LIVE FROM LITTLE ROCK: Yours truly. We're driving to Wisconsin for Christmas to visit my in-laws. It's quite a journey-- yesterday it took us seven hours just to get out of Texas. I'm going to try to post as much as I can, but it may be sparse. So, let me just wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a merry new year!
MILITARY SERVICE CAN BE BORING!
 | I was just sending my brother, who is in the 101st Airborne Division, an Amazon gift certificate when I found this great way to say thanks to one of the fine men and women who are making everything possible overseas.
Let them know how much their service and sacrifice means to all of us. Give them something to read when they're not dropping those fabulous daisy cutters. |
A NEW LOW IN FISKISM. Leave it to the BBC to come up with the root causes of baby rape in South Africa. It's all due to apartheid, you see. Apparently people in the Third World can't really be blamed even when they commit the most obviously heinous acts.
Mark Steyn points out brilliantly how racist this attitude really is:
Every argument the enlightened antiwar progressives make has at its core the proposition that these people are primitives: They are no more culpable for tearing you apart than a pack of hyenas would be. As Mr. Fisk sees it, the mob who mugged him and robbed him were "truly innocent of any crime except being the victim of the world." Not true. They had a choice, and to deny that they had a choice is to dehumanize them far more than Pentagon euphemisms about "collateral damage" do.Before the scenes of shaven Afghans cheering their liberation disheartened the peaceniks, you could go to most any college town and see signs saying "Stop your racist war!" As they no longer seem to need the placards, I was wondering if we warmongers could borrow them. Because the intellectual assault being waged by the extreme left is explicitly racist. To old-school imperialists, these excitable Pashtun types were the "lesser breeds without the law" (Kipling). To self-loathing multiculturalists, they still are.
I'M BACK FOR A BIT. Was in Baytown visiting the folks this weekend. A spanking new strip mall seems to have sprung up there everytime I visit. Strip malls are so underappreciated. It is far better to have a Ross and an Outback Steakhouse than to have an empty pasture. Anyone who thinks differently should have to live for a year in a small Texas town without a Wal-Mart.
Luckily there's room for many more. They still don't have a Garden Ridge or a CostCo. I say, bring on the cheap goods and jobs! And poor little Baytown is the town that Starbucks forgot. Are you listening, Seattle? Somebody make my father a happy man.