Archive for 2005

I fully agree with Brian McGrory: It’s ridiculous that anybody would even ask Her Majesty Queen Margaret Marshall to apologize for her silly “no red states here” joke while speaking at a Brandeis graduation ceremony. Even apart from the fact that academia is the belly of the bolshie beast – and thus a place where [...]

Says a friend of ours who lives in Venezuela and has family in Mexico: “Mexico is a First World country compared to Venezuela.”

Speaking of snitches, here are the opening lines from DMX/Ruff Ryders Anthem. And this is the edited version: Snitches wanna lie snitches wanna try snitches wonder why snitches wanna die

GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY! Update: Blasted. Navy won again. The Midshipmen were too speedy for Army, both on offense and defense. They also outmuscled the Black Nights for most of the game on both sides of the ball. Still, it was an all-out effort by Army. Next time we’ll win.

28-year old Swedish soldier Jesper Lindblom was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last Friday. Three other Swedish soldiers were wounded by the blast, one of them is still in critical condition. Lindblom was a marine ranger when he joined the secretive elite unit Särskilda skyddsgruppen (SSG) in 1999. Sweden currently has some 100 [...]

The answer is no, they should not (deci-jokingly one could add “if for no other reason that we’d have no professors at all if we did that”). Consequently, I don’t feel any particular joy over the news that a pro-fragging community college professor in California has resigned after making some outrageously anti-American comments in an [...]

Here’s one of those stories that make my fellow rightwingers fall into Victorian-style swoons: The school superintendent whose district includes Mount Anthony Union High School has labeled “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” an English teacher’s use of liberal statements in a vocabulary quiz. “I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there [...]

Most teams in the National Football League would roll up in a ball and cry their way through the season if they had to endure the devastating injuries that have hammered the New England Patriots this year. Fortunately, the Patriots aren’t like most other teams. Instead of folding, they keep on fighting. With their 24-17 [...]

Highly unusual but very welcome news out of Pennsylvania, where federal agents detained over 100 illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, at a Wal-Mart construction site. Best of all, a local official chucks the typical Chamber-of-Commerce-bullshit about how great it is with “migrant” labor and instead serves up some God-honest truth: At least 120 illegal immigrants, [...]

Our overlord, His Highness Mayor For Life, has finally decided that it’s ridiculous to waste resources on protecting the city’s residents, when what is really called for is monitoring them by placing sophisticated surveillance cameras throughout the city. Nothing good will come out of this. If the cameras reduce crime, we’ll be told we need [...]