Quick Hitts

Although I disagree with a lot of his positions and ideas, I’ve always liked Ben Stein. His nasal “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller” is now part of our language. He continued the persona as a science teacher in “The Wonder Years,” where he’d drone on about horrible events with no trace of emotion. And “Win Ben Stein’s […]

The Democrats solution to most problems, both real and imaginary, is usually a new tax. Rep . John Dingell, known to his friends as Barry, thinks the solution to skyrocketing gas prices is to add a tax of fifty cents a gallon. This, he thinks, will lower consumption. Seriously, that’s the way his mind works. […]

People who despise the nanny state will sometimes say, “pretty soon the government is going tell us how to wipe our ass.” Florida has come one step closer to making that a reality, with a proposed law mandating that restaurants always have enough toilet paper on hand.  But they aren’t defining “enough.” Would this mean […]

I’m very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule, trying to fit them in. – Warren Zevon Because Catholics don’t feel guilty enough, the Vatican has issued a list of seven new mortal sins: taking drugs, genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing […]

If a man is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart. If he is still a liberal when he is 40, he has no brain. – Variously Ascribed All of us (at least all of us who read blogs like this one) continually seek to better our understanding of humanity. Anthropologists […]

Media bias is seldom this obvious. Most of the mainstream media (MSM) doesn’t mention that Spitzer is a democrat. NBC, ABC and CBS ran headline stories without once mentioning his party affiliation. The New York Times originally mentioned it in the third paragraph of their article, but then quietly moved it to paragraph 15.  USA […]

I’m am experiencing schadenfraude. Oh sure, we’ve all experienced it from time to time – when the bitchy runway model stumbles in front of an audience, when a moralistic preacher is caught having gay sex, when the smug neighbor totals his shiny new car – but this time it’s the deepest, most satisfying bout of […]