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There’s a lot of conservative talk radio I don’t like. Savage, Hannity and Rush do not get much of my listening time. Dennis Prager and Mark Levin get most of my ear. That said, Rush Limbaugh’s worst day is better than Air America’s best, not just because I’m more likely to agree with the content, but because it doesn’t suck. In announcing today on its website that it is going off the air and filing bankruptcy, Air America, good liberals — excuse me, progressives — that they are, blame their demise on everything but themselves.
Yep, must be why all those conservative talkers are going off the air, too.
Translation: investors know we suck.
Does this mean that their web operations are going down, too? Looks like it. The bankruptcy announcement is the only thing on the home page.
Why would they make this concession? The policies they advocate regularly assume that the whole country can avoifd the laws of economics. (H/T: HotAir.) UPDATES (1//21/10): Michelle Malkin:
And no on can accuse Professor Jacobson of being understated. At least not here. Like Smitty, who does the weekly aggregation of Rule 5 posts at The Other McCain, I’m a Naval Academy grad. (Though Smitty’s just a kid – class of ‘95, I believe, while I’m Boat School ‘82.) Navy’s awesome 23-21 victory over 19th-ranked Notre Dame last week gives me a great excuse to get active again in the Rule 5 community with this pic from the Navy Cheerleaders website:
Why is this the Rule 5 post I never would have expected to write? Women were still a novelty at USNA when I arrived. My class was only the third with women in it, and a lot of people weren’t happy that women were there at all, or at least were disturbed with what we saw as politically correct moves relating to specific female midshipmen. In any event, we probably were more unkind than we should have been; in fact, my classmates and I were pretty damn crude, and let’s just say that we didn’t think good looks were plentiful among that early group of women who braved (and I do mean braved) the transition to a co-ed institution. We said some nasty things. Please accept my belated (and anonymous) apology, ladies from the classes of ‘80-’82. Some “old-timers” I meet at alumni functions would still like to change the Academy back to an all-male institution. But I’m betting the young mid in the middle of this pic feels differently. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=54528436-34fa-4762-a7a1-af9de94f7aa4) “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.” -Author Unknown Happy birthday, Marines!Ace amusingly notes that the New Majority is now reduced to David Frum. So I go to check out the new site and am greeted by a post in which Frum downplays an expected Hoffman victory in NY-23. Trying to spin victories as less than victories because they’re simply not as big as Republican victories were in 1993, he offers this:
Huh? Frum has been arguing a long time that we need to remain “moderate,” i.e., he wants us to be George Bush’s party, now and forever. So why does he point that out as a negative here? Why does anyone listen to this guy? He expects us to follow his advice for the future, yet in his announcement of the conversion of New Majority to FrumForum, he admits to incredible short-sightedness (emphasis mine):
Ah, way to be forward-looking, Mr. Frum! Of course I will trust the future of conservatism to you! Why wouldn’t I? ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ae128fb5-6206-4e45-a480-c37db48e70b3) Pretty wussy for a guy whose fund-raising website URL is “congressmanwithguts.com.” But about as wussy as you would expect from a guy who claims to have guts but shows a video of himself appearing on a friendly show like Countdown. That combination seems to be Navy’s lucky charm! Starting their back-up quarterback Kriss Proctor in a driving rainstorm in Annapolis yesterday, Navy improved its record to 6-2 by beating Wake Forest 13-10 without throwing a single pass.
“Deuce,” you say, “that’s a fluke!” Oh, really? This is the second year in a row Navy has won a game without a single pass attempt! Last year, also in week eight, also in a driving rainstorm, playing their third string quarterback (this year’s starter, Ricky Dobbs), the Midshipmen rolled up 34 points without a single pass attempt in their win against SMU. This is five wins in a row for Navy. If they can win their sixth in a row in their home game against Temple next week, they’ll carry quite a bit of momentum into South Bend to face Notre Dame on November 7.
And no, it’s not because I want to see your breasts. I don’t. Really. Furthest thing from my mind. It’s because I don’t want an Alex-Forrest brand psycho — OK an alleged an Alex-Forrest brand psycho — wearing a T-shirt emblematic of my alma mater. H/T: Ace. Ace posted about how Mika Brezinksy not only dutifully spun the White House line immediately upon receiving an email correction, but went above and beyond the call of duty by “absolving the White House from any bad behavior regarding Fox News at all.” Watch, then keep reading: “A very calm and understated manner.” Got that? That’s the new standard for political debate; whatever you say in a calm and understated manner must not be alarming, and thus people must not act as if they are alarmed, no matter what it is. This notion of an overblown reaction to understated remarks merely continues the stupid emphasis (by both left and right) on means rather than ends, form rather than substance, and the idiotic principle of proportionate response. While administration flacks may not be going over-the-top in the way that Democrats at large, and especially the lunatic left, did over the last eight years, the velvet fist is the perfectly predictable result of adding “the Chicago Way” to the mix by electing as president a total unknown with exceptionally thin skin from the nation’s most politically corrupt city. How is it understated to say, as David Axelrod did last Sunday, that Fox News is not even a news organization and should not be treated as such by other news organizations? It’s just another way of saying that the single television news organization that doesn’t regularly suck the president’s dick must be shut out for that reason. Is it somehow less offensive or threatening because he said it calmly? “HotMES” Monique Stewart has made a hobby of ridiculing Meghan McCain. Taking on McCain’s latest Daily Beast column about President Obama’s sloth in living up to his campaign promise to abolish the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuals, Monique titles her post Meghan McCain…military expert? Not so much. Ah, Monique, how generous you are. McCain is even more clueless than you know. From the last paragraph of McCain’s column (my emphasis):
When someone calls her marine and sailor brothers “soldiers,” you can pretty much stop listening to anything else she has to say about the military.
