tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:33:23 +0000Presidential ElectionsMichigan FootballBarack ObamaJohn McCainMichigan BasketballIraq WarConservatismEnvironmentModern LiberalismGlobal WarmingMichigan HockeyDetroitBlogosphereGlobal JihadHumorRepublican PartyMainstream MediaMichigan GovernmentFreedomLinksGeorge W. BushHigher EducationClassical LiberalismCorruptionPublic SchoolsEvangelical ChristianityFederal BudgetHillary ClintonMichigan SportsMitt RomneyPeople's Republic of ChinaBooksDDTEconomyHealth CareIsraelLiveChatMichigan EconomyNSA Warrantless Surveillance ProgramPolitical PhilosophyRon PaulWilliam F. 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You may remember little Adolph Hitler Campbell from this story, wherein little Dolphie's parents try and fail to get a local bakery to put his name on a birthday cake, after which they settle on Wal-Mart. Now the state Division of Youth and Family Services has taken the children fromhttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2009/01/boy-hitler-removed-from-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6359556519705666382Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:14:00 +00002008-12-20T18:29:16.446-05:00BlogosphereLiveChatSo, earlier today I hosted my first ever LiveChat, with a smashing turnout of one person...which was one person more than I expected. And that's fine, because it was mostly a test run to see how it works. But my discovery of CoverItLive LiveChat has caused me to wonder what else Michigan bloggers are missing as far as communications tools go.This is especially important because the Michigan http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/connections.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6190146403718094206Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +00002008-12-20T13:50:38.124-05:00LiveChatSuggested Topics: Auto Industry; The Future of Conservatism (Caps!)http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/livechat-12202008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-8845226966846868023Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:20:00 +00002008-12-19T13:25:06.818-05:00HaloScanLiveChatBecause I can.I just figured out how to host a LiveChat on my blog, and in celebration I shall host a LiveChat tomorrow, Saturday, December 20, from 2-3 PM.How it works: The LiveChat box will be on my latest blog post. Click on it, enter a username, and start chatting. As moderator, I will have the option to allow or disallow comments before they appear in the box. (Considering the small http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/saturday-afternoon-livechat-and-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-9104965106161425466Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:02:00 +00002008-12-19T13:14:07.966-05:00CanadaHumane SocietyTorontoCourtesy of the BBC: "Mice suspected in deadly cat fire."After years of oppression of mice, sectarian violence between the two bitterly opposed species has finally escalated in Canada. Noted one stiff-upper-lip commenter--the spokesman for the Toronto Humane Society--"It's unfortunate and ironic that mice caused the fire that killed the cats." He also noted the shocking nature of the assault:http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-headline-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-5292316897105486819Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:13:00 +00002008-12-19T10:29:52.465-05:00Automobile IndustryJohn HinderakerMichigan EconomyPowerLine BlogUnionsJohn Hinderaker of PowerLine Blog today writes about the "silver lining" in the possible auto industry collapse--namely, the United Auto Workers collapse.Most conservatives I've talked to here in Michigan have the same struggle I do. None of us want to see thousands of people out of jobs, unable to support their families, and potentially having to move. On the other hand, there seems to be veryhttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/john-hinderaker-of-powerline-blog-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6640215006473646776Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:02:00 +00002008-12-18T11:15:11.495-05:00Classical LiberalismConservatismImpromptusJay NordlingerJay Nordlinger's "Impromptus" (which he has been producing at a delightfully rapid pace this week so far) included (scroll down a bit) a letter today from "someone with a close knowledge of Harvard Law School." This paragraph in the letter struck me:One thing that really bothers me is that the brightest students seem to really want to have a cause to pursue. The Left gives them many causes, but http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/next-generation-conservatives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-3837921994076620232Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:22:00 +00002008-12-17T21:49:30.202-05:0030 RockAdam BaldwinArrested DevelopmentBattlestar GalacticaChuckFireflyGossip GirlHeroesScrubsSerenityThe Big Bang TheoryThe OfficeThe good ones, I mean! I've become concerned about society recently, for two reasons. And they're both from the same web page. A prominent video website recently placed CBS's The Big Bang Theory and NBC's Chuck on their list of best TV shows you aren't watching. I hope this doesn't mean you, gentle reader. For, although The