I don’t know where it came from, but last week I received a complimentary copy of American Revelations, a book that reviews ten great cornerstones of the American experience and American ideals. I was pleasantly surprised that this was not, as I had feared, simply another in a series of jingoistic agitprop pieces that show …
Open Threads
RINO Sightings
I am proud to bring you this weeks RINO Sightings, the other weekly Carnival. Unlike previous offerings, I don’t have a creative bone in my body, so there will be no poetry or song lyrics. RINOS Foreign: Meanwhile, Chris Tiberius takes the foreign press to task. The Armies of Liberation looks at media manipulation by …
Watching A Train Wreck
I just watched Courtney Love on Comedy Central’s Friars Roast of Pamela anderson, and she was a a train wreck. This Roast was, by far, the filthiest thing I have ever seen on television, and I hope Brent Bozell is in bed. For that matter, I wish I was in bed, as the insomnia reaches …
Best XBOX Games
I thought I would provide a list of the best XBOX games I have played: 1.) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2.) Jade Empire 3.) Ninja Gaiden 4.) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II 5.) Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory No. I didn’t like Halo. Discuss.
How Does This Happen?
Apparently, they just discovered a giant 400-foot waterfall. In California: Dick McDermott knows these parts as well as any man can. But McDermott says he’s never laid eyes on the nearly 400-foot waterfall that park officials recently discovered in a remote corner of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 43,000 acres of wilderness in northern California. …
Wired
If you haven’t already, check out this month’s Wired magazine, which has two fun stories, one about milbloggers by one of my favorite reporters, John Hockenberry (who is great on NPR’s The Infinite Mind), and this piece on how much the internet has changed things over the past ten years. The story about Banksy is …
Carnival of the Hillbillies
I am blogged out for the day, unless something really interesting happens. So, in my stead, I offer you the always excellent Carnival of the Hillbillies.