Posted by Deuce Geary on January 31st, 2009
Obama! So hip! So modern! So tech-savvy! First president to carry a Blackberry! So . . . 1984?
Seems a little retro for so modern a messiah president, but I’m talking about George Orwell’s novel 1984, not the actual year. The main character, Winston Smith, worked in the Ministry of Truth, where his job was to [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 30th, 2009
Seriously. Nothing chaps my hide more than hearing someone whine when they should be down on their knees thanking God Almighty for their good fortune. Two wildly disparate cases in point:
1. Some of the passengers from U.S. Airways Flight 1549, about whom Rachel Lucas says, “Really people, you are embarrassing yourselves and you need to [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 29th, 2009
Someone needs to create a photoshop (are you listening, Slublog?) of the nickname many conservative bloggers are using to refer to the Obama stimulus package: crap sandwich. Heck, if you own a dog, you wouldn’t even need to photoshop it. Just take some bread the next time you walk your pooch.
It would sure come in [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 29th, 2009
Which one? This one:
Once Obama was elected, I thought it made no more sense to keep the banner up. But I think it’s time for a comeback:
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 28th, 2009
“Zip, Zilch, Nada.”
Before you click on that link, see if you can guess whether the quote refers to (a) the number of Republicans that voted for the “stimulus” package that passed the House today; or (b) the credibility that Republican congressmen have on the issue of fiscal discipline.
The writer meant (a), but I think it’s [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 26th, 2009
I, like most people, know almost nothing about the newly appointed senator from the state of New York, Kirsten Gillibrand. But I know that Maureen Dowd doesn’t like her, so she immediately goes up a notch or two with me:
So now we have an N.R.A. handmaiden in Bobby Kennedy’s old seat? Kirsten Gillibrand, a k [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 23rd, 2009
Allah at HotAir is chiding President Obama for abandoning bipartisanship, based on this report from Politico:
During a morning meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, President Obama acknowledged the philosophical differences between his stimulus package and the Republican plan – but, sources familiar with the conversation said, Obama then noted: “I won.”…
Allah introduced that excerpt [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 23rd, 2009
Victor Davis Hanson writes of the new calls for “unity” from the Left:
I distilled from the press coverage and the crowds and the punditry [at the inauguration] that for all too many suddenly a vote for Obama redeems America. Now, to paraphrase Michelle Obama, for the first time in their lives they are apparently proud [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 22nd, 2009
What’s a million or so people between friends? Quite a bit, actually.
The estimates of the number of people who witnessed President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday range from a high of 1.8 million to a low of 800,000.
Arizona State University Journalism professor Stephen Doig is responsible for the lower figure.
“My job as a journalist is [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 22nd, 2009
Geese, you say? That’s only half the story. These were no ordinary geese.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on January 14th, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you . . . torture.
According to Susan Crawford (that’s not her in the picture), the Bush administration official in charge of deciding which Guantanamo prisoners to bring to trial, the combination of interrogation methods used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly would have been the twentieth 9/11 hijacker had he not [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 12th, 2009
Catching a few minutes of President Bush’s press conference this morning — and just a very few minutes — I again had to ask him through the television “Why didn’t you day this before? Why haven’t you defended yourself before now?” And I thought mostly of the attacks against him for supposedly ignoring the constitution [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 11th, 2009
Here is my third (and final) post in a series of unfair, sloppy, and intellectually lazy reviews of blogs that are finalists in the 2008 Weblog Awards. And to top it off, I’m posting it after voting has already been open for six days and has only a day or two left. Sloppiness all the [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 9th, 2009
I’m still in the middle of drafting my review of the “best conservative blog” nominees. It’s taking a while to get through all 14 nominees, even though I am writing hack reviews based on ridiculously inadequate time spent on blogs I’ve never seen before. Geez, you’d think I could write that crap without even looking [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 9th, 2009
That number is the estimated sales figure for the paperback book put out by the HuffPo editors, The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, since it went on sale December 2.
I’d like to think that a lot of them are buying it for the “blogging expertise” and are not politically sympatico with the HuffPosters, but [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 9th, 2009
I haven’t been this alarmed by election results since the latest Coleman-Franken recount update:
I remember when I first started reading blogs back in 2003 or so, I checked in at Sullivan’s “The Daily Dish” every once in a while and had to ask myself every time, “Why the hell is everyone talking about this guy?” [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 7th, 2009
I really would be surprised if the porn industry has to worry too much about its bottom line . . . but guess who’s lining up at Hank Paulson’s bailout feeding trough:
Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 3rd, 2009
Our lefty friends keep telling us that the only biased media outlet is Fox News. Everyone else stands for truth, justice, and the American way
So how do you explain a Washington Post columnist who, after eight years of savaging President Bush, wonders out loud if he should be as skeptical of a President Obama?
Honestly, they [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 2nd, 2009
Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t play, coach. And those who can’t blog . . . review the blogs that are finalists for the 2008 Weblog Awards. So here goes. (All photos taken from respective blogs.)
To keep this post and other reviews a manageable length, I’m sticking to one category per post. There’s [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 1st, 2009
. . . with a couple of very predictable predictions about humorless feminists. (And who could be more predictable than that?) He has a third sure bet: that Michelle Malkin will continue to receive hate mail “pointing out that she is not an old white guy.”
OK, that’s three links to The Other McCain (make that [...]
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