This morning I composed a review of the latest silky-smooth trippel from Unibroue but then shit happened and I said, screw it. We need a kegger. So without further ado, everybody get in line behind the pressurized tank of social lubricant and try to make small talk. What’s in it? Who cares? For me it …
Archives for March 2006
Watching A Future Train Wreck Happen
I guess in the wake of the United Airlines pension default, Congress has decided to do something. Make the problem worse: Employers will be able to slash their contributions to underfunded pension schemes by tens of billions of dollars over the next five years under proposed legislation before Congress that was expected to have the …
Bizarro World
The most amusing thing about last month’s idiotic Dubai port nonsense was that it exposed that neither party is the party I remember from 1984. At what point did the Democrats turn into xenophobic chicken little’s? Isn’t that the job of southern redneck Republicans, like, say, the evil and racist (and all things bad) Ben …
Who Needs Ann Coulter?
When you have Jane Hamsher: In fact I’ll venture to say that there is absolutely no context in which this would be in any way amusing, but particularly not given Ben’s own frequent race-baiting comments and certainly not at a site like Red State which welcomes and hosts the exceptionally ugly worldview of the entire …
Let’s Go Eers
Almost forgot- let’s go Eers! *** Update *** Damnit to hell. Guess I will have to settle for a SuperBowl and a Sugar Bowl in 2006. At least Duke lost and I can quit hearing about J.J.
The Best 15-Minute Movie, Evah.
It has come to my attention that this August the greatest film in the history of the known universe will star Samuel L. Jackson as a federal agent fighting killer snakes set loose on an airplane. The name? Snakes on a Plane. Not kidding. For both of you who do not know about the internet …
The Right and Individual Rights
Interesting piece in the NY Times that spends a lot of time on Judge Roberts writing a testy dissent. What is more interesting is the following: A Supreme Court decision on Wednesday in an uncelebrated criminal case did more than resolve a dispute over whether the police can search a home without a warrant when …