Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A friend emailed me this. I think it’s a remarkably good distillation of the giant values chasm between Statists and Individualists/Constitutionalists in this country: When you vote for an incumbent you are perpetuating our government as it is now. Nothing will change. These three, short sentences tell you a lot
Continue readingHere in Marin, it’s sometimes hard to get things done. It’s not just because I’m a procrastinator. It’s also because other people seem so inert. I call the roofer; he never gets back to me. I call the plumber; he never gets back to me. I call the gardener; he
Continue readingI do like Vegas. I love its manic energy, crazed corporate imagination, over-the-top shows, brilliant colors, and flashing lights. And then, after three days, I’m desperate to get away from the noise and smoke and, often, the desperation floating above the casino floors. In other words, I had a great
Continue readingI’m still away from my blog, so I’m not blogging in real time, but in un-real time. I lined up this post several days ago and, for all I know, world events shifted so dramatically, everything here is entirely obsolete. Still, FWIW, you may enjoy these stories: Roger L. Simon
Continue readingUnusually for me, I saw a first-run movie tonight. It was, as you’ve already realized, American Sniper. Also unusually, the Century Cinema, which is Marin’s premiere movie theater, with a big screen and a George Lucas-installed sound system, had an almost completely packed house on the second weekend of a
Continue readingThe dancing isn’t so great. It’s the abandon with which they throw themselves off airplanes that had me mesmerized. I get vertigo standing on a step-stool to change a light bulb, and these kids are gleefully hurling themselves out into nothing. UPDATE: Caped Crusader sent me this WWII Paratrooper picture,
Continue readingI didn’t watch the SOTU. Aside from finding Obama a boring, inelegant speaker, I was helping a client with trial prep. Today, the trial got continued for a few months so, before settling in for a nice 12 hour sleep (I wish!), I can blog — and share with you,
Continue readingI haven’t yet seen the movie American Sniper, but I have read Chris Kyle’s autobiography, on which it is based. I therefore believe that I am qualified to write on the topic. Although, come to think of it, I’m not really going to write about American Sniper at all. Instead,
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Continue readingIn the immediately proceeding post, I highlighted the Navy’s newest commercial. This afternoon, I saw a member of one of our other seafaring forces: a Marine. I don’t often see Marines here in Marin. This young man, however, is the local Marine recruiter, and I happened to be at a
Continue readingThe Navy’s most recent commercial is excellent (h/t Charles Martel): Watching it, I could only hope that, in Obama’s America, our hyper-politicized, dysfunctionally PC Pentagon not only means it, but still has the will and ability to make it a reality. After all, we live in a time when one has
Continue readingDid Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance get a fair trial from the military for ordering the men under his command to open fire on three Afghanis on motorcycles heading towards the American troops, killing two of them? His supporters say he didn’t, including charging the Army with having withheld exculpatory
Continue readingMy friend assures me he did not write this (nudge, nudge, wink, wink):
Continue readingThis is a post I’ve been meaning to write for some time about a thriller series that was fast and fun to read. I stumbled across C. G. Cooper’s Corps Justice series through BookBub’s daily email telling me about Amazon book deals. My practice is that, if a free book
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