By Dave Hitt on Jul 10, 2007 in Political Correctness, Politics | 0 Comments
“When correctly viewed Everything is lewd” – from “Smut” by Tom Lehrer The City of Keizer, Oregon, put up cement posts to protect pedestrians from traffic. But some residents are complaining that they look like. . . boys things. The solution – they’re going to fit them with collars and connect them with chains. No, […]
By Dave Hitt on Jul 2, 2007 in Politics, Pop Culture | 2 Comments
There is much to despise in Michael Moore’s “Sicko.” Like all MM films it features a plethora of half truths and misleading numbers, a few outright lies, and it completely ignores many very important facts. Sometime in the next few days I’ll have an extensive review of it, along with a podcast. But I couldn’t […]
By Dave Hitt on Jun 26, 2007 in Junk Science, Politics | 6 Comments
Sixteen Things You Can Blame on Global Warming I thought that the killings in Darfur were the result of tribal warfare, rebel groups, a corrupt government (is there any other kind?) and regional politics. Silly me. It turns out it was caused by global warming. And that’s according to the UN, so you know it […]
By Dave Hitt on Jun 21, 2007 in Politics, Religion | 4 Comments
A few years ago I saw a distinguished British actor expressing concern over Muslim the birth rates in the UK. The general population is having fewer and fewer children, to the point where they’re not even replacing their own population. The fundamentalist Muslims, however, are breeding at a prodigious rate – three times as fast […]
By Dave Hitt on May 22, 2007 in Politics | 0 Comments
Last year John Edwards charged $55,000 to give a speech at University of California at Davis.The subject? Poverty. Back in 1971 there was another Jonathan Edwards who had a #4 hit with the song Sunshine. The lyrics included: Sunshine go away today, I don’t feel much like dancin’ Some man’s gone, he’s tried to run […]