Points of Disorder!

Who Let the Bull Out?

2007-08-23T14:52:00.000-04:00

On the Commentary Magazine blog Peter Wehner, in an excellent takedown of the egregious Tom Friedman, shows that he probably does not read the Boston Globe.When describing a particularly asinine quote, Wehner asks…Has anything sillier than this… been written recently by a serious columnist?Assuming that’s not rhetorical, I will take up that challenge. I give you Derrick Jackson’s Michael Vick

Your Shirt Offends Me

2007-08-15T13:44:00.000-04:00

Lampooning PC excesses is like shooting fish in a barrel… with a Ma Deuce. However, “>this case is emblematic. University of Maryland student Mia Lazarus recently went to buy some chips and juice at the Maryland Food Collective. The clerk at this grocery and sandwich shop in the student union read her t-shirt’s “Baltimore Zionist District” and “I Stand for Israel” slogans and then declared, “

Radio Free Europe

2007-08-15T12:15:00.000-04:00

In Sweden the elites debate what is important to them (HT, Instapundit). The public has other priorities, of course. The same would be true in the USA, but because of the free market, we have what I call the counter media. The Murdoch empire, conservative/libertarian/contrarian blogs and talk radio fill the void created by a craven MSM. So, while publications seen only in dentist offices

Potter and Me

2007-07-20T16:57:00.000-04:00

At first I did not care for Harry Potter. I saw the movie version of Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone and was unimpressed. I was in the audience at the Hugos at the Philly Worldcon in 2001 when Goblet won best novel and people seethed. I was disappointed, I admit.Then I caught The Chamber of Secrets on HBO. "Cool. A basilisk. Not a bad idea." Since book 5 was coming out, I decided to start reading

Beach Blanket Blogging

2007-07-14T13:31:00.000-04:00

I'm writing this blog post on my new Palm Treo while on a beach on the southern coast of Cape Cod. I am literally on a beach blanket. The water is nice and it's sunny, though with a stiff breeze.It's not all blogging. I snorkled. To me snorkeling is the best part of beach going. Today I saw a huge spider crab and a striped bass over a foot long. I also flew kites with my nieces.Obviously

Carr Jumps Sinking Ship

2007-07-10T20:43:00.001-04:00

The big news in Boston media has to be Howie Carr trying to end his contract with WRKO and defect to WTTK. Carr, is WRKO's afternoon drive time host and a Herald columnist. He's an influential figure in Boston politics and a strong right of center maverick in the bluer-than-blue Commonwealth. In a sense this dustup is not really surprising. When I met him at a function/signing for The Brothers

Tie Die?

2007-07-10T10:59:00.001-04:00

Time and tie wait for no man. The necktie's demise is something I have been observing for a while with some mixed emotions. The only occasions these days where I wear ties is when I appear in court or attending religious services or important family functions (Like the post Bar-Mitzvah parties). Growing up, I was an alienated youth at a school that had a sports jacket and necktie dress

Return of the Native

2007-07-10T09:07:00.000-04:00

I had, let's be blunt, abandoned this blog for a while. I had a new job and lost myself in it. (The fact that I had a brutal commute helped in that decision). But, for better or for worse, I am back. I've had some changes in my life, though at times, I feel as if I am stuck in amber, never making progress. Just like life, eh? Part of the reason I've not been talking or

2006-05-15T22:04:00.000-04:00

UH, YEAH. WHERE WAS I? I make no excuse for the lack of posts. Well, beyond the fact that I have a new job and qualifying for it kept me busy. Then there was the fact that I am unsure how much to discuss about it.. But I suppose I can at least say this much. I am a bar advocate and I work out of a District Court in the central part of the Bay State. GO ME!!!

2006-05-15T21:29:00.000-04:00

DANE GELDED Europe sucks. Let's face it; the best of their stock was destroyed in the trenches of the Western front, the ghettos, KZs and the Gulags. What was left now lives in the Anglosphere or Israel. Sure Eastern Europe seems to have a handful of sane left. But the rest seems to be determined to welcome dhiminitude. First came the disgraceful reactions to the Mohamed cartoons.

