The Internet Effect

Steven Taylor this morning on what he calls the Perils of the IPhone:

“It’s turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up,” said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver.

Preface:  One, it is neither my intent to blog about Silda Spitzer, nor to pass judgment.   She only  serves as the vehicle of this discussion.   Two, I find it aggravating when discussing issues pertaining to women that some can not,

Comes a point in nearly every discussion about man and his endevors, where there is no room for compromise. This over-reach of governmental power is one such  Hume:

California parents who home school their children are reeling from a court

You know it’s a slow news week when the MSM starts dragging out the old standby about how the Hell’s Angles were planning on killing Mick Jagger after Altamont. Maybe it’s easier than actually covering pols misdeeds. I’ve been hearing

McGehee:

Back in the days before the Civil War (according to James Michener), people emigrating to Texas would sometimes paint the letters “GTT” on their wagons: “Gone to Texas.”

Heh. And here, I thought it was because they wanted their

Fran at Eternity Road makes an interesting point:

Let us have a look at an AP story from yesterday, Lawmakers Crack Down on Abusive Teachers.  As always, I encourage you to read the whole article for yourself and draw

Local weather:  Twenty-four degrees that feels like thirteen. 

As the culture coarsens:

LEESBURG, Va. – (Fox News)-A children’s book about two male penguins that hatch a chick together has been pulled from school library shelves in Loudoun County,

Bluto observes:

From the Timesonline:

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects – comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an

I see you, Brian, and no, I do not agree that I’m being pushed off principle, here.

I reject the premise that the guy was innocent on several levels, but the most important of them is that I reject and

So, New Jersey has ‘apologized’ for slavery, says Michelle Malkin.

They’re not sorry for repealing the death penalty against the wishes of victims’ families of all races and backgrounds, but New Jersey lawmakers are offering an apology for slavery centuries