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How about the failure of the EU constitution in France. The chickens are coming home to roost on that self-righteous nation. France basically started the EU (with Germany) and now want out because things aren’t going there way. France doesn’t want to give up its inefficient welfare state. That’s fine, [...]

Live Aid II is going to be coming up shortly. It’s hard to believe that Live aid one was 20 years ago. My good we’re old.
Looks like the acts will include: Paul McCartney, U2, The Police, Robbie WIlliams, Oasis, Alicia Keys, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas, Destiny’s Child, Linkin Park and Mary (over-rated) J. [...]

So we picked up the DVD of Team America tonight. You know how most DVDs that claim to be"Uncut" don’t really have anything obviously cut-worthy in them? For those of you who saw Team America at the cinema, especially, you’re probably scratching your head, wondering: "If the puppet sex scene that I just saw made [...]

It’s interesting what makes global headlines and cover stories. The Koran getting flushed down the toilet (if that happened) makes news immediately. Why? Because it shows the Barbarism of Bush and it defends multi-culturalism.
Meanwhile, on Iraqi election day (their first in decades after being under a Stalinist regime), MUSLIM terrorists use a [...]

What to make about the recent poll that says a significant amount of conservatives would be willing to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008. For starters, I’d want to know the specifics about the poll (how it was conducted, questions asked etc). But if it’s true that Hillary is suddenly the Democratic [...]

Man…check out this quote from Journalist Judith Miller–not exactly a Bush-lovin’, Muslim hating journalist.
In 1992, Islamic assassins had gunned down my good and brave friend Farag Foda, a professor and columnist, a human-rights activist, and an outspoken critic of the Islamic militants. The murder had shocked Cairo and terrified intellectuals. . . Egypt’s most [...]

Watching the season finale of Law and Order: Criminal Intent right now. The story is about White Supremacist assassins targeting judges.
Detective: "Maybe we should put out an APB for someone in a Tom Delay T-shirt?"
Come on.
Imagine a show about a killer targeting, oh, I don’t know, CEOs, and a
detective saying, "Maybe we should put out [...]

I have some free time tonight? I’m been having some record activity at
work lately, but it’s also made me feel depressingly guilty about my
profligate use of free time (downloading soccer matches and watching
TV, for both of which the respective seasons are thankfully ending).
Tonight I have a brief respite. Please excuse the resulting
blogurgitation.

If we’re to retain the Social Security system and make it work, I think it needs to be a little more "progressive," but maybe we can do it in a way that’s not overly burdensome to the wealthy.
It seems to me that the current wage cap should be scrapped. Currently you only pay Social Security [...]

Last week Jonah Goldberg wrote an excellent column
about how today’s liberal Americans have more in common with Europeans
in terms of their sensibility than with the American traditions that
are today carried on by conservatives, especially the dreaded Christian
Conservatives.
Here’s a little real-world correlation that adds some meat to his
theory: in much the same way that the liberal, [...]

Here’s what Newsweek’s Japanese edition was reporting. Classy. Imagine the riots if they had depicted The Constitution being flushed down the toilet, instead.

What a dick.

I heard of it the first time tonight: Hit Me Baby 1 More Time.
Imagine American Idol, but instead of a cast of unknowns competing for
top prize, assemble a desperate gaggle of ’80s music has-beens.
NBC’s web site only mentions A Flock of Seagulls, Tiffany, Loverboy,
and Arrested Development, but I think the commercial also made
reference to Air [...]

It’s been a long while since we talked the nitty gritty of politics around here, but I thought all that hoo-ha leading up to yesterday’s "deal" on judges and the fillibuster was nauseating, but probably not for the same reason that some of the others around here might have. The Republicans should’ve moved on the [...]

My typing is particularly bad right now, as I’m blogging from my deck
and now that the sun is down my hands are a little numbed from the
unmitigated breeze. Not helping is the glass of iced Pernod I’m
drinking, adding to my numbness in more ways than one.
While settling into this new house is taking some time, [...]

Thank you to Bill and E. for confirming my lack of motivation to see ROTS. I actually had a grown adult try to argue with me the other day that the three most recent Star Wars Films are just as good as the early ones. An adult! I’m annoyed but not surprised when a 10-year-old [...]

Georgetown Islam scholar Fuoad Ajdami has just returned from the Middle East and his 4th trip to Iraq since Saddam was ousted. He is positively giddy about what is going on there.
While I’m not very hopefull about widespread democracy in the Middle East over the long-haul, one thing that I have written [...]

I forgot to close the quotes on that last post. Only the last 3 sentences are mine.

We’ve all heared that the reason there are so few Conservatives in the education system is because A) conservatives are not smart B) Conservatives aren’t willing to challenge assumptions (which of course liberals aren’t either–they’re just different assumptions) and/or C) conseratives pursue money. Well here’s a counter-argument from someone that made me laugh.
"I [...]

I just heard from Soppy Bollocks yesterday that he thinks Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is nothing more than a publicity stunt as well. Soppy pointed out that Cruise’s last films have all been met with a lukewarm response. His last major hit was MI2, which was just a lame sequel to [...]