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Last blog post 13 Nov 2010 | 02:55 am
It's time for me to let the Paragraph Farm lie fallow. Over 60 hours worth of blogging, researching and worst of all, have been living a secret life that my family knew nothing about. Every evening an...
Perfect for Halloween 30 Oct 2010 | 04:05 am
Pikabu, formerly the world's greatest housecat, shuffled off this mortal coil three months ago, after a happy life. She would sometimes amuse herself by hunting birds and mice, but it was her prowess...
Strange brew 29 Oct 2010 | 04:25 am
Did you see Andrew Romano's recent swing at the Tea Party piñata? It was an attempt to enlighten Newsweek's rapidly-dwindling readership about the multitude of ways that the Tea Party allegedly gets t...
Systemic fraud? 28 Oct 2010 | 04:16 am
Elsewhere in North Carolina, a Donkey Party sympathizer rigged a voting machine, maybe (is this what they mean when Get-Out-the-Vote mavens talk about a political "ground game"?): A Craven County vot...
The quotable Mister O'Rourke 26 Oct 2010 | 04:09 am
P.J. having fun is always incisive and frequently hilarious (the wording below is P.J. O'Rourke's but the Greek Chorus of hyperlinks comes from me): "Democrats aren’t just dateless dweebs clambering ...
Making it wail 23 Oct 2010 | 09:13 am
Thanks to Orrin Judd for this find (apparently the harmonica player's name is Ted Welter):
In praise of NIMBYism, writ large 23 Oct 2010 | 09:04 am
Krauthammer: "Even as we speak, the social-democratic model Obama is openly and boldly trying to move America toward is unraveling in Europe. It's not just the real prospect of financial collapse in ...
And how did you think he'd react? 22 Oct 2010 | 10:48 am
Ace is too profane to quote at length, and glides right past the personality profiles that National Public Radio still does better than any other broadcast outfit, but his righteous indignation seems ...
Two for tea 21 Oct 2010 | 12:47 am
Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell both made waves the other day, but -- with a few honorable exceptions -- mainstream reports about why have been irredeemably stupid. Palin did not confuse 1773 with...
Why Barack Obama will never write a good vampire novel 19 Oct 2010 | 10:18 pm
As some other people noted early in his political career and right after the inauguration, our president has no respect for ritual, and you need that (among other things) to write a good vampire novel...
