Least Loved Bedtime Stories v. 2.0

I have a confession to make (tangentially related to the comments here): I’ve always wanted to be left-handed.
I don’t know why. I remain stubbornly right-handed, except for being able to do small tasks with my nearly useless left hand — oh well, okay, I can type as well with my left as with my right, […]

“Go look at china bugs dot com” Gnat begged. Dang, I didn’t even make my dad go to the library to verify his pronouncements; I just accepted them. I was such a sap.

Okay, I’ve had it with Blogrolling. First they weren’t updating, and now they are down. It’s time to quit being lazy. I’ve been wanting to rebuild my blogroll again anyway; the old one was full of defunct links, blogs that hadn’t been updated since June, and blogs I hadn’t read for months. So now I […]

All this fuss and bother about spendthrift Republicans and the current blog-paign to “cut pork from the national budget” is going to go nowhere because people keep avoiding the elephant in the room. In a move to quit hiding my light under bushels on other peoples’ websites, I’m going to share with you, my readers, […]

Bumperstickerist’s gonna make the news.

Heh. The “Poor Mouth, the Neverending Story” has attracted the attention of the Earnest Ones. They are even now castigating me in the comments for being a big old meanie ‘cos I don’t think it’s particularly admirable for “poor” Americans to feel sorry for themselves when they live in a country where the opportunities for […]

This is why.
On a side note, though I casually accepted the common (un)wisdom that the girl in the famous photo had been burned by bad old American napalm, I never could get too worked up about it. Part of it was a certain hard shell I built up as a result of a lifetime of […]

Remember this “my empathy beat up your empathy” saga? Now the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has gotten into the act, with a fawning interview of the author of that bullshit, which as you all know I panned. You know, I really have to finish this book of mine. Then I think I’ll rest on my laurels and […]

Michelle Malkin has pictures from today’s “anti-war” protest in Washington D.C. My personal favorite? The girl carrying the Carter/Mondale poster. WTF?

You know what? I’m beginning to feel sorry for New Orleans Mayor Nagin. It’s a kind of what “an owl feels for a blind puppy in the dark” sort of pity*, but still.
*c.f. Ambrose Bierce.