The embargo is lifted tomorrow, and my review copy is on the way. For now, his Missouri hometown paper reviews [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Thanks to Michael Moriarty for mentioning our book, ‘The Tyranny of Nice’
He quotes Mark Steyn's wonderful intro, here. … [Read more...]
Glenn Beck is just like that crazy guy in ‘Network’ blah blah etc
My new long, and frankly self-indulgent, post at David Horowitz's NewsReal blog is about how the left (shocka!) misinterprets Glenn Beck as a "Howard Beale" … [Read more...]
Now that’s funny
Yesterday I was wallowing in self-pity, struggling with a VERY Serious Problem, and said as much on Twitter. (I mentioned the "self-pity" party, right?) This morning I got a DM from someone I don't know, offering to take me out for drinks sometime to commiserate. I was all, "Thanks, but no. … [Read more...]
You know the best part about this headline?
It's that you and I can live to be 100, and there will never be one that reads: "Saudi/Palestinian/Pakistani leader stuns Ontario with proposal for brain-study partership" … [Read more...]
Africa, Obama and booze. Oh, and cellphones
Wait: this was in the New York Times? There’s an ugly … [Read more...]
My thoughts exactly
This is what the world has come to: I’m not being facetious, what is she screeching about? That a bank didn’t offer condolences about her 20 year-old’s death? Or that they wanted the money they loaned her in a contract she … [Read more...]
The Catholic Church continues evolution from mere stupidity to outright psychopathology
Sorry, were you having a nice day...? The impending sale of an empty, 2 ½ -story convent in Midland Beach owned by St. Margaret Mary’s R.C. Church has neighbors angry and afraid … [Read more...]
Will the last three idiots please turn ON the lights?
An email making the rounds. Make of it what you will; I can't find anything about it at Snopes... The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash, has, to this point, … [Read more...]
Finally.
J. E. Dryer writes: There have been two incidents now, since the Kentucky primary, in which Rand Paul has failed to prostrate himself automatically before a political shibboleth. … [Read more...]
Quebec fighting sharia? Don’t get your espoirs pret
My new and particularly bitchy post at NewsReal reads, in part: Quebec got itself declared “a distinct society” a while back. That and a million other accommodations, big and … [Read more...]
Canada sucks. Or: Leaving the house is always my first mistake
Nevertheless, yesterday I was forced to do so. This meant listening to Toronto talk radio for an hour, one way and another hour back. In that short time, this is what I learned: Ontario has banned (Canadian) [Read more...]