There are a lot of reasons the folks who attended Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally attended. Many are fans of Glenn Beck’s radio and television programs. Many are active in the tea party movement. But I think most, and an immense number who were not there, are like the Whos in Dr. Seuss’ book, “Horton Hears [...]
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Ms. McArdle exercising her 2nd amendment rights. (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 2/10/2010) At a rather young age (10?) I recall reading an article about standardized tests. Researchers were doing studies to determine if standardized tests unfairly measured “low income” and/or “minority” children. The example they used was one of those common, simile problems often [...] (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 12/01/2009) I hope I don’t offend anyone; this is a sincere question and I am very interested in learning what y’all (you’se guys for Rich and Stosh, you’ins for Eric) have to say. I haven’t looked at the numbers but there is no question our nation graduates way, way, way too [...] Eric… I have found the perfect way… when that day comes decades hence — that you should be memorialized. L.P. = Late Porvaznik — What record would you be memorialized as? The company at the link will take your ashes and make them into vinyl records. Share on Facebook For those of you who love nostalgia there’s a nice little reminder in the video between 1:29 and 1:34. Share on Facebook Yesterday, Mr. FN Floyd penned an excellent post about what makes America unique. Interesting thoughts and interesting contributions in the comments. Nothing at all to disagree with, but I was a mite surprised that nobody mentioned one particular aspect of America’s uniqueness. It’s the one that – to my mind anyway – is the most [...] The Restoring America rally is going on as I type – or maybe it’s just now over. Patriotism — hell even mere pride of place — has become passe to many Americans… something of which we are sometimes made to feel ashamed or reticent to talk about. To hell with that. I [...] This one is on us America — and quite frankly you can thank us too World. I haven’t talked to Rufus but since I know he is independently upper middle class he won’t mind if we forgo our usual fee. We have solved America’s problems in our Friday Open Thread. Who knew [...] Frank J. at www.imao.us has a great post about recent news stories that ceased to be news once it was discovered the perpetrators were not angry, right wing nutjobs. They were angry, left wing nutjobs, but since the mainstream media is convinced there is no such animal there is no sense in assigning a reporter to [...] Some light dawns on self-proclaimed liberal and atheist Susan Jaboby vis a vis multiculturalism and many of her fellow travelers on the Left. From Big Questions Online: The latest example of the Left’s blind spot on this issue is the antagonism of so many liberal reviewers toward Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent memoir, Nomad. The Somali-born [...] Burn Notice season finale tonight – I can’t wait! Proving that there is an exception to prove each and every rule, I an enamored with Fiona. Her’s is not usually my preferred body type – nothing against the Victoria’s Secret model archetype, it’s just not my personal favorite cup of tea. But who doesn’t love Fi? [...] I saw Janelle Monae a few weeks ago on So You Think You Can Dance and thought… “she’s the anti-Lady Gaga”. Yeah the hair is funky, but she was appropriately dressed, on that she danced a lot more than on this clip, and who doesn’t love horns. Lady Gaga — she’s awful, awfully [...] Who is this heroine bad bad woman? Footage of the attack was captured by a CCTV camera which the couple use to monitor the front of their home. They have now posted the video on YouTube and Facebook in a bid to track down the culprit. Darryl, 26, a mobile phone repair man, said: ‘I’d like to know [...] Wikileaks founder and spokeshole Julian Assange was charged and then discharged of rape and molestation by a Swedish prosecutor this past week and weekend. Assange, of course, is trying to paint it as a Pentagon set up. Using our noodle — and the common sense God gave us (or that you inherited from [...] Here’s a review of the above book from The New Republic. It looks like a great read. His book is also a treatise on male folk custom. Bare-knuckle championship fights were highly ritualized events. Challenges were published in the newspapers—“I, John C. Heenan, of the City of West Troy, United States of America, hereby…”—and formal [...] Spring 2011, Ford re-introduces the Boss 302 Mustang 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 For more on this go HERE Best of all it isn’t government subsidised and it burns gasoline. Worst of all it’s missing the Yellow/Orange paint scheme of my youth…boo. Share on Facebook Doc - why I can’t get over my agoraphobia? According to this story, Los Angeles Steve Hermann just completed his latest project: a 13,875 square foot glass walled house. Price tag? $35 million. According to Hermann: “Here I have complete privacy. It allows you to be one with nature inside the house.” Personally, if I want [...] I ran across this piece last night by P.J. O’Rourke on Radio Free Europe, free speech and liberty in the journal World Affairs. In a free society all people must be communicated to, and we must be able to get communication from them in return. People must be able to talk back. People must be able [...] David Marcoe, in the Open Thread linked to this post from the blog The Other MaCain. In it Robert Stacy McCain reiterates the very important point that House elections are not national elections, but local ones. And just because Obama’s ratings are in the toilet and Congress’ national standing is in the sewer [...] Did Germany outstrip England’s growth — reaching industrial parity in 1900 because it didn’t have copyright laws? This article from Speigel online makes that