Hillary’s become unusually easy to pick on lately, not that it was ever much harder than throwing a basketball in the ocean. This bit about her recalling sniper fire upon landing in Bosnia is sticking hard. Chronic liars have it tough in McLuhan’s global village, don’t they? I hit her once on it already, but … Read more
John Derbyshire, a favorite writer of mine who straddles cantankerousness and gentlemanliness brilliantly, has been saying it for months. Anyone who’s ever seen a certain film has wondered about it. Now it’s getting traction in the “mainstream media.” Gore 2008. Is that really a possibility? Consider: Jeremiah Wright, evidently a fine man except for those … Read more
You know the deal with this eBay crap these days. There are Virgin Mary crullers, and perfectly cervical kidney beans, and Colonel Klink-shaped pimientos. (You know, probably.) Add to this list a corn flake that looks somewhat like Illinois that’s apparently worth a mortgage payment (and a car payment, in a lot of the country) … Read more