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Birthdays, Christmas and all

Today is our good friend Mahone Dunbar’s birthday. Wish him well in the comments. Here’s a taste of Christmas joy at Mahone’s house from a Christmas past.   In the meantime, Merry Christmas y Feliz Navidad to all of you.

News From The Future

Where being right is funny, and it’s fun to be right. I recently checked my calendar and found out that I’m scheduled for a tune-up rehab visit the first week of June 2009. Since Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are also going to be there for their periodic dry-outs, it’s one I don’t [...]

Yet More UFO Blather

The weirdos are out in mass again — possibly in anticipation of the next full moon, or planetary alignment, but more probably for the 60th anniversary of the Roswell Incident. Instinctively, on the WWW, these true-believers hover around UFO blog sites, feasting like buzzing flies on the latest issue of flapdoodle in an effort to [...]

A day of infamy

An anniversary of murder It was 23-years ago today that Islamic terrorists made their most successful assault on the U.S. military. On October 23, 1983 a suicide bomber drove a truck into the barracks of the United States Marine Corps in Beirut, Lebanon, and set off a huge bomb. More than 300 Marines, sailors and French soldiers [...]

Vox Blogoli, Marginalizing Centrists

Should the parties accept the activists and reject the centrists? Hugh Hewitt asks for comments on a paragraph from a Jonathan Rauch piece in Atlantic (subscription required.) “On balance it is probably healthier if religious conservatives are inside the political system than if they operate as insurgents and provocateurs on the outside. Better they should [...]