Forgive the preening, but sometimes bloggers can be ahead of the curve in covering an important story.
In this particular case, my prescience was not displayed on my blog (what you’re reading now) but on my Examiner.com page.
Sunday’s Washington Post…
Pantherophis alleghaniensis, the eastern ratsnake, decided to come into our basement and give my husband a brief scare last night (thought he was a copperhead at first!). This little guy is very cute and docile; my Munchkin and I have been exclaiming a…
Disturbed by reports in the Washington Post and repeated by Josh Eboch on the Tertium Quids blog that Governor Bob McDonnell’s plan to privatize the state-owned liquor monopoly could include selling the whole system to a single high bidder, I decided t…
Ah, the joys of incompetence at VCU. Let’s say that someone, say a handsome young blogger, submits his Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on February 9, 2010. How long does it take for this application to be processed by his public university? Over six months. And then only after two e-mails and a [...]
On Tuesday afternoon, August 24, I will be a guest on Coy Barefoot’s drive-time radio program on WINA (1070 AM), “Charlottesville Right Now.”
During the segment from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m., Coy and I will discuss the 2010 election campaigns, primarily in V…
How else can you describe what has happened to the Republican Party this year? The Republican Party had a simple route to a landslide election this year: Cut government. But, like the Republican Party so often does, they could not not screw it up. Instead of focusing on actually cutting government, and coming for plans [...]
This is a portion of the preface that appears in my copy of Animal Farm (Signet Classic Printing, 50th Anniversary Edition, April 1996): [...] Orwell, of course, was seldom happier than when he was attacking fraud and hypocrisy and hearing the squeals of the injured. Despite his insistence on being “political” in his work, Orwell’s [...]
When will this woman just shut up and raise the average IQ of politicians everywhere? Adversaries who have been trying to silence Dr. Laura for years seized on her recent use of the n-word on her show as she subsequently suggested that rap “artists” and other creative types like those producing HBO shows who regularly [...]
Background: On August 10th, Radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger went on a tirade on her radio program using the n-word 11 times. Tuesday, she announced that she would be ending her radio show to “regain [her] First Amendment rights.” For some perverse reason the former Mayor of Wasilla and half-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, [...]
Jim Geraghty at National Review Online’s “Campaign Spot” blog has a post about the top 25 “worst figures in American history” as determined by 43 right-wing bloggers. Let’s just say that hyperpartisanship is effecting everyone this year: 23) Saul Alinsky 23) Bill Clinton 23) Hillary Clinton 19) Michael Moore 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger [...]