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Share on Facebook O.K., I’ll go first… There was a Polack with a Big Journalism by-line, Who longed to be global warming debunking’s Mark Steyn. When working a deadline for the late edition, He was unable to re-fill his viagra prescription, T’hat’s when his wife learned he’d been hiding the decline. McFloyd O’Turbo’s turn: Share on Facebook Share on Facebook For some reason this color version is edited. If you feel the need for the entire song in Black and White here it is. Share on Facebook Christopher Hitchens’ long-awaited memoir Hitch-22 is out in June. His brother, Peter, has a memoir of his own set for release tomorrow called The Rage Against God. Imagine being called upon by some publisher with the task of writing the story of the Hitchens brothers – utter doom. What writer could put into words the lives [...] Ban fishing? Obama is the one who is a barbarian… Here are some cultural offering for him: I’d include Moby Dick, but of course that was whaling. The person who does not appreciate hunting and fishing does not fully appreciate God’s creation. Share on Facebook 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 [...] Share on Facebook Christopher Hitchens, in Slate, writes a review of the book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matter by B.R. Myers Hitchens begins: Visiting North Korea some years ago, I was lucky to have a fairly genial “minder” whom I’ll call Mr. Chae. He guided me patiently around the ruined and starving country, [...] The Thin Man (1934) I’m not even sure where to begin… as films go this is [...] I was never one of the legion of admirers of “Catcher in the Rye.” Well written? Sure. But also petulant, self-serving and – despite its legendary status as a ground-breaking piece of literature, rather obvious. But then I grew up in the 60’s so cynicism and nihilism were pretty much the order of the day [...] Share on Facebook In honor of the Lost in Austen series (which runs twice today on OvationTV)… Which fictional character(s) would you like to meet, if given the chance? 5. Adam Dalgliesh: PD James’s detective. And poet. How do you live that life? 4. Sinbad: Or any of those Thousand & One Nights guys. Eh, I must be culturally bound. 3. Sid Halley/Kit Fielding: Or [...] 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 [...] Frank Munro — author The Story of Ferdinand — was serious about grammar. Too bad he didn’t win that battle. In isolation, good grammar is a small thing. Good grammar is, however, a signpost of civilization (and is in no way the exclusive domain of the wealthy) and it is not coincidence [...] One positive of seeing Alvin and the Chipmunks was this trailer. My 10 year old son burned through these novels this past summer and loved them all. What happens when Greek demi-gods live in the 21st century and your teacher is actually a harpy? Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Peter Robinson from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and from National Review Online hosts an online interview show called Uncommon Knowledge. I cannot praise it high enough. Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Hitchens, and scores of others have been interviewed in 45 minutes sessions (broken down into 5 parts usually) by Robinson. [...] Our man Rich has been johnny-on-the-spot regarding the junk science of climate change — or man-made global warming or whatever. This science has not been the only place for shenanigans of course. The largest area of junk science since alchemy has come from the broad amorphous field called the social sciences (so-called) including [...] Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Al Gore — in his most recent climate tome — has penned a poem which he read on CNN. Below in italics is Gore’s poem. In bold are some random thoughts I had as I read his work. One thin September soon What pray tell is a “thin” September? [...] This week’s show will feature a pre-recorded interview with National Review editor, columnist and author of Liberal Fascism Jonah Goldberg. Since there won’t be a call-in available for that portion of the show (Sunday from 2-4 PM PST at righttalkradio.com) if you have any questions you’d like us to ask him please put them [...] Posting time for the FNWayne clan has been light today, so here’s a greatest hit from May – my review of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. —————————- My family’s only true vacation occurred three years ago. Shortly beforehand, I gave reading another try. Besides the occasional comic book as a kid, I never [...] Paparazzi and bored sportswriters are not the only ones to profit off the troubles of Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordgren — no those greedy bastards who write physics books in layman’s terms also profit. This is disgusting. It’s not as illustrious as having the president publicly declare he’s reading your book — as [...] Share on Facebook And run for office in 1944 knowing he wouldn’t finish his term? Here’s a fascinating article from Slate on a book called FDR’s Deadly Secret — coming out in January. Beginning in early 1944, the fact that Roosevelt had severely elevated blood pressure and congestive heart failure was also kept secret. These diagnoses were made [...] Share on Facebook Here’s an interesting piece from the Nat’l Endowment for the Humanities’ magazine Humanities on General Lew Wallace and his greatest known work Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Here’s a taste, read the whole thing here: Since its first publication, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has never been out of print. It outsold [...] If lightning only struck irony, I could see the New York Times headquarters from Ohio. Hotair quoted the Times review of Sarah Palin’s tome “Going Rogue.” Here’s the selection. Yet, Mr. McCain’s astonishing decision to pick someone with so little experience (less than two years as the governor of Alaska, and before that, two terms as [...] Bullshit: 1. Rubbish, nonsense I know most of you don’t have a dog in this fight, but here goes… Evangelicals know well — or should — the writings of Francis Schaeffer on worldview. He was sort of a hippy fundamentalist in that he loved art, music, etc., but had basically fundamentalist views of Christianity [...] Haven’t heard from Wanks so I apologize up front!!! OK Threedonians…. it is of course, Halloween. What are your top 5 Halloween memories? Or in the alternative things that creep you out or scare you? 1. Tarantulas… I can kill black widows and all manner of small spiders all the live long [...] The OED is down today so this definition comes from A Preface to Philosophy 3d ed. by Mark B. Woodhouse, Wadsworth (1984). Deontological: “Any ethical system or standard in which the rightness of an act is defined by reference to factors other than the act’s consequences.” Today’s example comes from my dear State of California. The U.S. Supreme [...] All hail the cliche! Don’t get your knickers in a twist and don’t get too big for your britches (breeches too) young whippersnapper. Cliches are invaluable — valuable even (from Boston.com): But here’s the thing: were any of them quite as good as “fit as a fiddle?” Time, to use a particularly sage cliché, [...] h/t: reminded by comment Rufus made about Europeans loving weak Presidents and detesting strong ones… this is an illustration I use in my International law seminar on International law, the UN, and other aspects of the “world community”. It’s important to stay alert. Share on Facebook From Sports Illustrated: Larry Johnson says in the book Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams’ frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second [...] (Floyd Here: I originally posted this in March and the link to the full-article no longer works) C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters in the 1940s — a story of a demon who counsels his young charge on how to properly tempt his human — a tour de force in human nature, the nature of evil, [...] Share on Facebook I referenced a Bush quote about Jimmy Carter earlier today from an upcoming memoir by Matt Latimer, a young former speechwriter from the later years of the Bush Administration. He’s disillusioned — natch. The Huffington Post marveled and swooned over released snippets that make various Bush officials out to be fools and [...] George W. Bush on Jimmy Carter. …And Mike! comes to the rescue! That’s all there was from that quote. There’s some others here, from Matt Latimer’s book on Bush. Share on Facebook |
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