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Archive for 2009
December 19, 2009
JUDITH WARNER SUFFERS THE FATE of all who seriously annoy Althouse.
December 18, 2009
JASON MATTERA PRESENTS A GENERATIONAL-THEFT INVOICE TO THE AARP.
PROGRESSIVE! Garrison Keillor Doesn’t Like Jews Writing Christmas Songs.
Garrison Keillor, self-appointed cultural representative of regular old Americans, ruffled some feathers yesterday with a mildly xenophobic rant about Christmas. After lambasting a Unitarian church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for “spiritual piracy and cultural elitism”—tweaking the lyrics of “Silent Night” for a singalong, in layman’s terms—he turned his ire in a different direction:
And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday—if you’re not in the club, then buzz off.
Does this mean my Eid carols don’t have a future?
TODAY-ONLY GPS Savings.
ROGER SIMON interviewed Charlie Rangel in Copenhagen. “I was at the Marriott to interview Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WISC), when, on my way out, who do I spy in the gift shop (where else?) but Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY). I knew instantly why God had invented the Kodak Zi8 flip cam I had in my pocket.”
THUGOCRACY: “Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), prone for throwing his own political bombs at Republicans, has threatened a local critic with five years in jail for creating the website ‘mycongressmanisnuts.com.‘ The Orlando Sentinel reports that Grayson wrote a letter this week to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that the federal government imprison Republican activist Angie Langley for five years because of her website criticizing him.” Seems like Grayson is determined to prove his critics not merely correct, but understatedly so . . . .
20 SECRETS your waiter will never tell you.
WISTFUL THOUGHTS: The cars I didn’t buy.
WE’RE ON A Road To Nowhere.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Long March From California To Copenhagen.
RON BAILEY ON the Green Jobs Delusion.
JONAH GOLDBERG: Global Wealth Can Heal The Planet: Free-market nations are better at protecting their environments than statist regimes. “Copenhagen does have its uses. For starters, it reminds us that environmentalism continues to be a cover for uglier agendas.”
ED DRISCOLL on Howard Kurtz, Tiger Woods, and Barack Obama.
IN THE MAIL: From Michael Scammell, Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic.
It’s Robert Mugabe, lecturing the leaders at the Copenhagen.
And now President Barack Obama is there. He’s saying, “The time for talk is over.” Ironically, he’s talking.
If every leader did to his country what Mugabe has done, carbon emissions would drop dramatically, and yet leaders could still jet off to conferences and talk about how moral they are. And the conference organizers would treat them with respect.
REASON TV: Why This Is The Best Christmas Ever!
WE STAND UPON THE PRECIPICE, and it is time to jump! Freudian slip?
JULES CRITTENDEN: Oh The Inhumanity. Plus, “Doppelbloggergate?” And naked weathervanes? More from Tom Maguire. “So Andrew is a weathervane pointing whichever way the wind is blowing? Well, sure, he supported the war in Iraq when it was cool and opposed it when that was cool, but really – shouldn’t he and his minions aspire to pointing boldly towards The Truth, regardless of the prevailing breezes?”
AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.
A FEW GOOD SURGICAL IMPLANTS. “Senator, we live in a world that has patients, and those patients have to be treated with technology. Who’s gonna invent, develop it, and build it? You, Senator Sanders? You, Senator Reid? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for high health care costs, and you curse new medical technology. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That new medical technology, while expensive, saves lives.”