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From Andy McCarthy on the Corner:
This “bipartisan study group” approach that has real possibilities, no?  Imagine …

WATERFRONT STUDY GROUP TO ISSUE RECOMMENDATIONS
 
The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2006
 
The bipartisan Waterfront Study Group has achieved consensus on a plan to address rampant crime on New York City’s docks.  Its top recommendation will urge the Justice Department […]

There is nothing I dislike more than self-obsessed, narcissistic blogs that are the online equivalent of ESL journals. “Today, I woke up and had three cups of coffee and looked at myself in the mirror and thought how good looking I was …” as if anybody cared. I really, really, really hate that — and […]

Just when you thought liberals couldn’t get any stupider, they come along and break the record:
The Conservative government is taking women’s rights back into the Dark Ages by scrapping program funding and stripping department mandates, the Liberal women’s caucus charges. The group, headed by MP Belinda Stronach, released its Pink Book of policies intended to […]

Starting off with a Christmas picture, from Santa Claus Land in 1963, me and my brothers (with Santa):

This is my mother’s graduation picture, from 1947:

Here’s my mother on her wedding day:

And here’s my maternal grandfather in 1924:

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The best of the screwball comedies of the 30s, in my opinion, is My Man Godfrey, the original 1936 movie with William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, and Eugene Pallette. It’s surely one of the funniest films ever made, with exemplary performances from the whole cast (the remake isn’t worth watching if you’ve seen the […]

Father Goose is on. One of my favorite comedies — and who can forget Leslie Caron’s, “rude, drunken, foul mouthed, filthy beast!”
Cary Grant. What more could you want?

Hat tip to Joanne Jacobs for the CS Monitor article on this higher ed report:
Colleges have to take seriously the responsibility for graduating the kids they admit,” says Thomas Mortenson, an analyst with the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education.
Oh? And how is it, exactly, that universities are responsible for adult […]

Frist won’t run for President. Bull Dog Pundit writes

when you can post really old pictures of yourself without embarrassment. I just found a bunch of old family pictures I got when my mother passed away. Here’s Christmas dinner, from (gulp) 1960 (yeah, that would be 46 years ago, and yes, not only was I alive, but I’m in the picture):

From left to right, […]

And what’s really frightening is that this is the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Commission, Bernie Thompson:
A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation’s largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched […]

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The Republicans may be the party of stupid, but the Libertarians apparently require stupidity for membership. Remember that idiot Badnarik they thought they’d run for President, the guy who refused to get a drivers license? In Alabama, they decided to run the drugged out boob queen, Loretta Nall, whose sole platform was “Legalize drugs and […]

Discussing reality TV, Renaissance Blogger says:
He’s right. Too many of us, myself included at times, enjoy being voyeurs. We enjoy and are entertained by others tragedies and humiliation. This may come in the form of Cops or Dr. Phil or the countless entertainment gossip shows that infect the airways.
I think it’s moved beyond voyeurism to […]

No surprise here — French whiners:
“You can see discrimination in ID controls,” complained Kader Latreche, 36, an Algerian with his own photo equipment repair shop in the La Courneuve suburb. “Why is it always people from the Maghreb or black people who are being stopped and checked? If it happens over and over again, it […]

So Libby Dole has actually sent out an email message that says … you’re sitting down, right? Here:
Dear Republican Friend,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generous support of our efforts to elect Republicans to the United States Senate this year.
I just wish I could say I’m writing today […]

The Heart Attack Grill: Home of the Double Bypass Burger! Coming soon to an artery near you!
Apparently, the health nazis are up in arms.

And. I. Quote:
Following up on the apparently false stories of burning mosques and Sunnis set aflame at prayer in Iraq, propagated by a Jamil Hussein, who claimed to be an Iraqi police captain, Curt at Flopping Aces notes confirmation from CENTCOM (backup site here) that Hussein is a fraud
Read the whole thing — and follow […]

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From Steve the Pirate, Two Maine Teens Charged with Setting off Bombs in Crowded Wal-Mart. So were they working for John Edwards?
Also from Steve the Pirate, Protester Immolation Virtually Unnoticed. Awwwww.

Let’s See More Of This:
Let’s see more of this… Police taser UCLA student for behaving like a jackass.  My God, this cannot happen often enough.  Do you have any idea how happy it makes me to watch a black cop taser a college student who is being a huge, whiny baby and screaming “This is […]

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What probably drives me nuts about leftists more than anything is their utter lack of consistency. Take this example (hat tip: Ann Althouse via Right on the Left Coast):
Proponents of fat studies see […]

We live in central Pennsylvania, up in the Appalachians. The local place names, like Happy Valley, are a little misleading; “valley” implies, at least to me, a depression at the foot of the mountains. Many of the “valleys” here are elevated. The geography is interesting to watch as you drive here from Indiana. Two-thirds of […]

When I was in high school, I expected the university to be more difficult, and I expected that my university classes would require more work. And for the most part, the university didn’t disappoint.
Today, students no longer expect the university to be difficult, nor do they expect to have to do much work. And the […]

Not me

Off to the Waffle Shop! (If there were a home game, the line would be a mile long already. The Waffle Shop is deservedly very popular.)

Don’t throw away that turkey carcass — make stock!

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Back in September, this diatribe was burning up the edusphere:

I Know The Material - I Just Don’t Do Well on Exams
Leprechauns, unicorns, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, hobbits, orcs - and students who know the material but don’t do well on exams. Mythical creatures.
I’ve met students who claim to know the material but not do […]

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I went to turkey breasts years ago, because of the endless leftovers. But here’s a classic folks from around Louisville will know, one of the most delicious sandwiches ever invented, the Hot Brown (called that because it was invented at the Brown Hotel). Here’s the Brown Hotel’s recipe.
Hot Brown
4 oz. butter
4 oz. flour
3 ½ cups […]

This theme (most, actually) uses HTML lists in the sidebar. The indentation is handled by the list code. So why, when I specify a text-align of right, do the lists not indent, but appear all flush right? Since the list code creates the indentation, shouldn’t the lists indent from the right?

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George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the […]

P. J. O’Rourke is blogging!

I know I’m not the only one who wonders what’s going on with the Brits, the Aussies, the New Squealanders, and the Canuks, with all the diapered government dependence, and at least in the UK, the death of civility.
I have a theory.
It all started when we were watching the first season Lost DVDs, and Claire […]

Salt Lake City (Utah) consumes more lime jell-o than anywhere else. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but they just said it on television, so it must be true.

There is yet more oblivious hand wringing in the Washington Post about the discrepancy between student grades and test scores (hat tip to Ken for the link):
Brittanie’s mother, Kay Morton, was befuddled when she opened the mail and saw the results of her daughter’s standardized math exam.
“It’s hard to understand a situation where you can […]

For the last two years, the dextrosphere has been buzzing about the next Presidential candidate. Straw polls every week, long articles comparing candidates, you name it. And the buzz has become louder since the election