Jul 31st, 2004
It occurred to me that our cat, Merlin, actually had the perfect opinon of the French:It would appear that the French are yellow pussies who will roll over on their backs and spread their legs for just about anyone. But, that’s just his opinion, and he’s a cat…
Got an e-mail from PG in the wilds of Colorado. It’s a horrific tale of knee deep snows, falling off mountains, carrying heavy packs above raging mountain streams. And marmots. Which turn out to be woodchucks. Groundhogs. Big, fat rodents.PG has fallen in love with the yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris, which loosely translated means smelly [...]
Jul 30th, 2004
As a liberal, should you vote for John Kerry?I’m glad you asked.John Kerry has been a politician all his life. He spent a couple of the years immediately after Vietnam in the practice of law, but only because he lost an election. Kerry is the insider’s insider. To use the rhetoric of my youth, he [...]
I’m of two minds about having candidates’ wives speak at conventions. No offense to Teresa or to Laura Bush but we ARE voting on their husbands. I suppose if a candidate had a wife similar to, say, Courtney Love, it might affect my vote since I think it would speak to a character flaw, poor [...]
Bill Quick makes the following predictions:1. The Easter Kerry will get no more than a four-point “Bunny Hop” in the polls coming out of the Con-vention.2. Islamofascists will pull off some sort of atrocity in Athens, and forcibly remind Americans of who the real enemy is. More Americans, of course, will be paying [...]
The folks in this story try valiantly to blame the Liberation of Iraq for an increase in gun deaths, but their own data puts the lie to it.The StarGENEVA (AP) ‘ The huge numbers of small arms left behind by Iraq’s armed forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein could cause instability in the Middle [...]
Tomorrow is the last day I bleg [blog beg]. I turn 49. In order to celebrate this day, and to provide an alternative for those who might not want to fund Andrew Sullivan’s blog, I have suggested that readers donate a small amount to Lollypop Farm, the Monroe County Human Society. I have set up [...]
Jul 29th, 2004
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming Republican convention, versus the Democratic one going on now. I keep hearing Crocodile Dundee say “You call that a convention? THIS is a convention!”Three words. New York City. The ultimate party town. It’s what Vegas wants to be when it grows up.I believe the Republicans are going to show [...]
In the comments to one of my posts about the Protest Warriors, someone has issues:hahahahahahahprotest warriors, very couragous of you, you and your big bad guns. Free market of ideas? That’s bullshit. If the Nazis were socialists, why did they fight agianst the socialist revolutionaries in the spanish civil war?now, close your eyes, relax, repeat [...]