Some good advice

Jake Christie offers advice on picking up women. He saves the best for last:

DON’T post to a blog
I cannot stress this enough: do not let a girl see you posting to any kind of blog. You will never, ever get laid. Seriously. Take it from me.

A personal incident

Because my wife and I both work, we pay a young lady to take care of our two daughters after school. My younger daughter, CC, recently had an ear infection. The plan was for me to meet her and the babysitter at the pediatrician’s office. I arrived a few minutes early, and decided to wait [...]

Some good news re eminent domain

Last night, the Michigan legislature became the first state legislature to pass a proposed constitutional amendment in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London and the widespread abuse of eminent domain throughout the state. The Michigan House and Senate approved resolution SJR-E, which will place a constitutional [...]

All My Answers Turned Out to be Questions

On December 8, 2005, in Lakeland Florida, Alison Krauss and Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas demonstrated that the gumbo of Southern Appalachian bluegrass, cross-over country rock, gospel, and pure acoustic instrumental perfection is alive, well, and currently touring America.
The closest thing to an explanation of their gig — right down to the Conway Twitty finger [...]

Podhoretz nails it

The similarities to our situation today are uncanny. We, too, are in the midst of a rapidly spreading panic. We, too, have our sunshine patriots and summer soldiers, in the form of people who initially supported the invasion of Iraq—and the Bush Doctrine from which it followed—but who are now abandoning what they have decided [...]

What, you call that a holocaust?

President Mahmoud Amadinejad of Iran provoked fresh anger yesterday when he denied that the Holocaust took place and mockingly called for a Jewish state to be set up in Europe. His comments came weeks after he declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map”, drawing widespread international condemnation.

He said: “Some European countries insist [...]