Drinkers Outliving Non-Drinkers

by Smitty
I’m cheerfully sober, though I’ve had my share of embarrassments. Anorak has a gallery of shame that is work-place safe. My favorite:

Bottom line:

Stay below the legal limit for drunkenness.
Don’t become inebriated in unfamiliar locations.
If your ‘friends’ have a penchant for lunatic stunts, volunteer for duty driver. Also, find [...]

Curious Phrasing, Mr. Appel

“In my experience, liberal think tanks and intellectuals dominate most domestic issues while conservative think tanks and intellectuals dominate foreign policy. . . . Democrats have traditionally held an advantage on domestic issues while Republicans have traditionally held an advantage on foreign policy. The intelligentsia of both parties reflect this divide.”
– Patrick Appel, The Atlantic
The [...]

Conspicuously Absent Words

by Smitty
Reading Lefties can be a source of sad amusement. Curtis Valentine at PuffHo has a piece trying to find the ointment on the economic fly. Here is a bit of introductory text for flavor:
Over the past twenty-five years, the exorbitant increase in the American standard of living has had an inverse affect on our [...]

Her Wonderful Career

OK, so I was sitting in my home office this afternoon and, as usual, CNBC was on the office TV. When I sit at my desk typing, the TV is behind me and off to the right side. It’s usually tuned to CNBC during the day so that by swiveling my chair slightly, I can glance over and catch the [...]

Death by Political Correctness?

“Everyone must come to grips with and make sense of their own failures. Excuse-making, blame-shifting, scapegoating — ‘It wasn’t my fault!’ — prevents us from learning the lessons of our failures. . . . Persistently attempting to externalize blame for our own failures is a recipe for moral disaster.”
– Robert Stacy McCain, “Lindsay Lohan Begins [...]

Free Movies You’ll Probably Skip

Without comment:
Thursdays this summer at the Atlas Performing Arts Center [in Washington, D.C.] will be Gay 101 – a series of films one must see to be a card-carrying gay man. While most are not gay-themed, all are embraced by the gay and lesbian community. Classics such as All About Eve, and Whatever Happened to [...]

White Hipster Beaten by Black Teen: ‘Shouldn’t Be Listening to Rap Music’

Cultural criticism in Broward County, Florida:
Declaring that white people “shouldn’t be listening to rap music,” a 14-year-old Florida boy allegedly assaulted a man Monday night in what police say was a racially-motivated attack. The teenager was arrested after he allegedly struck the 22-year-old victim, who is white, in the face. According to a Palm Bay [...]

Sex, Science, Monogamy and Survival

While checking in to see what Dave Weigel was doing at Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” — addressing the Trig Truther problem, among other things — I came across Chris Bodener’s latest post in a series, “The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy,” which is every bit the bass-ackward exercise in Darwinian pretzel-logic that you might imagine.
Let’s begin with what [...]

Declaration Entertainment: Putting A Scowl On A Commie Near You

by Smitty
If you had to think of an image that summarizes Hollywood, yet is still mostly safe for work, I should think that ‘The Worst Toilet In Scotland’ might suffice.
We’ve bemoaned the situation for years, and now it looks like someone is Actually Doing Something. Someone is Bill Whittle, mister Eject! Eject! Eject! [...]

Miley Cyrus Shows Her Underwear

The 17-year-old’s post-Disney sluttification continues:
Miley Cyrus put on a display of sheer daring while shooting a video clip in LA yesterday.
The 17-year-old star was spotted running barefoot around a car park in a transparent sundress that revealed her cream bra and knickers. . . .
In a scene that might make her Australian boyfriend, actor Liam [...]

Buckleyesque
Notes on a Rhetorical Method

“Philip’s perspective typifies the tautological nature of intellectual consensus . . .”
– God and Man at The American Spectator
While I was proofreading that little essay just now, Mrs. Other McCain asked me, “What are you grinning at?”
She knows me too well, and recognized the mischievous smile of a man who is up to something, and expects [...]

Mistress, Actress, Heroine

by Smitty (via Insty)
Amidst an excellent review of Nikki Haley’s campaign to govern South Carolina, Walter Shapiro says, emphasis mine:
Haley, in her first statewide campaign, has proven a master of boomerang politics – making every attack seem like a vindication of her conservative populist outrage.
Shouldn’t that be “a mistress”?
I don’t mean to go all Little [...]

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