Month: November 2012

Abit of housekeeping - those of you who weren't directed here via the Deseret News ought to know that I've got a column over there that's being published on a semi-regular basis. I've praised Skyfall before I'd actually seen it, beaten up on The Star Wars Holiday Special, and, as of yesterday, excoriated bad ... Read more

Inaccordance with the Parnassus Ordinance (SK 8675309) forged immaculately via the Upper Volta Protocols circa 1856 and subsequently sullied with retroactive lucidity fostered by Stallioncornell.com's estuary settlements, I hereby decree thus that all sets, essences, collateral, debutations, cranials, laps, wanderances, spores, heftiancies, carts, intriguiaries, terpsichores, correlations/coronations both implicit and supplied that are duly registered with ... Read more

Today,New York Times columnist/Nobel Prize winner/hardcore partisan hack Paul Krugman, the man who Ann Coulter rightly labeled as the "only known economist who despises the free market," wrote a column that, even in my post-election anti-political stupor, still managed to enrage me.Keep in mind that I'm coming to accept the fact that America has decided ... Read more

It'sbeen suggested by many that Barack Obama is simply filling out Jimmy Carter's second term. If that's the case, it'd be nice if he were term-limited, but, alas, the Constitution is silent on the election eligibility of ideological soulmates. Can the nation survive three terms of Carter/Obamism? We're about to find out.I met Jimmy Carter ... Read more

Somelefty dude named Rudolf Rocker has taken a rather marked interest in this blog over the past few days, and he's also complained that I have refused to engage with him. He is entirely correct on that score. Yet after Hank replied to Mr. Rocker in an intelligent and reasonable way, I thought it might ... Read more

Rememberhow only rich guys were the only ones going to get their taxes raised? It's a really good thing that only rich people use energy, then, because now the president is planning to inflict a massive carbon tax on energy producers to "help close the deficit."Yes, in the midst of cripplingly chronic unemployment, our ... Read more

Turnsout the Obama administration, now that the election is over, has decided to shut down 1.6 million acres of federal land here in the West that was slated for oil shale development. As part of his so-called "all of the above" energy policy, he's decided that "all of the above" energy means "all of the ... Read more

"Vote like your lady parts depend on it."That was one of President Obama's charming campaign slogans that many women took to heart. Asinine Tea Partiers who decided that the law should force women to carry the child of their rapists gave the impression that a Romney administration would be just a knife's edge away from ... Read more

SoI suppose my promise to completely tune out was somewhat premature. For some reason, this time around, Christmas music just isn't enough. I'm still not venturing on to Facebook, though. The gloating grates too much. I may not return until my contractual obligation to keep my embarrassing Limburger profile picture up finally lapses.I have had, ... Read more

Yeah,I know I said I was going to tune out. I'm still trying to do that. I've managed to stay off of Facebook, where my daughter Chloe is apparently getting into flame wars with friends who are gloating about last night's debacle. I did get on long enough to post my obligatory new profile pic ... Read more