03.04.10
I always thought this was a despicable movie, too
Bookworm says she lost respect for people who said they liked the 1990 movie “Pretty Woman.” She uses that as the lead-in to an examination of some statistics about prostitution.
02.16.10
Multiple layers of cultural rot in sixty seconds
Dennis Prager on the Super Bowl Doritos ad.
01.19.10
The state apparatus wants inside your head
TCM’s EEOC nominee is on record as positing that society should not tolerate anyone’s beliefs that interfere with a homosexual’s equality. We should presume she reserves the right to define all the terms in her assertion, such as “beliefs” and “equality.”
Sometimes the most uncomfortable messages are the ones we need to consider most carefully
. . . such as Dennis Prager’s Townhall column today on whether society is still producing actual men.
01.17.10
Incentives matter
Jennifer Robach Morse does a great job of disspelling the libertarian argument that expanding the definition of marriage to include same-gender couples wouldn’t affect society and culture much.
01.05.10
Who meant what?
The Anchoress on Brit Hume on Tiger Woods and by inference Buddhism. She also offers a roundup of other perspectives, ranging from Buddhist to Christian to secular.
What is the relationship between forgiveness and peace of mind?
10.19.09
Rather universally regarded with great reverence
The Anchoress reflects on some particular aspects of intimacy and why we ought to keep them sacred.
10.06.09
Giving a pass to zoo animals with artistic talent
Two great Townhall columns today – one by Cal Thomas and one by Bill Murchison - sum up everything I’d have to say about the Polanski and Letterman matters and what they have to say about the relationship between the arts-and-entertainment world and the erosion – as in chunks of the cliff falling into the ocean – of Western civilization.
09.24.09
Who had the most accurate view of human nature – Adam Smith or Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The comment threads here at BN often wind up coming down to debates over the role of self-interest in human affairs. This video makes a worthwhile contribution to that discussion.
HT: The Anchoress.
UPDATE: My link, even though I put in the specific URL for that video, takes you to the general page for free PJTV shows. I’ll leave it up, just to encourage folks to watch all the great stuff available there, but for some reason The Anchoress’s link works directly, so here that is.
07.21.09
Smack!
I haven’t yet mentioned, or posted a link to the video of, Black Chamber of Commerce head Harry Alford’s beautiful and glorious smackdown of California Freedom-Hater Barbara Boxer at that Senate energy hearing the other day. I would be remiss not to do so, so here it is.
02.18.09
Our new attorney general is an arrogant race-baiter
One thing you have to hand to the FHer regime: for all the different demographic and personality types, they are all on the same page when it comes to character traits like arrogance, vulgarity and a determination to poke their Stalinist noses into how we live our lives when we’re not in direct contact with the state. They also each and all have a knack for beating dead horses, for staking policy orientations on issues that were resolved long ago.
10.05.08
It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain
The only real problem for me, and all my homies here at BN, being that our freedom, and this Western civilization that has made our lives so liveable, goes down the tubes if you don’t get a clue, and pronto.
This s— of not letting your campaign bring up Rev. Wright is not just suicidal but genocidal.
The MS in MSM . . .
. . . no longer stands for “mainstream,” but rather “Marxist Suck-up.”
Exhibit A is Douglass Daniel’s AP “analysis” of Sarah Palin’s remarks referenced in the last post. In the first paragraph, he used the term “racially tinged,” and I thought, Huh? So I read down a few more graphs, to where he says that, Palin and the McCain campaign run the risk of her “not the way we see America” comment being perceived as racist, “whether it was meant that way or not.”
Well, s—! No one was going to see it that way UNTIL YOU ENGAGED IN THIS VULGAR RACE-BAITING, YOU STINKING TOTALITARIAN CHUNK OF DOG VOMIT!
When I first heard Sean Hannity declare that 2008 marked the death of the profession of journalism, I thought it was a bit overheated, a purple moment of talk-show hyperbole.
No, he is spot-on.
10.01.08
Who the hell was asleep at the switch when this selection was made?
Gwen Ifill, the moderator of Thursday’s VP debate, is hardly an objective journalist.
07.31.08
I have really and truly had it with this guy
He Who Is Not Only A Marxist But A Vulgar Victim-Monger, A Solipcist, And A Fool To Boot trots out the race card again. It’s the quintessence of the Freedom-Hater rule of polemical engagement: preemptively strike those who point out your very real blightedness on both a policy and personal level by telling your brainwashed minions that your opponents are trying to scare them by tapping into some kind of core bigotry.
Modern Conservatism has a marvelous refutation of this dog vomit.
This man must not become president.
UPDATE: And you may have heard about his exhoration to the masses to keep their car tires properly inflated as a better energy plan than drilling for oil. Does this guy have a grand vision of America’s future or what?
He must not become president.
