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City by the Bay(ing)

Meryl Yourish reports on the Bay Area’s pro-Pal peacenik crowd — people who sometimes forget the whole “peaceful” bid’ness once the scent of unarmed Jew gets into the air: “The shame of SFSU“ [update: SFSU’s President, Robert A. Corrigan, responds. Sensibly.]

‘Splain, please

This is why I could never be an economist: Lands Endtrade; gets bought up by Sears….and its stock soars? What gives? I mean, are investors really that excited about oatmeal-heather anorak pullovers with the “Toughskin” label…?

‘Splain, please

This is why I could never be an economist: Lands Endtrade; gets bought up by Sears….and its stock soars? What gives? I mean, are investors really that excited about oatmeal-heather anorak pullovers with the “Toughskin” label…?

Talk the Talk

Ah, springtime! — sun glittering on the giblets…. Time to throw a hardbelly on the bush pad and hope she’ll set the puppies free, eh hoss…? Jammers, I’m talkin’ to here. Not the hype-suckers. You dig?

U.N.-democratic

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Arnold Beichman — a Hoover Institute research fellow and a former U.N. correspondent — argues that the U.S. shouldn’t appease the United Nations, even if it means “going it alone”: The degradation of the U.N. is symbolized by the nose-thumbing action of the majority ensconced in the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. This is the same group that booted the United States last year in

Met my old lover in the grocery store…

So Rolling Stone has just put out its list of “The 50 Uncoolest Records” — a list that includes absolutely fantastic stuff by such musical luminaries as the Carpenters, the 5th Dimension, Neil Diamond… Hell, it even includes Bread’s Greatest Hits. Bread…! Bread “uncool“? You’ve got to be kidding me! I mean, since when did getting laid become “uncool”…? …Or are the chicks these days not falling for the whole

Met my old lover in the grocery store…

So Rolling Stone has just put out its list of “The 50 Uncoolest Records” — a list that includes absolutely fantastic stuff by such musical luminaries as the Carpenters, the 5th Dimension, Neil Diamond… Hell, it even includes Bread’s Greatest Hits. Bread…! Bread “uncool“? You’ve got to be kidding me! I mean, since when did getting laid become “uncool”…? …Or are the chicks these days not falling for the whole

P.J. Soles, you rock my world…

“A New Jersey toddler was released from the hospital Sunday morning after being struck in the head with a javelin,” MSNBC reports. “The accident happened Saturday afternoon during a track meet at Haddon Township High School. Police aren’t sure how the 3-year-old boy was hit.” Well, one guess is that the boy’s head found itself in the same spacio-temporal point as a sharpened, airborn projectile interrupted in flight by the

P.J. Soles, you rock my world…

“A New Jersey toddler was released from the hospital Sunday morning after being struck in the head with a javelin,” MSNBC reports. “The accident happened Saturday afternoon during a track meet at Haddon Township High School. Police aren’t sure how the 3-year-old boy was hit.” Well, one guess is that the boy’s head found itself in the same spacio-temporal point as a sharpened, airborn projectile interrupted in flight by the

Emotionalism.  Is it.  Can it be.  Enough?

Writing in The New Republic, Rob Walker (Slate’s “Moneybox” columnist)