2004-09-10T18:51:00.000-04:00

OPEN LETTER TO CBS NEWS Sirs, for the first time in years I watched the CBS evening news and was unsurprised, but appalled at the snow job you put up. You failed to answer many of the major points brought up at Powerline.com, littlegreefootballs.com and other blogs. Why should these documents come out almost perfectly in the DEFAULT settings of Word? Why are there ‘curly quotes,’

2004-09-02T21:20:00.000-04:00

LIVEBLOGGING FROM THE CONVENTION! Yes, I am liveblogging from a convention.... no, not that thing in Manhattan. I am blogging from Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction convention and it's here in Boston! So far it's a blast, thought I've been running around madly and late to most everything. I will be doing a talk on sports and SF. Anyhow, i'll report. Really!

2004-08-06T16:28:00.000-04:00

THE INTIFADA IS IN ITS DEATH THROES! For the schadenfreude lovers out there, check out this grim assessment from an undisclosed location somewhere in Yassir's anarchy theme park... It's not so much what Zakariya Zubeidi, the fugitive leader of the West Bank Aksa Martyrs Brigades, says, but how he says it. Zubeidi speaks in the vacant tones of a ghost. And

2004-07-30T01:28:00.000-04:00

GHOULS AND DOLLS Death Pool update: It's not good (from my perspective, that is). Only 3 out of the roster of 15- Ronald Reagan (the most popular pick), Allistair Cooke (two others had him as well) and Francis Crick (a solo shot), have earned points. Ah well. That's life; or rather the lack therof!

2004-07-30T01:27:00.000-04:00

OH, BY THE WAY. I PASSED THE BAR! WOO! I'M A SHYSTER! WOO!

2004-07-30T00:58:00.000-04:00

GEE, WHERE WAS I? This long absence from blogging is embarrassing and frankly inexcusable on my part. Suffice it to say inertia took over. Sadly, I look through my notes and see a mention of a hate crimes panel sponsored by the CJP which l I attended- but never wrote about as well as discussion of Tillman and the two NFL players who earned Medals of Honor: Maurice

2003-12-31T10:43:00.000-05:00

BUSTARDS AND BASTARDS Interesting Globe article about friction between the petro plutocracts who travel to Pakistan to hunt the houbara bustard and the local tribesmen who are, prickly at their best. At their worst... well, remember this? Brings to mind Wilde's quip about fox hunting, "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Or considering how egregious both sides

2003-12-31T10:32:00.000-05:00

ANOTHER ONE TO BITE THE DUST Death pool substitution on my roster. Bob Dole is out. Replacing his is Joseph Barbera the master of mediocre animation who bears a great deal of responsibility for much of my mis-spent youth.

2003-12-31T09:45:00.000-05:00

From Milan, to Yucatan/ Every Woman and Every Man I'm back. The tan and magartia hangovers are fading. Just going to post a few quickies before my New Year's eve date.

2003-12-26T22:12:00.000-05:00

Weather is here. Wish you were beautiful I am taking this opportunity to report live from the Riviera Maya south of Cancun. Rest, assured, gentle readers that your obedient servant is doing more than snorkeling, overeating, buying kitsch, visiting ancient ruins, tanning, sipping tropical cocktails and slamming tequila shooters. Really. Future updates will include

2003-12-19T00:10:00.000-05:00

TWO TRIVIALITIES Yes, I saw Return of the King. For a movie 210 minutes long, moved quickly. A bench warrant has been issued for John Rhys-Davies for stealing every scene he was in. I will be on vacation in Mexico next week. When I return, I'll discuss the film and my speculation about the relationship between videogame sales and European decay.

2003-12-11T14:21:00.000-05:00

DEATH BE NOT PROUD! The ghouls at Amish Tech Support continue their loathsome tradition of the death pool. Being the merrily morbid sort, I joined in. Here are my fifteen choices and the reasoning behind them. Yassir Arafat: The Chairman of the Board among those I hope and expect who will soon be stiff as a board. What can I say about the man? Well, plenty, but mom may be reading.

2003-12-11T10:18:00.000-05:00

I`M BAAAAAAAAAACK! Miss me? Dang. Guess not. Well, the big news... I`m officially a lawyer! Woo! Party down! I was sworn in at a ceremony at historic Faneuil Hall. So now I`m not just another blogging loudmouth. I`m a blogging loudmouth shyster! Of course that was... a while ago. Regrettably I fell

2003-03-20T13:41:00.000-05:00

SEMPER FIDELIS AND OOH-RAH!! Rick Leventhal, another embedded Foxnews reporter is claiming the First Marine Division is entering Iraq. Also rumors of certain commanders of the Republican Guard are interested in surrendering.

