Just say Noah
This guy doesn’t like Evan Almighty. Based on what I saw in the original, I’m not too sure I’ll like it much, either.
Turtles All the Way Down
Jonah Goldberg, a National Review author, recently noted on The Corner the anniversary of the passing of his Father. I was pretty moved by the aching he expressed in his post even two years after his father’s death, and moved even more by the touching, funny tribute to his father shortly after his death. I really appreciated Jonah’s connection of humor and wisdom, and how he highlighted that with stories about his dad, who sound like a really, really neat man — the kind of man I would have liked to have known.
The stories of the walks with his dad and the seemingly random pearls of wisdom he would share challenges me to make sure that I have those moments with my boys. What really struck me, though, was the phrase at the end:
“He was turtles all the way down.”
I love the image that stirs. I hope someday (a long, long time from now, hopefully) my children can write about me the way Jonah wrote his dad.
Potato wave Icee dems brown the runway
This site has some… distasteful content, but this video (which I found via The Corner) kills me every time I watch it:
“Evolution, Abortion, and Other Stuff We Care About”
If you ever needed a really good reason not to vote for Oklahoma Democrats (and, one might easily conculde, Democrats in general) this is it. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Republicans are better, but I can’t see they can be any worse. As you read their declarations, note how they dance around the word “abortion,” preferring to talk about “reproductive care,” “health care decsions,” “reproductive freedom,” and “termination of unintended pregnancy.” If there was ever any doubt that they are the Party of Death, that list should clear things up.
This was never given a title, so I’m just filling in the blank now, 2 years later
This Peggy Noonan article is spot on, I think. I especially appreciate the “battered wife” reference, as that’s how it has felt these past few years. I’ve not always been a Bush supporter — I have grudgingly admitted to voting for McCain in 2000 — but, as the Republican candidate and office holder, he’s what we’ve got, so I’ve voted for and done my best to support him (I still contend he’s better than the alternatives we’ve been given, even if not by much).
To be completely honest, he’s done some dumb things that, as Noonan, Laura Ingraham, and Mark Levin point out, have been hard to swallow — I’ve never been too shy about admitting that — and I agree whole-heartedly with the assertion, by a political commentator whose name eludes me, that Bush is not a conservative, but a “neo-liberal.” I find myself longing for 2009, though at the same time fearing it because a Democrat might win the White House, making things a whole lot worse. But at least we won’t have “illegal” wiretaps, so I guess that’s got to be a plus. 😐