Category Archives: Blogosphere

Old school

Sometimes when you can’t do a piece exactly the way you want, giving up and just summarizing the main points is about all you need, as Cobb shows.

Stuff white people supposedly like

Hating their parents, for instance. Really? Marijuana, they say. Oh, please. Sarah Silverman. Who? This list has been getting a lot of play across the ‘sphere. But it’s bogus. Only liberals need take it seriously. If even them.

McCain: More conservative than you think

More Burkean than, for instance, Gingrich: "To movement conservatives, McCain represented heresy. But to the conservative movement, he represented a return to home truth." —Jonathan Rauch

Heresy: fair and balanced

This day in history: Democrat attacks black children with fire hose, dogs, and clubs, then jails them!

Via Instapundit 

Selflessly orbiting Earth since 1957

Comrades. It’s Laika the Space Dog, Hero of the Soviet Union (which, unfortunately, collapsed before the selfless mutt could return) with an official May Day signal to Obamunists, etc. Roll the tanks!

Visiting Israel

Had a nice chat this morning on Skype with Snoopy the Goon in Israel. It was almost like visiting the country itself, though, of course, I never left my chair in the study at the rancho. Mr. Goon, who prefers to remain anonymous, reminded me that I have said I want to visit in person, and I do, but there are too many complications at the moment. Mr. B.’s mom is afraid of going, hostage, I think, to the MSM’s drumbeat of rockets and suicide bombings. Like the way they cover Iraq, all blood and guts, and no in-between. I doubt she would let me take Mr. B. by himself, and otherwise arrangements would have to be made for taking care of him while I was gone. So, for now, an actual visit will remain no more than a future intention. But Skype brought me a little closer. My voice, at least. About fifty kilometers (thirty-one miles) from Jerusalem, in fact.

American packaging, Part II

Even a box cutter couldn’t penetrate the blister pack Miriam at Miriam’s Ideas recently encountered on a product from Amazon. She finally got the staff at her local hardware store to get the plastic packaging off the product. Mr. B. and I have struggled with this as well. I had heard the problem was being solved by the manufacturers. Apparently not.