Politics

WE’LL BE HAVING A TEST NEXT FRIDAY….Sometimes you have to go to the Drudge Report to find links to the news that’s truly, um, stimulating: A GOVERNMENT-backed course is encouraging pupils under 16 to experiment with oral sex, as part of a drive to cut rates of teenage pregnancy. ….It aims to reduce promiscuity by […]

OUR UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION….Josh Chafetz at OxBlog is studying the British constitution and remarked a few days ago that he gets tired of the predictable jokes about his chosen field. The Brits, you see, have a constitution, but it isn’t written down. Ho ho ho. I believe that I myself might have made just such a […]

CHECK IT OUT….Ted Barlow is good today….

GOING TO THE MOVIES….Charles Kuffner reports today that the Loews Cineplex theater chain is being sued for showing too many ads before the movies start. Let me just say that while this suit is probably completely groundless, and a prima facie case for tort reform, etc. etc., I heartily approve anyway. If this is a […]

WAR WITH IRAQ….Josh Marshall finally has Part 2 of his interview with Ken Pollack posted, and it’s a good read. Like Josh, I think that Pollack’s comments do a good job of capturing “the mix of resolution, ambivalence and anger I feel about the situation we’re currently in with Iraq.” As much as I’m unhappy […]

ATHLETIC ABILITY….Here’s a question for you: what are the various factors that combine to create the thing that we call “athletic ability”? Here are a few: Strength Speed Reflexes Hand-eye coordination Balance Body control You can probably think of others, but these will do for now. My next question is: does the term “athletic ability” […]

AIRPORT SECURITY….I don’t know what this is all about, but apparently two out of four entrances to our local airport have been “closed indefinitely because of increased security measures.” We’re now being advised to allow 2 1/2 hours for parking, check-in, etc. WTF? Is this happening anywhere else?

NEW LOOK….Well whaddayaknow, I come home and CalPundit is magically ad-free! It turns out this kindness is the work of Jim Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review, who contributed a year’s worth of ad-free-ness in my name to the good folks at Blogger. As the folks at Blogger put it, my site is now “ad-neutered.” Thanks Jim! […]

AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T MAKE HIM DRINK IT….Look, I know “better safe than sorry” is good advice when it comes to security, but isn’t this story from Reuters a little much? An innocent spray of cologne from a Saudi Arabian college student caused authorities in Philadelphia to quarantine a hospital emergency room, a doughnut shop […]

IN PRAISE OF BLOGGING….I’m reading Bob Schieffer’s book This Just In right now, and for some reason a paragraph in the first chapter got me thinking. He’s talking about the TV coverage of JFK’s assassination and says: For the first time, Americans were seeing what the reporters saw; no longer would they have to wait […]