Reduce, reuse, recycle
If I were the “bipartisan, bicameral committee on deficit reduction”, I would simply have my staff retype the Simpson-Bowles plan on committee letterhead. It would save a lot of time and a lot of money...
View ArticleUse fire to fight fire
I gather there are some concerns, particularly among conservatives, about the implementation of sharia law* in the United States. I don’t know how reasonable those concerns are, although as a woman I...
View ArticlePray for them
The Anchoress (via NRO) has up a rant about first responders and clergy being excluded from the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It speaks for itself and I have...
View ArticleCreationism
Neoneocon is writing about a Russ Smith post which contains the following quote:There are usual caveats: Of course Obama isn’t illiterate or Bush-dumb because as Jesse Louis Jackson once said, “God...
View ArticleTwo links for September 11
To think about September 11, read Memorializing September 11th by Wilfred M. McClay in National Affairs:And the greatest good is often done, as William Blake put it, in "minute particulars," in small...
View ArticleFat-brained
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. - George Bernard ShawThere are...
View ArticlePolygamy (1): As I was going to St Ives
I started writing about the relationship between legalizing gay marriage and legalizing polygamy as a comment to a post over at TigerHawk. My comment got way too long to actually be a comment so I...
View ArticlePolygamy (2): I met a man with seven wives
[This is the second of a series of posts on polygamy. The first - simply an intro - is here. The series is collected under the category “Grim Polygamy”.]Marriage is whatever society says it is. Since...
View ArticlePolygamy (3): Each wife had seven sacks
[This is the third of a series of posts on polygamy. The first - simply an intro - is here. The series is collected under the category “Grim Polygamy”.]A post in which I start out convinced legalizing...
View ArticlePolygamy (4): Each sack had seven cats
[This is the fourth of a series of posts on polygamy. The first - simply an intro - is here. The series is collected under the category “Grim Polygamy”.]Grim started off by proposing that if a woman...
View ArticleLife is good ...
... and human beings are pretty amazing:The Good, The Bad, and The UglyYouTube link, has sound, starts right up.(For those of you who’d like to try this at home: sheet music.)
View ArticleMirror image
I have to say that in general I think the Occupy Wall Street group is as dumb as a whole yard of grass (although I do think they’re right about bringing back Glass-Steagall). However, the juxtaposition...
View ArticlePolygamy (5): Each cat had seven kits
[This is the fifth of a series of posts on polygamy. The first - simply an intro - is here. The series is collected under the category “Grim Polygamy”.]There are a couple of posts up at Grim’s Hall on...
View ArticlePolygamy (6): Kits, cats, sacks, wives
[This is the sixth of a series of posts on polygamy. The first - simply an intro - is here. The series is collected under the category “Grim Polygamy”.]When I began thinking about how the fight over...
View ArticleRude awakening
'Occupy' memo could discourage victims from reporting assaults(Via Contentions) (emphasis mine):Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community...
View ArticleOff the grid (again)
I'll have very little access to a computer until around mid-February.Comments are closed. I can be emailed:elise dot fb at verizon dot net
View ArticleWhiplash
Let’s leave aside for a moment the First Amendment aspect of the HHS mandate that all employers provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception. I know that sounds weird but, frankly,...
View ArticleA simple solution
I had pretty much already decided what I thought the Catholic church - and all other affected religions - should do in response to the HHS mandate that they provide their employees with insurance that...
View ArticleJust for the record
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert EinsteinAs you may know, Foster Friess, a generous financial supporter to Rick Santorum’s...
View ArticleA bit too far
Stanley Fish (via JustOneMinute) is explaining why it’s okay to condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a slut while giving Ed Schulz a pass for calling Laura Ingraham the same thing and giving...
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