Putting the shag back in shag rugs . . .
Seen around town, Austin, Texas: Keep Austin Weird. Found out what that meant. The quest for cultural enrichment for the Penta-Posse continued with a stop at the Austin Museum of Art. Instead, we found...
Yearly Archive: 2005
Babes on Bourbon Street
Made a quick stop through the Big Easy on the way to Austin. Hit Cafe du Monde for coffee and beignets and then headed to Bourbon Street. Several people warned me about the seamier...
9-11 24/7: Pro-life by National Geographic
The abortion industry should be afraid, very afraid. Back in 1995, Naomi Wolf shocked her friends in the abortion movement by writing in the New Republic that they needed to come up with a...
Oh, Grow Up Petra Pan!
A former editor of Ms. magazine, Suzanne Braun Levine, has a new book out, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood. Sorry, but these women can’t seem to make it into...
Hillary's lavender look
Viewed today along I-81 in Tennessee — giant billboard, stark white lettering on a solid black background: One nation under me — God Welcome to the red-states! A few miles further down the road,...
Westward Ho!
We got up at 0-dark-thirty this morning, put the Penta-Posse in the truck — still in their pajamas . . . and headed West. I am attending a Liberty Fund conference this weekend in...
Know Your Enemy
Michael Ledeen has written a wonderful tribute to a friend of his, Peter Malchin, “Zvika,” who recently died after a lifetime of unsung service to our country as an undercover agent. Among his many...
A Baby in the Eye of the Beholder
The Corner on National Review Online Good catch. On NRO today, Kathryn Lopez noted the sad demise of yet another Hollywood “fairytale” — the Denise Richards/Charlie Sheen marriage — and then highlighted this quote...
Gilgamesh is gross!
I recently read the epic poem Gilgamesh for an upcoming Liberty Fund conference, organized by Frederick Turner, in Austin. (Fred is the renowned poet and author of a modern epic, Genesis, about the settlement...
Gandalf and audacity
The Dude (with the help of the Diva) discovered that Gandalf has something to say about audacity on PlayStation 2. They worked very hard to get the quote for mom’s blog. And it’s...
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