Category Archives: The Culture

Rule 5: Viktoria Manas

Posted on November 1, 2014 | 2 comments

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What is it about lingerie? In an age of thongs and general female nudity, the oldest, concealing forms of lingerie (and informed imagination) still appeal.

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Spook City

Posted on October 31, 2014 | 6 comments

With trick-or-treat falling on a Friday this year, we’re expecting an overflow crowd ringing the doorbell at the Rancho tonight. Unfortunately, I won’t have my usual candy give-out helper, as Mr.B. will spend the night with friends at their house.

The costumed little ones and their proud parents are always a treat and I hesitate not to be generous with them. It’s the tall teenagers and near-adults who’ll wear just a funny hat or a grotesque mask we’re more inclined to think of as a trick. So when it’s bedtime for the little ones we’ll probably turn the porch lights off.

UPDATE: Too chilly (temps in the low 60s) for the candy-mongers. Only drew five altogether—fifth through seventh graders—before I cut off the porch lights. None were little ones, alas.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, The Culture

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Fart, Barf & Itch on the campaign trail

Posted on October 31, 2014 | 4 comments

“…the FBI (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the [Eric Holder’s] DOJ) has made the highly unusual decision to disclose their investigation into Mike Rounds (pictured above), a Republican Senate candidate in South Dakota, less than a week before next Tuesday’s vote.

“The alleged misconduct being investigated is somewhat obscure–something involving a work visa program in the state–but it is notable that the alleged misconduct was to have occurred three years ago, and the FBI’s announcement comes a year after the state’s own attorney general closed its own investigation without bringing any charges.”

Just the first of many October “surprises” to come this weekend.

Via Instapundit.

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Random thoughts

Posted on October 28, 2014 | 3 comments

Of all the ways there are to get f**ked nowadays, the oldest profession still is among the most pleasant.

Even if the drug industry succeeds in replacing the dwindling supply of working antibiotics, some doctors will keep sabotaging the new ones by prescribing them for viral and other non-bacterial conditions. It’s ironic that the one group, doctors, that should know better is the one group causing the problem.

I keep confusing climatology with cosmetology.

I remember (1964) that education was the easy major for the girls and a few not-very-bright males. K-12 was at least as useless in the 1950s as it is now. As for why there are few men teachers today, could be because teaching at K-12 doesn’t pay very well for an educated, ambitious person.

Pols: And while we have all your attention focused on this trendy distraction, I’m going to get a bag full of money THIS BIG from a lobbyist to do something much harder for you peasants to understand but much more profitable for me and my cronies.

The employment of kings. Doesn’t every child aspire to be a fed?

All pols lie, but Obama is a chronic liar. He lies like an adolescent, which is to say about everything, small things and big things. He doesn’t differentiate. And it’s always someone else’s fault.

I guess you have to be a lawyer to appreciate this game of waiting to hear what our robed rulers will decide next. Politicians are just a sideshow to their main show.

Really funny how the Web catches up Old Media, and forces them to go in and scrub their old posts. I bet they dream of the old days when nobody remembered what they said a few years back, unless they clipped it out and few would bother.

If conservatives stopped writing about what MSNBC does, no one else would know.

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Ebola and the Democrats

Posted on October 24, 2014 | 1 comment

Wormtongue’s party, having finished sneering at a Texas hospital’s handling of ebola, is frantically backing and filling, lying and denying, in order to deal with the virus lately surfaced in New York, the largest city they govern, and in nearby New Jersey, which is governed by a Rino who closely identifies with them.

Actually, once they all figure out how to most effectively cover their political asses, they’ll learn that the history of the disease in the U.S. so far is pretty good: One death in nine cases.

And those two Texas nurses are now among the recovered.

So far, so good.

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Watergate: No myth like an old myth

Posted on October 23, 2014 | 1 comment

The “heroic journalist” narrative is nowhere as long-lasting or as duplicitous as the idea that the Democrat house-organ WaPo’s Watergate reporting brought down Republican President Nixon.

It focused attention on it, sure enough, as the newspaper would never have done to a Democrat president (think its dereliction with Wormtongue and the ongoing IRS scandal), but Nixon brought himself down when his audio-tapes were forcibly exposed, as historian W. Joseph Campbell makes plain.

Indeed, if Woodward and Bernstein had brought a similar story about Jimmy Carter or, heaven forfend, the immaculate-Yankee-Democrat JFK, their newly deceased editor Ben Bradlee would have immediately assigned both of them to writing wedding anouncements.

Via Instapundit.

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Why leftists hate Fox News

Posted on October 22, 2014 | Comments Off on Why leftists hate Fox News

Three news headlines from the same event:

Associated Press headline: Israel police shoot man in East Jerusalem

BBC headline: Nine hurt as car hits pedestrians at Jerusalem Station

Fox News headline: Palestinian driver kills baby at Jerusalem train station

Via Simply Jews

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