True confessions: this is me. You never know when you might need…: On my last flight, my suitcase weighed exactly and precisely 50 pounds. Whew. And that doesn’t count the box of things I sent ahead of me.
Continue reading →And should he? Take a look. I’ve thought about this question before, and it’s quite a paradox. Here’s a guy the opposition is eager to paint as a rapacious and cruel capitalist exploiter, but who has been among the most … Continue reading →
Apparently not Obama. For all the furor about how Obama has the female vote, it turns out that women are hardly monolithic on that score, and that there’s a big divide between the married and the un. First, let’s look … Continue reading →
…going to watch the convention? I plan to look at some of it. My old problem with auditory learning and political speeches will almost undoubtedly kick in, though: …[T]he prepared speech has always been an enormous bore to me…Political speeches … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →…Romney’s not hard-hitting enough? Check this out: Mitt Romney calls campaign attacks by President Obama and his allies “vituperative” and “vicious” and “absurd” and “sad.” Also: Effective. “I do think that the president’s campaign of personal vilification and demonization probably … Continue reading →
That’s the burning question of the day And here I hadn’t even known there was a choice. The only place I’d ever encountered body wash was in the locker room of a gym I used to attend years ago. The … Continue reading →
I guess his affair had some staying power after all, because Sanford and his Argentine girlfriend are now engaged to be married. I don’t think most people would have bet on that outcome back in the summer of 2009 when … Continue reading →
After I asked that question the other day about why so many people still consider Obama likeable, I remembered this article I wrote for PJ back in November of 2009. I thought it might be time to recycle it. Sort … Continue reading →
Anderson Cooper jumps on the media truth squad, at least for this one exchange. Note that, although something seems to really get his goat about Wasserman Schultz’s misquoting of the LA Times, as well as her refusal to admit she’s … Continue reading →
…this passage about Marie Antoinette strikes me as poignant: She sported towering bouffant hairdos, including the “inoculation pouf,” a forbidding confection that featured a club striking a snake in an olive tree (representing the triumph of science over evil) to … Continue reading →
…the liberal media can’t take a joke. Some things (birth certificates?) are just too sacred for levity. At least by Romney. If Obama makes the funny it’s perfectly fine. And here’s a pretty good explanation of the mentality of the … Continue reading →