"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
What the hell: everybody else seems to be linking to the Axis of Eve, so I might as well. There’s a lot of sadness going around with this one. First, we have these activists themselves, who are indeed demonstrating all the maturity, sophistication and good taste one normally associates with high school manga. Also, while … Read more
Fair warning; do not – I repeat, do not – use the parts of your brain that handle internal visualization for the next few minutes. Shut ’em down; shut ’em all down. We’ll wait.
(pause)
Ready to click through? Good – well, not good. I really do apologize for bringing this to your attention, but better that it show up in a controlled environment. I don’t want anybody to go through what I just did unaware.
Blabbing like that. Well, might as well admit it… yeah, folks, it’s all true. Every bit of it. In fact, it’s worse than you think. I’m part of the whole sorry conspiracy, too. In fact… Well, not to put too fine a point of it, I don’t actually exist. Not physically – or more accurate, … Read more
James Joyner let that pollster off the hook waaaaay too easily; in my house we treat one of their calls as an opportunity to practice our improv skills. In my day I’ve: *Start babbling mid-sentence, then just as stopped just as rapidly; * Randomly adjusted the volume control while talking; * pretended that the volume … Read more
I sometimes give into the impulse to attack the, ummm, no-so-well thought out parts of the blogosphere, and, in the process, completely forget to praise the blogs and bloggers whom I really, really like. The following list is not an endorsement of each view ever presented on the following blogs, nor is it exhaustive. Rather, it’s a list of blogs that I think the blogosphere would be much, much poorer without. And that happened to occur to me in the last five minutes. Do check them out, if you don’t already.
And I continue to be, not yet a Buddha. (Though, this begs the question: Is it Buddha, or a Buddhisatva, whom we’re aspiring to be?)
Pretty much designed for those times when I know that I’m being a big meanie about something, but I can’t make myself care. Example: this little bit about PETA vs. Michael Moore. Michael Moore is making headlines with his controversial documentary, but one group is targeting the filmmaker for his waistline. People for the Ethical … Read more