If you have a serious, ongoing medical condition, do not entirely believe anything any health care professional — doctor, nurse, consultant, insurance representative — tells you. I have been an ESRD patient (end stage renal disease) for nearly ten years,…
Maybe this is so obvious nobody has said it, but reading Karl Rove’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal made me think of it once again. Obama is not making “gaffes.” He’s been a myth-maker from the first. Isn’t that…
In “Roly-Poly,” his loving description in song of his little boy, Willie Nelson says, “He likes everything from soup to hay…Ham and eggs for breakfast…Bread and jelly twenty times a day.” That must have been back in the fifties, because…
Kevin D. Williamson, on NRO’s The Corner, has just posted a comment on Newsweek’s rankings of public high schools, and asks a good question: How much money per pupil do these high-achieving school districts spend? He cites some flossy districts…
Sally and I played golf for the first time this season as a Mother’s Day treat for her. I could manage only 7 of 9 holes. I was shocked at how weak I had gotten. As it happened, that weekend…
Since James Taranto is on vacation this week, I’ll call one of his “metaphor alerts” on Camille Paglia’s Salon column this week. Not only does she open with a sequence of three (or is is four?) straight movie references, she…
Radio news yesterday morning announced that the Massachusetts legislature had “moved a step closer” to passing a 2.5% tax on college and university endowments of more than $1 billion. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is in debt, and the pols won’t…
I suppose it began with “The ‘N’ Word.” Journalists, particularly in broadcast media, had to find a way to indicate that the word “nigger” had been employed by someone, somewhere, yet it was forbidden to use the word at all….
Roger Simon wrote a column Tuesday in the Politico that caused quite a stir. Quoting an unnamed Republican, Simon suggested that Sen. John McCain’s greatest electoral advantage over Barack Obama came not from any policy difference, but from race. Simon’s…
Quin, you mentioned Tiger Woods in passing. Tiger does swear rather offensively at bad shots. Early in his career, in interviews, he would described himself as being “pi**ed off” about something. Somebody got to him — 21-year-old that he was…