Wednesday: With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

Short post this am, I’m off to another TC. Social Security “reform” is back in the news. We always knew that Medicare needed a major overhaul but Social Security was supposed to be safe- as long as the economy kept growing.  Ah, there’s the rub.  During recessions, economies do not grow.  Now, in the past, [...]

Just One of Thousands of Reasons Why I’ll Never Fly Again

Here’s today’s police state update. A BLIND INTERNATIONAL interpreter who says he was dragged off a Belgium-bound flight, arrested and held in custody in Philadelphia for hours without food or water faces an arraignment Thursday. His crime: He questioned why his U.S. Airways flight was delayed nearly two hours. Nicola Cantisani, 61, of Brussels, Belgium, [...]

Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Have the Illuminati returned to destroy the Catholic Church? This movie sequel is actually the book prequel to The Da Vinci Code.  I’ve read both books and seen the first movie.  I liked this book better. I enjoy Dan Brown’s writing.  Like Tim Powers (Last Call, Anubis Gates) he mixes history and fiction to make [...]

15 More Minutes

At least SOMEBODY finally said it: President Barack Obama ended up in the middle of an unlikely controversy this morning — the debate over Miss California’s position on gay marriage. At a press conference addressing Carrie Prejean’s disputed title in the Miss USA competition, pageant owner Donald Trump compared Prejean’s stated views on gay marriage [...]

My life in their claws

I feel like a mouse in a room full of cats. In the struggle for health care reform, will Big 0′s need for popularity or his need for Big Medicine’s money win out? A few weeks ago, I would have bet on number two. Never forget that this is the (expletive deleted) whose idea of [...]

Tuesday: Rosen, Davidson and adolescent males

Let me say up front that I am not one of those “I am the victim of the patriarchy” type of women.  My approach has always been one of confrontation and anger when someone threatens my personhood.  I don’t whine.  (Oh, brother, I can just hear the comments now.)  Maybe that’s because I think of [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Terrible News When will this nightmare be over? U.S. soldier kills 5 comrades in Iraq A U.S. soldier fired on his fellow troops at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad on Monday, U.S. officials said, killing five people in the worst such attack of the six-year war. [...] “Any time we lose one [...]

Condemned to repeat?

Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before. The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited scope of the dying. Sean Gallagher has a striking report, a series of pictures each worth thousands of words. That was then. Two thousand years ago, Yinpan in Central Asia was [...]

Wanda Syke(ophant)s

Ben Shapiro writes at Big Hollywood: Wanda Sykes, by contrast, is the most gutless and feckless performer ever to grace the White House Correspondents Dinner. [...] She recently proclaimed during the California Prop. 8 debate that “Everybody that knows me personally, they know I’m gay … Now, I gotta get in their face.  I’m proud [...]

Monday: Since last we met

The picture to the left is a glass sculpture in the entrance foyer of the Museum of Glass in Corning, NY.  I spent the past couple of days in a weekend rental in a nearby enclave so remote that there was no cell signal for any of our party’s various carriers.  No cell signal; no [...]