Japanese people just keep getting weirder. Maybe we should nuke them again. PS: one of my readers proffers this ingenious bit of pop anthropology: whatever it is, the Chinese will eat it and the Japs will … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2007
Egyptian blogger tortured in prison
The Sandmonkey (yes, he's back) writes: "God knows that the day of his sentencing, and I was there for the majority of the trial, the public outside were debating how he should be killed. … [Read more...]
In a novel and welcome twist, infidel files complaint against Muslim
Coming soon to a country near you? From the comments: "Such things now happen all the time in Muslim-occupied Western Europe. Muslim men routinely not only accompany their wives to a doctor's office, but … [Read more...]
Deserves a second Pulitzer, if you ask me
"Page wrote Barry's aide, Andre Johnson, last week after receiving an unsolicited press release about the former mayor's views on Greater Southeast Community Hospital:
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LGF/Brussels Journal feud heats up
"In this society, everyone has grown up on lies that few are equipped to challenge. The older ones have grown up with plastic called leatherette, with cigarettes as symbols of sex appeal, and with Negroes in the front line in … [Read more...]
Spinning rims, and maybe Pampers for the baby mama?
Where did all the Jena 6 money go? "One photo shows Robert Bailey, one of the Jena 6 defendants, smiling and posing with $100 bills stuffed in his mouth. Another shows defendants Carwin Jones and … [Read more...]
Rachel Marsden, Rachel Marsden redux
It's humbling and somewhat depressing to see blogs giving credit to the Daily Kos for Marsden's firing. This simply [Read more...]
Make of this what you will
Since changing the name of this blog (that is, removing the word "Catholic"), and quitting every blog roll collective, like the Blogging Tories and the TLB Ecosystem... My traffic has grown over 30% in just one month. … [Read more...]
George Jonas: the ageing face of sacrifice
"I became busy drinking Calvados, and cracking jokes with intellectual friends about the military mind. My illusion was that I had come to understand the world better. I had even gone through a period -- briefly -- … [Read more...]
When the last hippie is strangled by the entrails of the last commie…
"But why marry a Beatle in the first place? The Beatles may have made some of the best pop music of the twentieth century, but they were largely horrible people who sent out a horrible message. (...) "John … [Read more...]
An American reader on Canadian valour (and lack thereof)
"Contrary to popular opinion, Americans are well aware of the valor our Canadian and other allies during WWI, WWII, Korea, and other conflicts. When I was a young first lieutenant in Somalia, I had the great good fortune to meet some Canadian Soldiers briefly and it was a very pleasant … [Read more...]
Up here we celebrate Remembrance Day
My US readers should appreciate learning more about the sacrifices of Canadian troops: "At Vimy Ridge in April 1917, in just four days of fighting, 3,598 Canadians … [Read more...]