So I have now returned from my whirlwind tour of the West (actually I got back on Tuesday, but it’s taken a few days to get everything back to normal), and I’d like to give you a brief synopsis of my travels. So we drove out from Saint Louis and headed to Denver on Friday [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I’m going to be out of town from today until July 27th or 28th, so I posting might be light for a little while. I will try to make some posts from the road if possible, but I can’t make any promises. That being said, here are some links. Love in the time of Facebook. [...]
The trolls over at the Free Republic have set their sights on the Obama children and in decidedly bigoted language to boot: “A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.” These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to [...]
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Strange (best middle name ever, by the way) McNamara died on Monday. McNamara arrived in Washington with JFK at the apogee of the old Progressive faith in the power of technocrats to plan the economy, end poverty, manage foreign affairs–in short, to centrally plan the whole world. That belief first [...]
If you still haven’t been convinced that Obama is essentially the same kind of criminal as George W. Bush, you haven’t been paying close enough attention. The latest (and extremely damning) piece of evidence comes from a statement by Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson in response to a question from Republican Senator Mel Martinez. [...]
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, and We'll Stick Them in a Cage to Die
Posted: July 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTanveer Ahmad was an immigrant from Pakistan who was swept up by immigration authorities, and despite the fact that he waived his right to protest deportation was held in the Monmouth jail where he died after three weeks of a heart attack that a fellow prisoner claims was ignored by guards. (The jail has a [...]
So this is some kind of bizarre Swedish take on American television that I can barely fathom. Maybe the Swedes have been an unappreciated source of craziness in the world. (Hat tip to Aaron Michelson.) I know some people like this. If you like baseball and crazy graphs, you’ll probably enjoy this site. Finally, the [...]
To honor the United States’ secessions (yes, that is meant to be plural; up until 1865, it was the “United States are” not the “United States is”) from the British Empire, the good folks at A Thousand Nations have been blogging on the topic of secession all week. You can find an index of posts [...]
Mark Twain is one of the many gifts in life that just keeps on giving, and this time he’s going after one of my favorite targets: puritanical douchebags who like to lecture those of us who appreciate fun about our vices. From the Old Rambler: The Moral Statistician By Samuel Clemens Originally published in Sketches, [...]
I really hate most cop drama shows. They’re formulaic, predictable, and not not very well acted. Of course, that final criticism is somewhat undercut by the even bigger problem that they usually aren’t character driven anyway because they spend so much time devoted to bullshit forensic tests that aren’t even accurate in the real world. [...]
