Monthly Archives: September 2007

Guy Town

Posted on September 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Guy Town

In Matamoras and other Mexican border towns, the legal bordello is called "Boy’s Town." In Austin, beginning about a hundred and thirty years ago and extending into the teens of the 20th century when it was outlawed, the red light district was called "Guy Town." The funny part is that its remains were only finally explored by private archeologists a few years ago, right before Austin built its new downtown city hall, more or less on the same spot. So you could say that today’s elected whores are approriately located.

Comments Off on Guy Town

Posted in Texana

Tagged , , , , ,

The tragedy of multiculturalism

Posted on September 21, 2007 | Comments Off on The tragedy of multiculturalism

The modern American elite university, quick to condemn its own country, slow to confront much less to condemn obvious foreign evil, embraces an Iranian thug:

"Columbia doesn’t host ROTC or (I think) military recruiters on campus, because it would be just too offensive to do so, because the military obeys the law passed by a Democrat Congress and signed by Bill Clinton which bars open homosexuals from serving in the military," Michael Ledeen emails Instapundit. "OK…Why (then) think a man who heads a regime that executes homosexuals–not just excludes them from military service, but hangs them by the neck until dead, in public ceremony– should be honored with an invitation to speak at Columbia?"

At least Mahmoud the Mad has only talked about destroying Israel. He hasn’t actually tried it. Yet.

Comments Off on The tragedy of multiculturalism

Posted in The War

Tagged , , ,

Amnesty for illegals

Posted on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Amnesty for illegals

You thought it was dead, right? Think again. And, of course, there’s still no border fence. Still.

UPDATE: Another excellant argument for term limits. Newspapers we can stop buying and TV news stop watching. Getting rid of entrenched and elitest pols is harder. But it also can be done. 

Comments Off on Amnesty for illegals

Posted in Scribbles

Ladies Night Over Afghanistan

Posted on September 20, 2007 | 2 comments

030206-F-0000G-007

This is an old favorite of mine. It’s a four-plus years old photo, from the early days of Operation Enduring Freedom, and these gals may no longer be flying KC-135 Stratotankers for refueling fighter-bombers over there. But you can bet that they’re flying aerial gas stations somewhere. It’s a nice illustration of both the all-volunteer military and the 9/11 generation. They are not what you think.

2 Comments

Posted in Afghanistan, The War, Troops

Tagged , ,

The Gazan Entity

Posted on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The Gazan Entity

Those hundreds of rockets that Hamas has been raining down on Israeli towns (and an Army barracks) are about to get a military response and a few civilian ones (like shutting off the air conditioning), since Israel provides more than half of the Gaza electricity and fuel. The dictator’s club at the UN (of course) decries Israel’s recent declaration of Gaza as an "enemy entity," but the White House backs it.

Comments Off on The Gazan Entity

Posted in Israel, The War, Troops

Tagged , ,

Blogrush added

Posted on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Blogrush added

Taking a tip from Snoopy the Goon, I have added Blogrush to my sidebar in hopes of reviving my anemic visitor count. So far the ad block seems not to have registered where I put it. I was never adept at even the simple programming, however. So, who knows, it may show up yet. Or not. I have noticed one objectionable thing about it. It takes forever to load. This experiment may not last.

Comments Off on Blogrush added

Posted in Uncategorized

The spelling king

Posted on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The spelling king

Mr. Boy left this morning for school confident of another 100 (or better) on his weekly spelling test. He not only can spell the assigned list of 24 relatively easy (for me) words, but has two of the hard (for me) bonus words down after he struggled to memorize them yesterday. Try spelling "proboscis" and "spiracles" yourself. They’re from his class’s science study of caterpillers and butterflies.

UPDATE: Maybe we should demote him to spelling prince. He got a 91, having misspelled two of the "easy" words, "speak" and "bring," out of twenty. But "bring" only because he wrote a "d" instead of a "b." Likewise with "proboscis," writing a "d" instead of a "b". Got spiracles right, though. Sigh. Guess we have to work more on writing, and being careful. 

Comments Off on The spelling king

Posted in Mr. Boy

Tagged , ,