The blogosphere–criticizing the NYTimes’ chief cretin columnist Bob Herbert–boldly goes where few have gone before:
"Are doctors humiliated when patients show up and expect them to palpate and attend to their naked body parts?"
Beats me, but I hope not.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles
Tagged Ann Althouse, Bob Herbert, legal prostitution
I seem to have lost my “I Stand With Israel” banner on the top left of this site’s first page. Indeed, Jack Lewis dot net, from whence the banner came, seems to be off the air, as well. I had noticed that JL previously had tried to limit people using the banner, but now it’s gone completely. I’ll have to hunt around for a substitute. I’ve tried uploading thumbnails for the sidebar but no luck so far. I’m either too inept or Movable Type is too obtuse. Or something.
UPDATE: Then it returned, at least temporarily. Links to a dogs and cats site, now, instead of Lewis’s.
MORE: Three days later, it’s still wavering. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. I’m going to have to start seeking an alternative, I guess.
ADDENDUM: With the new site on WordPress, I have a newbie, an “I (heart) Israel” banner, which does the trick nicely.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Site building
Instapundit has an interesting post on the actions of sheriff’s deputies in Denver, enforcing a court order. He takes pains to post both sides, the complainants and the cops, but then he can’t resist ending it with a swiping bit of irrelevance more worthy of a snarling liberal than a dispassionate libertarian: "I doubt they’d have gone this route in a fancy neighborhood nearly as quickly as in a trailer park."
As an old cop reporter who has frequently been infuriated by police behavior, I must say they’d have to be terminally stupid not to treat a trailer park differently than a fancy neighborhood, considering they’re statistically a lot more likely to be gunned down in the former than the latter. That Prof. Reynolds–whose good stuff I read every day–doesn’t seem to realize this doesn’t speak too well of his understanding of law enforcement. Or is it just another example of the blogosphere’s tendency to go off half-cocked?
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Tagged Blogosphere, Instapundit, S.W.A.T.
Columbia University, denying an Iranian report that some professors are enroute to Tehran to apologize to Mahmoud-the-mad for insults on his recent New York visit, includes an interesting little slap:
"We ask that a clarification be added….and that verification of the facts even during the era of Google’s news value-neutral, digital age continues to be warranted."
Ah, yes, let’s bemoan the end of the days when the gatekeepers got to decide "news value." Boo hoo.
Via Simply Jews
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Columbia University, Google's news value-neutral digital age, Simply Jews
No, she’s not from Texas. But here’s a Miss America candidate we can all get behind, a real Utah National Guard medic and Afghanistan veteran. Outlaw 13 at Guidons, Guidons, Guidons! shows how.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged Miss Utah, Sgt Jill Stevens, Utah National Guard
My old Army bud Chuck Waldron and I like to recall our eight to nine months as platoon leaders in the Sixth Armored Cavalry Regt., 1968-69, before going to Vietnam as light-infantry advisors to SVN militia. Among other things we guarded Nixon’s inauguration, though me and my guys got to sit in the warm armory while he and his had to be outside in the cold.
I know he’ll be interested in this Civil War enthusiast’s plan to spend this year tracing the then-new regular Army regiment’s activities through their annual returns for 1862. I wonder when the unicorn shoulder patch was authorized? Before, or after, the regiment served here in Austin under Custer in 1865-68 as post-war federal occupiers?
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War, Infantry OCS, Texana, Viet Nam
Tagged 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, Crossed Sabers
Beldar, our favorite "trial" lawyer–even if he is in Houston–says it’s time for us Texans to shell out for our fav GOP candidate, even if it ‘s just $25. In order to have any say in choosing the nominee, that is, since the choice is likely to have been made by the time the Texas primary rolls around. He’s for Fred, of course, and makes a good case. I may be just a little too liberal for Fred since I still like Rudy. But I agree with him that the Reps are going to run the table on the Dems next year, whichever candidate is chosen.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, Texana, The War
Tagged Beldar, Fred, GOP vs. Dems, Rudy
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 