Good work if you can get it
Friday, May 21st, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 3 Comments »Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol has signed with a speaker's bureau, so she can share her life wisdom at a rate of $15,000 to $30,000 per speech. I think the last time a group wanted me to give them a speech ...
Careful, you might work yourself into a job
Friday, April 30th, 2010 Posted in Irritations, Policy and Politics | 1 Comment »This is worth a chuckle: federal bureaucrats threatening to oversee internships in order to guarantee that they provide no benefit to employers who offer them. Because otherwise, you see, the employers would be unfairly gaining at the expense of the ...
It’s for the children
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 4 Comments »Looks like the Brits are going to require children to submit to full scans in airports. It was only a matter of time, given Islamofascist eagerness to render any sacrifice to a bloodthirsty Allah. Now that idiot women are easily ...
Couch potato world
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | No Comments »Reuters reports that we are closing the technology gap between rich and poor. That's right, no longer is it just privileged suburban kids developing fat tires and breathing problems, but kids from even the poorest countries. Let's not rest on our ...
Memo to the NCAA
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 Posted in Irritations, Judo Chops | 4 Comments »Perhaps it's a new phenomenon, or perhaps I'm becoming more curmudgeonly, but it's gotten that I cannot abide watching the aftermath of NCAA basketball games. It's almost a certainty now that, in the event of a close game, at least ...
From the Why Bother Dept.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »Jude Law, model father.
“We don’t have to give you that”
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Irritations, Policy and Politics | No Comments »It looks an awful lot like L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services is covering up details of child abuse deaths less out of concern for legal procedure than from fear of tarnishing their already deplorable record.
Gotcha
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »I always hate to see thoughtful, well-meaning people get mau-maued into apologizing for lucidity.
With friends like these…
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in Irritations, Policy and Politics | 4 Comments »This is how the Left positions itself as a friend of working families: ensure higher taxes through dramatic increases in government spending, and then increase subsidies for those who put their children into daycare. Make it ever harder, in other words, ...
Sometimes cleanliness is next to impossible
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 3 Comments »Here's a conundrum. We put automatic sinks in public restrooms because we can't trust our fellow man to turn off the water properly. We put automatic flushers on the toilets because we can't trust him to flush. (We can't trust ...
Lock down
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »So I'm not the only one who thinks packaging toys to prevent thieves with the skills of the Tooth Fairy from getting into them might be overkill.
Four out of five drug companies, er, doctors, agree
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Irritations, The Art of Parenting | 4 Comments »Fewer and fewer people favor spanking children, but increasing numbers of us are fine with abusing them via prescription.
What my kids call theirs are just fine, thank you
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 4 Comments »I don't know which is creepier, the fact that U.K. public schools are going to start teaching five year-olds the names of private body parts, or the fact that the U.K. has a "Children's Secretary." And given the aberrant practices ...
And if your kids asked for a loaded gun?
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »The story doesn't say, but I just know it was a trailer where this couple tattooed six of their kids with a homemade gun. "They wanted it," protested the mother in her own defense. The couple also insists that the ...
Not only is there no forest, those ain’t even trees
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 9 Comments »In case you've wondered how many devils can fit on the head of a pin, the answer is seven.
The bad American
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 8 Comments »Like many of you, I was shocked -- shocked -- to learn that the treacherous Fort Hood murderer was a disgruntled Muslim, it being a religion of peace and all, but the world is filled with insanity. Even stranger was ...
Come to think of it, they look pretty darn healthy already
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in Irritations, Policy and Politics | 1 Comment »This heartwarming piece of agitprop reminds me of the time CNN allowed a group of African-American schoolchildren to sing about the pressing need for school choice. Oh, that's right -- that only happened in my imaginary dream-world, where CNN executives ...
Otherwise reasonable people
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Irritations, Judo Chops, Policy and Politics | 11 Comments »On a long drive through red-state country yesterday I decided to listen to talk radio. I heard Rush Limbaugh mock the First Lady, in his extended rant about her lobbying Olympic officials to place the 2016 games in Chicago, because ...
A modest proposal
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 8 Comments »Saturday, we made our last visit to the Kansas State Fair. The final count is two trips with the family, one trip by the family without me, and one trip just with Wife to see Huey Lewis and the News, ...
The emotive impulse
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in Irritations, Judo Chops | 9 Comments »I don't know when or how the American experiment will end, but I am fairly certain that the dread day will find most of us texting or carrying about signs or otherwise expressing our deeply felt, ill-reasoned, poorly articulated opinions ...
It’s just policy
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Irritations, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »I still get surprised when complete strangers call my office, give only a first name and some financial- or insurance-sounding affiliation, and then ask me to call them back. No information. No "Hey, we met at the ice-cream social and ...
Yeah, but . . .
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 7 Comments »Forty-four minutes. That's how long it took a post by a black seminary professor, referencing a stomach-turning white supremacist blogger (and self-professed Christian) who called him a "negro theologian," to get a response from someone complaining about black racism. I could never ...
And people say caricatures aren’t fair
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 2 Comments »So, you're running a university, and you accidentally leave a file containing names and Social Security numbers of applicants on the network where any bozo can find it. A student journalist finds the file and writes about it in the campus ...
News flash: Hot Chicks Flocking to U.S. Shores
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Irritations | 2 Comments »My favorite part during NPR's coverage of the Inauguration was Ari Shapiro handing over his microphone to a young woman he met in the crowd, who says she is from Sweden and has decided, because of Obama's election, to apply for U.S. citizenship. ...
Because you know what you get with a touchdown
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 Posted in Irritations | No Comments »It probably shouldn't be a surprise that many college athletic directors make far more than the presidents of their schools. While it's not clear that the skill set necessary to run a successful multi-sport franchise is more elusive than what ...
It’s the little things that get to you
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »Probably the biggest irritation about the latest scandal to surface in Illinois is that now everybody has to learn how to pronounce "Blagojevich."
Because some people just need killing
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Irritations | No Comments »If ever the death penalty had a justifiable use, I think the time is now.
Black Panthers go post-modern
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »My favorite part is where the one thug asks, in response to the observation that some voters might find his billy club intimidating: "Who are you to decide?"
Sometimes tinsel is sharp
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Irritations | 1 Comment »My admirable friend Robert Avrech confronts Hollywood lunacy first-hand. In related news, Hollywood is now considered too left-wing for even some of the left-wingers.
Idiots with guns
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Irritations | No Comments »Thank God most bad guys are frightfully stupid.
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