February 16, 2007

The PC stampede rolls on:
The University of Illinois will drop its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men’s basketball home game of the season on Wednesday, officials said.
The move makes the school eligible to host postseason NCAA championship events.
So far, this mascot madness seems to be confined to anything related to native [...]

At some point in the future, when another civilization digs up the big box encrusted with Justin Timberlake stickers and Prozac dust that is our time capsule, the most telling of all items about who we were and what we did will be our warning signs.
We’ve all read the stories about tags on electric hair dryers that [...]

February 15, 2007

About ten Jet Blue flights were left sitting on the JFK airport tarmac with the passengers inside for up to ten hours because of problems related to the weather.
The passengers were stuck on board so long they were able to watch A&E’s made-for-TV movie about their ordeal on the built-in seatback televisions:

“Because I’m good enough, liberal enough, and doggone it, Minnesotans will vote for me.”
In a state that has elected a former professional wrestler and the first ever Muslim (and a cigar-hatin’ cop callin’ one at that), to prominent government positions, it’s not a stretch to assume that a writer and occasional performer on Saturday Night Live [...]

February 14, 2007

We all know about the paranoia surrounding smoking these days, but here’s what happens in the august body that always reminds the rest of us that diplomacy and understanding is the best way to solve problems:
Rep. Tom Tancredo supported freshman Rep. Keith Ellison’s controversial swearing-in on the Quran, but when the Colorado Republican wanted to relax [...]

As we move through 2007, a harsh reality is sinking in. There are only 21 months until the man his fiercest detractors call the “Hitler of the new millennium” willingly leaves office. This will happen only after fulfilling his maximum number of years as president, as decreed by constitutional amendment, and his successor is sworn in after a democratic non-violent election. [...]

February 13, 2007

It’s a bit lonely in here today, as I feel like I’m the only guy in the country who’s not claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby.
So, I’d like to throw my hat, and other stuff, into the ring. Yes, I’m Anna Nicole’s baby-daddy. Forget about all those other guys. Forget about [...]

This morning I read a story that’s bound to further put the hemp undies of animal rights activists in a wad. The U.S. Navy is studying the possibility of deploying trained dolphins and sea lions to patrol the waters near a naval base in Puget Sound near Seattle. Whether or not they’ll have frickin’ laser beams on [...]

February 12, 2007

For those among us who were witness to the goings-on in the White House in the 1990’s and asked ourselves, “Why doesn’t she dump that guy?” Here’s why.
It’s been said and written on numerous occasions over the years that Hillary Clinton, champion “feminist,” wouldn’t be anywhere near where she is today without a man — [...]

Today’s column at WorldNetDaily deals with Sir Richard Branson’s $25 million prize offer for the “scientist” who can find a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
What could possibly go wrong? I discuss this and offer a few of my own ideas in “Save the planet, win a prize.”
Update:
I just got this email from a [...]

February 11, 2007

The term “function creep” means something used for a purpose that was not originally intended. This happens in many areas surrounding our lives, but at the moment it’s stampeding across the arena of stem cell research and right on into the chests of test subjects.
From Fox News:
British women may be offered a “natural” form of breast [...]

February 10, 2007

Hillary Clinton is already in New Hampshire throwing around promises to redistribute our hard-earned money if elected.
When confronted about her senate vote for the Iraq war, Hillary responded, “Knowing what we know now, I would never have voted for it.”
And knowing what I know now I never would have put money on the Chicago Bears, but that [...]

Chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, has announced a $25 million prize for the person who comes up with a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The challenge is to find the first viable, in an incredibly large-scale way, method to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the air. Hopefully a [...]

February 9, 2007

You know you’re on the correct side of an argument when the opposition gets so desperate to scare people that they can take a debatable issue, like “man-made global warming” – which as far as I know isn’t listed as the cause of death for a single human being – and start comparing it to issues relating [...]

“Anna Nicole Smith was then taken to the hospital, and pronounced dead at 3:54 p.m., eastern time…”
My generation has lost its Paris Hilton.
Yesterday afternoon, while listening to a talk radio station, a news flash hit the air. I was a bit concerned, as the tone of the announcer sounded dire. Was there a terrorist attack somewhere? [...]

February 8, 2007

This was up earlier on Drudge:
WEDNESDAY EDITION OF ‘EVENING NEWS’ 3RD PLACE IN ALL TOP 7 MARKETS, NIELSEN REPORTS… LAST PLACE IN ALL OF LOS ANGELES BROADCAST-TV, BEHIND ABC, NBC AND ‘MALCOLM IN MIDDLE’, ‘FRIENDS’, ‘KING OF QUEENS’ RERUNS…
Why isn’t Couric catching on? Larry King has blamed sexism for Couric’s low ratings, but let’s [...]

As of today, two of the biggest panic-inducers for the theory of man-made global warming are Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi.
If we don’t do something, and now, we’re doomed. Forget about that coming ice age you heard about in elementary school — this time the wannabe scientists, and just plain “scientists” are right. We know this [...]

February 7, 2007

I got this email from a blog reader last night and thought I’d pass it along:
From the same site you mentioned today in your blog, I thought this article was very interesting concerning the 2006 hurricane season.
I live in St. Croix in the USVI and for those of us living in “hurricane alley” we obviously [...]

It’s so nice to see the new Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, taking the high road as promised.
The Speaker emailed the official House Democrats 2007 Calendar, and with it a note:
“Attached is a calendar for 2007 that has been prepared by Speaker Pelosi’s office. It was originally e-mailed out to Democratic offices in mid-December, but [...]

February 6, 2007

Climatologist Timothy Ball has a good essay here about the man-made global warming theory, which he calls “the greatest deception in the history of science.”
For those who believe that the earth is flat, make that the second greatest deception in the history of science. For those who believe that the earth is flat and that Barbra Streisand is helping [...]