I know it’s emotionally immature to revel in the failings of one’s ideological opponents, but I have to admit to a wry smile or two upon reading of a group of PETA protestors being accosted for their hideous propaganda. By…
This past weekend was an absolutely packed one, moreso than a usual weekend in the Stewart household. My wife, son and I arose relatively early on Saturday morning, assembled ourselves and headed over to Aron and Heather’s house. Heather is…
Work continues apace, meaning that I’m extremely limited in the time that I can even think about blogging, let alone working up full posts. In lieu of some genuinely new and original content, I’d instead like to offer up links…
Have you heard about former Bush advisor Claude Allen who allegedly shoplifted almost $5,500 in goods from a Maryland Target store? Well, the story just gets stranger: he may well have a good shot at the old “It wasn’t me,…
These days, it seems as if everyone is ready and willing to throw together a demonstration, protest, march, or riot at the slightest provocation: Supreme Court appointments, elections, Presidential visits, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, sports championships (both won…
Peggy Noonan has penned a very interesting piece for the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Boy in a Bubble – What George Clooney doesn’t know about life”. It is quite possibly one of the most sympathetic and generous readings of…
If you’ve payed careful attention to the news in recent days, you probably have seen reports of proposed legislation in New Jersey that would prohibit anonymous online posts in order to impose “civility” on the Web. If service providers refused…
In the wake of Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain for best picture at last night’s Oscars, Glenn Reynold linked to a post by Mickey Kaus claiming that the members of the Academy were not voting their consciences on the matter…
I don’t know if y’all have seen (and, presumably, laughed uproariously at) Chariman Dean’s recent comedy bitspeech, but it reads like pure comedy gold. Had me in stitches, actually: “Karl Rove says that the Republicans are going to win on…
What strange times we live in, when admitted Socialists can manage to outflank ostensible “conservatives” to their starboard side. Witness Christopher Hitchens rake Francis Fukuyama over the rhetorical coals and marvel that “Right” and “Left” no longer mean anything; instead,…
