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“Oh, awaken my soul. What exquisite beauty!”
That was one of the comments left on a clip from a Strauss opera. Nobody could do what he did. There are other composers who have as masterful an understanding of tonality as Richard Strauss did, but none who have used it to write such exquisitely beautiful music. Strauss […]

“You can’t fix stupid.”

I was feeling better yesterday, and manage to get through church on my feet, and singing (that’s about 3 1/2 hours), but was exhausted when I got home. Still.
I’m feeling flu-i-er today, and the congestion is worse today — not in my nose, but in my head. My head feels like I’m driving up the […]

No, I’m not going to tell you. Let’s just say over a half century.

Of the 200-some channels I get and actually watch from time to time, I have to say the History Channel is the worst. It’s always been bad. It started off as the Hitler Channel (not the official name, but WW2 documentaries were all they aired), but has turned into the Miscellaneous Channel, which only offers […]

Hillary in Mexico. What could go wrong? Well, she was with Monseigneur Monroy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. First, she looked at it for a moment, and, well:
After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?”
Don’t hide your face yet, because she wasn’t through.
Leaving the basilica half an hour […]

Well, errands were complicated by Dolly’s eye infection (it’s really ugly), so we had to take her to the vet. Whole Boston butts were on sale at Sam’s for $1.18/pound, and then to Kohl’s. I don’t know how widespread the chain is, but there’s nothing quite like Kohl’s, and we suffered when we moved here […]

I’ve been so zoned by this flu that I just this minute realized that tomorrow is my birthday.
Oh. Duh.

Bitter is looking for information about La Creme (they couldn’t even spell it right, Kraft not Bitter) because she has a recipe that calls for it. La Creme is a dead product line, but it was another one of those fake food products, like Cool Whip, and no more edible.
Look, I’m not one of these […]

H/T to Maggie’s Farm for this 20-minute talk by Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs and narrator of Deadliest Catch. Although he doesn’t say it, what he does say is the best argument against the “everybody needs to go to college” line I have seen.

I’m better today. There is no polite way to say this so forgive the imagery, but the congestion is breaking up and running out my nose, which is messy and disgusting, but at least I can breathe. I do need more coffee, though.
Unless I feel markedly worse over the course of the day, I will […]

I wish I could say this was the Onion, but it is not.
Turning its attention away from trivial issues such as the economy, bailouts, overseas contingencies, and fundamental shifts in American principles, the Senate is finally addressing something of national concern: Who getst to be #1 in college football. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust […]

From Damian Thompson’s blog:
Peter51: you are a homicidal liar out to confuse what is sufficiently clear. The Catholic Church did not “force” a nine-year-old girl to have twins; the Catholic Church does not have a penis and does not produce fertilizing sperm. The child’s stepfather had and did. Sorry to have to introduce you to […]

This clip has been viral for the last couple of days, but since I’ve been sick, I missed it. Oh, and miss it, I did! Nobody can gut and filet with so much poison and finesse quite like a Brit. You really need to watch this. I grabbed it from Jeffrey, but the clip is […]

Geno and Alyonka Larionov make pierogies (Hint: Guys, you can buy a pierogi press or two at any one of those kitchen gadget places for about $1.99.) Lettuce? Lettuce? Not cabbage?

Rasmussen:
Nearly one-third of Americans under the age of 40 say satirical news-oriented television programs like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are taking the place of traditional news outlets.
There’s that crucial critical thinking focus!

I agree with Don. This is definitely the headline of the day, er, second headline of the day (or since Drew’s headline was actually from yesterday, when I was on the couch groaning all day, you could count that as yesterday’s headline of the day posted today). “For the kind of huge proposals Obama is […]

Our President is beclowning himself — again.
In his first few months, President Barack Obama has proven an ardent booster of the U.S. auto industry’s future — but he keeps screwing up its history.
Last month, Obama mistakenly called the automobile an American invention, surprising the Germans who claim that mantle. And in a speech in […]

I did not grow up eating real maple syrup. I was an adult when I tasted it the first time. Since moving to Pennsylvania, we’ve been eating a Vermont brand Sam’s Club was carrying, or syrup from a local maple farm.
Until today.
On the last Sam’s trip, we picked up a jug of syrup because we […]

Tim Geithner…Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks (With All Due Apologies To Boxes And Rocks)

It started Saturday. Sneezing. Not much, though, so I didn’t think anything of it. Ditto Sunday and Monday. Then Tuesday, I woke up congested — you know, unable to breathe through your nose. I felt fine, though. I was just all stuffed up, and sneezing what seemed like every thirty seconds.
Until about 4 or so, […]

Ugh.