Office and 30 Rock are finally truly funny again, although Scrubs ishttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-our-shows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-2288601464519562154Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:09:00 +00002008-12-17T20:55:42.801-05:00Hey-o. Back. I wish I didn't have to begin posts like this so often, but nobody told me: Grad school takes a lot of your time. Hm.That said, I'm very nearly done with my first semester. (Oh, how the definition of "very nearly" has changed since I came!) And since it seems probable that I'll never have a semester as stressful as this one until I'm actually a student-teacher, I should have plenty http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/okay-guys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-4806031749845280369Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:59:00 +00002008-12-04T18:28:09.578-05:00College Football<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-marginhttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/12/bcs-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-2299807823684084748Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:36:00 +00002008-11-22T16:06:15.087-05:00Michigan FootballHere's my game summary:And with that out of the way, some thoughts about college football.College football is like the ancient world, and I love them both for similar reasons. Everyone has their city-state. Each city-state has its peculiar rituals, cults, symbols. They go out to fight each other. Victory is more than just victory, and defeat more than just defeat. Everything that happens hashttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorrow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-5352675366593159196Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:21:00 +00002008-11-22T10:29:13.532-05:00Michigan FootballSorry I haven't been posting lately; this grad school thing takes a lot of your time, as it turns out. Next semester should be better...But in the meanwhile...today. Today is The Game. The beleaguered Wolverines, who will miss a bowl game for the first time since 1974, travel to Columbus to look for redemption against their arch-rivals, the Ohio State Buckeyes, who are playing for yet another http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/beat-ohio-state.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-655300600511580032Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:32:00 +00002008-11-17T10:50:52.193-05:00ConservatismSince I seem to have come under some scrutiny for my posts recently, I thought I'd write a bit about where I am now that the election is over and we've all had some time to think about conservatism going forward.My staunch conservative friends who read this blog know I'm not one of those mushy-headed folks who thinks that Republicans should sacrifice principle for electoral gain. Not in the http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/conservative-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-992527918759520584Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:24:00 +00002008-11-17T10:32:23.262-05:00Republican PartyThat's what The Shadow-Liner wants to talk to conservatives about, and he starts things off with an excellent post about defeatism. (Read it all!) Here's part:A sense of history is important at times like these. Society, as Burke wrote, is ". . . a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contracthttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/winning-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-9008682088896011432Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:06:00 +00002008-11-15T18:11:58.963-05:00Modern LiberalismSecularismJust read a fantastic book review on NRO by Joseph Morrison Skelly about Herb London's new book, America's Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion. (Psst: You should read it, too.) Obligatory excerpt, but it's all worth reading:London identifies five developments in our time that have paved the way for the ascendancy of radical secularism. They include the rise of http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/rise-of-radical-secularism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-7618465337092631662Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:53:00 +00002008-11-15T18:06:30.068-05:00Michigan FootballWell, Western Michigan (!) beat us in hockey last night, 2-1, at Yost. I thought that was bad.But nothing can compare to sitting through a game in which Michigan football solidifies its most losing season ever--8 losses, never happened before here in A-squared--in (by my estimation) negative-45 degree weather. At least it happened against a team that, even when they're likely to have an 8-win http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/darn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-4038692112229476688Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:02:00 +00002008-11-14T13:10:22.163-05:00HatredBecause I'm getting confused.