Monthly Archive: July 2009

Widespread Panic

I was going to debunk Andy McCarthy’s un-sourced descent into the fever swamps of ”Obama Birther-ism”, but Philip Klein has already gone and done the work for me, so go give his piece a...

Slippery Slopes

Andrew Sullivan’s dissection of one Boston cop’s overtly racist response to the Gates arrest is worth reading in full, but this part caught my eye: And the more you read, the more you realize...

caniculares dies

Well it really is the dog days of summer, isn’t it?  My motivation to blog has dissipated with the dissipating rains.  The heat is one possible culprit.  Then, too, the various controversies that have...

What the…?

Seriously, what drives people to be so stupid?  I mean, beyond the racism, beyond all those deep personal problems, what compels somebody to actually put their job on the line like this?

Wicked

I saw the Broadway production of Wicked this past weekend.  It was very good.  An under study performed the part of Elphaba, the wicked witch, and she was superb….

quote for the day

Last night I was sitting with my two-year-old daughter and she was playing with her Cinderella toy and her Mermaid and she’s talking away, and then at one point she says (Cinderella to the...

You’re surprised?

Stacy McCain: With all the humor I could muster, I’ve tried to broker peace. Now, however, the pilots have been scrambled, the jets are fueled and fully armed, and if a stand-down order is...

Practice what you preach

While I suppose we should all be glad that Townhall has officially disavowed the Obama ‘Birther’ movement, it’s hard to take them seriously when they’re simultaneously sending out ads for Birther merchandise.