Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If there were a speed-blogging competition, my goal would be to win it with this round-up post. I’d meant to blog at length and at leisure today, but life caught up, including a glitch with the bank, which lost the signatures that would enable me to liquidate my mother’s trust.
Continue readingEarly last week, the New York Times published Frank Bruni’s overwrought essay, Anyone But Ted Cruz. The piece is clearly meant to assassinate Ted Cruz’s character by explaining why conservative voters should hate and fear him as much as Progressives do. As a preliminary matter, of course, any conservative who
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a lot about Leftists and toddlers. I should start with my biases: I absolutely hated it when my kids were toddlers. On the one hand, they were cute and it was exciting to see them develop as little people, soaking in the world like a sponge. After
Continue readingWhy is this a “time warp edition”? Because even though I’m publishing it on Saturday, I actually wrote it on Friday. The reason delayed publishing is because I’m spending all day Saturday attending part II of my CERT training. I expect the training to be more of the same stuff as last
Continue readingStill catching up from the devastation that yesterday wrought on my schedule. However, I had the chance to read a few good things: Ken Braun: The real unemployment is much higher and most Americans know it: Regardless of reasons, the net effect of a steadily rising adult population and sharply
Continue readingRadiolab is a show produced for a New York public radio station. That tells you everything you need to know about Radiolab’s political orientation. The other day, Radiolab broadcast a story about the Hmong (American allies during the Vietnam War), their suffering at Communist hands when the Americans pulled out,
Continue readingThe SF Chron had an article about the mountains of rubbish that revelers left in San Francisco’s Dolores Park on July 4. I can tell you with absolute certain that the Dolores Park partiers were liberals or, as they would call themselves, Progressives. That City and, more specifically, that neighborhood,
Continue readingBedtime Stories, which came out a few months ago, is not a very good movie. It gets kudos from me, however, for one little throwaway line I doubt many movie goers (especially the kids) even noticed. In the movie, Adam Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson, a hamburger and pizza eating hotel
Continue readingI have an embarrassing confession to make: When I was young, one of my favorite shows was Hogan’s Heroes. I found it a weekly marvel to see the dashing, clever Colonel Hogan run rings around the Germans. Nor was I at all perturbed by the asymmetry of it all, with
Continue readingI’m a bit slow going today, since I was up very, very early, to drive fairly far to a day of soccer in the hot sun. As a Bay Area wuss who likes the weather cool, I feel somewhat depleted. I’m working on reigniting my energy level, especially since I
Continue readingMy post title imagines what I bet a lot of the older generation of Jewish Americans will think when they learn about the latest campaign tactics from the party that knows how to do identity politics. Steve Cohen, whose name is a giveaway as to his Jewishness, is running for
Continue readingI’ve never been able to read Philip Roth’s novels because I cannot stand his navel gazing (or should I say penis-gazing?) characters. They are, for me, profoundly uninteresting — I find them infantile and narcissistic in their concerns. Perhaps my the problem with his writing is his thinking. Why do
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