No, my name is NOT John Edwards
*heh*
Bummer
“I’m number nine! I’m number nine!”
It just doesn’t have the ring of “I’m number one!”
*sigh*
Googled “Third World County” and out of 1,360 hits, this blog came in at the number nine spot.
*profound sigh*
I just have to do something to trade y’all in on a new readership.
🙂
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Hanging out the wash: Is this what the death of art looks like?
Strange thing… all the articles I’ve seen on the web that praise this washer-woman’s nightmare have been strangely devoid of pictures. Maybe that’s because the gushing praise would sound even more inane in the face of such crap. John Podhoretz’s article, “Masterpiece,” in the New York Post sums up my estimation of this blotch/”art” better than I can.
“So what if walking through the park simulated nothing so much as traveling through a car wash without the car?”
And that’s the highest praise he has for this piece of… work.
Naturally, the “art world” is agog. The ninnies.
U.N. Oil-for-fraud
The tip of the iceberg
Mark Steyn pegs the corruption that goes by the name “U.N.” in a piece filed yesterday, “UN Forces—Just a bunch of Thugs?”
“… corrupt organisations rarely stop at just one kind. If you don’t want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food programme, don’t worry, whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits – in West Africa, it’s Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it’s drug dealing; in Kenya, it’s the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves.”
Read the whole thing.
Fuel efficiency is more than just good gas mileage
Well, duh. Of course.
Varifrank has a proposal I wish our Congresscritters were intelligent enough to understand. It’s not for everyone, but a large portion of our population (and the businesses they work for) could benefit from this concept.
Smart businesses already are.
And, as a side-effect, it promotes fuel efficiency.
(h.t. Glenn Reynolds)
Hell freezes over! Pigs fly!
The L.A. Times prints an article critical of… the L.A. Times.
The least likely of those three statements is true.
Read it here.
(h.t. Glenn Reynolds.)
A General Summary
I stole the subject of this post from Kipling for a reason…
Lynne Stewart, so-called “activist” lawyer, is convicted of aiding her client, has been convicted “…of helping terrorists by smuggling messages of violence from one of her imprisoned clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside.” Promptly squeals, whines and goes running to sympathetic fellow-travelers in the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army.
Eason Jordan, erstwhile vice-president at CNN, in charge of CNN “News”—the most busted name in news—quits in hopes that the furor over his accusations of the U.S. military deliberately targeting jourmalists for assassination will die on the vine. He has the power—he sits on the board of the sponsoring group—to get the tape of his Davos conference remarks released but won’t. Yeh, that tells us all we need to know about what he said, as opposed to what he now says he said.
Harry Reid can do nothing in the face of Republicans citing his actual words and deeds of record except whine that citations of fact are “personal attacks.” (Poor baby. If his public life were factually different, he’d have nothing to whine about at all, it seems.)
Teddy Kennedy. ’nuff said.
Jean Fraud sKerry. Too much said.
Why detail all the corruption and evil commited by people in positions of trust? Kipling said it as well as can be said. (And no apologies from me to people who’ve heard me quote this for years):
A General Summary
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
WE ARE very slightly changed
From the semi-apes who ranged
India’s prehistoric clay;
He that drew the longest bow
Ran his brother down, you know,
As we run men down to-day.
“Dowb,†the first of all his race,
Met the Mammoth face to face
On the lake or in the cave:
Stole the steadiest canoe,
Ate the quarry others slew,
Died—and took the finest grave.
When they scratched the reindeer-bone,
Some one made the sketch his own,
Filched it from the artist—then,
Even in those early days,
Won a simple Viceroy’s praise
Through the toil of other men.
Ere they hewed the Sphinx’s visage
Favouritism governed kissage,
Even as it does in this age.
Who shall doubt “the secret hid
Under Cheops’ pyramidâ€
Was that the contractor did
Cheops out of several millions?
Or that Joseph’s sudden rise
To Comptroller of Supplies
Was a fraud of monstrous size
On King Pharaoh’s swart Civilians?
Thus, the artless songs I sing
Do not deal with anything
New or never said before.
As it was in the beginning
Is to-day official sinning,
And shall be for evermore!
Y’all heard about the Magnitude 4.2 Quake in AR?
NorthEAST AR, that is, along the New Madrid fault
Nothing here, just north of WallyWorld Central.
As usual.
::yawn::
WARNING: New Email Virus
This one is NASTY!
My daughter, a couple of hundred miles away, has the flu. I think I caught it from her emails.
Be careful out there. It seems the flu isn’t caught by anti-virus scanners but by users of anti-virus scanners.
Oh, the humanity of it all…
Change of pace
Heading on home
Cal Thomas’ most recent column (up today at Townhall.com) included one comment that has me strongly considering a change of pace.
“Light dispels darkness and good can overcome evil. But a light won’t shine if it isn’t lit and cursing the darkness illuminates nothing.”
Sounds like something I might think to post on my “Whistling in the Light” blog…
So, I’m considering
1.) Less blogging overall but especially here. Perhaps cut myself back even further to something like once a week more or less.
2.) A little more posting over at “Whistling in the Light”
and, what the heck,
3.) Spending less time on this computer and more time on another that’s set up to be more useful with my music transcription software, writing more music again. Maybe post more new music (or links to songs) at “Whistling in the Light”, etc.
Let’s see if I can break the cycle, or at least bend it a bit, eh?
🙂