Stallion Cornell

One of the greatest, if not the greatest, conservative thinkers of our time has passed away today at the age of 82 - William F. Buckley, founder of National Review. I wish I could say that Mr. Buckley had had a direct impact on my thinking, but I've read precious little of what he's written. ... Read more

I hate Guitar Hero III. Because I can’t stop playing it. Last night, I was up until 11:30 playing ZZ Top’s “La Grange” on Expert. I’ve completed 42 out of 42 on Easy, 42 out of 42 on Medium, and then topped out at 39 out of 42 on Hard. (I’ve given up on Metallica’s ... Read more

SoI’m in bed next to Mrs. Cornell and I'm flipping channels last night, when I stumble across Daniel Day Lewis winning the Best Actor Academy Award. It was only then that I remembered the Oscars were on. And yet I kept flipping channels and finally settled on watching Chris Noth bust perps in Law and ... Read more

Foodlekingwrote this up, and I thought it was worth sharing. I post it here with his permission. ___________________ A hero of mine, a great LDS thinker, and the quintessential Mormon philosopher, brother Truman Madsen spoke as the inaugural guest lecturer at the Mormon Studies department at Claremont College. I have listened to literally hundreds of ... Read more

Ihave nothing of interest to say about the new John McCain scandal, because, frankly, there’s nothing interesting to say. This was totally, totally predictable. Beavis McCain has always had a whiff of corruption following him throughout his career, but the press ignored it because he was the Democrat’s favorite Republican. Now that he’s the nominee ... Read more

SoI got a live one in the comments from yesterday's post. In the interest of celebrating asininity through mockery, I thought I'd share it with you. The words of the imbecile have been bolded for your protection.  The anonymous heckler begins thusly: hey there you free speech phony, yeah right...YOU!!!and pull your pants up!! Pardon? ... Read more

Sorryfor the lack of blogging this weekend. On Monday, the Cornell Family was busy tearing up the slopes at Brighton Ski Resort, and yours truly demonstrated that he is the living embodiment of Darwinian natural selection. Four of my five children are probably better skiers than I am, and two of them are six years ... Read more

Hmmmm.Yesterdaywas the launch of the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer, which was cause for celebration in the Cornell household. It’s something of a mixed bag as a trailer – the montage of Indy’s previous adventures doesn’t really work, and there are absolutely no plot specifics provided. But it captured ... Read more

Nota big fan of Valentine’s Day on the whole, as I suck at coming up with clever and romantic gifts for my wife, who says she doesn’t care, and she probably even means it, but that still doesn’t get me off the hook. I don’t want to go into the details, but there have been ... Read more

Theyear was 1992, and I was living in Southern California, still entertaining the notion that I could be a big time actor. I had been sent on an audition for Married: With Children for the distinguished role of Nerd #5. Since most of these auditions lasted about seven seconds, I wanted to find some way ... Read more