In two senses of the word: the ladies are conservative, and so are the photos. There’s no genuine cheesecake in the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute’s 2010 wall calendar — not that you’d expect it. But it does remind me of the not-so-long-ago blogburst about conservative women vs. liberal women. And for a good laugh, see how Doug Ross carries that theme a step further with a hypothetical face-off against a wall calendar featuring liberal women. The Nobel Committee has awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, Obama’s drop in approval ratings led the committee to decide that Obama needed a shot of self-esteem and a boost in the size of his personality cult. But forget the man’s ego (and the world’s inverted moral compass) for a minute, and think about the man’s balls. That’s right, his balls. In his acceptance speech this morning, he said the award represents all of those working for peace and opportunity, and specifically mentioned activists working for democracy even though it puts them at risk. Pretty amazing to praise the same folks whom you’ve just abandoned in Iran by refusing modest funding to the organization that documents their persecution. Here’s an idea for you, Mr. President. Take your prize money and give it to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. That should provide about half the funding you just refused them. UPDATE: Nick Gillespie at Reason suggests Obama should decline the award “on principle” and one of his commenters takes it one step further: “If he accepts it, he is every bit the megelomaniac [sic] his worst critics say he is.” UPDATE #2: Finally found a transcript of Obama’s acceptance speech. Here’s the passage I’m referring to (emphasis mine):
If you really care about those folks, Mr. President, send these folks the prize money. UPDATE #3: Michelle Malkin is soliciting suggestions for what Obama should do with the $1.4 million prize. Oh, please. From Politico Click:
You call those mustaches? Where’s the gravitas? John Bolton’s mustache could strangle those scrawny ’staches in its sleep.
Does either of those moustaches smell of death? No. Can Holder’s or Axelrod’s moustache preside over a meeting by itself? No. Can either put a BBC interviewer in his place; or even want to? Holder heads up the Department of Justice, but he doesn’t sport the “moustache of justice.” These guys need to be reminded of what Ann Coulter said: “I know John Bolton’s moustache, and you couldn’t handle John Bolton’s moustache.“ Stacy McCain has triggered some thoughtful and frisky responses with his long post on the benefits for women of keeping their virginity intact until marriage (and, if no longer intact, changing their ways). Little Miss Attila, Cassandra at Villainous Company, and Bride of Rove (best blog name ever) all take McCain to task on some points but rip him on others. Many will, I’m sure find McCain’s advice not to “give the milk away for free” to be terribly old fashioned. But old fashioned morals and practicality, I like. Unfortunately, I think McCain goes wrong in the very first paragraphs by assuming that men are the same now as they were when he and I were young men (i.e., 20-something). It begins thus:
I wonder this all the time myself. I don’t hit the cocktail party circuit, like McCain must as a journalist in Washington, but I will run across a woman from time to time about whom I’ll wonder the same thing: Why the hell isn’t she married? Are young men these days idiots? And the answer, in large measure, an unfortunate YES. I’ve been Googling around without success to find the source of the following information, which I heard presented by an author being interviewed by Dennis Prager about her book on the immaturity of the American male, and thus I may have some of it wrong, but here’s the gist:
Now, even if those details are wrong, I think the relative immaturity of the more contemporary of those two demographics is pretty hard to dispute. And I don’t say that because I was 26 in 1960. Born in 1960, I fall squarely between those two demographics, as does McCain (who, if I’m not mistaken, is around my age), and I’m afraid I didn’t measure up to the 1960 standard, either. But as much as my contemporaries may have spent their time chasing skirts and avoiding commitment — which I refrained from not on moral grounds but because I was damn clumsy with women — many of my friends got married before I did at 26. Anyway, what this means is that when I ask myself that question these days — Why isn’t she married? — I assume its in large part because good, marriageable men in their early to mid-20s, and even slightly beyond, are rare. It’s a chicken-and-egg-argument whether men have gotten this way because women have let them get away with it, or that women started “giving away the milk for free” in response to this decline. Probably a little of both. But if women widely followed McCain’s advice — and men worked harder at keeping it zipped — I think men would improve. The problem with McCain’s advice (as a strategy, not as a moral code) is that it can only work for some women. If good, marriageable young men are indeed few and far between, then the women who hold out are likely screen out a lot of losers and nab the good ones. What are the rest of women — those stuck with the leftovers — to do? Well, McCain’s advice would still help, if it was widely followed. That night force men to grow up some. Overall, it seems a sad state of affairs. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=31c99f22-2245-4b8a-a2cf-278e39f91606) I’ve been too burnt out on politics to blog much lately, my last post being about Navy’s narrow loss to Ohio State four weeks ago. Lots of interesting stuff happening since then, but my mind goes numb trying to decipher the irrationality of lefties, and while writing about what everyone else is writing about is supposed to be one of the keys to good traffic . . . well, I just didn’t feel like it. But I have been inspired. Not enough to write anything of my own, for the moment. But enough to think I’ll get back in the swing of thing in the next few days. The inspiration comes from Moe Lane, who offers the wittiest thing I’ve seen written in all the bloggery over Obama’s anf Oprah’s failure to ensure the enrichment of their Chicago friends with the 2016 Olympics at the expense of the general population of the city:
