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Fans of the TV show Seinfeld might remember the episode called, “The Summer of George” where reoccurring character George Costanza spends the severance money he received from his former employer, the New York Yankees on shall we say questionable things, with his summer ultimately ending with him in the hospital. James Taranto in a column for [...]
“Herpetarian Monarch” (2nd Anniversary celebration re-print. Original posted 2/25/2009) I’m not a Baby Boomer but their generation has been a force of inspiration throughout my life. Although many of you likely share my disappointment at missing out on being one (due to the cruel fate of a mis-timed birth), I am sure you all share my [...]
“Loser” (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 2/25/2009) Yes, the Baby Boomers have given us many brilliant people to idolize, even worship. Yet, like all generations theirs was not without its problems. Despite the enlightened course so many of its members demonstrated, some people born in this era failed to follow the obviously superior [...] Czech President Vaclav Havel and the Rolling Stones… Prague 1990 Here is a great piece from yesterday’s The New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones coming to Prague — after 40-plus years behind the Iron Curtain and 25-years after the British Invasion of rock and roll had swept the West. That night in [...]
(from the Washington Times) MARBELLA, Spain (AP) — Security was tight at the posh Hotel Villa Padierna in southern Spain as Michelle Obama and her 9-year-old daughter Sasha arrived for a summer vacation in a motorcade. Mrs. Obama was accompanied by longtime family friends but did not identify them. The first lady will also pay an [...] David Mamet, playwright (Glengarry Glenross, Speed the Plow and American Buffalo), screenwriter (The Spanish Prisoner, Ronin, The Verdict, The Untouchables) and even creator of TV shows (The Unit) has written a collection of essays called Theatre which seem to flesh out his recently realized conversion (of sorts) to conservatism — or at least not liberalism [...] Notice the above… pretty cool postcard huh? Well it wasn’t just a measly postcard. No, it was much much more… See what it was below the fold: Share on Facebook William Kristol has a good piece over at The Weekly Standard on how our era of irresponsibility is quickly coming to an end and a “period of consequences” (to paraphrase Churchill) is nigh: We’ve hoped that the world might remain reasonably peaceful, friendly, and civilized—while skimping on our defense budgets and our military forces. More recently, [...] George W. Bush caught a lot of heat when he said that illegal aliens do jobs “Americans won’t do”. As each passing year of college freshman come through my classroom I think he is right — and as I look at many of my colleagues (especially the Gen x and Y) I am even [...] http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/jaywalk-622/1235457/?__source=tnt%7Chome%7Cleftcolumn%7Cjaywalking The above is the “Jay Walking” clip I was talking about. How do you have a conversation with these folks about the Constitution, or our nation’s founding, or the principles it was built on? There is no common ground. These people have common ground with one another. Theirs is a narrative that is 180 degrees from [...] I try to avoid linking to Steyn because everything the guy writes is more brilliant than anything anyone else is writing. After awhile, the brilliance becomes mundane, but… Readers may recall Ann Coulter’s visit to the University of Ottawa a couple of months back. The Provost, François Houle, had threatened her with criminal [...] Since Floyd has copped to listening to NPR I suppose it’s safe for me to come out of the closet. Ira Glass has one of the most annoying voices to ever earn a living on radio. He can pack more condescension and superiority into a simple, “Good Morning” than Shakespearean trained Lionel Barrymore’s, “You’re worth [...] According to a Dutch study… people who label themselves as “swingers” — those who trade partners or engage in group sex(Go Google Ads go!) have a much higher rate of STD than prostitutes. From CBS News: Dutch researchers analyzed almost 9,000 patients at three sexual health clinics and found that 10.4 percent of older couples [...] Socialists and green whack jobs do no play. Witness this story from Spain — courtesy of Pajamas Media: Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. Says [...] So I just saw this at the Mirage (Hi Fritz!) which leads me to the following questions: The Beatles; Overrated? Underrated? Justrightrated? Could there have been “The Beatles” without these four guys? Were/Are any replaceable? How important was George Martin? Would the Beatles have been the Beatles without him? Would George Martin have been George Martin without them? Share on [...] I’m one of those people who enjoys a good thunderstorm. They’re awesome. I’ve never really been even nervous in a thunderstorm, but the whopper that blew through as I was driving home from work yesterday scared the poop out of me. The rain blowing horizontally across my windshield was coming down so hard that the [...] While I’m ordinarily not much of a modern-movie guy (which begs the question: what the hell am I doing blogging at this site?) I did stumble across the super-secret trailer for the A-Team movie sequel. And, I gotta say: it looks AWESOME! Check it out, below the fold. Share on Facebook In JohnFN’s post about Christopher Hitchens’ memoir David Marcoe commented on his frustration with Christopher Hitchens, mainly regarding his vocal and often vicious attacks on religion. A lot of us here like to philosophize a bit, many of us are also practicing members of a religious faith and many of us also admire guys like [...] Hawaii was not yet a State… Nice to see the WSJ and Ms. Rabinowitz waking up to what I opined in this very excellent, November 11th post. Ms. Rabinowitz makes some good, valid points, but she focuses mainly on the administration’s treatment of terrorism. An extremely important topic, obviously, and she is correct, but [...] I’ve posted this before, but Rich’s post reminded me of this looming danger, much, much worse than CO2. Share on Facebook Meet the Trzuprs, circa 1995. Clockwise from top-left: Gene, Ger, Stosh, Dorts and moi. Since we’ve been discussing sibling abuse, how about posting some of the best/worst crap that was done to you by a sibling, or that you did to a sibling. (Feel free to substitute cousins or friends, if you’re an “only”). [...] Do well get punished. Welcome to base camp 4 on the descent into the hole in which Western Civilization is sinking. From Toronto’s National Post: In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more [...] …get a Thud flying again. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the F-105 Thunderchief, it was a single seat all weather fighter bomber that flew 75% of all missions over North Vietnam. Approximately half were lost to enemy fire. A little over a hundred F-105 pilots were killed in action and a [...] (ed. — Proud husband prerogative bump…) It’s amazing what one sees in SoCal on our wide wonderful freeways. We saw this this morning (5/28)… happily there were no fatalities and we drove by before the fire department got there in force so we were mere minutes behind it. I could feel the heat on [...] The southside neighborhood of Garfield Park, located in the city I grew up in, is not one of America’s more pleasant places. A long time ago – back in the twenties perhaps? – Garfield Park was an upscale place to live. You can still see signs of the affluence if you look hard, but this [...] Good news everybody! The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture has finally gotten off the dime. The MSM missed the story (of course), but we’ve got you covered at Threedonia. From Monday’s Federal Register: “The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to revise the Federal meat inspection regulations to permit [...] Man on Wire (2008) I always remember laughing my rear end off watching All in the Family as a kid. Mostly because he said outrageous things and though I was too young to catch Norman Lear’s purpose my parents laughed despite the caricature that was Archie Bunker. I’ve also noticed that I have never laughed while catching [...] Watch the above video. This is the man hand selected by the Commander in Chief of our armed forces to prosecute the laws of our land and keep us safe from bad guys. This is beyond absurd. I guess, when Eric Holder said we are a “nation of cowards,” he was looking in a mirror.
Hasta la vista, Ahnold. Since our readers are some of the smartest folk on the interwebs I know you are already aware of the fight California is picking with Arizona. California’s governor, a legal immigrant to the U.S., has joked that he won’t travel to Arizona for fear he’ll be rounded up [...] (you can read the whole article here, http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/07/welch.sex.pill/index.html) Raquel Welch: (CNN) — Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values. … for young [...] Let’s see, the SUV loaded with explosives in Times Square was parked by a building where Viacom has offices in NY City. Viacom, of course, owns Comedy Central and I seem to remember that Matt and Trey were very, very bad boys just a couple of weeks ago on Comedy Central. Now a “senior administration official” [...] This is a 720 degree panorama video of the implosion of Texas Stadium. You can drag it around and up and down with your cursor. Awesome. It’s on a loop so about half way through pan up to see the girder that kills the camera. h/t: Immersive Media Share on Facebook …doesn’t mean that little green men aren’t out to get you. Since we have had a dearth of good conspiracy theories lately, allow me to present one for your approval. I suspect – but do not know – that I’m not the first to come up with this one: what are the chances that the explosion [...] If you are a highly motivated young person who abhors the flesh and have (very) lofty goals… al-Qaeda has a job for you. Share on Facebook But what a way to go! A good scientist should admit when he’s wrong and – though I’m not that good a scientist – I must admit that I erred when I mocked the Iranian mullahs for claiming that there is a connection between earthquakes and mammary glands. I did a little research and I am [...] a world without nukes. There’s no need to imagine it. Donald Sensing at A Sense of Events gives us a photo essay of such a world. I wish I’d thought of that. He’s given us a nice reminder that rainbows and unicorns are deadly. Share on Facebook Marginal air quotes, celebrity, air quotes Jesse James cheated on his wife. Jesse James’ wife is Sandra Bullock. Jesse James is an idiot. Share on Facebook I’m not really sure what to add to this. NSFW or kids… multiple F-bombs. Rated R for “f*&king awesome. Share on Facebook Buzz on this documentary has been heating up in the blogosphere lately and, as www.threedonia.com’s resident evil industrialist I figure I ought to comment on it. I am awaiting this movie the same way Porvaznik and JohnFN await the first pitch on opening day! I hope to see it in a theater. If not, I’ll buy [...] Share on Facebook This will boost our traffic to be sure. A woman was apparently saved from a gunshot to the wound to the chest by her D-Cup silicon breast implants. Well OK, a plastic surgeon is making the claim, but he’s got the evidence — or so he says: Lydia Carranza was working at the Simi [...] |
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