2003-03-20T13:30:00.000-05:00

ROCK OF THE MARNE IS BEGINING TO ROLL Greg Kelly, an embedded Foxnews reports that the 3rd Infantry Division reports artillery fire. Also more targets of opportunity are being attacked in Baghdad.

2003-03-20T11:41:00.000-05:00

I'M ON AUSTRIALIAN RADIO- WHOA-OH! Antipodean blogger/journalist Tim Blair was listening to talk radio and was surprised by the number of pro-liberation callers ABC. The last call he describes is particularly pertinent. The [call] came from an older woman named Jill. Her family had migrated to Australia after WWII. "I wish we'd had politicians in the 1930s with the guts

2003-03-19T22:33:00.000-05:00

IT HAS BEGUN May G-d bless our Armed Forces and defend them as they liberate Iraq and destroy its totalitarian regime and evil leaders.

2003-03-19T14:25:00.000-05:00

I WATCH SHORT SHORTS! (1 point ref) One of the nicest things about living in a major metropolitan area are the cultural opportunities that one can just not get in the hinterlands, or even smaller cities: museums, concerts, theater and movies. It is a real pleasure to be able to eschew the lowest common denominator, intelligence insulting, would-be blockbusters soulless mall multiplex to

2003-03-18T12:08:00.000-05:00

IT'S MEAT, MADAM, MEAT! The amazing Meryl Yourish declared Saturday 'Eat an Animal for Peta Day,' in reaction for the veggie flakes' stunningly tactless and obscenely offensive ad campaign trying to co-opt the Holocaust. She has been collecting menus from that day. So here's mine. Breakfast was egg whites and lox. Lunch, regrettably was vegetarian. (I was on the slopes of Killington

2003-03-17T22:17:00.000-05:00

AT LEAST THERE IS FREEDOM SOMEWHERE ON CAMPUS I live near an abortion clinic. No, I'm not going into Roe v. Wade. My former girlfriend claimed she wanted to slug me after why I said that decision was bad law. (I am pro choice, as a matter of public policy, but I'd rather the decision be made by appropriate entities- state legislators. I am also a damn hypocrite for getting into the

2003-03-17T20:57:00.000-05:00

THE ULTIMATUM SPEECH Bush said what needed to be said with no padding or fuss. Vast improvement over the last press conference. Bush does have a talent to cut through nonsense. Too bad he did not use it this winter while the Axis of Weasel played its delaying game on behalf of their client. Well, no matter. This is endgame for Saddam and the UN. Neither will be missed. The

2003-03-12T09:20:00.000-05:00

AN EMAIL FROM MY MOM THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE TELLING ME TO WEAR A SWEATER Everyone is making a big deal about French fries now being called liberty fries or patriot fries. And one occasionally hears mentioned the WWI frankfurter and sauerkraut changes to hot dog and liberty cabbage, respectively; but what about the WWI change in Britain of German Shepherd to Alsatian? Worth a comment on your page

2003-03-11T18:38:00.000-05:00

IVY IDIOCY Far above Cayuga's waters, There lies an awful smell. Some say it's Cayuga's waters. We know it's Cornell.

2003-03-06T16:26:00.000-05:00

DICK MORRIS PUTS HIS OWN FOOT IN HIS MOUTH I generally like Dick Morris, but in his March 5th column, he makes a lulu of an error. Remember the domino theory? It posited that if Vietnam fell, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore would be next. Then the Philippines and Indonesia. Soon we'd be fighting in San Francisco. It was wrong. Vietnam fell . . .

2003-03-06T15:46:00.000-05:00

I'M BACK! Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. I had a major project that just ended last week. I spent the rest of the time recovering.

