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The Bookworm Beat 2-4-15 — The “Obama’s not sad” edition and Open Thread
It’s been pouring paying clients lately, which is a good thing but, as always, it cuts into my blogging time. I’ll skip the preliminaries and throw myself in the round-up. It’s a bad thing when our...
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A pox on moral relativism — we’re fighting the good fight; ISIS is not
ISIS is escalating its death cult antics, so the usual suspects are decrying the fact that King Abdullah of Jordan is leading his troops to battle against ISIS. I think it’s time for a little moral...
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The Bookworm Beat 2-6-15 — the “Fearless Friday” edition and Open Thread
Obama’s adversarial relationship with Christianity What did we expect already from yesterday’s Prayer Breakfast? Obama long ago put the world on notice that he’s going full Bulworth (i.e., after six...
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If you read just one article today about ISIS, read Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS...
I can’t imagine that you’ve traveled anywhere across the conservative internet today without coming across a link to Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS Really Wants.” It’s a long article, but so informative and...
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The Bookworm Beat 2-19-15 — A few links for your reading pleasure
I’m still away from my blog, so I’m not blogging in real time, but in un-real time. I lined up this post several days ago and, for all I know, world events shifted so dramatically, everything here is...
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It’s not about Palestinians; it’s about antisemitism
The Left constantly says that it’s not antisemitic with its endless attacks against Israel. Instead, its rabid spokespeople insist, the Left (whether rejoicing under the name of Progressives,...
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The Bookworm Beat 5-14-15 —“Just another busy day” edition and Open Thread
Another day where life got in the way of blogging. Hope these interesting articles compensate for the long silence. What’s she got to complain about? It’s already old news that Michelle Obama —...
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The Bookworm Beat 5-22-15 — the “no more doctors, please!” edition and open...
My post title notwithstanding, I am well, I have been well, and I expect that I will continue to be well. It’s just that I’ve spent between five and fifteen hours every week for the last few weeks in...
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The Bookworm Beat 5-26-15 — the “mad, mad, mad, mad world” edition and open...
No time for chit-chat. I’ve got stuff to share: America’s values have turned upside down It’s a time-honored custom for older people to look at changes in the world since their youth and to bemoan...
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The Bookworm Beat 6-24-15 — the “midnight ramblings” edition
I should be heading for bed, as it’s after midnight, but I’m so thrilled to have a moment to myself that I can’t resist a little blogging. I’m feeling especially smug (and tired) tonight because my...
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The Bookworm Beat 7-25-15 — the Lazy, but interesting, edition
As you may have gathered from the number of things we did every day on our recent trip to Virginia and environs, ours was not a restful vacation. I capped off the fatigue with a cold and, since our...
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The Bookworm Beat 8-26-15 — the “gruesome GoPro” edition and open thread
The revolution will be televised — thoughts on the shooting in Virginia Back in 1969 or 1970, during the height of the 1960s era upheavals, Gil Scott-Heron wrote a poem/song claiming “the revolution...
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Maybe Obama can re-energize by leading a fight to ban swords and knives
Robert Tracinski wrote an excellent article calling Obama the worst president ever. I urge you to read it. His opening point, which is that Obama is bored by the disasters he’s let loose in the...
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Stuck on Stupid: Progressive Facebook edition (Part 2)
It’s not a very deep dive to plumb the depths of Leftist intellectual positions on most issues, but it’s still a worthwhile exercise to expose the fallacies that they use to try to dominate the debate...
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Found it on Facebook : The logical fallacies in a popular Progressive poster
This poster is populating my Facebook feed, courtesy of the many Progressives I number among my real-me friends: I find it a rather fascinating poster because of the underlying assumption that the...
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The Bookworm Beat 11-29-15 — the “tidy office-tidy mind” edition
Inspired by Marie Kondo’s advice that true organization begins with throwing out everything that is neither useful nor sentimental, I am continuing to plow through every nook and cranny in my house....
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Obama’s oval address, sadly, contains no surprises
One doesn’t have to be psychic to predict what Obama will say. It’s always the same old Leftist pabulum. Although finally forced to acknowledge that the San Bernardino attack was terrorism, he worked...
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Obama’s speech highlights why it’s hard to have an intelligent political...
I found myself in conversation today with a Progressive who thought that Obama’s oval office address was just wonderful. “What did you like about it?” I asked him. “It was a very mature speech,” the...
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The Bookworm Beat 12-8-15 — the “fresh off the spindle” edition and open thread
I did it again — I let my inbox get out of hand, so much so that I woke up this morning to discovery over a thousand unread emails in the email accounts for which I’m responsible. Going through them...
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