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I was going to put this in the comments in the last Lost thread, but this is too good for anybody to miss. I have no idea how long this has been going on, but Jorge Garcia (above), the actor who plays Hurley, is doing a weekly Lost podcast with a gal who calls herself Bystander [...] Nimble, silent, cunning. These are but a few of the words that don’t come to mind while watching this cat burglar ply his trade. Share on Facebook I’ve gotten behind on my postings, and it’s use-it-or-lose-it time, so here’s an info-dump for you. It’s a Mike-a-pa-looza! POLITICS: The mighty Tom Veal does a good job of explaining why Obamacare ducks the real issue: the spiraling cost of health care. (Emphasis added.) Nothing at all in the Democrats’ plan even tries to make medical resources more abundant. [...] He’s back! After the scandal of the CRU e-mail revelations and the IPCC lies (and vice versa) many wondered if the high priest of the global-warming alarmist movement had permanently retired to his electrified compound to curse, moan, and count his carbon-offset millions. Alas, we’re not done with Al Gore, yet. If the former vice-president learned nothing [...] This is not a new story, but it’s new on Snopes, where I saw it. (It took them over six months to check this out.) It appears some bitter clingers—you know, typical white people—in Idaho requested a military flyover at their “God & Country” festival, at which “new military recruits [are] inducted and all military [are] [...] This looks like a good read. The son of one of the founders of Hamas has written a book detailing his cooperation with Israeli intelligence forces. From the AP: Speaking with Haaretz, Yousef said Shin Bet agents first approached him in prison in 1996 and proposed he infiltrate the upper echelons of Hamas. He did so successfully and [...] If any of you are looking for something to do in between your Lincoln log-rolling and silver dollar-throwing contests (or your FDR wheelchair race and Kennedy-themed quarters tournament*) you could give this game a try: The object is to give your robot a set of simple instructions that will direct him to change all the blue [...] Robert Ferguson was convicted last month of stealing a woman’s wallet and a package of cheese from a convenience store, and now faces the prospect of life in prison under California’s “three-strikes” law. From the Sacramento Bee (via Scripps): Because of a lengthy criminal history that dates back 35 years, including six first-degree burglary convictions, Yolo County [...] BBC News has posted an interview with Phil Jones, the head of the beleaguered Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. The recent leak of CRU’s e-mails and data files have caused many to question the professionalism of the CRU and their allies in the global warming-alarmist community. Some key excerpts (emphases mine): Do [...] Half my relatives talk like this, so I do a lot of smiling and nodding. Share on Facebook When the Japanese decide to use Star Wars to sell tuna, all hell breaks loose… h/t Serious Eats Share on Facebook …to get a set of pom-poms? From the Seattle Times Weekly: Benjamin Grundy is a student at Garfield-Palouse High School (local population: 1,100) who says the school is discriminating against his wishes to do what all the other cheerleaders are doing. Namely, dance, wave pom-poms, wear a proper uniform and not just stand like there like a [...] Don’t they know Tuesdays are dart nights? Anybody ruins anything for me and I will not be quick to forgive. Come Wednesday evening, I will be happy to discuss things in minute detail—whether you’ve seen it or not. Share on Facebook Since the Superbowl is a week away, and meaningful baseball seems impossibly distant in the middle of a New England cold snap, I give you… …cricket? Share on Facebook Rich has an article up at Big Journalism on the James O’Keefe incident at Senator Landrieu’s office. The piece is fine, but I don’t like the picture that accompanies it: Come on, Rich! Be yourself… There we go. Anyway, O’Keefe shouldn’t have infiltrated the senator’s office, and he should be punished for his actions. Something about an order [...] You can read about the events immediately after the arrest of Umar Abdulmutallab (aka “The Pantybomber”) in the Washington Post: Captured after a bomb hidden in his underwear ignited but did not explode, Abdulmutallab initially spoke freely and provided valuable intelligence, officials said. Federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. When they [...] I thought some of you might be interested in this story in The New York Times Magazine about Charles Johnson and his Little Green Footballs blog. When I first got on the internet, I’d heard of three blogs: the Drudge Report, Powerline, and Little Green Footballs. I don’t visit any of them now, but they were [...] Poor Scott Baio. He made the mistake of linking to this unflattering photo of Michelle Obama in his Twitter feed, and for that he must be punished—killed, in fact. His comment on the photo? “WOW. He wakes up