2003-01-23T14:54:00.000-05:00

WHEN I CALLED HIM A RACIAL ARSONIST, I WAS JUST BEING METAPHORICAL. Al Sharpton's HQ was damaged by an electrical fire. The good news is that nobody was killed or seriously hurt, although one man had to be treated for smoke inhalation. The bad news is, 'nobody hurt' includes Sharpton. While I normally refrain from wishing a horrible fiery death to my fellow man, Sharpton would

2003-01-23T14:31:00.000-05:00

ROTTEN IN DENMARK. Another display of European contempt for Jews and Jewish suffering. COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Parents of more than 100 Danish scouts were outraged over a game of tag at a scout camp in which children acted as Jews wearing yellow Stars of David and tried to escape from adults pretending to be Nazis. Next is the 'suicide bomber game,' where they get

2003-01-23T14:04:00.000-05:00

"JUST GIMME THE HALO. I ALREADY GOT A PURPLE HEART." Bill Maudlin cartoonist laureate of the greatest generation died at age 81. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and was awarded the Legion of Merit by the Army for his work. In his memory, I offer a 21 gun salute.

2003-01-22T11:48:00.000-05:00

MEMO TO CANADIANS I think you're looking for this guy! I know our names are similar, but Major General James Wolfe, conqueror of Quebec is probably the one you want, judging from the disappointed Google hits I've been getting from the .ca domain!

2003-01-17T17:25:00.000-05:00

GOLD MEDAL HYPOCRITES I don't want to sound like a racist. I want to have every word from my lips or my keyboard to be full of love. But when I read articles like this... Islamic extremist groups reportedly have threatened to bomb the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens if security is assigned to a consortium that includes Israeli companies. In addition, Arab nations

2003-01-17T16:30:00.000-05:00

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON KICKS 'BUT!' Excellent essay today by VDH on the equivocation that masks spinelessness.

2003-01-16T09:01:00.000-05:00

KIPLING ON KOREA DANE-GELDA.D. 980-1016 IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation, To call upon a neighbour and to say: We invaded you last nightwe are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away. And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That youve only to pay em the Dane-geld And then youll get rid of the Dane

2003-01-15T16:25:00.000-05:00

BULGER COLLAPSE! Must have been a crummy last couple of days for U-Mass President William Bulger. The Commonwealth's former Speaker of the House had been deposed by victims of his brother, James 'Whitey' Bulger. Howie Carr rubbed more salt into the wound with his radio show. His guest, Indiana congressman Dan Burton announced that THREE Congressional committees will be coming to

2003-01-15T15:04:00.000-05:00

PARVE FOR THE COURSE! Do not trief-l with ">these consumers!

2003-01-09T21:16:00.000-05:00

NOBODY EVER BUILT A STATUE TO A CRITIC! My first review is up at Blogcritics.

2003-01-06T23:39:00.000-05:00

SHYSTER, SHYSTER & FLYWHEEL Kudos to Senator Bill Frist. The newly installed Senate Majority Leader was doing his normal non-senatorial activity, saving lives. He came upon a scene of a traffic accident and along, with a number of medical professionals, cared for the injured. Frist performed triage. According to Capt. Ken Kronheim of the Broward County Fire and Rescue Department, "He

2003-01-03T19:55:00.000-05:00

ANOTHER GOOD ONE GONE Hall of fame coach ">Sid Gillman is dead, according to the NFL. He was a pioneering coach in both the AFL and the NFL. His San Diego Chargers won the AFL with a (pun intended) electrifying passing game.

2002-12-31T13:39:00.000-05:00

HAPPY NEW BEERS! Gonna go to Kaiju Big Battel tonight, with some friends. I'll try to write it up for Blogcritics. I wish you all a happy and healthy new year. Hopefully that bottle of 151 won't disappear like it has the last couple of years. (2 point ref)

2002-12-31T13:35:00.000-05:00

DRAFT FEARS ON TAP Charles Rangel (D-NY) the very liberal Harlem Congressman has been the first to bring up the D-word. Of course, being a liberal Democrat, cynical political calculus and not honorable strategic thinking is behind the pronouncement. Some observers, including Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack H. Jacobs have warned our troops are being spread too thin. As

2002-12-23T20:52:00.000-05:00

PULLING A BONER When will I learn? I was posting a comment on Free Republic about Spike Lee's firm making ads for Pepsi. I wanted to be acerbic and imply that Lee's presence would hurt Pepsi's business. However, given my propensity for typos... No. Read it for yourself.

