Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

With ‘Christians’ Like These, Who Needs Demons?

From Matthew’s opening “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ …” all the way through John’s closing “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen,” where [...]

April 29, 2008

The Gordian MicroKnot

The computer croaked on me. RIP, computer.
So I got a new one, with it’s scores of jacks and miles of wires and gadgets everywhere. Whistling up my sons, I got the thousands of pieces assembled.
But, oops, I do not have Microsoft Word, rather essential to what I do. Word being words to me, and all. [...]

April 26, 2008

How the Red Sox Won the 1978 Play-Off Over the Yankees

In this, the 30th anniversary season of the legendary Boston-New York playoff game (”The Bucky Dent Game,” even though it was Reggie Jackson who hit the deciding homer), it is instructional to review history and demonstrate that the Red Sox won.
Never mind how the game has been played for a century and never mind the [...]

April 22, 2008

Star Power

(Sorry, to have been dark for so long; computer problems.)
One of the more amazing displays of mass non-think has been the grovelling at the feet of Gen. David Petraeus over his war in Iraq. The fawning and boot-licking has been astonishing to watch, and must have made the general laugh his brass head off later.
Since [...]

April 15, 2008

Hillary Clinton, D-NRA


April 14, 2008

A Pair of Georges

Because he’s done it before, (Last September: “A candidate can succeed in giving an aggrieved minority a voice — e.g., George Wallace, speaking for people furious about the ’60s tumults.”) George F. Will’s serial slipperiness on George Wallace is a vile bit of dance.
Now he returns to the matter to write: “Wallace had the three [...]

April 13, 2008

Guns and Poses

So there you have it.
There probably WERE snipers aready to blast away at Hillary “Libery Valance” Clinton but they heard that she was packing heat, they scrammed. Mrs. Clinton, we now learn from Mrs. Clinton, is actually a gun fanatic, can’t get enough of guns and the opportunity to blast away. In an election year.
Running [...]

April 9, 2008

And You Wonder Why Noooooo One Voted For Him

Ron Paul, 0; Decency 413.
What’d he do with all that money, by the way?
 

April 9, 2008

Thanks So Much for Forgiving Us for Your Error, Bill

Well, we love you, too, Bill. But you did make the error. We didn’t.
I hadn’t particularly noticed that there was any tremendous, disproportionate dismay against Bill Buckner that he so kindly forgives us for having. People were exasperated and upset at a small play famously done badly under extraordinary circumstances. Sure. Why shouldn’t they be exasperated? [...]

April 8, 2008

Immaterial?

Rambo Joe Lieberman is pleased now to blame the anti-war people for the horrors of the war he so loves, or eagerly anticipates broadening. In an opening act, the two-bit juggler to the Real McCoy of the American generals and ambassador coming to Washington to say how well the American generals and ambassador are doing, [...]