to this every morning.” When the barrage against him begins, he tries to reason with people: One bad picture of [...] Yesterday, Big Hollywood flashed back to something written by Steven Weber for The Huffington Post. The “Wings” guy, remember? The dopey one? No, the really dopey one. And that’s a pre-Wings Paul, anyway. There’s the dope. (And I didn’t go searching specially for a picture that makes you want to punch him. This is how he looks [...] Peter Robinson interviews John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer who determined that the use of enhanced interrogation methods on terrorist prisoners was constitutional. The first part of the five-part interview can be found here, or you can download the entire interview here. (Second link will launch iTunes.) The forty-minute discussion covers the inherent executive powers granted to [...] Iowahawk has a guest blogger today: Rosa Perez, the former Chief of Housekeeping Staff for the Coakley for Senate Campaign. When I am getting back, I am surprise to see Senora Coakley very happy. “Oh Rosa, oh Rosa!” she say. “El Presidente is coming for to campaign rallies for me! We are save! We are going [...] This seems like a bad idea: A Kansas judge has again refused to block a confessed abortion clinic killer from arguing in court that he should be spared a murder conviction because he believed he was saving unborn children. Wouldn’t this open the door for eco-terrorists to use this defense? “Saving the planet” would also include saving [...] A while back, Lars Walker described Sheriff Andy Taylor’s first appearance on the tube: I saw the episode and remember it. It was the Danny Thomas Show. Danny blew into Mayberry and got a ticket for speeding, or illegal parking, or something. Andy arrested him, and then arraigned him (being both local cop and justice of [...] Share on Facebook About a week ago, I wrote a post about a Newsweek interview of Nancy Pelosi which touched upon her Catholic beliefs (and the lack of them, on certain issues). While I was certainly critical of Pelosi herself, I also thought that by not responding publicly to Pelosi’s mischaracterization of the role of bishops and ignorance [...] Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post reports that Chris Dodd (D-CT) will announce today that he will not seek re-election to a sixth senate term. Dodd will join Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who announced his retirement from the Senate yesterday. Dodd’s retirement is not good news for the Republican party here in Connecticut. Dodd’s “coziness” with Countrywide [...] It’s inventor’s name is Professor Nutt, but don’t hold that against him. By harnessing benzodiazepines like diazepam, the chief ingredient in anti-anxiety med Valium, Nutt sees a future of drinking without becoming addicted, belligerent or — and here’s the kicker — intoxicated. Using one of thousands of possible benzos, researchers are working to tailor a colorless, [...] Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist whose home was invaded by a Muslim seeking revenge for a drawing of Muhammed with a bomb in his turban, avoided injury by fleeing to a panic room and summoning police. Uh, oh. No shame in that, of course. Except that he was watching his five-year-old granddaughter at the time. He did not [...] In yesterday’s open thread, the subject of Nancy Pelosi’s recent Newsweek interview arose. First, let’s get this out of the way: the interviewer is—oy!—Eleanor Clift. So if you click through and read it, you’ll see questions like this: I think a lot of people thought that once President Obama was elected, we wouldn’t see the traditional bargaining [...] Share on Facebook Frisking every passenger doesn’t seem like a viable solution. Travelers taking international flights to the United States today faced pat-down searches, new limits on carry-on luggage and more thorough screening at airport checkpoints after a Nigerian man who claimed to have ties to Al Qaeda allegedly [allegedly!] tried to bomb a jetliner headed to Detroit. Federal authorities [...] Today is the commemoration of the death of St. Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury. A learned and worldly man, Thomas was a close and trusted friend of King Henry. He was appointed by the king to a high office where he was expected to be loyal and take the king’s part against all others, [...] I spent the Christmas weekend up at my sister’s house in Monroe, Connecticut. It’s a lovely town a little north of Bridgeport, and the first taste of real New England you get when you’re driving north from New York City. There are beautiful hills and woods, churches and gazebos, lovely leaves in the fall and there [...] Dockers’ new print campaign: Once upon a time, men wore the pants, and wore them well. Women rarely had to open doors and little old ladies never crossed the street alone. Men took charge because that’s what they did. But somewhere along the way, the world decided it no longer needed men. Disco by disco, latte by foamy non-fat [...] |
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