2002-12-23T20:50:00.000-05:00

SIGN OF THE TIME I was in Harvard Square Saturday- I had walked from my Brookline apartment, seeking to see something other than the same four walls. While there, I noticed on the Hudson News side of JFK street a sign urging motorists to 'Honk to say No to War in Iraq.' The sign (complete with stick, making it look like a leftover from some demo or another' was taped to a lamppost.

2002-12-22T13:00:00.000-05:00

THE VOICE POINTS THE WAY Kudos to the Village Voice for contradicting my rant below. Normally I snarl the only good thing in the paper is Nat Hentoff. But on last week’s issue the cover story, by Tom Robbins, was an excellent look at the cadets at West Point. Refreshingly the tone of the article is not sneering or accusatory. Instead there is a tone of careful respect as the author

2002-12-22T12:07:00.000-05:00

MAKING MOCK O'UNIFORMS THAT GUARD YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP Since I've brought up liberal prejudices, let's look at their biggest focus of contempt- the military. The hatred the post Vietnam left has for our servicepeople is shocking. Here it is at its sleaziest at the Fark Forums. MC_500foot_Nietzsche: Anyone who risks their own life for Bush's moronic personal vendetta are idiots

2002-12-22T12:00:00.000-05:00

GENDER SAUCE FOR THE GANDER TV ratings poison Bryant Gumbel may join on Harold Rraines' anti-Augusta bandwagon, but according to the New York Post's Page Six, he comes with baggage- membership in an all male club. Martha Burk, who chairs the National Council of Women's Organizations, said Gumbel admitted to her off-camera that he was a member of the exclusive Burning Tree

2002-12-22T11:59:00.000-05:00

QUOTE OF THE WEEK! A mass, crybaby adolescence has infected the Middle East. Victor Davis Hanson

2002-12-19T10:13:00.000-05:00

LILEK'S GEM James Lileks continues to prove why he is one of the best phrasemakers writing in his latest screed. You know, if every "Woman's Studies" department was closed, and the student loans were used to create businesses that hired women instead of studied them like tragic butterflies impaled on the patriarchal pin, we might be better off. Give that man a

2002-12-18T22:29:00.000-05:00

UN-WISSE STRATEGY In this otherwise solid examination of the resurgence of anti-Semitism on college campuses, Professor Ruth Wisse offers the following advice in combating the plague. The last thing university authorities ought to do in addressing this latest outbreak of what has been called "the longest hatred" is to enforce the kind of speech codes that have been

2002-12-18T03:47:00.000-05:00

ARAFAT FINDS THE FRIGGING OBVIOUS! The old joke about the Palestinians being like the Bourbons- forgetting nothing and learning nothing- has taken an interesting twist. The Palestinians chose Hitler, Stalin, Saddam and now Osama. They cheer for the bloodthirstiest goons who promise them dead Jews. And every time they end up worse off.

2002-12-18T03:46:00.000-05:00

FIRST REFUGE OF A DIMWIT Sean Penn is using a new word these days... In Reuters... "I'm here for a simple reason, which is because I'm a patriot and an American who has benefited enormously from being an American, and because I had areas of personal concern and conscience that led me to come to Iraq. And the Washington Times... "As a

2002-12-13T10:54:00.000-05:00

HEY BUD, LET'S JIHAD! Annoying actor Sean Penn is in Baghdad for three days. That's a short window to begin bombing! Link via Drudge.

2002-12-13T10:33:00.000-05:00

BUY SOMETHING DAMN IT! Attention anti-idiotarians shoppers, especially in the Boston area... the bastards are at it again and we need to use our wallets to tell them to shove off. See, a band of self-hating Jews calling themselves 'Jewish Women for Justice' have been picketing Wordsworth, one of the best bookstores in the region. Why? Because the proprietor, Hillel Stavis stopped

2002-12-10T00:01:00.000-05:00

YET MORE PINKO ONANISM September 11th 2001 the New York Times had a front page puff-piece about convicted 60s terrorist Bill Ayers. Ayers attempted to bomb the Pentagon and was unrepentant. "I don't regret setting bombs.... I feel we didn't do enough." The Times wound up with a great deal of egg on its face that the sympathy Pulitzers did little to wipe off. Well, Raines'

2002-12-09T23:11:00.000-05:00

SHUT UP AND SHOW US YOUR TITS Jay Caruso takes on celebrity activism and succinctly hits one out of the park. The day people start taking political advice from the likes of Uma Thurman is the day I declare my allegiance to Soviet Canuckistan. (Link thanks to Croooow Blog) As Sir Humprhey Applebey said when Jim Hacker wanted to make his mark on the world stage,

2002-12-09T22:13:00.000-05:00

SLOGAN OF THE DAY From a US Navy recruiting poster... "Life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!"