Like I said. Inspired. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3cc9beed-4481-45f5-a8d6-3cf1d8fb5208)  GO NAVY! Ohio State 31Navy 27That was one of the most exciting second halves I’ve ever seen. I’ll be hoarse the rest of the day. Navy has a habit of scaring the hell out of ranked teams (OSU was #6 going into this game). The Midshipmen seem to really get up for these games, get OH SO CLOSE, then lose in a heartbreaker. (Last year’s victory over #16 Wake Forest was Navy’s first win over a ranked team in 23 years.) Bet OSU thinks twice the next time it has fourth and 2 in the fourth quarter when they’re up by 15. I missed the beginning of the game. Can anyone tell me if the OSU fans answered the call to cheer for Navy? Some boat school classmates sent me this good news related to this weekend’s Ohio State – Naval Academy football match-up:
I thought this was a great gesture . . .
I wouldn’t worry about that Mr. Sovie. OSU could blanket the field with rose petals for the Midshipmen as they come onto the field, but the environment would still be plenty hostile from the moment foot meets ball on the opening kickoff. As much as the midshipmen may want to be treated like any other team, it’s hard to find fault with the sentiment in the video: Call me sentimental, but that video actually gave me a lump in my throat. So I can forgive them for calling it the “U.S. Navy” team instead of the U.S. Naval Academy team. ESPN is carrying the game, so I’ll see if the fans answer the call. But whether they do or not, this effort is classy. By the way, ever wonder why a perennial football powerhouse like Notre Dame plays Navy every year? Because ND has class, too.
My 7-year-old daughter started second grade at a new school a couple weeks ago. My wife and I both went with her to drop her off the first day, and I wanted to get a feel for the place, since I’m generally distrustful of public schools. It was not a promising start. Here’s what greeted us in the window of the main entrance:
If I wasn’t already watching the school like a hawk, I am now. UPDATE: Oh, great! Is it too much to ask that they honor someone who is, you know, honorable?
In yet another example of how liberals are ruled by emotion, some of them think I should now be willing to give some leeway on Obamacare because Ted Kennedy just died:
That’s from the blog of CNN’s Jack Cafferty, who poses this exit question: “Can Senator Kennedy’s death revive the spirit of bipartisanship when it comes to health care reform?” My answer: Why should it? In fact, even setting aside the bullshit notion of bipartisanship, this strikes me as an absurd question. I’m supposed to abandon my position, or at least give a lot away, because someone on the other side died? Heck, why not argue that Kennedy’s death should make me more willing to register as a Democrat? Then again, given past Republican cave-ins, and the example Cafferty cites of the organization that has suspended advertising, he may be on to something. It is an intriguing idea, though, in one sense. I’m not sure if the math works, but . . . if other democratic senators offered to kill themselves in exchange for some “bipartisan” give-and-take, we’d only need 20 Democratic volunteers from states with Republican governors to off themselves before the resulting Republican appointments created a filibuster-proof Republican minority that could repeal all the enactments mad in the “spirit of cooperation” following all those suicides.  Chris Matthews, adult adoption provider Michelle Malkin has warned against the politicization of Kennedy’s death (Stacy McCain wasn’t listening), but, as Ed Morrissey points out at HotAir, that advice does not apply to Kennedy’s allies (even the media, who denies being an ally), and especially not to Chris Matthews who took it upon himself to make Barack Obama a part of the Kennedy family (metphorically) or, Nancy Pelosi, who managed to hold out for several hours before issuing a middle-of-the night statement to reporters calling for passage of the health care bill in honor of Kennedy. Expect a lot of what Michelle is calling “wretched excess” in the media coverage of Kennedy’s life. But what the hell, they said the same thing about us when Reagan died. Everyone’s entitled to be memorialized by those that love them best. (And if you say, “Yeah, but Reagan was a great man,” you’re proving my point.) But memorializing is one thing. Using someone’s death to further a cause, as Matthews and Pelosi both did, is another. I don’t remember anyone saying, “In honor of the dearly departed President Reagan, we really need to dismantle the department of education.” Kennedy’s dead and that’s that. The “Lion of the Senate” is entitled to be lionized by his . . . lionizers, I guess. And while I feel no need to politicize his death, I will sure politicize the politicization of it by The Left. UPDATE: Professor Jacobsen is sympatico and reminds us that Rush was Right. 
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