Our cousins have grown limp-wristed in their old age.

Welcome aboard. 

If they think they're going to feed Lois Lerner to the wolves and walk away, they've got another thing coming.

We have some news for "our friends": we yellow-eyed wolves aren't going to rest content with some hapless mid-level bureaucrat.

Sailed into Singapore a couple of times and loved it.

Ricochet members should absolutely take the plunge and travel there if they haven't. I'd welcome the chance to go back.

Singapore is a masterpiece, and Lee Kuan Yew was a statesman of a rare order. 

Also: whatever Tiger beer lacks in body, the girls more than make up for.

We already suspect the truth, sir.

Speak, General. Your service to the Republic outlasts your service for this administration.

The French are nearly useless when it comes to practical things. See their tax rates or their military history (Monty Python's "run away" barely does it justice).

Nevertheless, it is entirely unsurprising that Le revenant dwarfs Walking Dead. For their many faults, the French do seem to have a more subtle and elegant touch with these things--the end of history has some benefits, after all.

To take another example, we can see the provincial crassness of American popular culture on full display if we examine the phenomenon of teen idols.

Here is America's attempt: she's a whore with some clothes on. 

Here is France's attempt: she's delicate, literate, and seductive.

I am a parrothead. Comes with being a sailor.

Saw him play Fenway back in '05. 

Buffett has had a wider influence in country music then some folks want to acknowledge. Kenny Chesney's entire schtick is basically Buffett for women.

For another example of his influence, see this great Zac Brown track (warning, there is some fairly-tame language that violates the CoC.)

As the philosopher Han Solo says: Great, kid. Don't get cocky.

I've got my poppy on today, brother.

We'll see this through.

I can't like this enough.

Our moral education in our schools is indeed in shambles.

If the liberal system cannot bring itself to defend basic morality--and by defend, at the upper levels, I mean explore, question, wonder about and philosophize on ultimately; the lower levels are another matter--then it is just as well that it gives way to a completely private or charter school system that is capable (and not limp-wristed, full of hemming and hawing women of bad conscience) of habituating young minds to the practice of the virtues.

I use an ad blocker on Firefox and it functions perfectly--not only here but elsewhere; the ad problem does not appear to affect my other desktop browser (and to ensure it doesn't I'm leaving its name unmentioned).

The man is an imbecile.

Every man finds his own way.

This particular song doesn't speak to me.

But the man who taught Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai to shred?

He speaks, without words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMxTeh5dwQ

Vile. 

But as you say, Judith, unsurprising. 

Any child (by this, of course, we mean a moral child--he may be a grown man) who defends Hamas or Hezbollah on the grounds that they provided medical care here or there or held a neighborhood soccer match, is little more than a useful idiot.