Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s time for me to take a break from trying to save the world by using my infinitesimally small corner of the blogosphere to talk some sense into the Left (although, somehow, I don’t think they’re listening to me) and, instead, to leap to the defense of an unlikely pop
Continue readingThis is an unofficial contest, because there’s no prize beyond the satisfaction of trying to figure out what one of the more talented and morally lacking voices of the young generation meant in a tweet: Can’t stop thinking about this twelve year old genetic male with a light untended mustache
Continue readingI enjoy reading my Liberal-Lefty friends’ Facebook posts because they are so insightful into the mindsets of the Left. One insight that I have gained over time is that the differences between us conservatives and the Progressive/Left are so profound that they are unlikely to ever be bridged, barring some
Continue reading[2018: I’ve updated this post from 2013 to change a word to “pron,” where it appears, including in “pornographic.” I’ve also cleaned up, or intentionally misspelled (e.g., “nekkid”), other language to which Google AdSense might object. Apologies for the apparent misspellings. If this were a recent post, I might have
Continue readingI know I’m just grumpy, but this promotional mailing from Ithaca College rubbed me the wrong way: Ready to write environmental wrongs. Ithaca College will turn your academic passions into unforgettable experiences — and make you ready for the adventure of your life. I know that the first sentence is
Continue readingI have a problem with that, especially having grown up with a workaholic father. The fact is, I am too exhausted to be constantly looking for a job or working more-than one job.” She let it be known that she really resented the implication that she should be expected to go out and work hard to earn her own financial support.
Continue readingThanks to a handy-dandy Amazon gift certificate, I just bought myself a Kindle copy of Greg Gutfeld’s The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage. It sounds like a book that is simultaneously important and enjoyable. I’ll be reading it with a close
Continue readingIs the media to blame for the Aurora shootings? I would like to make the case that it is, not for any specific action that any specific media outlet has taken, but by its very nature. In 1970, Alvin Toffler published his seminal work, Future Shock, in which he predicted
Continue readingIt’s a long post title, but actually quite a short post. What I really have is a matched set. First, an image that’s been circulating on the liberal side of facebook: For those of you who aren’t too conversant with popular culture, the one on the left is Snoop Doggy
Continue readingCrazy people have always reflected their own society’s pathologies. In a pre-modern era, crazy people thought they were the Devil or, perhaps, the Hammer of God. In the atomic/space exploration age, insanity tended to involve aliens. People thought they were abducted, thought aliens were among us, or thought that they
Continue readingWhat the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use
Continue readingOne of the things that I try to understand is the Great Divide between today’s Liberals and conservatives that has left us talking past one another on policy issues. Frankly, I have concluded that discussion with Liberals is often futile because we attribute different meanings to words and concepts. One
Continue readingI don’t know what Tina Fey’s politics are, and I don’t want to know. The NBC show 30 Rock, which she writes and in which she stars is one of the best social satires around, which includes repeated deft and funny political asides. The show skewers both parties with such
Continue readingMiramax is releasing a new motion picture called “Becoming Jane Austen,” which purports to tell of Jane’s abortive romance with a wild Irish lawyer. There is no doubt that, when she was young, Austen met Tom Lefroy, a young Anglo-Irish lawyer, thought he was nice, and had fun dancing with
Continue readingI won’t blog here about my thoughts about Love, American Style, because I already wrote about it here, at American Thinker. Check it out, and then be sure to come back and let me know what you think!
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