Glib & Superficial

We Hear It's "Cyber Monday"

2013-12-02T17:31:00.001-05:00

Caturday

2013-11-30T02:00:00.000-05:00

A Thanksgiving Tale: "Son, have you ever been arrested?"

2013-11-28T12:06:00.002-05:00

We Welcome Our Heterochromatic Masters

2013-11-27T20:22:00.000-05:00

Today I Learned . . .

2013-11-27T12:23:00.002-05:00

. . . that Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, has a Twitter account. I'm personally looking forward to a Twitter war involving @HassanRouhani, @Pontifex, @AlecBaldwin, and @KimKardashian.

We were all young . . . once upon a time

2013-11-25T14:00:00.002-05:00

"Long against Hrothgar Grendel struggled . . . ."

2013-11-25T03:00:00.000-05:00

Since the days of Hrothgar and Beowulf the Danish Royal Family has . . . changed. Behold!

More HERE. That kid -- excuse me, His Royal Highness Prince Christian Valdemar Henri John, Count of Monpezat -- we've seen him before.

Stanford 63 -- Some State College 13

2013-11-23T19:28:00.000-05:00

50 Years Later

2013-11-23T17:37:00.002-05:00

November 22, 1963: 9 1/2 Minutes on the CBS Television Network

2013-11-22T01:00:00.000-05:00

"For there is born to you this day, in the City of David . . ."

2013-11-21T12:47:00.001-05:00

. . . a gingerbread house."

"It's nothing. It's just a wolf."

2013-11-20T21:58:00.003-05:00

"Crunch, crunch, I don't want no lunch . . .

2013-11-20T21:52:00.000-05:00

. . . all I want is potato chips."

ObamaCare -- Words Matter

2013-11-20T19:25:00.001-05:00

I thought I'd noticed this, but I'm getting old, I drink heavily, and I'm plainly a racist. I thought, that is, that I'd noticed that while, until recently, Our Masters had referred to the Affordable Care Act as "Obamacare," they'd recently seemed to be pointedly avoiding that term.

When everyone thought the war in Iraq was a wonderful idea, no Democrat ever referred to "Mr. Bush's War." That changed, of course.

Because Grammar

2013-11-19T15:01:00.000-05:00

Personally, I never use this form unless the sarcasm dial is set to 11.

"Calm down! You're being too emotional!"

2013-11-19T14:57:00.000-05:00

Yeah. That works. I can't wait for these people to be in charge of my colonoscopy.

Four Days

2013-11-19T08:30:00.000-05:00

"I have too much ammunition," said no one, ever.

2013-11-19T01:30:00.000-05:00

It's National Ammo Day. If it were National Turkey Day, I'd post a picture of the turkeys that walk through my woods. If it were National Bobcat Day I could . . . well, bobcats being bobcats, I couldn't post a picture, but I could explain how fricking scary night-time bobcat noises can be. But if I posted a picture of my waterproof ammo boxes, you know what would happen.

So here's a generic picture of what I think may be ammo cans, holding what I think may actually be ammunition. I don't know. Having stuff like this in your house would be dangerous and irresponsible.

Perhaps a bit harsh . . .

2013-11-18T18:43:00.001-05:00

. . . but nevertheless true.

Five Days

2013-11-18T01:00:00.000-05:00

Seven Days (Also, Caturday)

2013-11-16T01:30:00.000-05:00

Just so.

2013-11-15T14:19:00.001-05:00

Fouad Ajami, in the Wall Street Journal:

Forgive the personal reference, but from the very beginning of Mr. Obama's astonishing rise, I felt that I was witnessing something old and familiar. My advantage owed nothing to any mastery of American political history. I was guided by my immersion in the political history of the Arab world and of a life studying Third World societies.

In 2008, seeing the Obama crowds in Portland, Denver and St. Louis spurred memories of the spectacles that had attended the rise and fall of Arab political pretenders. I had lived through the era of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul Nasser. He had emerged from a military cabal to become a demigod, immune to judgment. His followers clung to him even as he led the Arabs to a catastrophic military defeat in the Six Day War of 1967. He issued a kind of apology for his performance. But his reign was never about policies and performance. It was about political magic.

Eight Days

2013-11-15T01:30:00.000-05:00

Your Fairy God-Bama

2013-11-14T19:50:00.004-05:00

From Drudge.

The Oncoming Storm Begins

2013-11-14T16:47:00.003-05:00

"I'm a doctor. But probably not the one you expected."