(H/t to Michelle Malkin, and from there Diana West.)I mean, I know the Right is just totally hateful, racist, bigoted, all that stuff. But then things like this happen in California. Or this, at Augsburg College. Also, things like this, in Philly, and this, in Illinois. And you start to wonder just who it is that takes abstract beliefs and enforces them on people.http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/waitwho-is-it-that-hates-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-7228254571409042814Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:56:00 +00002008-11-14T13:02:25.638-05:00BlogosphereRepublican PartyAnd he's so, so right:This should be viewed as a war. As in any war troops on the ground are vital. I would of thought that the Surge proved that to us. The internet is there as a tool to help facilitate the gathering of volunteers. A means to get them on board in the first place. Secondly to show them how to meet locally with others, and thirdly how to make a difference in their community. We http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/live-dangerously-advocates-living.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6575525259399905668Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:15:00 +00002008-11-13T23:49:10.599-05:00Republican PartySarah PalinConservatives...we're upset. Well, a lot of us are. Barack Obama won. We didn't like John McCain too much, either. The only candidate we really felt any sympathy with got trashed by a mainstream media and an elite culture that, honestly, hates people like her. That was wrong.But what place should Sarah Palin have in our future?She's been a fantastic governor. Don't tell me she's incompetenthttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/temptation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-4179143334312217451Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:15:00 +00002008-11-12T18:23:58.955-05:00Education...here's some more from Akindele Akinyemi, Urban Conservative: Certainly, we have seen changes in our schools during the last 20 years. Teacher salaries have been raised, student-teacher ratios have been reduced, annual per-pupil spending has increased by about 40 percent and total annual expenditures have grown by nearly 60 percent in constant dollars, from about $180 billion to $280 billion. http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/since-ill-be-doing-research-all-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-2159531590780472140Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:47:00 +00002008-11-12T17:15:16.656-05:00Conservatism: UrbanRepublican PartyThis is from last Friday, but reflects my own thoughts quite well. Akindele Akinyemi, Urban Conservative:I have been warning the Republican Party about the role of minorities in the party. Now all of a sudden all across the nation is how do we get more Blacks into the party. I mean Jesus, we just now figuring this out? Maybe if you put some money behind outreach programs we can go further. <!--[http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/akindele-on-new-direction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-7779072955675319871Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:07:00 +00002008-11-11T23:51:08.648-05:00Conservatism(I reserved this critique for a new post instead of attaching it to the last one, for the sake of posting brevity. Anyway, read on.)For some time now, we've talked about the three legs of conservatism: social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, militarist/nationalist/hawkish (take your pick) conservatives. Most people have wanted to talk about how to unite the three, but the truth is that thehttp://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/moving-beyond-three-legs-of-stool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6345666480438301648Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:33:00 +00002008-11-11T23:07:04.154-05:00Republican PartyChoose your metaphor. I like "picking up the pieces" best. Whatever it is, the Republican Party needs to do it, and fast.And note that I say "Republican Party." Not "conservatives," or "libertarians," "traditionalists," or whatever the group is calling itself at the moment. It would be difficult to count the number of times friends have told me that they're "conservatives, not Republicans." http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/jindal-brooks-and-new-direction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-7444541762391731814Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:29:00 +00002008-11-11T22:33:43.046-05:00Blogosphere...of my pledge. To post once a day. (On weekdays, I suppose.) Still keeping up, barely.Updates: My dad, who raised me in the ways of conservatism and Michigan football, has begun his blog: Libertarian Tim. (Note: Not his real name. His real name is just "Tim.") Welcome to the blogosphere!http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/living-on-edge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496694768505313914.post-6377295405156490675Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:13:00 +00002008-11-10T19:17:09.555-05:00...badly, too. I CAN do lots of work without posting on this blog. Lots and lots of work. So...the next-to-last post may have been an alarm of the false variety. Hmm....but in the interest of noting a historical event...Finally! Now let's go out there and not be quite as sad, until New Year's Day, when we can drown our sorrows with entire bowls of Chex Mix.http://thewanderingwolverine.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-was-wrong.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0