On...The Simpsons & Ayn Rand

Mediocrity Rules!

Sunday's The Simpsons was a four segment episode about women in history. The first was Queen Elizabeth, which was really funny. Snow White and Lady MacBeth had their moments. The fourth was a nod (and a poke) at Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. It's called "Mediocrity Rules" and features Jodie Foster. A minute clip is here from HULU.COM

The whole episode can be view HERE

Enjoy

Can you believe The Simpsons has been on for 20 years!!

Also, new Simpsons stamps are coming out too.

On...Republican Reform

The New Right

Brand-names are very useful. The GOP is far from ruined as many wishful thinking wags would like to suggest. Diminished under Bush/Cheney? No doubt. In hibernation? Yes. In need of new blood and new vision? Definitely.

Included here are 3 essays all dealing with this theme.

• Ross Douthat, now at the New York Times, adds his 2 cents.
  
• Joe Scarborough sounds off over at Newsweek
  
• James Forsyth looks at the Tory model in The Washington Post.
  

Hopefully the GOP can be molded along these lines.

And more importantly, Dick Cheney can shut up and go back to Wyoming. When did he get so talkative? Even when he's right about something it seems dirty and cold.

Time to revist my old doctrine of convervative virtues. On...Principles. Always good for a refresher.

ON...Stuff in General

What a world

I've been a bit busy lately preparing my students for the big AP US History test tomorrow so I haven't had much time to post. Here are a bunch of articles that I thought interesting the last day or so.

The first is a follow up of my BLOG on Jon Stewart. It's nice to see that he commented later on his mistake. See HERE

The second is from Slate in regards to The Case for Colorblindness

The third is a trio about the foolishness of the UAW/GOV take over of dying Chrysler from The Economist, George Will, and Michael Barone. All sound minds.

The Economist: Mismanaging the Collapse
Sunbeams from Cucumbers by G Will
White House puts UAW before Property Rights by M Barone

The fourth is by Newsweek's David Ignatius on The Baby Boomers, The Whining Will get Louder (My Title) Good Stuff.

The Fifth is by Victor Davis Hanson on our modern obsession with Having it Both Ways.

RIP: Jack Kemp

RIP Jack Kemp

I still have my Dole/Kemp Poster somewhere in the basement. Ah, the naivety of youth.

OBITUARY
From Richard Brookhiser
Kemp's VP Acceptance Speech

On...The Hangover

As summer comedies go this one looks like a real winner.

The Hangover Trailer Can be Viewed Here.

Between the 2 trailers I laughed outloud real hard.

From...Jonah Goldberg, Ned Flanders, McCain, and Others

Just a collection of articles that I wanted to share.

Jonah Goldberg continues the argument about Obama's comments that Great Britain and Churchhill didn't torture Nazis during WW2

Reuters UK discusses the growing power of the POTUS and how Obama is loving every minute of it. Funny how when W expanded power he was a tyrannt and when Obama does it he's promising hope. Such delightful hypocrisy.

God is back: How Ned Flanders won the evangelical crusade

and

McCain's Moment