Monthly Archive: November 2009
Murdoch vs. Google
Rupert Murdoch, media mogul extrordinaire, has decided that links coming from the search engine monolith Google are parasitic and should be banned outright. Yes – what most of us online strive for – links...
Hoodwinked
Rod Dreher: On the other hand, it is also wrong to pretend that the Muslim religion had nothing to do with this massacre, that it is mere happenstance that this mass murderer’s crime was...
shocking: anti-vaccination story probably incorrect
Desiree Jennings, who notoriously got distonia from a flu vaccine, has made a stunning recovery. But she probably never had distonia, and almost certainly didn’t get her condition from a vaccine. And here I’ve...
You don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?
Note: This was a shitty movie. So, if Memeorandum is any indication, a few conservative bloggers have taken to mining fourth-rate dialogue from third-rate science fiction movies in order to make an absurd point about how...
Editorial oversight, anyone?
The Guardian continues to burnish its remarkable record of publishing unabashed apologists for communism. This latest offering isn’t quite as good as Zsuzsanna Clark’s classic “Goulash and Solidarity,” but if you’re looking for awful...
Sunday Poem Series
Sea Fever by John Masefield I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,...
quote for the day
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signalling through the flames.” –Antonin Artaud
Protecting American values from extremists
I agree with conservatives like David Horowitz and John Hinderacker; in light of the shooting at Ft. Hood, we need to reassert and protect our values. The question of course, is the who we’re protecting our values from....
things I don’t get
One thing that continues to surprise me is the continued application of the belief that libertarians are some sort of neutral party when it comes to partisan politics. See, for example Megan McArdle, who...
Not Again
Breaking news of another shooting rampage. This (apparently) involved a disgruntled former worker. Just so awful.
The Struggle to Understand: Jihad, Going Postal, and Superempowerment
Scott’s quickie on Andy McCarthy’s take on the tragic Ft. Hood shooting (hands up – anyone whose surprised it was A Mac?) is timely and worth the read. There are some very excellent comments...
Honduras: Reclaiming the American Sphere of Influence
While I took much issue with the Obama Administration’s initial response to the Honduran crisis in July, and especially the severe sanctions imposed, which achieve little more than hurting an already desperately poor population, I must...
Lest we forget
David Frum has some images which should sober up any claims that somehow Muslims as a group are to blame for Thursday’s shooting. The acts of the few should not condemn the peaceful majority,...
Strange Bedfellows
Here’s an entertaining scoop from Mother Jones: Crackpot ex-KGB academic teams up with tea party radicals to predict the imminent break-up of the United States.
Yes, Google is making me stupid
Or at least less apt to struggle through difficult, rewarding books. You see, I was (belatedly) inspired by The American Scene’s “Fall of the U.S.A.” series to pick up John Dos Passos and give...
“The Pity of War”
Whatever you think of Hitchens, this an excellent, understated article. Highly recommended for anyone who contributed to the thread on First World War histories.
Shooting at Ft. Hood Army Base
The numbers of dead and wounded are different according to the source, but it looks like American soldiers opened fire on other soldiers at a Texas Army base. According to the New York Times:
