I don’t like linking to Instapundit carried stories, because, well, everybody already reads them. But I just needed to comment.
The two Vaclavs have to be my favorite politicians because of their open critisisms of soft socialism, “old” Europe and the nanny state. As someone who lived in Germany for 4 years, [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2005
Gotta love those Czechs
August 30, 2005 – 3:14 pm
The big picture
August 29, 2005 – 8:02 pm
Sorabji.com’s Mark Thomas wanders around NYC snapping interesting (to me, anyway) photographs, and posts them here. I’ve been enjoying these for years, and just thought I’d share. He’s also got interesting old photos picked up at flea markets and garage sales posted somewhere on his site, if you like that kind of ephemera.
Slick World Order
August 29, 2005 – 4:50 pm
David Corn writes:
As I’ve written about (or, obsessed about) before, Clinton visited Rwanda in 1998 and issued something of an apology. Speaking of those terrible months in the spring of 1994, he said, “All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with [...]
C’mon people - the underwear goes on FIRST
August 28, 2005 – 4:41 pm
Paul Pope is slated to deliver BATMAN: YEAR 100, a libertarian-themed re-imagining of Batman in a dystopian 2039. I hate to slag on PP, but regardless of his assurances to the contrary, I’m pretty sure I read this already (don’t get me wrong - I’ll be buying it anyway). And surely the amount of [...]
Housing boom
August 28, 2005 – 1:18 pm
So, my tennant has moved …halfway… out.
(Objects near mirror are larger than they appear - he’s pretty big)
I guess this is the downside of not driving much. And of course, since he’s built a new wing on his house that’s attached to the bushes alongside my parking space, the next time I drive somewhere he’s [...]
Still taking his ‘medication’, apparently
August 27, 2005 – 1:12 am
NME reports:
SPIRITUALIZED mainman JASON PIERCE is recovering after an illness left him close to death.
The star, who recently completed work on the band’s new album, is now at home after spending a lengthy time in intensive care for an as-yet-unspecified illness.
Spiritualized.com had more:
Jason contracted advanced periorbital cellulitis with bilateral pnuemonia with rapid deterioration requiring intensive [...]
Horvath vs Robertson
August 27, 2005 – 12:55 am
A while back, Mark wrote:
Christianity is a Religion of Love
(refrain) Christianity is a Religion of Love
repeat until exhaustion.
OTOH,
Robertson urges U.S. to kill Chavez
…
Those wacky Christians. When dialouge doesn’t work, lets just murder our opponents.
I’d like to riff on something I read on Mark’s old permalinkless blog: Christianity is a religion of love - sure, why [...]
Why — does this happen often?
August 25, 2005 – 10:19 am
Am I the only one vaguely disturbed by the fact that North Carolina at some point felt it necessary to enact the specific crime of “malicious castration”?
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47432
Modern Living
August 22, 2005 – 3:01 pm
As someone who is a complete slob I always blame having too much room to dump crap rather than put it away. Could this be the perfect concept for living? Or this?
Hmmmmm….
August 22, 2005 – 2:39 pm
I think its great that Europe and Russia are going to jointly develope a space shuttle. However, is it just me, or does it seem that they are going to redevelop expensive, and outmoded technology used by NASA since 1981? Thank god for private development in space technologies, or I’ll never get [...]
Flashback…..
August 22, 2005 – 2:25 pm
Despite Cindy Sheehan leaving Crawford, lots of people are still hanging around- in places like the “Peace House“- protesting.
I watched news report after news report, video after video of the protests, and was………freaked out. Why you ask? Was it the strong arguments they bring agaist the Iraq war? Their willingness to stay [...]
You are here- revised
August 18, 2005 – 10:17 am
Space.com reports that in fact our galaxy is a barred spiral shape, not a spiral. Geek t-shirt manufacturers are pulling all those “You are here” t-shirts off the shelf as we speak.
Old school…..
August 10, 2005 – 2:24 pm
Mark Steyn has reviewed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The best part is when he talks about Christopher Lee:
My favourite moment in the Lord of the Rings movies isn’t actually in any of the movies, but in one of those ‘the making of’ documentaries that appears on the DVD. It’s the scene where Saruman [...]
A cunning plan
August 2, 2005 – 9:22 pm
I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the Left altogether by causing its adherents’ brains to explode due to simultaneously wanting [...]
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to read James Fenimore Cooper…
August 2, 2005 – 11:02 am
…succor yourself with this.