From Puck Daddy.

Speaking of, here’s an interesting idea.
For the uninitiated, McDonald’s unveiled a new Filet-o-Fish commercial for Lent here in the Pittsburgh area. The spot is played incessantly during Penguin games on the local Fox Sports Net channel, airing at least three or four times a contest. Aw, it’s glorious.
The ad features some dude sitting […]

Sure, it’s their wedding, but I think this is taking it a bit far.

Check out the other photos.

You folks know it’s Lent, right?

This is what I’d call a big oops.
Chris Dodd admitted he misled CNN, telling them on Tuesday he had nothing to do with the loophole that mysteriously found its way into legislation and paved the way for AIG’s bonuses to be paid. The following day, Dodd confessed to CNN’s Dana Bash that he in […]

Look, unless somebody I trusted told me there was an unsurpassably excellent product that could only be gotten there, I wouldn’t set food in a store with a name like Whole Foods. There is a big scam in Bloomington called Bloomingfoods. They have two things I go there for: Persimmon pulp, and (how ironic is […]

Blue Crab:
Question: Who passed the bailout legislation?
Answer: Congress.
Question: Who specifically exempted the bonuses paid to AIG employees and allowed them to be paid?
Answer: Congress.
Question: Who signed that bill into law?
Answer: Barack Obama.
Question: So who is to blame for all this?
Answer, (according to Congress): Private individuals with signed contracts completely legal under the law passed by […]

You know, about being a laughingstock? Well, remember those DVDs Our brilliant, academic, pencil-necked President gave Gordon Brown, you know, after essentially telling him to go straight to the devil? You know, after he sent the bust of Churchill back to Britain (no doubt because he’d much rather have a bust of Chamberlain)?
Guess what?
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From our favorite taser-wielding cop, JumpOut, including:
Do not call the police and lie about having a disturbance with your boyfriend just so you can get a ride.
Read the whole thing — and don’t miss the comments. Who needs Ann Landers?

Only 1,789?

Obama’s teleprompter is blogging! (H/T Sebastian).

V the K has the real progressive quiz.

Knoxnews asks, “Will Congress kill farmers’ markets?” No doubt, this idiot would think this a good idea.
Oh. Follow the links.
In kinda related news — related, because it’s yet more jack-booted thuggery in the name of the “common good” — Ebensburg court sends an Amish man to jail over an outhouse. Seriously.

Lileks thoroughly guts a moron on HuffingPo who wants more arts funding (”There was also this big building downtown called ‘The Library’”)

It’s just depressing. Every time you’ve seen what you’re sure must be the st00pidest a member of the genus homo can possibly stoop, an even st00pider dolt comes along. Let’s do a retrospective, starting with this bong-sucking dolt.
It seems that a single teacher at a Catholic school in New York got pregnant, and told her […]

The story speaks for itself (emphasis mine, just because I want to make sure you don’t miss it).
When I worked as the constitutional consultant for the Florida House of Representatives, I was told a story about a certain Senator who threatened to call “General Revenue” as a witness after being told that “general revenue will […]

Darren found this whiny, hand-wringing story (emphases mine).
Suzanne Block isn’t basking in the insulating embrace of college as she waits the eight weeks until her May 9 graduation from Lake Forest College.
When she’s not in class or studying, she’s scanning online job sites, sending out résumés and cold-calling potential employers, anything that might get the […]

I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but this is somewhat disturbing.

He may be a Devil, but Marty Brodeur last night became the winningest goalie in hockey history, with 552 wins, and only a few games after returning from his injury. Email you contratulations here.

The NHL Brodeur Watch blog.
Fleury on Brodeur’s record:
Marc-Andre Fleury, who has called New Jersey goaltender Martin Brodeur his boyhood idol, said he […]