Year: 2007
Hello Joe Monster Visitors
I was just looking through my site logs, and I’ve got almost a thousand hits today. However, I think some of you are being disappointed by a link to my main page. If you came here from this page at Joe Monster, then you probably want to check out this page. Read more
The Undesirables are Already Here
Go read this first-hand account of Icelandic citizen Eva Ósk Arnardóttir’s visit to the United States. Because she overstayed her visa by three weeks in 1995, she was refused admittance, meaning she had wasted the cost of her flight. Then she was detained, photographed, fingerprinted, questioned, searched, refused access to someone from her nation’s embassy,… Read more
Welcome to the Planet of the Apes
I’m fascinated by the conservative obession with evolution. On Illinois Review, Jill Stanek quotes with some approval this statement by Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee: If anybody wants to believe they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it. I don’t know how far they will march that back. But I… Read more
I, Rudy
If you think I overstate the dangers of a Giuliani presidency, check out the cover The American Conservative uses to promote it’s article about Giuliani’s grind-our-enemies-under-our-chariot-wheels foreign policy. I ought to admit here that I tried to read the article, but it was kind of a boring analysis of various people’s influences on Giuliani. (Hat tip: Hit & Run) Read more
An Unbearable Lightness of Brains
I speak, of course, of our Congress. They’ve actually gone and outlawed the light bulb. Thomas Edison’s lightbulb. I don’t want to alarm you. They haven’t gone and outlawed all illumination, they’re only after your conventional incandescent light bulbs. They still want us to buy energy efficient compact flourescent bulbs. You know, to save energy. I have no… Read more