Satch at the Grappling Gobbler tournament Saturday Nov 30, wrestling up in the 56 lb class at 48.4 lbs.

Tell me. Does any of this sound familiar to you? Because it should, to you long time readers especially. Though I don’t begrudge it being repeated over and over and over again. I guess I just wish I hadn’t been so unceremoniously dismissed as an hyperbolic, unhelpful crank, one engaging in ideas characterized as “fundamentally unserious” or “pseudo-intellectual,” given their transcendence of the temporal and the pragmatic. protein wisdom: an

I don’t really know what it is, this pap smear thingie — and my OBGYN seemed to have a hard time figuring out what to do or where to scrape — but even though whatever she ended up doing hurt like the dickens (but don’t worry, I’m fairly certain I’m cervical cancer free; I just used my free health care as a precautionary measure), it was worth it. Because it

Never let a crisis (or if needs be, the anniversary of one) go to waste. And as a corollary? Make sure to bring plenty of chips, dip, music, and festive progressive cheer. After all, it’s not often you get to use the murder of elementary school children as a chance to throw a raucus set of house parties meant to galvanize your constituency into going after those in no way

Witness, for instance, the “civilized” fascism of the contemporary Democrat party, which is couching its totalitarian designs in the false nobility and unearned moral authority of sleazy elected officials and their army of appointed, faceless, bureaucratic lifers. What they believe — and so are determined to act upon — is real, and it is the very essence of liberal fascism. What we are engaging in isn’t some mere set of

Though we’ve still been under the weather, Satchel gutted it out and competed in two tournaments this weekend, the first the Grappling Gobbler in Johnstown CO Saturday, the second the Hall of Fame Classic in Broomfield on Sunday.  As some of you in the past have (incomprehensibly to me) noted that you have no interest in this kind of stuff — and would prefer I just post things of interest

Say it ain’t so, Orange Johnnyius!  From Dudley Brown, National Association for Gun Rights: Will your Congressman vote to let President Barack Obama ban wooden stocks and to allow a massive crack-down on firearms manufacturing? I hope not, but that’s what the Republican-controlled House may be on the verge of doing in a vote that could come later today. Let me explain. Last week, I told you about how Chuck

Without beating you over the head too much with an explication of the failings of textualism as an approach toward legitimate (rather than expedient and self-serving) interpretation, I’ll try to place it in some — ahem — context, especially for those who believe a “critical reading” of a text like that  of the “Gettysburg Address” can be shorn of its context and read in a populist manner based on how

…The outfit Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove find much more important to hector, malign, and vilify than they do Democrats — who as we know by now, the convenient myth-making and propagandizing to the contrary, are Democrats only in the sense that they aren’t establishment Republicans. Establishment Republicans are the new Democrats (mostly of the JFK variety), while today’s Democrat party — often unbeknownst to those who vote for it

— Which headline, I take it, is supposed to ooze of irony — but which misses the central fact that Obama, by dint of being black, can’t commit a racially insensitive faux pas.  Nor be a racist. I know this because, if he’s taught me nothing else, Spike Lee has taught me this. And Spike Lee is, like, the late-twentieth-century’s very own Frederick Douglass.   Except without the having been subjected