Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Some people miss the Golden Age when everybody had 2.5 kids and a dog and the worst social ills were teenagers sneaking a sip from Pappy’s still back behind the barn. Though they probably never existed.
I miss the Golden Age when people liked facts and useful information. Those days probably never existed either. [...]

I was in the woods camping, swimming and fishing all weekend, and so did not learn of the tragedy at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, TN until this morning when I arrived at work. This isn’t to discuss the incident, only to acknowledge it because these were my close neighbors. knoxnews.com has [...]

*muses to self if this photo of Obama in a yarmulke at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem will do anything to counter the images of Obama in a turban that have the bed-wetters all in a dither*

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Mr & Ms smijer

If your attacker is a delicious, juicy watermelon, then this fighting umbrella might come in handy.

Also handy for crossing the space between chairs in instances where the floor might, for instance, be lava.

Just a few random notes. I don’t read much of John Cole’s web-site any more. Lately, there hasn’t been much there that hasn’t already been said on Daily Kos. But I was glad to see him counter the idea that we should go after McCain for his crony’s big payments to terrorists. [...]

Hopefully, this week, I’ll have time to post another in the Universal Common Descent series, and I just wanted to say a word or two about the importance of it.
First - it isn’t very important. In the grand scheme of things, it is certainly no-where near as important as the big things in [...]

Please, please, do not let election 2008 become Bible Wars 2008. For the record, it’s very doubtful that Dobson or Obama have a proper understanding of the book behind their religion. Obama’s may have the advantage of being more vague and more self-consciously informed by modern ethical notions. Dobson’s may have the advantage [...]

I have stated before on this blog and in other contexts that universal common ancestry is “proven” by multiple lines of very strong evidence. I sometimes take it for granted that most people are at least dimly aware of this, even if they haven’t looked into the question personally in any depth. That is a [...]

Considering as how Obama already has the black vote wrapped up, and motivated to appear in force, this sounds, to this cynic’s ear, like an appeal to white America.
A Sister Souljah moment, if you will pardon the cliche’.
Bill Cosby raised the ire of many in the black community when he started his one-man crusade [...]