Obama to Iran: Please give us back our drone!
Obama to Iran: Please give us back our drone!“
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Rescue 911
When my son was little in the 80s and early 90s, the whole family used to love the TV show “Rescue 911.” It was one of my guilty pleasures. A reality show that featured staged reenactments of actual 911 calls … Continue reading →
Boys won’t be boys, and men…
…aren’t being rewarded for being men: If women have adapted well to the new economy, the same cannot be said for many men. Why not? It easy to paint the rise of working women as the reason why working men … Continue reading →
Obama: all the Republican candidates are the same because…
…they’re all Republicans. Somehow I don’t think that’s a good approach for Obama to take in his re-election campaign. After all, most polls indicate that a generic Republican does better against Obama than any of the individual candidates we actually … Continue reading →
Sad,…
…fascinating, but extremely chilling reading: what happened aboard Air France 447. And here’s an article written two years earlier by the same author, long before the black boxes for Air France 447 had been found. In it, he speculates on … Continue reading →
Obama in Kansas: no fair!
My article about the theme of societal and economic “fairness” in Obama’s Kansas speech is up at PJ. Join the comments either there or here. Or both, if you’re feeling especially talkative.
Continue reading →The decline of the duel
I’m reading—slowly, slowly—Steven Pinker’s long but fascinating The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Don’t laugh at the title because it seems absurd. Pinker presents a strong case to defend his thesis (although so far I’m only … Continue reading →
And the hottest woman of all time is…
…(drum roll please)…. Jennifer Aniston??? Are you kidding? Please look at the woman on the left, and then compare her to the two others: Aniston and Spears don’t even look like women, they look like girls. And although they’re attractive … Continue reading →
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls…
…it tolls for book publishers.
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…I missed this the first time around: Certain events of Michael Bublé’s early life and teen years, detailed here, give strong clues as to why he may have invited this kid onstage, and why he got so very excited when … Continue reading →
Kinsley on what Obama left out of his Kansas speech
Michael Kinsley dissects Obama’s Kansas speech—otherwise known as his attempt-to-channel-Teddy-Roosevelt speech—and finds it wanting in several telling ways: …[I]n addition to being unfair, [Obama’s] conflating actual crooks and the innocent affluent makes it hard to claim that raising their taxes … Continue reading →
Another annoying reminder…
…to please use the neo-neocon portal when buying Amazon. Just click through on one of the widgets in the right sidebar, and enjoy the hassle-free shopping experience at Amazon while giving a bit of holiday cheer to moi. And thanks … Continue reading →