Who knew? Small Business Saturday, November 24th, 2012. Patronize the Mom & Pop shops, tweeteth Drew Brees. Sponsored by American Express, we kid you not. $25 cashback for AmEx cardholders. Capitalist monster American Express...
Wifely just did it & reminded meself: Open the battery compartment, spin ’em around a bit in place. Voila. Works over and over agin. It’ll buy you a week or a month or a...
The Green Party is so irrelevant, they can’t even get arrested, as they say. Heh–sure they can.
Is this a great country or what? Via Drudge, natch. Enjoy the debate, open thread.
It’s just not fair. Our sassy and vivacious Vice President is about to get smushed by his younger, smarter, wittier, more able, more fit, more handsome, more charismatic, more knowledgeable, more prepared, more everythingish...
You must be an American or something if you disagree because every piece of Eurotrash that ever crossed my path said they and their grandma stopped listening to Beatles back in 1957 or ’58...
A day after his unanimous decision—if not TKO—over President Obama in Wednesday’s first of three debates, Mitt Romney completely withdrew his “47 percent” riff of earlier this year in a Fox News Channel interview...
HT: Via faithful commenter and occasional guest poster Ward Smith, the provocative Executive Summary of a paper by Nima Sanandaji, who according to his bio is a Swedish author “with a Kurdish Iranian background.”...
Via HuffPo: Yahoo News’ Washington bureau chief David Chalian was fired on Wednesday after a hot-mic incident during an online broadcast from the GOP convention in Tampa. … During the broadcast, Chalian can be...
Anybody familiar with “The Lonely Crowd” [1950]? I’m not, but it seems relevant. Consider this a bleg—it was one of those pop socio-philosophical phenomena that came out of nowhere to sell a million-plus copies...
Drudge: ROMNEY NARROWS VP CHOICES; SURPRISE NAME EMERGES AS FRONTRUNNER UPDATE: Condi?!!
Grand jury returns no charges. SHINER, Texas (HuffPo/AP) — Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man...
[From an earlier version @ LoOG’s Dutch Courage sub-blog.] To me, these days, any artist whose work has a resemblance to its actual real-life subject is “conservative,” so too any artist whose sense of...
The elephant in the LoOG room has only been the most significant election this Tuesday, Wisconsin’s recall election of Gov. Scott Walker. Governor Walker punked the educrat-union-political complex by tightening its belt bigtime—the only...
Seems too cool not to whisper. $3.95 per year? 3 years if you want it. Plus a discount. Shhhh.
[Promoted by request from the Dutch Courage sub-blog.] A rather odd–or underreasoned–op-ed from Harvard prof Noah Feldman is making the rounds, that Mitt Romney’s candidacy is Mormonism’s ticket to American Protestant acceptance. That’s a...
I fancy meself a South Park Republican, no prig he, more likely to laugh at the ineptness of somebody trying to offend than to be offended. A Piss Christ or a Virgin Mary made...
This time it’s Sen. Dick Lugar [R-IN] getting the Tea Party ax in the primary. Dick Lugar is the type of Republican who Democrats love although seldom actually vote for. If you’ve got a...
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on Obsolete Philosophy: The Role of Revelation in Religious EpistemologyI kinda touch on it in the "We must first turn to experience" paragraph. If I had to define it, I'd say "it's…
on Considering The Entire Life of Colin PowellWatching the comments on the Ten Second News article, I got the feeling that I was witnessing one of those bub…
on Obsolete Philosophy: The Role of Revelation in Religious EpistemologyI think one of the essay's several first mistakes is that no one defines what is a mystical experience or comm… on Washington, DC Metro Has To Pull Half Of Fleet For Safety IssuesThe metro system has been in a death spiral for, by now, decades. Elected officials get more of a benefit from… on Parsing Out Pete Buttigieg, Parenting And OtherwiseProbably screwed everything up. (More DEI training, though.)
on Considering The Entire Life of Colin PowellHe was assigned to investigate a letter from a serving soldier that reinforced allegations of a massacre at My…
on Washington, DC Metro Has To Pull Half Of Fleet For Safety IssuesIs that normal for both parties? I remember Metro having derailment issues back when I lived there circa 2009.
on Parsing Out Pete Buttigieg, Parenting And OtherwiseThe real question remains, though, what do people think would have been done, or would be done now, if the fed…
