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I was going to post about the similarities between the MSM/Democrat meme of violent images (only those images coming from the Right of course) being the cause of the Arizona shooting and the 1980’s meme of Dungeons and Dragons causing people to go batshit insane and haunt the steam tunnels and sewers of cities in… Continue reading

For the last two days the cats have insisted that there was a mouse in the bedroom (all but Bob, who I think has had his share of mice and doesn’t want to partake if he’s not starving).  But they seemed to forget about it, going about their business yesterday instead of trying to cram… Continue reading

So, most everyone has probably heard about the rewriting of Huck Finn to make it ‘more accessible’ to modern readers (and to try to keep it off of the book most likely to be banned list probably).  In reality, it was to make one English professor more comfortable in reading and teaching the book (see… Continue reading

In Illinois, former Gov. Jim Thompson, the lawyer of former Gov. George Ryan has been lobbying to get Ryan a furlough so he can go see his dying wife.  Now I’m sorry that Ryan’s wife is dying but he did the crime, has to do the time.  There are plenty of other prisoners who go… Continue reading

Via Big Government, the Michigan Education Association is taking some of its members, who don’t want to be members, to court.  In Grand Rapids, the school board voted to no longer deduct union dues from teachers’ paychecks–instead the teachers have to write a check directly to the union.  Apparently, approximately 90 folks refused to do… Continue reading

I was talking with a friend of mine, who is a naturalized American citizen (got here when she was 16).  Although we’re of an age and she, in most ways, looks and sounds like your basic American, she’s missing quite a few of the cultural movie touchstones of our generation.  So I bought her The… Continue reading

So when, EVER, is “It’s never been done that way before.” an excuse??  Is it a cover-up for laziness?  Does it show that a person is scared of change, afraid they aren’t up to the challenge or are just so hidebound that they can’t imagine doing something differently?  Especially when that change is to the… Continue reading

In the Chicago Tribune today there is a story about a Winnetka woman who apparently has nothing better to do than panic at the drop of a…. butt.  Her husband accidentally butt-dialed her (as he was driving home) and when all she heard was muffled sounds and hip hop music, she immediately jumped to the… Continue reading

Why do I keep reading SOTU (State of the Union address), as STFU?? Continue reading