2002-12-09T11:09:00.000-05:00

ANTI-IDIOTARIAN GUERILLAS GOING APE! Unlike the Vietnam era protesters, the idiotarians are not getting a free ride. A month or two ago I was tearing down anti-war signs in Cambridge (normally I don’t do such things, but these PC sphincters are so in love with censorship that it is healthy to give them a taste of it themselves). As I was going to hurl another handful of photocopied

2002-12-07T20:42:00.000-05:00

BACK FROM THE BAHAMAS! I'm back from paradise! Back from 80 degrees, snorkeling in a lagoon fringed with coconut palms and evenings filled with fruity tropical drinks to 15 degrees here in tense Boston. Joy. Seriously, it's great to be back... So here are a few random observations about my trip. The Atlantis resort on the aptly named Paradise Island is fabulous

2002-11-27T21:14:00.000-05:00

BAD BLOGGER, NO BISCUT Not that I’m a great blogger, but I’ll be away for a week enjoying the sun at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.

2002-11-25T18:06:00.000-05:00

IN OUR NAMES Proudly bellicose woman Kathy Kinsley, who has read my ‘Not in Our Name’ rant points out this web page. Read it. Then add your signature.

2002-11-25T12:00:00.000-05:00

I PITY THE FOOLS The poor Petro-bandit princes of the House of Sod are having a wee bit of trouble. Their attempts at PR to seduce the American people are falling flat. The Senate is asking difficult questions about the princes' role in funding 9-11. Imagine that. The nerve of those elected representatives calling the Wahabbi warlords on the carpet! Gee, for the good old days

2002-11-11T10:35:00.000-05:00

THIS DAY OFF HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU IN PART BY... *GORDON, GARY I. Rank and organization: Master Sergeant, U.S. Army. Place and date: 3 October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia. Entered service at: ----- Born: Lincoln, Maine. Citation: Master Sergeant Gordon, United States Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as Sniper Team Leader,

2002-11-07T15:44:00.000-05:00

MEET THE NEW BOSS. SAME AS THE OLD BOSS. Well, though Mitt won, despite the best efforts of the Jamaica Plain voting authorities. However that still does not mean that the Bay State overlords will respect the voters. Another initiative representing the Will of the People has run smack into the Won’t of the Legislature. The legislatures do not respect the voters because they do

2002-11-06T11:26:00.000-05:00

ELECTION ANALYSIS This is what the voters did to the Democrats. Any questions?

2002-11-05T17:20:00.000-05:00

VOTING EARLY AND OFTEN IN THE BAY STATE Courtesy of Howie Carr. A voter gets help. Video here. The Boston Police spring into action. I wish I could mock this more. I wish I could be surprised. Boston authorities claim this was an isolated case of translation assistance. Mitt Romney's (Republican for Governor) campaign has dropped a threatened suit. If he

2002-11-05T17:11:00.000-05:00

IF I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE... My current squeeze has put her foot down. No more self-deprecating humor in her presence. There goes 35% of my schtick.

2002-11-05T17:10:00.000-05:00

A whole slew of Jewish holidays have just passed us by: Rosha Shanah, Yom Kippur and Shavout. Chanukah is coming soon. But right now I am thinking about Passover- specifically one part of the seder service. The reason why I am thinking of it is because of the 'anti-war' or rather 'pro-surrender' meme 'Not in our names.' This pisses me off something fierce and has since I saw the damn

2002-10-22T18:27:00.000-04:00

TEXT OF AN EMAIL TO MSNBC ON ITS IMPLICITLY ACCUSING CHARLES JOHNSON'S LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS BLOG OF BEING A 'HATE SITE.' Sirs, I for one am appalled by the fact that you swallowed Anil Dash's nonsense allegations that LGF is a 'hate site.' Like many on the left, Dash is terrified by the sight of powerfully argued opposing viewpoints, which is what LGF has in spades. LGF is

