Blog talk
Last night I went to a meeting of the Boston bloggers. It’s really the New England bloggers, since not all of us live in Boston (I don’t, for example). We’ve gotten together a couple of times before and it’s always … Continue reading →
Last night I went to a meeting of the Boston bloggers. It’s really the New England bloggers, since not all of us live in Boston (I don’t, for example). We’ve gotten together a couple of times before and it’s always … Continue reading →
Reginald Bohannon is a Republican. That in and of itself is not remarkable. But what is unusual–although certainly not unheard of–is that he is a black Republican, raised in a culture in which 90-95% of the ethnic group to which … Continue reading →
After a certain amount of research and thought, I have decided to institute the simplest possible change to the blog. I have now closed Blogger comments and installed Haloscan. It shouldn’t be too difficult to use; I think the instructions … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse has written a post about rewatching movies. She says: To watch something the first time is to respond to some mysterious mix of your own imagination and the various things you’ve heard. Maybe something about a poster or … Continue reading →
[Construction has begun #1] Last night I was up late, working. I went to bed very late, fully expecting to sleep in; I didn’t have any early commitments. Ah, but the best laid schemes…. I was awakened at around 7 … Continue reading →
My “technical advisor” has started work on the changes to the blog, since the nuts and bolts of this type of thing is not my forte. It will take a while, probably as much as a week, but I wanted … Continue reading →
Cassandra at Tigerhawk speculates on how the NY Times, in its infinite wisdom, decides for us what is newsworthy and what is not.
Continue reading →I’ve written before about the dilemma of choosing a term to describe our enemies in this war. Islamofascists? No, not exact enough; and misleading, hearkening back to our World War II enemies who had different political ideologies and methods. Islamic … Continue reading →
Recently the NY Times has been engaged in what appears to be a campaign of its own: the publication of security secrets in the current war (on terror, on jihadis, call it what you will) waged by the US. Why … Continue reading →
The Anchoress has an excellent roundup of posts about the recent publications by the NY Times of security leaks. The Anchoress asks whether the Times “is trying to force a legal confrontation”¦are they actively trying to have members of the … Continue reading →
San Francisco is one of the most “progressive” (read: liberal) cities in the US. And, as this NY Times article describes, there’s a movement there to modernize Islam, at least in a small way. As part of renovations to the … Continue reading →
Those of you who read this blog regularly have no doubt noticed that trolls have virtually taken over many of the comment threads. You’ve also probably seen me state that a reordering of the blog is going to be occurring … Continue reading →