Category Archives: Scribbles

Joke of the day

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 4 comments

The mosque (also called a family center rather than a worship place, though might include a chapel) at ground zero has always seemed inappropriate (at best) to me. So the news that some of its antagonists are proposin g to put a gay bar next door is a hoot. The wellknown lack of tolerance of the Religion of Peace is likely to choke on that one.

UPDATE:  Leave it to Obamalot to step in  it. Right on cue. Barry’s backing the family center/chapel/mosque/whatever it is. Of course he’s splitting hairs between the “right” and the “wisdom.” Well, that’s no surprise.

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The 200-mile rule

Posted on August 8, 2010 | 5 comments

That’s what they used to call it at a certain Dallas newspaper that is no more. Meaning when the story was beyond 200 miles being extra careful about the facts became, essentially, unnecessary. Because nobody out thataway was likely to be reading it.

In New York City, and New Jersey, when I worked in NJ in the 70s, it was more like the 50-mile rule, but the principle was the same. Emphasis on was. The intertubes have changed all that everywhere. Now, not only is everyone beyond 50- or 200-miles likely to read it, people on the other side of the world can, too. It makes everything harder. See why the legacy media hates the Web?

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The Grabblers

Posted on August 6, 2010 | Comments Off on 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.

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Liveblogging the Rangers’ auction

Posted on August 4, 2010 | Comments Off on 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).

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Fixes

Posted on August 2, 2010 | Comments Off on 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.

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The Jew-baiter’s lexicon

Posted on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off on 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.

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Iowahawk on the Volt: Infantile ads

Posted on July 30, 2010 | Comments Off on Iowahawk on the Volt: Infantile ads

Nevermind the $41,000 pricetag. Government Motors’ new Chevy Volt irks car-nut Iowahawk just for its cheesy advertising. “See the U.S.A., etc.” this is not. Buy a Ford, he says, for better songs. Me, I’ll stick with Honda, and skip the ads altogether.

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