| It’s My Birthday Week! Please Don’t Make Me Beg. Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:22 PM PDT I like April. The NHL playoffs get cranked up, baseball season starts, Spring flexes its lovely muscles and you can almost forget the last couple brutal winter months, and I get to celebrate two birthdays in the same week. Today is the sixth birthday of The Sundries Shack. That puts my humble little blog among the [...]  |
| I’ll Just Call Them The Southern Poverty Laughability Center Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:18 PM PDT Every once in a while, you might come across the Southern Poverty Law Center, usually in some MSM report on a so-called hate group. Of late, the SPLC has been the go-to group for the government’s attempt to demonize and then marginalize normal, law-abiding Americans who have some grievance against Washington. Stacy McCain, who is no [...]  |
| Our New Fiscal Commissioner Knows A Lot About Deficits. Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:35 PM PDT If you’re going to name one of your cronies to a sham commission to deal with the debt you blew up like The Godfather, shouldn’t you make sure that he didn’t run his last organization a few million dollars into the red? SEIU has seen its liabilities skyrocket during the past decade. The union’s liabilities [...]  |
| The Ambinderable Lightness of Empiricism Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:44 PM PDT I’ve never had a real problem with anything Marc Ambinder has written at The Atlantic until this truly odd piece called “Have Conservatives Gone Mad?”. Ambinder’s point is that conservatives have thrown away any pretense of being reasonable people whose arguments are based in empiricism. His anchor paragraph, however, stopped me cold. Mainstream conservative voices are [...]  |
| Move Over, Chuck Norris and Dick Cheney. There’s a New Tough Man in Town. Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:38 PM PDT This is Eric Belanger, a professional hockey player who, this year, is a member of my Beloved Washington Capitals. He is not this Eric Belanger, beefcakey fashion model. No, our Eric Belanger is a tough man who would not be caught dead on a runway unless perhaps it was an airport runway and he was [...]  |
| If Only We Tea Partiers Were Illegal Immigrants… Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:49 PM PDT Somehow I don’t think we’ll be seeing two weeks’ worth of MSM hand-wringing over the violence displayed by the oh-so-tolerant left in these marches. It’s funny to me that after working itself into a panic attack over the Tea Party marches where there were no acts of violence, the MSM will turn an entirely sympathetic [...]  |