claim. The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans [...] So the Turbos went to the beach today… beautiful weather though for some reason the water was cold enough to turn me into the world’s largest 6-year old boy… it was like 60 degrees today. Anyway… why post C & C Music Factory? I was in the restroom getting back into regular clothes [...] Wonder what happens if you push the strategically placed button? - I’ve seen much worse. Can’t even remember what let me to stumble across this, but once you find one gal in stormtrooper garb on the interwebs, you have to look for more. And there are more. The above is the best of the [...] This week, PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center has reunited the cast from the 2008 multiple-Tony-award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Never my favorite of the duo’s, but I love the music; even if the “Small Town American Girl Overcomes Prejudice To Marry Rich Old French Dude” main plot always left me rolling my [...] What’s the hardest word to solve in hangman? A dude named John McLoone (not making that up) tasked a computer to figure that out, after his six year old daughter asked him how to win at the game. Here’s the methodology he used: To find out, McLoone wrote a program that would play Hangman with all [...] I’m prepping Fall Courses and wrapping up Summer ones. These are a couple of the books I’ll be assigning this Fall. For a grad seminar called Psychology, Law and Public Policy In my Disability Law course: The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (History of Disability) And as a supplemental in my Humanities course (which I love to teach [...] This is the quintessential play by Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten. He is also a great guy off the field too. This provides a nice tonic to the douchebag liar post below. From Yahoo! Sports: It’s that kind of modesty and drive that helped Jason Witten earn Pro Football Weekly’s 2010 Arthur [...] I don’t even know where to begin. O.K., you don’t like Sarah Palin. We get it. But the first point you’re going to use in your defense is the right to choose to kill your children?! Huh? Isn’t that Palin’s point with her Momma Grizzly analogy? A Momma Grizzly will fight to protect her cubs. [...] Share on Facebook From Breitbart.com: Police said Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after a recent raid on the property in westernmost Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Fred Mansveld said police believe two growers arrested in the raid had used dog food to lure the animals onto [...] 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 [...] Every year a couple of professors at Beloit College in Wisconsin put out what they call “The Mindset List”. The List sets out some things that each years incoming freshman may not know or have ever experienced. For example… when I teach criminal law courses or my course in crime and media many [...] The things one finds on these here interwebs. Yesterday’s Classic Pick O’ the Day — or today’s rather is The Quiet Man. In the comments just a bit ago the editor to Maureen O’Hara’s official website dropped by and left a link and a comment. It’s a very well-done site and if [...] A little book post for this Tuesday morning. I always liked Nathaniel Hawthorne in my American Lit classes… 1600s America by way of 1800s filtered through the 1980s… the simmering tension, the supernatural aspects and the cold and bare New England… good and different stuff for this West Texas boy. I came [...] The race is on to make the world’s first 3-D pron (sic) movie. Who will win? Hong Kong? The remake of Caligula? Or the Avatar spoof? Producer Stephen Shiu said: “This is the future of the movie business — it’s human nature to want to see things in 3D.” I don’t know [...] From the London Sunday Telegraph: One local authority is using its budget to pay for the services of a prostitute in Amsterdam, while others have said visits to lap dancing clubs are permissible under new policies which transfer funds directly to those who receive care from social services. Holidays abroad, subscriptions for internet dating and driving lessons [...] Here’s an interesting piece from The Wilson Quarterly on how isolated modern people are — while ironically being more connected. America: Land of Loners?: We have not, of course, turned into Solarians here on earth, strictly limiting our numbers and shunning our fellow humans in revulsion. Yet it’s hard not to see some Solarian parallels [...] Outlaw put this in the comments to his Po-Po post below. It really deserves its own post. Share on Facebook From NBC Washington Via The Jawa Reoprt A group of young Americans were told to stop singing THE NATIONAL ANTHEM at the Lincoln Memorial by Park Police. Members of the conservative Young America’s Foundation, were told by U.S. Park Police that they were “were in violation of federal law and their impromptu performance constituted a demonstration in [...] As the old saying goes… you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him watch the WNBA. Why feminists don’t get the American indifference with professional women’s sports — even by wimmins — is beyond ludicrous. Say this with me now feminist sociologists… WOMENS PRO SPORTS… SUCK. (except for [...] You’ve probably heard this talking point with regard to the California Proposition 8 case: the counsel for Prop. 8 proponents did a crappy job of presenting their case. Heck – they didn’t even present evidence – the morons! Plaintiff’s co-counsel Ted Olson echoed that theory on Fox this Sunday: “In fact, they [Prop 8 proponents] said [...] Here’s a great Christopher Hitchens piece on Hugo Chavez from August 2 at Slate and it even contains a very slight redemption of Sean Penn (emphasis on slight) and a very damning portrait of Chavez. He just might be a lunatic — certifiably so. Or is he? Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez’s politicized necrophilia [...] |
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