Category Archives: Scribbles

Alessandra Mattos: Rule 5

Alessandra_Mattos_Estacio_09_IIIJust can’t get enough of the samba drum queens of Carnival in Brazil. Tho this year Carnival doesn’t begin for two more weeks.

ROTC still not welcome

They hiss and they jeer and they heckle, especially at Columbia U., where the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell opposition to ROTC was just an excuse. Now there’s a big surprise.

Wisconsin teachers skipping school

Now this is something that would never happen in Texas, teachers being allowed to take school days off to join a union picket line. Not that we don’t have our own problems, of course.

Public “servants”

ramirez-unions-oBarry doesn’t know anything about the issues in Wisconsin. He just knows what he likes.

First Lady of Junk Science

You may have thought that Al Gore, the Gorebot of Global Warming, was a unique political dabbler in things science about which he knows next to nothing.

Now comes Mrs. O., another erstwhile “progressive” biting off more than she can chew:

“Just as the White House costumed Obamacare activists in white lab coats, the fashionable Mrs. O has cloaked her meddling anti-obesity crusade in medical fakery.”

It’s easy to do, of course, in this day of warring “scientific studies” but it’s interesting that none of these Democrats, who claim to revere science so much, ever seem to have learned from their previous screwups.

The Serpent

399px-Serpent-bonanniIt’s the mellow sound of this musical instrument that keeps me coming back to it after the initial attraction of the name. (Be sure to click on the recording at the link.)

Today, I believe, the serpent survives in the form of the euphonium, or baby tuba, having gained some tubing and seen it rather drastically compressed into a much smaller space.

What popular number has the mellow tone of the Serpent-Euphonium ever played, you might ask? Try Jean-Joseph Mouret’s (1682-1738) “Rondeau” from his Symphonies and Fanfares for the King’s Supper.

Better known as the theme from Masterpiece Theater.

Secret Christian Terrorist Candy

Ach, what will those brothers of Islam worry about next? In Indonesia, it’s candy secretly produced by noisome Christians. A concern aided and abetted by the useful idiot Seymour Hersh, of course.

Via Simply Jews.