Posted by Deuce Geary on July 29th, 2009
Well, kind of. Now that they know they’re related, maybe it will be easier to get together for that beer. From ABC News, not The Onion:
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 29th, 2009
Yahoo! and Microsoft . . . Together at last.
Ever since Microsoft (MSFT) made its $45 billion bid for Yahoo (YHOO) in early 2008, it was clear the software giant was serious about taking on arch-rival Google (GOOG) in the lucrative Internet search business. And now, after more than a year of more limited talks after [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 26th, 2009
Like many bloggers, I am obsessed with my traffic (or lack thereof, depending on the week). The Wordpress statistics page tells me what search terms brought hits to my blog. Some of them are quite bizarre, and I’m prettty sure the reader was disappointed when they got to my blog, as the post the search [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 24th, 2009
I have been troubled by the fact that my daughter started in public school last year when she started first grade. Until then, she had been in a church-run preschool and kindergarten. But a generous mother-in-law was the only way my wife and I could pull that off.
As if I am not worrying enough, along [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 21st, 2009
Stacy McCain’s Rule 5 standard, Christina Hendricks — who plays bombshell secretary Joan Holloway on Mad Men — makes the following disclosure in the August 2009 Redbook magazine:
We have to ask: Are you a natural redhead?
I’m a natural blonde. I’ve been dyeing it red for more than 20 years. I’ve always felt like [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 19th, 2009
There’s that certain unidentifiable something called charm. And Drew Barrymore has it in spades.
She had a very tough childhood, to say the least. Very rough living. A trashy look to go along with that hard living. Not my type of gal at all. Had I met her, I would have pitied her in her teens [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 18th, 2009
I’m on a very brief vacation and played golf Thursday at Resort Course at Genoa Lakes Golf Club in Genoa, Nevada (just east of Lake Tahoe). According to my brother, some of the land used to be a shooting club, and it shows in how they named their three practice tees at the driving range. [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 12th, 2009
At Saberpoint, Stogie takes a stand on 2012:
I will never vote for Mitt Romney again (and I did vote for him in the primaries); nor will I vote for Huckabee. I will vote for Palin or Jim DeMint if he happens to run. All the rest of the Republican establishment can go straight to hell.
Well, it’s [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 11th, 2009
Doctor Zero at HotAir’s Greenroom (later promoted to the front page) hits the nail on the head with this comment on Peggy Noonan’s piece about Sarah Palin in Friday’s WSJ:
Peggy Noonan used her Friday column in the Wall Street Journal to throw some dirt on Sarah Palin’s grave. It’s vintage Noonan: airheaded, dripping with condescension, [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 11th, 2009
Some of them, anyway. Consider this typically witty essay by Mark Steyn on the use of environmentalism to control the masses:
Capitalism is liberating: You’re born a peasant but you don’t have to die one. You can work hard and get a nice place in the suburbs. If you were a 19th century Russian peasant and [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 10th, 2009
Well, shame is probably not the right word, since Jefferson apparently has none. But photos of his freezer (aka The First Refrigerated State Bank of Louisiana) shown to the jury in his corruption trial disclose not just the $90,000 cash he had stored there . . .
Embarrassing and shameful!
. . . but also that some [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 10th, 2009
It seems like I can’t go a day without running into a blog post about Megan Fox or a picture of her, and that’s when I’m cruising the political blogs. She really didn’t strike me as anything special, so I thought, ”Well, all I’ve seen are still photos. Maybe I have to see her speak or move [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 9th, 2009
So, you’ve probably heard about Jack Cafferty questioning Alec Baldwin’s qualifications for public office. Cafferty wrote at his CNN blog:
Baldwin’s credentials are questionable… but Al Franken is no slouch. He’s Harvard educated and one of his first duties will be as a committee member for the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor next week.
Alec Baldwin is [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 9th, 2009
I’m skeptical of Ed Lasky’s conclusion at American Thinker that “Chicago rules” are at play in the way stimulus funds are being doled out. In support, Lasky quotes this from a USA Today piece:
STIMULUS POLITICS: USA Today takes on a different analysis, however, that shows that Obama districts seem to be getting more money: ‘Billions [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 8th, 2009
When I read Queer Conservative quoting Victoria Jackson, the first thing I though to myself was, the Saturday Night Live Victoria Jackson? The ditzy blonde? Yep:
I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the trick.
You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 8th, 2009
So, now Pope Benedict is an economic genius:
THE Pope has called for a new world financial order blaming the global crisis on the greed of financiers and investors.
Denouncing what he termed a profit-at-all-cost mentality, Pope Benedict XVI was also critical of governmental oversight and the absence of global regulation.
In the most socially rooted Vatican encyclical [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 7th, 2009
I’ve been getting about 5-10 hits a day the last week or so from Price-stats.com, which appears to be some kind of retail portal similar to Nextag. The page I get linked from is this:
The text at the top says:
This list ranks the sites that are sending traffic to Price-Stats.com. It resets every 24 hours. [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 7th, 2009
At Grandpa John’s, Steve Burri exposes Obama’s motive behind his latest Honduran madness.
Hold on a second, somebody’s telling me something . . .
Huh? It’s satire? Really?
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Posted by Deuce Geary on July 5th, 2009
Mike at Cold Fury is plenty pissed at Palin’s slanderers. He recognizes we can’t take the bullshit attacks lying down, because that will only encourage more of them. Some people might call this a temper tantrum, but I think it is a call to arms that should be heeded:
Sue them, bankrupt them, ruin their lives, [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on July 5th, 2009
I already knew cap and trade was a disaster because it arises out of a make-believe problem. But even if I believed that anthropogenic global warming was bringing on a worldwide catastrophe and had to be addressed, there would apparently be plenty of reason for me to hate this thing.
If Stephen Spruiell & Kevin Williamson [...]
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