great roundup of Rathergate links.

If instead of a pampered heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry were a Ginsu knife

THK:  “What, again with the tin cans, Conchita?  Yes, fine, I can cut through a tin can and still slice a tomato effortlessly.  So what?  Is that skill really such a big deal to your people…?”

Expert cited by CBS didn’t verify papers

Michael Dobbs and Howard Kurtz, washingtonpost.com: The lead expert retained by CBS News to examine disputed memos from President Bush’s former squadron commander in the National Guard said yesterday that he examined only the late officer’s signature and made no attempt to authenticate the documents themselves. “There’s no way that I, as a document expert, can authenticate them,” Marcel Matley said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. The main

Glenn Reynolds, 2; Oliver Willis, snacking on corn dogs and touching his privates

Our Kerrypimping friend Oliver is at it again, this time dropping the mutton leg long enough to trumpet Ed Cone’s supposed smackdown of Glenn Reynolds.  Only problem is, Ed was so darned eager to land the white whale that he forgot to read the complete Michelle Malkin post that prompted him to flutter his tiny harpoon Glenn’s way in the first place.  In Ed’s defense, scrolling all the way through

“Yes, but if you were to tweak the type face manually by several pixel widths on a 1972 IBC Executive fashioned with a specialty superscript ball, you’d see conclusively that BUSH LIED!”

For those true believers still willing to mortgage their credibility on documents no more real than John Kerry’s love of baseball (“that Manny Ortez sure is a marvelous ball striker!”), take a look at this. Then go here, for the rest of today’s important Rathergate news. **** h/t LGF **** update:  fascinating post by Allah expanding on the OER / OETR acronym oddity I raised here and here (in updates

The ‘Dan Rather takes on the digital brownshirts’ poem

“It’s like somebody drove an enormous truck in through my sphincter and parked it on my aged, weary     soul. “Which, y’know—that doesn’t exactly tickle      bub…”

The semiotics of personal space

Sometimes, when I’m feeling really frisky, I like to post in nothing but thigh-high vinyl go-go boots and a spiked leather dog collar.  But then, I’ve always been something of a fashion daredevil.*