There are days when the weather seems to have blown a fuse, and everything’s skin temperature and slightly damp, and your mood mimics the atmosphere: malaise.
But then something shows up in the post to cheer you up. I received a delightful piece of hate mail yesterday. It’s nice to see people making an effort. ...
I have known Mark Nuckols since I was a teenager. That is to say, a very very long time. When I was 18, he knew more about politics in the real world than anyone I knew, which of course got him into endless trouble in academia, where they like their politics self-congratulatory and utterly detached from reality with a heaping helping of abject admiration on the side.
Despite being Jeopardy smart (or perhaps because of it), Nuckols never quite fit in in American academia. You need only watch this video of Mark appearing on the Jon Stewart program to understand why. I have to warn you, though: it is an unusual video. I take no responsibility for it. ...
The day after the election, I posted a very interesting article from someone who chooses to be known only as the Typing Monkey. Some people thought I had written the article, but I am not and never have been a Typing Monkey. I am a human being.
He has written again, perhaps in response to my post on Peter Hitchens. Who knows what motivates a typing monkey? He writes hard truths, as monkeys will. For readers unfamiliar with British politics who link through to the Hitchens article, it’s probably useful to know that Tories would be the Republican Party, and Labour is the Democratic Party. ...
JoshuaPundit on Nov 21 2012 at 3:54 am | Filed under: Nominations
The Israelis finally got sick and tired of having rockets, Iranian supplied missiles and mortars being fired at their civilians by Hamas and decided to do something about it. And as always, every time Israel defends itself, it’s somehow controversial. ...
By Tina Trent
Election day in Tampa was like the calm after a cancelled hurricane warning. Dire predictions of long lines and voters turned away at the polls did not materialize. Outside polling places, a few Tea Partiers squared off against droves of professional activists from the alphabet soup of leftist organizations: AFL-CIO members (do they ever have jobs to go to?), National Lawyer’s Guild lawyers, and all those Democratic PACs the media studiously ignored, including the in-your-face pro-Obama 1911 PAC. ...
Which in the eyes of our law makes their crimes less horrible, even if you kill dozens of people, piling up so many bodies you have to map out dump sites.
But, it was just women. And a few little girls and babies. And some men. So you won’t hear Eric Holder fulminating about how important it is that we have Removed These Hate Criminals From Society. ...
One might consider sending this self-help book to Republicans imagining that they might out-pander Democrats for Latino votes. Or, less painfully, they could read Mickey Kaus’ (yes, that Mickey Kaus) excellent advice.
Meanwhile, in the comments, Mr. Mittens weighs in on the suggestion posted earlier this week to reflect on the election by reading Edward Gibbon’s Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: ...
1. My favorite overseas editorialist is Kevin Myers of the Irish Times. He has to be overseas — imagine if anyone wrote this in America:
THE quadrennial invitation from the US embassy arrived yesterday: it is for me to enjoy American ambassadorial hospitality while watching television coverage of the presidential election. . . ...
This appeared in the mail this morning:
Some thoughts on the election: ...
He’s actually writing about Obama’s re-election:
I can’t help remembering that in the course of my adult life, the Britain I first knew half a century ago has run through its allotment of ruin and is now almost unrecognizably transformed from the stiff-upper-lip, never-say-die redoubt of fair play and free-born Englishmen of very recent stereotype. Now it is the land where snarling, shaven-headed louts beget still more louts upon a succession of compliant, abused sluts as clueless as they about what makes a meaningful and decent life; the land where stately ancient towns turn into nighttime circuses of drunken, vomit-smeared degradation, as young people purposely divest themselves of their human rationality and civility; the land where, to show their pride in a National Health Service they think proves their country’s unique compassion and social equality, the curable sick obediently die in accordance with official protocols that ensure that outcome; the land that jails citizens for free speech it deems “hate speech”; the land that, even when it had Royal Navy ships mightier than Lord Nelson could imagine, had sailors so cowardly and undutiful as to let Iranians in outboard motorboats take them captive without firing a shot, making the great ships useless. ...
If you don’t know Sultan Knish, you need to read this:
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish
A week ago we sat waiting out the storm when the lights flickered and went out. One moment we were sitting in a lit room, the television flashing picture and sound, the internet feeding news, and then we were in the dark. ...