Go here for very pungent assessment of last night’s agree-to-disagree summit at which the president drank Bud Lite: Absolute crap beer for an absolute Bullshit moment. This fine Teaching moment on race( brought to you by the Jackson Family Budweiser Distributorship) , like Obama’s Philadelphia Thigh Tingler, where Reverend Wright’s idiocies became America’s problem, because [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
He’s against sin in general
Former top RC chaplain issues “abolitionist challenge”: OMAHA, NEBRASKAWith a message aimed at the heart of the U.S. nuclear command, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore July 29 called for a world free of the threat of such weapons. So what? Tags: Archbishop+Edwin+O’Brien, nuclear+weapons
Beer
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the lede paragraph of the year so far: “If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose,” the comedic philosopher Jack Handey once theorized. A messy eureka moment like that wasn’t the point for the White House beer drinkers Thursday night. [...]
Duelling letters about Gates
Richard Frisbie, of Arlington Heights, IL, a writer whom I have known for years, primarily through our membership in Society of Midland Authors, cites a 1979 Florida case, “State vs. Brayman,” as one to keep in mind as we judge the arrest of Prof. Gates in Cambridge. In it, Frisbie says in a letter to [...]
Bernanke Stutters?
I know stutters and this ain’t it. It’s the second item I’ve seen in last two days about Bernanke looking bad on this point — the other was being questioned by a Congressman — and each time he doesn’t. Heat’s on him and Fed because it’s lending (creating) money and not just setting rates, and [...]
Four in an hour
These burglaries are on the north end of town, not northeast, where houses are especially nice and residents are generally more affluent. Oak Park police have issued a neighborhood alert following four residential burglaries within a four hour period early Wednesday morning. The burglaries occurred within a roughly four square block area bounded by Division [...]
Orwellian science adviser
This was above Obama’s pay grade as a candidate, but as president he found a guy for whom it wasn’t: President Obama’s top science adviser [John P. Holdren] said in a book he co-authored in 1973 that a newborn child “will ultimately develop into a human being” if he or she is properly fed and [...]
Keep those rules and regs coming . . .
New Jersey is surpassing Illinois as a citadel of corruption, and this woman knows why: Sandy McClure, co-author of the book “The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption,” agrees that big government is a big reason behind the state’s corruption problem. “You have all these little authorities that everyone has to go to for [...]
We like to be in charge, you see . . .
It’s suspicion-of-profit time at the U.S. government: The chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday he believes the agency must “seriously consider” setting “strict” new limits on traders who place bets on energy contracts. The standard arguments prevail, the same chutzpah: “The CFTC is in the best position to apply limits across [...]
Are they black or white?
The woman whose report of a possible house break-in led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said she never mentioned race during her 911 call and is “personally devastated’’ by media accounts that suggest she placed the call because the men she observed on the porch were black, according to a [...]
