Archive for September, 2005
Secular Bigotry
Manual Miranda in OpinionJournal has a strong criticism of the questioning of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. While we all expected chest-puffing and posturing from the Senators, we didn’t expect illegal religious bigotry to be so acceptable. Excerpts: Article VI of the Constitution prohibits a religious test from being imposed on nominees to public office. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Christian Carnival #87
Psuedo-Polymath hosts this week Christian Carnival #87.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kasey Kahne's Girlfriend
No wonder so many people come here looking for Kasey Kahne or Dale Earnhardt Jr.s girlfriend. Why is Chasing the Wind ranked #2 on this site for Kasey Kahne and #1 for Dale Earnhardt Jr. ? Bizarre. (I almost wrote “bizzare” or perhaps “bizare” or “bizzarre” but that’s just pandering to the search engines so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 21 so far )Computer Gymnastics
I didn’t get to read or post today. So solly cholly. It started when I asked my company if I could borrow a laptop for an upcoming business trip, which they thought was a good idea. They even gave me extra stuff to do on the plane. When they dropped off the laptop, the IT [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )Astroworld Closes
Six Flags / Astroworld is closing after 37 years. The property it is sitting on is worth roughly $110 million, or $1 million an acre. I haven’t been in years and years. The rides were shorter, the lines were longer, it had a “hoodlum” feel about it, the gift shops were full of overpriced trinkets. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Katrina and Social Security Reform
These two topic shouldn’t go together, but if the Angry Left can combine hurricanes and racism, then I can combine hurricanes and Social Security reform. Ted Kennedy, liberal stalwarth, said recently, “what the heck is a stalwarth? Did you misspell ‘stalworth’? What kind of cheesy website are you running?” Then he said, “What the American [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Protesting Jobs That Are Better Than Yours
Let’s say you’re a union (United Food and Commercial Workers, UFCW) and you’re upset about the low wages Wal-Mart pays. Let’s also say that since none of your union is interesting in picketing, that you decide to hire non-union temporary workers to picket for you in the 104°F heat. Good idea? I think not. Wal-Mart [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )The Real Katrina Tragedy
The real tragedy from Katrina is not the wind, the rain, or the flooding. No, the real tragedy is that number of dangerous animals parading around on two feet. From a link from Vox comes this story at Useful Fools. It’s too graphic to repost here in it’s entirety, but two survivors of the Superdome [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The Bible or the Axe
William O. Levi The Bible or the Axe One man’s dramatic escape from persecution in the Sudan When I first read the title, I assumed this book would be about a man having to choose whether to renounce his faith or be killed. It was that, but it was more. William’s grandfather explained to him [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ill Wind May Not Blow to the Whitehouse
Will Hurricane Katrina spell the end of George Bush’s Presidency? Almost certainly yes, with a few caveats. As the full horror of Hurricane Katrina sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if this is the end of George Bush’s presidency. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that every copy of the US Constitution [...]
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