In memoriam of the January surprise, that the draft would be reinstated, which perished on February 1st, 2005. This memoriam is dedicated to Democrat Chuck Rangel, the lawmaker who introduced legislation to reinstate the draft that was promptly put down by his fellow lawmakers. This montage of quotes serves as a reminder of [...]

Interview with Johnny Depp.
“All Vanessa and I could think of was ‘When and where can we go smoke?’ ” he said, frowning. “And, ‘Where can we get a drink?’ And, ‘When is it over?’ And, ‘Please, don’t let me win.’

Inaugural Protest Falls One Person Short!
In 1998, the Sierra Club’s rally to protect an old-growth forest in northeastern Washington failed because Seattle environmentalist Eddie Burgess decided to forgo the protest and “jam with his buddies.”

Anti-Dad Bias in Family Court.
Family courts force fathers to submit to interrogations and evaluations by court-chosen child-custody evaluators. Fathers are forced to pay the high fees of these private practitioners whom they have not hired, whose services they do not want, and whose credentials and bias are suspect. The children are also subjected [...]

Man as Dope in Advertisements.
The NYT has finally noticed it. Baron Waste sent this along although, good Baron, if you go to blogger.com and sign in you can post there on top of comment. Hop on in!
But men who describe themselves as rights activists are increasingly speaking out against the ads as a [...]

I Am Charlotte Simmons Review.

Blogs Against Hillary has this on Ickes backing Dean for DNC head. I’m not so sure it’s a snub.
What’s the head of the DNC do? Raise money and be a general cheerleader. If he ran in the primaries again in 2008, with the Deaniacs in tow (and this time remembering the buyer’s [...]

HAPPINESS RESEARCH
There is another dummo academic (Richard Layard) reported here who points to the fact that getting richer does not necessarily make you happier. Any observer of Hollywood knew that long ago and I guess people have in fact known it for about 4,000 years. In 1 Timothy 6:10 St. Paul probably went a [...]

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.
Well, now that we’ve gotten that out, and it looks like he is front runner to be the next DNC chair (unless he drops again like he did in the primaries at least), can we put this bipartisanship rhetoric to [...]

What a Sad and Miserable Life You Must Lead.
I followed a link to the Democratic Underground (I refuse to link) from LGF (I think, and you all know where He’s at) that is so filled with abhorrence for both America AND the Iraqis that it demanded a Fisk:
All the media keeps talking about is how [...]

HAPPINESS RESEARCH
There is another dummo academic (Richard Layard) reported here who points to the fact that getting richer does not necessarily make you happier. Any observer of Hollywood knew that long ago and I guess people have in fact known it for about 4,000 years. In 1 Timothy 6:10 St. Paul probably went a [...]

Meanwhile, in east Africa…
Defence lawyers for the first woman to be charged with genocide at the international tribunal for Rwanda have begun presenting their case.
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko and her son are accused of helping to organize the murder of Tutsis and inciting soldiers to rape hundreds of women during the 1994 genocide. (Ironically, she was a [...]

I LIKE it!

Ingrid at Sudan Watch sent me a link to the LA times article that says what happened and is happening in Sudan is not genocide.
If it isn’t, I’m not sure what genocide means. How many people have to die? How many people have to be tortured and starved? How many people have [...]

In Iraq, there are many such as Ted Rall who proclaim the insurgents as glorious freedom fighters and heroes of their people.
Then, the truth comes out. We’ve not seen Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, or Zarqawi strap suicide vests on themselves and run at Americans. No, these courageous men prefer to use disabled [...]

(A very old post.)
I had remarked on a Dennis Prager interview with two sociologists, John Borneman and Laurie Hart, on the subject of marriage. One of the things that had struck me during the interview was the wide variety of human relationships that could qualify as “marriage” under the definition being proposed.
I had taken a [...]

I’ll be hosting The Bonfire of the Vanities on Feb 15th.
If you are new to the concept of the Bonfire of the Vanities read a few of the previous editions or check out the initial call for entries. To sign up for the reminder e-mail list click here.
More later…

Laura Ingraham speculated this morning that in the future, Iraqis will celebrate their independence day with, among other things, blue marks on their fingers.

Senator Clinton collapsed today during a speech on Social Security. She blamed a stomach virus.
I wish her good health, and hope it’s nothing more serious than her new moderate positions on various topics not sitting well.

Beat Dead Dads.
Bernard recently posted a bit by Edward Grey deriding Mike Seate’s article Deadbeat Dads Work to Avoid Manhood. In it he states that, “At this point, I’m likely to suffer a heart seizure if I ever meet a local man who gleefully announces that not only does he pay child support, he’s two, [...]

Now this is good news, and it shows what should happen around the country if malpractice reform is enacted. First, the number of malpractice suits dropped dramatically, which tells you that many of malpractice suits that were being filed were frivilous. Once the potential payday from those suits was lowered, the plaintiffs attorneys decided they [...]

The Mayor of Baghdad (how’d you like to attend that City Council meeting?) said that he’d like to have a statue of President Bush somewhere in his city. That’s got to chap the sizable butts of the uber-liberal sect of Democrats.
Ever wonder how long it’ll be until a nation dedicates a statue to Jacques Chirac, [...]

I wrote in today’s WND column:

“First off, yes, obesity kills, which is an unpleasant fact that was first discovered by Virginia Rapp at one of Fatty Arbuckle’s parties.”

A comment posted corrects me:
“Wrong. virginia rappe died from a botched abortion she got earlier that day before she went to the party there was no evidence she [...]

Well, I was back last night, but about beat to death. A good ten hours sleep, and once more unto the breach for the Gonzster.
When I go out on one of my woodland jaunts, I like to go as light as possible. The whole object of the exercise is to pit yourself against [...]

Liberal loses it after successful Iraqi election

Elle Dvorin’s column in the DI
I’m not sure I know how to respond to this. Apparently we now need government to keep people with AIDS from having sex by locking them up. This is the kind of people that the University of Illinois produces nowadays.
Slightly related is a story my wife told me about a [...]

A one-stop location for a lot of the news and commentary about the publication of Meyer’s paper on ID/IOT.

According to pollsters, including Democratic pollster John Zogby, the Democratic Party’s steadfast opposition to Social Security reform is alienating almost every demographic group in the country, especially Hispanics and blacks. The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game here, hoping Americans don’t understand the issue, and/or aren’t paying attention. Unfortunately for them, [...]

Mark Steyn explains why those ”realists” who believe that Iraq can’t be a democracy are wrong. One big reason is that Iraq is already the most economically advanced Arab nation.

In Europe, the wise old foreign-policy “realists” scoff at the Iraq elections — Islam and democracy are completely incompatible, old boy; everybody knows that, except [...]

For those interested in the details of the Terri Schiavo case, including the offer made to settle (i.e. let the husband go, he can have absolutely everything, just let Terri live), check out here
Hat Tip:
Dawn Eden