I purchased a battery-powered implement the other day of a type that’s been proliferating in stores during the last few years: the heel smoother. You can find a plethora of buffers and scrapers, shavers and grinders, all guaranteeing to pare … Continue reading →
We take our humor wherever we can get it these days. From the Telegraph: …[Trump] claimed his predecessor ordered a wiretap of the phones at Trump Tower in New York, Mr Trump’s campaign headquarters. James Comey, the FBI director, asked … Continue reading →
Today is Presidents’ Day. Or is it “Presidents Day”? Or even “President’s Day”? You can find all those variations online, although if you parse them they mean very different things. It was significantly easier before 1971, the year they consolidated … Continue reading →
Those who say that of course Trump’s EO on immigration was meant to be a ban on Muslims are relying on Trump’s long-ago campaign statements as well as a more recent remark of his and some recent comments by advisor … Continue reading →
The right geek is very, very tired. And it’s only been three weeks so far: I was alive and politically aware during the post 9/11 W. Bush administration, and back then, I saw my fair share of leftwing nonsense. I … Continue reading →
…on the left used the term “failure theater”* to describe what the Democrats in Congress are doing these days? That is, empty histrionics that are getting them nowhere so far in terms of stopping the approval of Trump’s cabinet? Is … Continue reading →
There’s been a ton of chatter and mockery about Kelly Conway’s use of the phrase “alternative facts” to describe Trump press secretary Sean Spicer’s initial statements about attendance at the Trump inauguration. Here’s a piece at The Hill by Jennifer … Continue reading →
Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its last legs. But they were the ones we still call “the … Continue reading →
The death of Fidel Castro has further exposed the long slow drift of the West towards leaders who lean so far left they are unable to tell the truth about a man who was—as Trump put it—“a brutal dictator who … Continue reading →
Commenter “groundhog” asked this question in the “Hamilton” thread: The same free speech can be trash to one person and treasure to another. The same speech you or I treasure may be considered worthless to others. And although decorum and … Continue reading →
Many years ago I used to do weekly podcasts for PJ Media with three other bloggers (“The Sanity Squad”), and most of my readers were familiar with the sound of my voice. Although at first doing the podcasts made me … Continue reading →
I just noticed that a commenter here has used the word “literally” incorrectly in a recent thread. I won’t call attention to who it was; the error is so common that it pretty much could have been anyone. But why … Continue reading →