Hamas Leader Vows Not to Recognize Israel After Carter Trumpets Terror Group's Willingness to Be Good 'Neighbor'
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Nora Ephron
White Men:
Or, maybe, it is an election about who is the most intolerant elitist out there....
"But now there are two and we're facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can't even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder -- after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn't believe any of those articles.)"
Or, maybe, it is an election about who is the most intolerant elitist out there....
Monday, April 21, 2008
Heh...
Obama’s Moral Hygiene:
"It must sting for a liberal to be compared to William F. Buckley, Jr., and not measure up."
And I have a bridge you may be interested in....
Carter Says Hamas Open to Peace Deal
If you are one of the foolish folks who thinks that this isn't merely an attempt to embarrass the Bush Administration, play with the American election, and find yet another reason to send rockets reigning down on Israel - then I feel sorry for you.
Update: It appears that LGF agrees with me....
If you are one of the foolish folks who thinks that this isn't merely an attempt to embarrass the Bush Administration, play with the American election, and find yet another reason to send rockets reigning down on Israel - then I feel sorry for you.
Update: It appears that LGF agrees with me....
Are we allowed to be repulsed any more?
Yale, abortion, and the limits of art:
Please read the whole thing, and then disqualify Yale as an educational institution....
"Aliza Shvarts may be a kind of genius when it comes to generating publicity for herself. But I believe her performance, whether or not it involved real semen and abortifacients, was morally repugnant. (It would be much worse if it did, of course, but then we enter into the realm of serious mental pathology not to say—let me employ an old-fashioned word here—sin.) The invocation of “art” doesn’t change that one whit. Indeed, as a society, we suffer today from a peculiar form of moral anesthesia: an anesthesia based on the delusion that by calling something “art” we thereby purchase for it a blanket exemption from moral criticism—as if being art automatically rendered all moral considerations beside the point. George Orwell gave classic expression to this point back in 1944 in “Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dalí,” a review of Dalí’s autobiography."
Please read the whole thing, and then disqualify Yale as an educational institution....
Couldn't agree more
The Agitator reviews the final episode of John Adams:
It was difficult to watch all of the bad skin, bad teeth close-ups of this wonderful series. Life was hard back then; and I imagine that the show's creators were intent on showing that fact. Read the whole thing...
Still, it felt like the show lingered on death this evening. The close-ups of Paul Giamatti as the series’ make-up people edged him closer to the grave felt overdone. It felt like the entire purpose of the final installment was to show lots of dying, crying, and the brutality of aging. The election of John Quincy Adams was given short shrift, as were the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. Instead, we got drawn-out treatments of Nabby Adams’ mastectomy, and tortuous, agonizing deathbed treatments of Jefferson’s, Abigail Adams’, and finally John Adams’ passing (complete with a leak of spittle dropping from the corner of his mouth, in case you weren’t quite sure he was dead).
It was difficult to watch all of the bad skin, bad teeth close-ups of this wonderful series. Life was hard back then; and I imagine that the show's creators were intent on showing that fact. Read the whole thing...
They are only there to sell tampons....
Whose talk show hosts are crazier? Who knows?:
"My no-doubt-regrettable tendency when reading things like this, however, is to guess that all heavily political talk radio show hosts are crazy conspiracy theorists, and assume that Randi Rhodes probably isn t much different from her counterparts on the right.
The problem is, I have no evidence for this. And I m not going to acquire any, because doing so would force me to actually listen to Randi Rhodes and Rush Limbaugh for an extended period of time."
Yeah, right....
MoveOn Wants To Move On:
"Rove had said 'In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11 liberals believed it was time to submit a petition.'"
Hunger & high prices do that...
Instapundit.com -: "Their hearts may be on the left, but their pockets are on the right."
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Too bad Rove is a lot smarter than they are:
It boils down to this: as a journalist, do you feel you have a responsibility to dig into the claims made by your guests, seek out evidence and come to a professional judgment as to the real facts? Or do you feel if a charge is breathtaking enough, thoroughly checking it out isn’t a necessity?
I know you might be concerned that asking these questions could restrict your ability to make sensational charges on the air, but don’t you think you have a responsibility to provide even a shred of supporting evidence before sullying the journalistic reputations of MSNBC and NBC?
At least Mark Steyn thinks we're OK...
Guns and God? Hell, yes
"It's an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God 'n' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion."
