1. It won’t change anything. Gingrich had the crowd with him and some memorable answers, and Santorum, although tough and quirkily authentic, didn’t shine enough. Romney was rated very low on the authenticity-meter by the tweeters and Pete, but he just wasn’t bad enough. Paul won . . . . Continue Reading »
1. It’s amazing how few blogs are saying MLK stuff today. So I thought about talking about the great and effective promotion of “direct action” directed against “white moderates” who knew, being Americans, what was right but (like most of us most of the time) preferred . . . . Continue Reading »
So if you are lonely and wish to meet a girl, and sorry girls I can only speak for males, there are certain songs that could guide you in your endeavor. I only speak from the perspective of masculine failure, so you can take this whole piece as a guide to avoid. I mention songs because I am not as . . . . Continue Reading »
So we hear a lot about the European way of life that should be shunned. It is a way of life that is unsustainable and which leads to dependency on state provisions. Perhaps this is the case, but if you were to ask the ordinary European with his troubled earned pension, you would hear a defiance . . . . Continue Reading »
The world’s leading blogging reviewers gave my MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY an A+, a higher grade than the one earned by many timeless classics and perennial favorites. . . . . Continue Reading »
Believe it or not, I had a grandmother who used to goof around with her grandkids about the “Girls in France who did the ‘coochie coochie’ dance.” It was all a joke and we kids (me and my sister and cousins) loved it. It was all in fun when we were young. We kids thought it was . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete’s bitterly hilarious post below on Romney being authentically vacuous—knowing it, loving it, bragging about it etc.—deserves a wide audience. But it seems to be, in its way, a sad goodbye to Romney bashing or a prelude to a long effort to be in love with MItt. Having read . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s the correct link for Dawn Eden’s discussion of the greatest Kinks song. I made this a separate post because her Christianity-rooted discussion of the song’s appeal to beauty is a good counterpoint to my post, which is also rooted in Christianity via Pascal. I worry . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course pomocons don’t listen to Prozac! Nor should they, but in our fascination with the vicissitudes of the presidential nomination process, might we not be asking to be put in a giant sack hanging from a tree? Learning the style of populist rhetoric may make us as (un)popular as Gingrich . . . . Continue Reading »
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