Tasty Tidbits 7/13/11

  1. Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
  2. “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
  3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
  4. Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
  5. Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
  6. I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
  7. Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
  8. Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
  9. “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.

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Bigger than tidbits. 7/9/11

Tipsy’s Tasty Tidbits filled to overflowing today, so I took a few, including some slightly more extended reflections, over to here. There’s just four categories: Law, Internet, Journalism and Sex.

  1. A brief and pointed quiz.
  2. Was AmConMag’s blog hacked?
  3. Reflections on slogans and delusions.
  4. Reflections on Artificial and Natural “Family Planning.”

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Tasty Tidbits 7/9/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:

  1. From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
  2. The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
  3. Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
  4. ‘Mendoucheous.”
  5. June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
  6. “Pomodoro”?!
  7. Priceless!
  8. We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
  9. Masson graphically provides perspective.
  10. Does anybody actually work any more?
  11. “True Religion” lies like hell.
  12. Evernote.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/6/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:

  1. Casey who?
  2. Cyrus the Above Average.
  3. Bradley who?
  4. How many do you need for a “stampede”?
  5. Nobody here but us Christians, ya’ darned heretics.
  6. Rare earth just became a bit commoner.
  7. Thomas More
  8. Jacknife Theology.
  9. Don’t hold your breath waiting for this 51st State.
  10. Ag-Gag Law?

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Tasty Tidbits 7/5/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:

  1. Conservative conservatism calls out liberal conservatism.
  2. Crony capitalism and the complicit commentariat.
  3. James Howard Kunstler’s birthday card to America.
  4. Are we really free?
  5. John’s Curmudgeonly thoughts on our history.
  6. Who’s really totalitarian?
  7. Are we “defining” or “banning”?
  8. What does barbecue tell us about race?

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Is Peggy Noonan’s ear good or not?

I look forward to Peggy Noonan’s Friday columns in the Wall Street Journal. The former Reagan speechwriter has a sharp mind and a good ear. Occasionally she fails to say something useful, in my estimation, but not often.

Today’s column is the first time I think I’ve understood the Tea Party’s motivation. Is she right, or is she wrong (and I misled by thinking she’s got it)?

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