Monthly Archives: August 2011

I’ll take “Lovely Rita” for $100, Alex. (Though I guess you can’t be a “meter maid” if you’ve been “meter made”.)

Following the political jockeying between the Prez’s speech and the Republican debate?  Hopefully not, since you all have lives. But here’s what caught my eye: Obama promised to use the speech “to lay out a series of bipartisan proposals… Er…it … Continue reading →

Charlie Martin sent the same joke to Instapundit that I did to Taranto.  Because it’s a classic of the ouvre, the idiom, the jest!  And of course there is but one poster child for this specific word play: Thank all that is … Continue reading →

(You do know where the title originated, right?)  Exhibit A:  Ruth Marcus Perry’s ideas range from wrongheaded to terrifying: requiring federal judges to stand for reappointment and reconfirmation; and letting Congress override the Supreme Court with a two-thirds vote in … Continue reading →

Now that would be news!  (With apologies to James Taranto for stealing his schtick.) Once again the establishment is telling us that men are morally superior to women.  Note that if both college students have been drinking, it’s the man … Continue reading →

My strategy of obliviousness finally paid off!  There is no better writer than Vernor Vinge, but there are also…few… … …slo…wer…ones.  So I have to continually forget V.V.’s existence in order to cope with ordinary unVingeful life.  But now…(DRUM ROLL)…October … Continue reading →

You can avoid your family if you want.

Bill Keller believes in tougher questions about peoples’ religions. I agree completely. Better late than never, Bill.  Because religious tyrants aren’t merely a threat.  They’ve been taking over America for generations now.  Lately they’ve become so blatant that millions of … Continue reading →

Indiana just passed the nation’s broadest school voucher program.  At-work computer again not letting me hyperlink text, so: http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/7340181-418/thousands-change-schools-with-ind-vouchers.html In at least one district, public school principals have pleaded with parents not to move their children. Er…principals, you do understand … Continue reading →

…I said GOOD MORNING! Your opinion is immaterial.  I’m borrowing tactics from our government from now on.  Sure, economic disaster, earthquakes, floods, riots, raids on guitar factories, yadda yadda yadda.  It’s all good.  Who are you going to believe, me … Continue reading →