…I’d like to show you another ad featuring children. Yesterday I criticized this one about man-made global warming. It features a child actress, and is designed to appeal to children especially, and to frighten them into pressuring their parents to … Continue reading →
And no, this is not a Saturday Night Live skit:
Continue reading →Hey, anything for the Cause: [ADDENDUM: But they’re making up for it through Humpty Dumpty revisionism. I kid you not (hat tip: Ann Althouse.)]
Continue reading →More from the neo-curmudgeon. I’ve noticed a recent proliferation of unisex bathrooms. I’m not talking about the understandable kind—in a tiny restaurant, for example, where there’s only room for one bathroom. Or in airplanes. Or in the home, where I’ve … Continue reading →
There are lies, and then there are really stupid lies. The following video would seem to represent the latter on the part of ACORN, for instance. It appears to contradict ACORN’s claim that they had turned the filmmakers away in … Continue reading →
The stalwart Jake Tapper stands nearly alone among network news reporters in clinging to the apparently outworn idea of defending the press’s right to criticize a Democratic president. In this interview he interviews Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, voicing some … Continue reading →
…but it’s Obama’s war. He may be Hamlet on Afghanistan, but in the domestic Fox War he’s called up the troops: Dunn, Axelrod, Emanuel. In the WaPo, Ruth Marcus says the war on Fox is dumb, and she goes on … Continue reading →
Those of us who are addicted to the internet—and most particularly to doing research online—should be of good cheer at reading this news. It turns out that surfing’s good for you.
Continue reading →Here’s a discussion of the latest on Honduras.
Continue reading →There’s been a great deal of discussion on this recent thread about whether Obama is contemplating a tyrannical takeover of the statist type, and whether he can possibly succeed. I’m not going to address that topic again right now (perhaps … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about Obama’s Hamlet-like indecision on Afghanistan. Some call his approach thoughtful deliberation, and perhaps it is (although I don’t happen to think so). But how long should pondering go on before it becomes procrastination? And never think … Continue reading →
At least as far as his disconnect from current culture goes. I can relate to nearly everything he says. I follow news assiduously. But I rarely go to the movies, and when I do I’m almost invariably disappointed. Music? I … Continue reading →