God Bless America
Something else you won’t see in a communist dictatorship. God Bless America is a post from: Sand in the Gears
View ArticleFaith
I have an apartment over my garage. The illegitimate and ill-behaved children of the girl we gave a home to for several months had pushed out the screen on the door, so last night I went up to fix it....
View ArticleNews Flash: Socialism Causes Starvation
The seizure of private farm lands in Zimbabwe is a primary contributor to widespread starvation in Africa, according to this Washington Post article. It takes him ten paragraphs to figure it out, of...
View ArticleJournalists on Themselves
I recently attended a panel discussion of environmental journalism, featuring two well-known environmental reporters and one editor. They evidenced a frightful ignorance of both the substance and...
View ArticleGoodbye, Balls
For those of you keeping a calendar to chronicle the fall of western civilization, be sure to enter May 14th, 2002. This is the day the NCAA announced that it would begin using synthetic basketballs in...
View ArticleLet the Children Come (Provided Their Parents are Suitable)
CNN hosted this interview with a woman whose part-time career as a stripper has led her 5 year-old daughter’s private Christian school to threaten expulsion. This is one of those stories where everyone...
View ArticleA Very Special Sand in the Gears
I have several semi-connected things to tell you about today. The title of this post is dedicated to the end of another season of television, and my attention-deficit mood is inspired by the same...
View ArticleDon’t Make Us Come Back Over There
It appears that getting bitch-slapped in two world wars has not taught the Germans any manners. During a visit by President Bush to the German legislature, Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse ambushed...
View ArticleVegetable Sex
It’s not what you think. I’m using the word “sex” here in the way it was used before Women’s Studies hysterics began insisting that we replace it with the word “gender,” in order to signal that the...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Corner Near You
I suppose it had to happen eventually, given the aggressive trend to stamp a corporate logo on everything mobile or inert. Forget spending millions to name a sports arena after your company. An...
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