Midwest Chick's Place

(A.K.A. Non-Original Rants)

–Co-opting good stuff from all over the ‘Net and maybe some original thoughts—ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

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  • Shell games and curtains

    The White House’s flag@whitehouse.gov’s address that was designed to collect information about people disseminating ‘fishy’ information (to the rest of us, that would be those pesky things called facts) regarding the health care reform bill, has now been shut down due to questions regarding how the data collected would be used, if the information came… Continue reading

  • Voting with your feet

    From CBS news (via Instapundit): Thousands of seniors are quitting the AARP over the its health care reform stance. What has happened is that people, recognizing that the organization is not representing their wishes and ideals, are voting with their feet and are cutting ties to that organization. On a different scale, the Tea Party… Continue reading

  • The Amateur Hour

    I’ve been channeling my energies in different directions, hence the wickedly light blogging lately. But this piece, which had been riding just the edge of my awareness, smacked me in the face this morning. It details Hillary Clinton’s meltdown over a possibly misinterpreted question about China where the question was interpreted as “What does MR.… Continue reading

  • It's getting closer…

    My partner has reiterated, when speaking about fashion, that if all of a sudden, showing one’s left breast became fashionable, most (he used to say all) women would begin wearing tops that kept the left breast exposed. Well, we’re getting closer to that…. I just saw that shaving off one’s eyebrows completely off is becoming… Continue reading

  • Yeah, what she said….

    Chicago Boyz has an interesting blog post this morning. It can be found here. I disagree in that I think that the modern US educational system has so often told each person that they are a ‘special snowflake’ that it has exacerbated the notion that people are more deserving of, well, anything, than anyone else… Continue reading

  • Understatement, thy name is Academe

    Got an email this morning on my work account. One of my coworkers sent an email saying that their laptop was “missing” from their office. This is the third laptop to ‘go missing’ in the last three months. Is there a particular reason WHY they can’t say that some dirty dog, probably one of the… Continue reading

  • The Insidious Borg

    Something of which I have been accused since moving north of the Mason-Dixon line (again) is that my speech is not direct enough (for example: ‘the garbage is full’ rather than ‘could you please take out the garbage?’). I realized today that my turns of phrase are the product of a dual attack–living for several… Continue reading

  • Do kids have to do this anymore??

    In order to officially graduate from middle school (or the 8th grade) I had to stand in front of the class and recite the Preamble to the US Constitution. Granted that was a bijillion years ago, but do students have to do this anymore?? I guess I need to check with various and sundry nieces… Continue reading

  • The Importance of being Earnest

    James Lewis over at American Thinker has a great piece on the problem of having an ‘intellectual‘ in the White House. One of the best quotes, IMNSHO, is the following when Lewis is discussing Putin and Obama: “What guys like Putin get out of this unbelievable fakery is that we have another Jimmy Carter in… Continue reading

  • You know it's just one of those days when….

    Got a call from a friend today. Her husband has mentioned the ‘d’ word. When someone says that ‘we should talk about maybe getting divorced’ then you know that in their mind, they’re already set on it. Once that word is on the table, there really doesn’t seem to be much else to do. She… Continue reading