- Hekman for Senate.
- Do you think they’d accommodate Christians like this?
- 3 choice lines.
- Truthiness, proofiness, and 75¢
- Love divided by X.
- Cutting edge legal theory: “altrustic filicide.”
- Looks like we’ve got us a chain letter!
- Newsweek’s Bachmann cover.
- 2012 Même Preview.
- Tipsy taunts a Ditzy prosecutor.
1
If you live in Michigan and you’re a friend of mine, chances are you already know what a quality guy Randy Hekman is. But just in case, and in the firm assurance that the world eagerly awaits my Hoosier opinion on matters of Michigan politics, let me say that Randy is a straight-up guy who has walked the walk and taken calumny sometimes for doing so. I’d be stunned if he had slipped any big ole skeletons into his closet in the 45 or so years since we were well acquainted in high school, and I’ve kept a distant eye on him since as well.
If you’re in Grand Rapids, you should take particular note.
You’re welcome.
2
They were boys like other boys in countless towns, taught that football was important, but not as important as family and faith. Fordson High School’s enrollment is more than 90 percent Muslim and this week of two-a-day practices coincides with Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, when adherents refrain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.
For a second consecutive season, Coach Fouad Zaban has moved these grueling double practices to late night, from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. This allows players to break their fast at sunset, drink liquids and eat a light meal, practice in the relative cool of what has been a baking summer, then eat again before sunrise.
I want to ask if they’d accommodate Christians like this, but considering how few Christians are devout enough to let their faith interfere with football, and how few of the devout actually do anything like fasting (or maybe they’re just hiding it — Matthew 6:16-18 — bwahahaha!), it’s just too mind-bending to think about.
So never mind.
3
Instapundit has 3 choice lines on the disappearance of the antiwar left.
Of course, all the GOP war critics were bucking Bush, too, right?
4
Kay Hymowitz at City Journal (reprinted in the Wall Street Journal) analyzes the fabled gender gap and finds it less remarkable than is often remarked.
It is a huge discrepancy. It’s also an exquisite example of what journalist Charles Seife has dubbed “proofiness.” Proofiness is the use of misleading statistics to confirm what you already believe. Indeed, the 75-cent meme depends on a panoply of apple-to-orange comparisons that support a variety of feminist policy initiatives, from the Paycheck Fairness Act to universal child care, while telling us next to nothing about the well-being of women.
Indeed, she predicts that, in the nature of things, it will never go away. Progressives will no doubt take that as a challenge to grow a government bureaucracy or three, thus forcing equality in some manner that’s economically perverse.
5
Do you think that people who take the 75-cent meme are more likely to think that love is a commodity, and that if you have twins each only gets half as much? There’s a solution to that, of course. Kill one of them in the womb.
6
Having born a son by some yoga instructor, and having married and divorced a man she now says is a boy molester, and having gotten into tangled business relationships with her ex, it was clear to Gigi Jordan — who was of completely sound mind, be assured — that her ex would murder her, then win custody of his stepson and make him a sex slave. Therefore, it was “altruistic filicide” when she murdered the poor boy. No insanity defense here.
One unfortunately cannot make this stuff up, but this true story is playing out in a Manhattan courtroom. (Source Wall Street Journal; Google results here since WSJ has a pay wall.)
But monogamous lifelong marriage, sexual abstinence outside of marriage, and respect for life from womb to tomb are all obsolete notions now, right? I’m looking for a Supreme Court decision that the choice of whether or not to raise a child to adulthood is between parents and their clairvoyant.
7
Dear Black and Latino Animals:
You have now reached reproductive adulthood, so you will enjoy the non-stop rutting season characteristic of your species. We therefore have an important bit of coaching for you.
This is what’s called a “condom” …
Paternalistically yours,
(See yesterday’s Item 3)
8
Even liberal media think the Newsweek cover with Michelle Bachmann was a hatchet job. Maybe there’s a sliver of hope for the world.
I’m reminded of the Vietnam era, when I respected Joan Baez and disrespected Jane Fonda because Baez at least seemed to oppose atrocities by the Communists as well as by us. Fonda, not so much. Kudos to liberal pundits with the integrity to call out crap.
9
The Democrats apparently are planning to try the même “weird” if Mitt Romney is the GOP nominee in 2012. But it has nothing to do with his Mormon faith. No siree! It probably has to do with hair, marital fecundity, and a record of actual accomplishment in business and finance.
In other news (because I just made it up), GOP strategists are focus-group testing “shiftless big-talking homeboy” for 2012, but it has nothing to do with race.
10
They haven’t retroactively failed the Renton County, Washington prosecutor on his bar exam (see item 4), even though such an ignoramus surely hasn’t heard of “Bill of Attainder” and they could get away with it. But they have temporarily stayed the search warrant for the identity of an anonymous internet satirist.
Call me a scofflaw, but here goes: “Dear Renton County Washington prosecutor: Neener, neener, neener! See also “ignoramus,” supra. Bring it on! Signed, Tipsy.”
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Bon appetit!
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 