So now I'm playing FFXIII ( Read more... )

It's as true today as it was when Martin Luther King Jr. said it during his speech at Harvard.

"When a man is close to tears discussing his work and his lip quivers, he deserves bosses who punch back." - Sheila Nevins, describing an interview with Dan Rather

I'm sure Osama bin Laden's lip also quivered quite a bit, when he had to flee Kabul as the Northern Alliance overran the Taliban positions.

Welcome to the thinking man's side, Nick Cohen.

The thing to watch for with fellow travellers is what shocks them into pulling the emergency cord and jumping off the train. I know some will stay on to the terminus, and when the man with the rucksack explodes his bomb their dying words will be: 'It's not your fault. I blame Tony Blair.'

... is to look at people's actions, rather than their words ( Read more... )

While certain people are making a big row about how two of the three Supreme Court justices who took the side of medical marijuana (Sandra Day O'Connor and William Renhquist) are cancer survivors, nobody wants to mention that two of the six who were against it (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stephens) are also cancer survivors.

1. Long-faded but still well-known pop star develops a habit of visiting Israel, and exclusively hiring Muslim bodyguards for her children ( Read more... )

Okay, we all know the left LOVES to re-write history, but DAMN. This is loopier than anything I've seen any post-modernist deconstructionist history major crank out, and it's appearing in "the nation's #1 newspaper ( Read more... )

Weird Al's parents died.

I wish I knew where to send condolences... I used the "Ask Al" form on his website, though it probably isn't the best place to do so.

Not all those who dissent are unpatriotic, just those who hope America gets defeated, destroyed, and turned into a good little servant of other nations / the world.