R.J. Moeller: A young man named Barack Obama falsified public information about himself to get a book deal because he knew it would help his career (and book sales - what a greedy capitalist!).
Peter Robinson: Wait a minute, Andrea. You smoke a cigar? You? You're having us on, right? · 2 hours ago
Ummmm...yes? But, the Scotch is all Pseudo's fault. He had to find smelling salts when I told him I like whiskey. And, Pseudo, you know I only chew when I shoot. Kidding! I don't chew. But, I can put two holes on top of each other at 400 yards with a .50BMG. :-) · 2 hours ago
That cigar -a Rocky Patel - is my fault in a way. Or at least the picture is. Andrea took that picture over a year ago to show me and one of her other friends how much she was enjoying it!
Over this Red Raider's dead body. Wreck 'em, Tech! · 0 minutes ago
Umm... it's never too late to talk about Coach Leach. (Hint.) · 3 minutes ago
By the way, I'm glad to see that Leach landed at Washington State.
Me too! That school has a fine legacy of competent offense/ Quarterbacks. (Thinking of Ryan Leaf.) · 18 minutes ago
Edited 17 minutes ago
I remember the Ryan Leaf era. Too bad he couldn't make it in the NFL. I have immediate family in Yakima, so I've kept up with the Huskies and Cougars over the years.
Over this Red Raider's dead body. Wreck 'em, Tech! · 0 minutes ago
Umm... it's never too late to talk about Coach Leach. (Hint.) · 3 minutes ago
Ha! I will post an entry about him in the Member Feed one of these days, I promise. Before I do that, though, I want to read a couple of books related to Coach Leach's unjust dismissal: Double-T Double-Cross by Michael Lanning and Mike Leach's autobiography, Swing Your Sword. That should give me a better perspective on what actually went down in December 2009.
By the way, I'm glad to see that Leach landed at Washington State. They can look forward to many years of first-rate college football while Tech continues to languish under Tommy Tuberville.
Thus, I agree with what Mark Steyn and now John O'Sullivan (per the clip above) have said about this matter. The answer to controversial speech is more speech, not less. Healthy and vigorous debate will build a strong and lasting conservatism, not hypersensitivity and kowtowing to the whims and witch-hunts of the leftist elite (and their hangers-on). This is no time for tiptoe-through-the-tulips conservatism. Nor, as Margaret Thatcher once admonished George H.W. Bush, is it time to go wobbly. It is a damned shame that Rich Lowry et al. cannot understand that.
Thank you, Peter. I am glad to see this matter addressed on the Main Feed. In my own twoposts about l'affaire Derbyshire over on the Member Feed, I was rather coy about my own take on the matter. In a nutshell, I disagree with what Derbyshire wrote, but I do not think that National Review should have fired him. National Review is a mere shade of what it once was when I opened up my subscription to the magazine 20 years ago, and Rich Lowry's feckless response to this situation underlines that decline.
John Derbyshire was one of my favorite writers at National Review and National Review Online, and the organization is now a much poorer place in his absence. Moreover, I say that as someone who has disagreed with Derbyshire on a wide array of issues, among them: the war in Iraq, Social Security reform, the Terry Schiavo case back in 2005, abortion, euthanasia, and his dismissive view of Ben Stein's intelligent design movie from 2008, Expelled. At no point did I ever think that such unorthodox opinions merited Derbyshire's dismissal. Rather, I enjoyed the give-and-take.
I took the Skin Tone IAT and came out with a strong preference for white. But then I took the White-Asian IAT and came out with a strong preference for Asian. Perhaps having lived in Japan as a child some thirty years ago has something to do with it. Or perhaps I'm the Derb reincarnated. ;-)
Duane Oyen: I think that the Young Guns are reasonably entertaining, they do tend to show lack of experience with the real world and the middle of the US at times, so I don't pay a lot of attention when they opine on certain specific subjects.
Which is why Duane and I have secretly been rehearsing a podcast called "Two Old Farts from the Midwest." When we find a topic someone other than the two of us are interested in we might actually make an episode available to the public. · Mar 31 at 8:40am
The actual title should be "Two/Too Hawts in Cleveland, Cold Minneapolis" and also feature Scott Reusser. With GatewayPundit's Andrea as Missouri correspondent (and token female voice), King as economics guru, and Mike LaRoche tossing in the occasional Texas grousing.
An early topic would be the Wisconsin Recall and taxpayer-finded stadia. · 22 minutes ago
I'm game. That'd be one hell of a podcast, if I do say so myself!
Re: Hinderaker v. Friedersdorf
He's better at playing the Squire of Gothos.