You may have noticed that my highly-esteemed Sanity Squad colleague and good friend Dr. Sanity is taking a break from blogging and podcasting. I understand how difficult it is to keep up the pace, and how important it can be … Continue reading →
I have long lamented the decline of the teaching of history and of critical thinking. One can be a highly intelligent intellectual today and know almost nothing about either. This is where it’s led us. A Democratic nominee this ignorant, … Continue reading →
Last week a proposal to lift the moratorium on shale oil extraction was narrowly defeated in a Senate committee. The vote was along strictly party lines, Republicans for lifting the ban and Democrats against. What a surprise. All of this … Continue reading →
Others have observed that the Carly Simon song “You’re So Vain” is an excellent description of Obama’s reaction to Bush’s Knesset speech. But they haven’t gone far enough with the lyrics. I have attempted to fill that need:
Continue reading →…and completely in the tank for the glass–jawed Obama. According to the outraged Times, Bush’s “shameful” and “damaging” “slash-and-burn politics” were demonstrated by his mentioning in front of the Knesset that appeasement of terrorists is a bad thing, although some … Continue reading →
It may be a “distraction,” and no doubt the word “silly” could be said to apply, but I think it’s important to inject a bit of levity—and jello (preferably jello mold)—into life every now and then. Not to mention beauty … Continue reading →
It has now become a low blow to strike any blow at Obama. It has now become officially an “attack” to campaign at all against him—or even to suggest opposition to something he may have done or may have said, … Continue reading →
There’s an old Jewish joke that goes something like this: A Jewish grandmother walks down the street proudly pushing her new grandchild in a baby carriage [that’s how old this joke is; a carriage rather than the $1000 stroller that … Continue reading →
Sent in by a reader: I guess you can’t accuse someone of copying what you’ve already stolen, though, can you?
Continue reading →In a piece by Cinque Henderson (an African-American supporter of Hillary Clinton) appearing in TNR, we find the following bit of insider information, which so far as I know has not been pointed out before:
Continue reading →Hillary won big yesterday in West Virginia. Really, really big. And it couldn’t matter less. Once again, the press is filled with pleas for her to go. Now. Clean out her desk and her locker and turn in her keys, … Continue reading →
[This is a slightly edited version of a piece that I wrote very early in my blogging career about the tsunami of January 2005. It occurred to me to reprint it in light of the horrific earthquake in China.] We … Continue reading →