"This page left intentionally blank" goes back to the early days (before mid-1980s) of computer manuals.  They were kept in three-ring binders and revisions consisted of only the changed pages.  In those circumstances, a blank page could be a mistake--or so it was thought, because chapters in computer documentation don't have obvious closing tropes--"and they all lived happily ever after"--so maybe the last steps of a procedure had been left off.

The people who read those manuals didn't care.  When computers and manuals began to reach the general public, the silliness beecame obvious.

I agree with you.  Coming next:  signs and wonders in the sky, fish swimming out of the sea, wolves seen in churches.  Film at 11.

At about 58:35, David Limbaugh asks "What's this stuff about Rubio's eligibility?"

It's the same as Jindal's.  Both were born in the US of non-citizen parents.  That makes them citizens, but not natural-born citizens, as required by Article II.1.4.  The XIIth Amendment requires that the VP be Constitutionally eligible to be President.

I am disgusted, tho not surprised, that the conservative chattering elite is as adamantly ignorant of the issue as the MSM.

I regret it, too, but I will not vote for Romney if his VP is Constitutionally ineligible.

Any country that sends its women into combat isn't worth fighting for.

Which may be the point.  Liberals not only are not and cannot be Americans, they hate that there ever was an America.

I will be looking into the SPQR series (Roma sub Rosa and Aubrey-Maturin BTDT). Thanks.

Let me recommend most highly Lindsey Davis' Falco series about Marcus Didius Falco, a "private informer" in the time of Emperor Vespasian.  The first novel, Silver Pigs, is set in A.D. 70-71 and includes appearances by Vespasian, who becomes a significant if troublesome client.  The 20th book in the series was published in 2010, so the 21st should be out presently.

For a while back there, I matriculated at a different university every six years.  Every change--work, campus, work, campus, ad lib.--was refreshing.  I was and am rather clueless: The upside is that I never figured out how to apply for a student loan (SE Asian Fun-Travel-and-Adventure Fellowship helped); the downside, that I wasn't able to put the take-courses-only-from-the-best-professors program into operation.

While university never functioned exactly as a trade school, the campus experiences, including courses, have been useful for my earning-a-living efforts. 

I agree, if anyone has made the point, that 50-60% of the HS grads who go to college, shouldn't, and shouldn't need to.  But it ought to be more acceptable for some of them to expend some of the loot they've acquired plying a skilled trade to seek an education--properly understood--in their thirties.

a charismatic speaker, eclectic thinker, and unconventional thought leader who is uniquely attuned to the way people think, live, and converse in the real world.

He's everywhere, including last week's Ricochet Podcast, whereon he told that story.  I was waiting for the punchline when he revealed that eating the dog was the punchline.  My only reservation was how messy butchering a furry animal is when you aren't used to it.

Also, Brooks is not "evangelical Christian".  He is Roman Catholic (not that there's anything wrong with that).

The alternative business model:

somebody's gotta crack a whip around here.
who's minding the store?
shake it up sell some beer . . .
money walking through the door.
annie's arriving at a dangerous age
(don't you go getting ill)
get another woman up in the cage,
who ain't over the hill.
honey, you know the drill.

My individual position is that Tommy and I are herewith married.  Now where is that joint tax filing?

It isn't government; it is society.  Government gets involved only when  society starts using the instrument of government.  Society "gets involved", because men are social creatures and can realize the potentials of their nature only within society.  One of those potentials is the raising of offspring.  There are lots of relationships and situations that can raise children.  Only one relationship is by its nature ordered toward producing and nurturing offspring.  So nobody is "defining marriage".  We for 100 millennia have just been recognizing what is.

Yes, you are missing something.  Society has deemed it necessary to institutionalize, police, and support virtually no affective human relationship, including ones that impel sexual expression.  The one universal exception has been the one that produces children.  Marriage laws come under the purview of the state in societies that can sustain a state, but marriage and laws governing it pre-exist the state.

Now, children can be raised in many situations, from hunter-gatherer bands, to socialist crèches, to single guardians, to homosexual couples.  Child-rearing may be regulated, but that has never been cause for regulating the relationship or condition in itself.   Thus the argument for homosexual “marriage” based on child-rearing is a case of the undistributed middle (a favorite mode of leftist argument.  See Griswold, Roe, and this latest effort by climate alarmists.  Search for “Phil Gregory”.)

Furthermore, society has always regarded marriage as having a numinous aspect, because the couple coöperates with the Divine to bring forth new human souls.  Recent efforts by intellectuals, who recognize nothing numinous except their own thoughts and wishes, to make their own religious preferences normative, are bigotry and religious oppression on a massive scale.

I'm a realist and an empiricist, and I don't believe in anything I can't see, including germs and photons.  I won't say it has no effect on me:  one thing about living free-range, it keeps you regular.

Also, it is not surprising that the processed foods you mention have long refrigerator shelf lives.  First they are pasteurized.  Second, bacteria won't grow well in concentrated sugar or fat, and cold further inhibits bacteria.  Honey and butter have been used by pre-industrial people for preserving.  I think--I'm too lazy to research it--that like salting and drying, they reduce the water content to produce an antiseptic environment.

I get fundraising e-mails from the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees, and all kinds of other vital communications.  Their accountants remind me that their records show that I haven't made any contributions.

The editorial could have been written by the same cliche-primed buzz-phrase generators that produces the fund-raising appeals. 

And for that warm, fuzzy feeling, this from BHO:

Friend --
If you're lucky enough to get to marry your best friend, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Michelle amazes me every day, and in the years we've been together, nothing inspires me more than watching her be a mom to our two girls.
Each of us has amazing women in our lives ..., and no matter what we do on Mother's Day, it never seems like enough.
This year, I wanted to try something a little different. I know Michelle treasures every single person who is part of this movement we've built, so I'm hoping each of you will sign my card to her today. It'll mean a lot to her.
Will you join me in wishing Michelle a happy Mother's Day?

Her real offense was spelling out the authors' names:  "Keeanga-Yamahtta" and "La TaSha B.".

I guess they haven't translated "Hell hath no fury . . . " into Polish yet.

Look on the bright side.  Suppose he'd gone to her for an emergency Speedo wax.

You don't necessarily have to ban football, basketball, or any sport, but banning television would be a good idea. 

Participating in competitive athletics is part of a well-rounded educational opportunity.  But the big-time intercollegiate sports are obviously different from academics.  No one ever tells you to go out and ace that Physics final for dear old Siwash.

York College of PA does not have a football team.  The bookstore sells "York College Football" hoodies and t-shirts.  On the back it says "Undefeated Since 1787".

I'm more than twice Cole Hamels's age, so I stopped paying attention to big-time sports long before he was born.  What I remember from the Realio- Trulio Old School was that you admitted to "brushing the guy back", with it understood that whether he got hit depended on how well he could dodge. 

When I did care about MLB, I was a Washington Senators (AL) fan, so I'll say the Nats' GM's talk about "tough guy" is full of wind.  Hamels's problem is that he isn't playing Old School.  He's reading it from the Nostalgia box on the back of the score card, and he's made the mistake of reading it aloud.

It sounds like he and Harper understand each other, which is what makes the game fun to play and watch.