Category Archives: Blogosphere

Off to Port A

Our annual jaunt to the beach begins Monday and will increase by one day and night this year, as the condo adds a free day to three paid. Sign of the economic times, no doubt—though Texas isn’t suffering near the 22 percent unemployment indicated by some measures.

Hardly in Michelle Obama’s class, of course (“Michelle’s $375,000 Spanish vacation — with the Daily Mail dubbing her a ‘modern-day Marie Antoinette’—closing Mediterranean beaches while booking 60-plus rooms in a five star Marbella hotel for her entourage…”), but, then, we’re spending our own money, not yours.

Political Correctness collapsing?

Oh, happy day. Would that it would be, as Glenn Loury of Brown U. says, true. Of course, my take is that it will just be replaced by a new kind. Society seems to work that way.

Via Instapundit.

The Grabblers

Well, what do you know? The Jew-baiters have migrated to The Onion. Taking lessons from Hamas? (The cartoon is straight out of the Arab media.) Or just the good, old American neo-Nazi version? Amazing, really.

UPDATE:  Yes, I know, they probably intended it to be satire. But it cuts way too close to the bone to be funny. Call it another example of  “When Satire Goes Wrong.” Dreadfully wrong.

Liveblogging the Rangers’ auction

Me, I gave up on the Strangers years ago. But not TFG. He’s a devoted fan.

UPDATE: Hall of Fame pitcher and Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan won the bidding. I’m happy. So is TFG (Warning: second link Not Safe For Work).

Instalanch for Knoxville 1863

Good old Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, acknowledged the review copy I sent him of the historical novel and he posted its title and Amazon link this morning. Thanks, Glenn.

Only problem for me is that he posted the link to the Lulu-distributed edition, for which I get pennies on the dollar, instead of the CreateSpace-distributed one, for which I get a lot more.

But some click-throughs are noticing that the CS one is about half as costly, and they’re buying it. And the ebook also is selling. It is (as of this moment) ranked No. 56 in Historical Fiction for the Kindle. Yee-haw!

Fixes

Still working on Knoxville 1863, the Kindle ebook version. The current one is unindented, which doesn’t bother some people, people used to intertube text, which is rarely indented. But it bothered me. I bought a book by a local fellow to try to learn how to fix it myself. Finally gave up and engaged his fee service. Almost done. Just two typos and two mistakes in the Afterword to fix. Mistakes explained here.

The Jew-baiter’s lexicon

Playing with fire is trendy again. So listen up. You’ll know it when you hear or read it, and you will, you will:

“The Israel Lobby,” “Neocons,” “Good Jews vs. Bad Jews,” “Conflict of Interest,” “No One Can Criticize Israel Without Being Labeled An Anti-Semite,” “Hasbara,” “I Like Jews, I Just Don’t Like Zionists,” “The Uniquely Evil Evil That Is Israel,” “The Awesome Power Of Jewish Mind-Control.”

My buddy Snoopy at the Zionist Entity can tell you all about the mind-control part. He actually does it. (Ignore his flag. He doesn’t mean you.)

UPDATE:  Snoop has this great quote from a Hungarian writer: “An anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” Heh.