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Quote of the Day, Election Edition
From Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times, writing with no apparent sense of irony about Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Serena Mancini: She favors raising the minimum wage and indexing it to...
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Who I Hope We Are Not as Americans
So let me get this straight. We drew this imaginary line in the desert. We’ll no longer use force to move people from this side to that side, but we will still use force to prevent movement from that...
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Trey Gowdy Thinks You’re Stupid
Here we have six and a half minutes of Representative Trey Gowdy badgering Jonathan Gruber while studiously avoiding any form of substance. There’s a lot Gowdy could have asked, like “So, is it...
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The Egomaniac in Chief
So President Obama finds it remarkable that he’s been mistaken for a valet driver and a waiter. I have some questions for my readers: Is there anyone who hasn’t been mistaken for a driver, a Home Depot...
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Sweet Talk
Is it only me who is driven crazy by the American Heart Association’s campaign against “added sugars”, and the attendant campaign to label foods for their added sugar content? Look. I am no expert, so...
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News Flash
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that the president of the United States can do any damn thing he wants to, regardless of the law. Where were these guys when Nixon needed them? Click here to comment or...
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Poison Apple
There are about a million reasons why I hate my iPhone, but this one pretty much sums it all up. On my phone, I’ve got quite a few files that were not downloaded from any of my other devices. These...
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Party of the Rich
I did not watch the debate. I chose to go to my aerial silks lesson instead. When I got home, the debate was half over. I turned it on for about a minute, during which Marco Rubio managed to turn my...
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Late Night Thoughts
Hey, stay calm. Germany elected Hitler, and they survived okay. Less flippantly, there are some silver linings in this very dark cloud: Lots of good people re-elected to the Senate: Portman, Toomey —...
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Dear Google: Please Stop Trying to Kill Me
When I’m in the car, I use my phone as a music player. Sometimes a song comes on that I’m not in the mood to hear. Once upon a time — in fact, once upon a very recent time — I could say “Okay Google....
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Slippery Lube
It has been said of Lubos Motl that he’s hard to ignore, but it’s always worth the effort. I will, soon enough, take this advice to heart. But not quite yet. Lubos’s penchant for twisting other...
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Foreign Policy
The LA Times reports that Republican lawmakers have called on the Obama administration to return to the Bush-era practice of sending jackbooted thugs into private workplaces to arrest illegal aliens —...
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Hawkeye Talk
Some people claim (perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly, perhaps absurdly — I lean toward the latter) that gay people, on average, are less successful as parents. In a video that’s begun to go viral,...
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In a Fit of Pique
For God’s sake, don’t let your children subscribe to Sirius/XM. Since May 4, when Sirius rearranged all its channel numbers, my radio has been badly confused. If I punch in station 23, it goes to the...
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Turn Off Their Lights
The EPA announced yesterday that new regulations mandating fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks will cost vehicle buyers $8 billion, but that will be paid for in fuel savings over a year or two....
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Jesus Christ!
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, writing in the Atlantic, has figured out that Jesus Christ wants you to be a Democrat. There are, you see, 2500 passages in the New Testament that call on us to care about...
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Note to Continental Airlines
Your inability to construct a functional website does not fill me with confidence about your ability to fly me across the Atlantic Ocean. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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You Pays Your Money…..
A few months ago, I sat in a Dutailier glider and discovered that I had lived half a century with no concept of how comfortable a chair can be. My wife had exactly the same reaction. So we’d like to...
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Playing the Dunce
This morning I heard President Obama call for universities to lower their tuition rates so that “everybody in America can go to college”. I am virtually certain that the President is not stupid enough...
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A Bit of a Screed
On New Years Eve, two people were arrested for stealing soap from the Walgreens in my neighborhood. If you think that’s a pretty minor crime, consider this — one of the perpetrators was the exact same...
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