2002-10-22T15:11:00.000-04:00

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR In memory to the Australians, New Zealanders, Indonesians and others foully murdered by Islamofascist terrorists in the Bali bombing. Image thanks to Justin Weitz Some people have taken this as a sign of a resurgent Al-Qeada. I think that is a mis-reading of the terrorists. They are not an octopus, with tentacles everywhere, but a school of

2002-10-03T16:00:00.000-04:00

RITTER'S MELTDOWN CONTINUES Major Scott Ritter has caught onto the 'chickenhawk' meme. Seth Gitell of the Boston Phoenix bore his angry brunt. When I asked, "Why not war?" Ritter all but exploded. "First of all, to hell with you and that question, " he said, arguing that concern for "over a million American servicemen" and "tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians" dictates

2002-10-01T02:10:00.000-04:00

CROW: PART OF THIS NUTRITIOUS BREAKFAST. I have made two major pronouncements which I have to recant. The first, and more trivial, relates to my football team. The first player I drafted was Shaun Alexander. Because he had been almost completely unproductive, I benched him this week. AAAAAAIIIIIIIIEIEEEEEEERRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! Glad I got that out of my system.

2002-09-26T10:30:00.000-04:00

INTO ACTIVISM! Sorry for this report's lateness... Well, I've recently finished my first political campaign as a volunteer... and we lost! I worked for Jim Rappaport, a GOP nominee for Lieutenant Governor. Sadly the handpicked (and inferior) candidate won. Now a lieutenant governorship on its face may look as if it is worth a bucket of warm spit, sans bucket, but GOP governors

2002-09-19T13:43:00.000-04:00

PRESTIGE PRESS BASHING I was damn lucky I didn't have a car accident driving home from the Cape the night before Labor Day. Not that I was driving any more like a manic than I usually do. (Hey, for a Bostonian, I'm pretty good. I am almost never the last person to run a red light.) I was furious about what I was hearing on the radio. WBZ, a Boston area news station,

2002-09-18T22:46:00.000-04:00

WINE, WOMEN AND SONG Latest news from science, courtesy of Tim Blair. Some folks may find this to be blindingly obvious. Personally I find it heartening, because if I can ply my latest lust object with enough adult beverages... Here she is... Tiffany Limos I'm a MSTie, so I was overjoyed when I heard that Showtime was remaking a number of Roger Corman schlock

2002-09-10T23:47:00.000-04:00

RADIO SILENCE I have a few frivolous posts on tap. Bashing the prestige press, week one in the NFL, salacious comments on actress Tiffany Limos, a tortured analogy comparing various writers to great offensive linemen and I do need to do a Captain Euro story. But following the examples of Vegard Valberg and Letter from Gotham I will maintain a respectful radio silence on 9-11. Those

2002-09-10T21:04:00.000-04:00

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Society A was built on the idea that a homeland would emancipate a dispossessed people. Regrettably, they did not consider the current inhabitants. Society B put their homes at risk in order to exterminate the uppity dhimni. They lost the gamble and blame everyone but themselves. Medicine in society A: Downstairs, before we left, the head of the

2002-09-10T20:31:00.000-04:00

THE NEW PHRENOLOGY From Little Green Footballs. The ever dangerous Robert Crawford comments on a bit of Paliswine onanistic fantasy. The booklet, which sells for only NIS 2, is entitled The Koran Anticipates the Destruction of the US and the Sinking of the American Army.I'm planning a pamphlet entitled: "My Ass Predicts the Death of Thousands of Islamic Fascists".In ten years we'll

2002-09-10T12:19:00.000-04:00

KNOW WHAT I MEME? Folks, here's an early alert for the next idiotarian conspiracy bullshit meme down the pike. I spotted this posting on Free Republic of this Ha'aretz article. The Bank of Israel has obtained information that several accounts held in Israeli banks may have been used to fund terrorist activities. However, because of banking secrecy laws, the central bank has

2002-09-05T11:33:00.000-04:00

OH GODS, BOOK 1! Congratulations to Neil Gaiman for winning the Hugo for best novel for American Gods. If Bujold's Curse of Chalion had to lose, at least it lost to the best. Anyhow, as Tyler Stewart, proprieter of Pandemonium, pointed out, Lois has enough Hugos as is! I was at the Millenium Philcon, when the Hugo went to the Harry Potter book. People left the presentation

