Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
The New York Times’ most recent foray into the revealing of state secrets has me wondering. Instead of prosecuting the Old Gray Lady for her untimely treachery, why not put the brilliant reporters and editors of the Times to work? Given that they’ve already disrupted our efforts against al Qaeda, the Times should now give … Read more
Something keeps obstructing my keyboard!
We bloggers often suffer from symptoms of self-importance — that vile disease that deludes us into thinking that everything we write is on the same level of significance as, say, The Declaration of Independence. If self-importance really were an illness, few would be more afflicted than the folks over at DailyKos.com. Weekly Standard senior writer … Read more
When it comes to the corruption of America’s judicial system, activist judges play a large part, but they certainly don’t have the market cornered. Take, for example, the news of the lawsuit brought against Kentucky Fried Chicken. Dr. Arthur Hoyte, along with The Center for Science in the Public Interest, is suing the fast-food chicken … Read more
~ Volume XVIII ~ Away from the web I have been for a while; Yet fear not my dear friends, cease not to smile; While words around here have been waning in style; I’ve returned to you now, with links by the pile! At his insightful Crunchy Con blog, Rod Dreher recounts a telling experience … Read more
If you haven’t yet read the German Der Spiegel interview with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, go read it now. If it’s not enough to make you reconsider your summer vacation to Tehran this year, I don’t know what is. After speculating on whether or not he’ll attend the World Cup or watch it on TV … Read more
I had never heard of it until last week, but when I was told that watching the 1991 documentary “The Dancing Outlaw” would change my life, I was skeptical. After seeing it this weekend, my life will never be the same. The fact that is that Jesco White, the last of the mountain dancers, is … Read more
I’ve never been a big fan of Cliffs Notes. Though the publisher calls their product “trustworthy study guides,” we all know what they’re used for 99 percent of the time. They encourage laziness, illiteracy, and all the other bad things your high school English teacher warned you about. There was one occasion, however, that I … Read more
Part of the trouble with reading six or seven books at a time is that some really good works get set aside as I “sneak a peek” at other volumes, which in turn get cast aside in favor of other titles, and so on — it’s quite the vicious cycle. Call it attention deficit disorder, … Read more
Evil is most fearsome when it is encompassed in a person, and few persons throughout history have encompassed evil as well as Adolf Hitler. It is hard for most people to even conceive of someone like Hitler, but imagine trying to play him in a movie. When it comes to tyrants, most films go overboard … Read more