January 16, 2008

January 3rd came and went…and the political world didn’t end! Oh, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd both dropped out of contention for the Democrats after the Iowa Caucuses, but they weren’t exactly lighting up the Democrat side that much. Besides, in Biden’s case, I think he was just copying Dodd’s strategy.
Yet, to hear some people [...]

January 15, 2008

The Huffington Post (colloquially known as the “Ton of Huffing Post”) insulted American intelligence last Friday by publishing a pretzel-logic rant by one Erica Jong, titled “Who’s Tired Of Pink?”.
Fortunately, Ms. Jong speaks only for the few sociopathic women who wouldn’t know what to do with a good man if he fell out of the [...]

January 11, 2008

Many of the presidential candidates are running on the promise of change. Some are saying they will make more changes than the others.
Is this a good thing? No! Change causes trouble! Think about it. Most of the problems we have today were caused by changes we made in the past.
We changed the tax structure from [...]

January 5, 2008

The Bible never tells us what the Forbidden Fruit was. We only know that, after some prodding by the infamous serpent, Eve gave into the temptation to eat it even though she had been told that the consequences of doing so would be death.
Despite the Biblical silence on the question of what the fruit was, [...]

January 2, 2008

Ah, New Year’s Eve. Remember all the fun you had looking at the past year and deciding on what you were going to do this year to make your life better? (If you can, you weren’t at the party I was. We drank like it was St. Patrick’s Day at the Kennedy Compound.) In many [...]

Ed: TNOYF has obtained an advance copy of a memo that will be circulated January 2 at the offices of The New York Times announcing the hiring of conservative Bill Kristol as an opinion columnist.
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To: All Employees
From: Art Sulzberger, Publisher
Date: January 2, 2008
Re: New Staff Member–Bill Kristol
Welcome back. I hope everyone had a wonderfully secular [...]

December 16, 2007

A couple of local news stories about the holiday season caught my eye recently. One involved shoppers who made their way to the local temple to needless avarice with a food court (more commonly called “the mall”) at midnight the day after Thanksgiving to start their holiday shopping. The other story dealt with a woman [...]

December 14, 2007

Fascinating story in The New York Times, the other day…
“Made for Washington, Given to Lafayette, a Medal Sells for $5.3 Million”, NY/Region Section, The New York Times
By GLEN CULLINS, Published: December 12, 2007
A gold medal that was created for George Washington, who was apparently our first president and richest, most vicious slave owner in [...]

Good day. In the wake of former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s assertion that Bill Clinton is just as black as Barack Obama, we are here to discuss the impact that race has historically had on Democratic politics, as well as the role it will play in the upcoming Democratic primaries. With me to discuss this [...]

December 13, 2007

There is a song currently being heard on the country stations called Cleaning This Gun and sung by Rodney Atkins. He begins by telling us that he doesn’t recall much of what he heard as a teenager in the classroom but says, “there is one speech from high school/I’ll never forget.”
That one stuck in his [...]

December 4, 2007

Sometimes I could believe I was living in the Matrix. Only, I can’t imagine sentient programs creating a world as irrational as ours.
We’ve come to expect the usual Christmastime attacks upon tradition in the name of the mythical “separation of church and state”; the nativity scene on public property and school Christmas celebrations are [...]

December 2, 2007

In an already absurd political season, hearing the flap about Hillary Clinton’s campaign planting questions in the audience of a campaign stop made me look for a clown car and a three-ring circus. Then, I remembered she wasn’t in the well of the Senate at the time and I got my bearings.
Seriously, who gives a [...]

You’re a teenager. You want to do it but you know you shouldn’t. The consequences are bad. You might regret it later. But still you think about it constantly and you want to do it so badly!
You make a little start — but pull away — and . . [...]

November 27, 2007

Despite the hopes of many University of Wisconsin at Madison students, The Onion was not named after their student center. “People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from,” said President Sean Mills in an interview with David Shankbone, “and when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, [...]

Despite the hopes of many University of Wisconsin at Madison students, The Onion was not named after their student center. “People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from,” said President Sean Mills in an interview with David Shankbone, “and when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, [...]

Editorial by Buckley F. Williams
I read with great dismay, although no surprise, a story this morning about another innocent farmer whose arm was viciously mauled by a bloodthirsty farm combine: a phenomenon known in combine circles as a “homicide mangling.” By my count, that makes seventeen such attacks in calendar year 2007 (and that’s not [...]

November 26, 2007

I listened to a cassette version of Harold Bloom’s fascinating The Book of J. Bloom expounds on a collection of sections of the Old Testament that he believes were written by a single author – an ironic and humorous author of similar stature to Shakespeare and Chaucer.
I was particularly struck by Bloom’s analysis of [...]

November 19, 2007

There is a great debate raging in America right now, and for once it doesn’t have to do with who should have been voted off “Dancing With the Stars.” (On a side note, shouldn’t a show called “Dancing With the Stars” actually have stars?) The debate is whether we’re ready for a female President. Now [...]

October 30, 2007

I have read men complain that, in long term marriages, their wives come to regard them as essentially “ATM machines” and co-parents rather than romantic and sexual partners. I have also read women complain similarly that their husbands have lost sexual interest in them.
It should be said at the outset that some people do not [...]

I have read men complain that, in long term marriages, their wives come to regard them as essentially “ATM machines” and co-parents rather than romantic and sexual partners. I have also read women complain similarly that their husbands have lost sexual interest in them.
It should be said at the outset that some people do not [...]