2002-09-04T20:25:00.000-04:00

FIGHT FEEBLEY HARVARD! Schadenfruede unbound! Harvard Law has just discovered the joys of discovering Uncle Sam's purse strings tend to turn the recipient into a marionette. The school has been forced to allow military on campus. Previously, the services were barred from Harvard, ostensibly to protest the 'don't ask don't tell' policy. This replaces the earlier bans, ostensibly

2002-09-04T16:59:00.000-04:00

DRAFT BEERS AND DRAFT PLAYERS DO NOT MIX! One note on my fantasy draft. While I firmly believe my team is solid, I darn near made a fatal error thanks to the quintet of Yuengling beers I consumed that afternoon. I drafted two quarterbacks (Donovan McNabb and Jim Miller) with the same bye week. Fortunately I traded Miller for a pick I used on Mark Brunell.

2002-08-23T23:25:00.000-04:00

I'M SO SORRY! You kinda noticed the lack of updates... Sorry. I have an excuse, or rather a whole slew of them. Most of them are not very good. First was the bar. I stopped blogging while cramming my skull full of relevant information. Then came the period of recovery. As soon as my brain recovered, my body took a blow as a persistent flu bug knocked me out for a

2002-07-15T22:23:00.000-04:00

COOL FACTOR NOTED; LET'S PROCEED. (3 point ref) Japanese engineers testing a new supersonic jet design encounter a minor setback.

2002-07-15T22:02:00.000-04:00

NASTY COMMENTS Not with a bang, but a whimper. Senator McCain is never afraid to be the only Republican standing among Democrats. Witness the Keating five. Daltrey and Townshend are releasing a new album. Its title is Who’s Left? When anyone says we can not define terror or that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, I will suggest they're against the law. Literally. 22 U.S.C

2002-07-11T10:33:00.000-04:00

TORO! TORO! TORO! “For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!” Tom Leher. The photographer was never in danger, apparently. But nobody seems to care about the poor schmuck whose shirt the bull has on its horns!

2002-07-01T16:58:00.000-04:00

QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. One reason my blogging is minimal (aside from time constraints) is that I want to try to be at least minimally original, instead of citing the same articles the rest of the warblogers do. And I care that I say things well. So that means I do bupkus. Here was one overdue issue posting. Prior to the speech where Bush called for Yassir to take the golden

2002-07-01T01:43:00.000-04:00

THE BEST THING ABOUT THE WORLD CUP....

2002-06-25T02:54:00.000-04:00

HECKLER'S VETO OVERRIDE Cant Watch needs to learn to enjoy schadenfreude. Noting, and approving of, the suspension of the organization of the kaffeya wearing brownshirts at San Francisco State University, Erin O`Connor decries the removal of their hate filled web site from the server. My point? We have to defend the expression of groups like GUPS if we want to be sure our own

2002-06-25T02:33:00.000-04:00

INSIDE BASEBALL AND NOT THE BOSOX Here in Massachusetts, the Dems control the state, even with a GOPer in the corner office (meaning Governor. There is no governor’s mansion here in Massachusetts). Though we’ve had a run of Republican governors, they’ve been either had one eye on a better job, or a head firmly up their butts. Most of the GOP establishment in the Commonwealth consists

2002-06-24T16:45:00.000-04:00

ARRRRGGGGHHH! Bush tries to appease the jackals again. How many times will we fall for their bait-and switch before saying 'screw `em.' and leaving them to rot in their cesspool. One in his speech I found particularly risible. The Palestinian people are gifted and capable... Yeah, but only when it comes to murdering children. Update: The Pals and their Arab

2002-06-24T16:42:00.000-04:00

OVERDUE UPDATE Sorry, but between work and the bar review class, I've not been able to do squat. Sunday is my one free day and last Sunday I was comatose and this one I had a wedding (and the less said about that, the better...). Gomen, Gomen!

2002-06-11T13:42:00.000-04:00

AN APOLOGY IN ADAVNCE Folks, blogging is going to be erratic at best, non-existent at worst for the next month or so. See, I'm studying for the bar. That means four hours of classes Monday through Friday 6-10 PM. Plus I work Tuesday through Saturday on the night shift 11 PM -7 AM. Sunday I sleep. One incident I should mention. The lecturer on Contracts is a blond guy from