Much ado is being made about an 87-year-old California woman who died in a retirement home because nursing staff were prohibited by employer policy from performing CPR on her. The story is certainly a tragedy because there is every indication … Continue reading →
Quick—name a President who did better in his second term than his first. Right. Now name a President who did at least as well in his second term as his first. Tough, eh? Well, obviously Bush and Clinton were heavily … Continue reading →
Fear not only leads to anger. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration… There were tidings of great joy yesterday in the halls of J. Abbey. March 2nd is independent school D-Day in New Atlantis and the Lil Resident’s … Continue reading →
Minion ScottO writes: Dear Good Lord Doctor, While your screenshot shows Friday’s date on your Sequester Fairy post, my magical iDevice indicates a different phenomenon: As you can see, it appeared on my device on Friday–at the equally magical time … Continue reading →
The Czar was in need of new boots lately, as his previous pair of boots lost their ability to keep out snow and blood. Any excuse to go Bass Pro Shop, really, as they have very nice inexpensive and not … Continue reading →
President Obama is blaming the Republicans for the sequester despite the fact that he’s campaigned while Rome burns, acting like an outsider running against Washington rather than being its chief executive officer when frankly it was all his idea in … Continue reading →
While Dr. J. was applying some Force Lightning™ to a patient in the basement of the Castle he missed this tweet by Friend of the Gormogon Freddoso: Jedi mind-meld?— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 1, 2013 Followed by: “Jedi Mind Meld.”— … Continue reading →
Even your Gormogon Overlords, the masters of space, time, sorcery and super-science occasionally run into glitches at the Castle. One such glitch occurred yesterday/today. When Dr. J. was checking the website he encountered a post that he had not yet … Continue reading →
The Sequester Fairy brings presents to good little boys and girls, just hope you don’t get a puzzle or model set from her… J. Abbey is host to an infestation of all sorts of faeries, leprechauns, elves and sprites. Neither … Continue reading →
You kids too young to remember Watergate will probably not remember Bob Woodward (or Edward Woodward, for that matter). Woodward was one of the two reporters (the other was Carl Bernstein, or Leonard Bernstein, for that matter) who brought down … Continue reading →
The Czar loves his intelligent and thoughtful readers because they often write him intelligent and thoughtful letters. And this is good because the Czar can copy and paste them and do no additional work. In fact, the Czar can pretty … Continue reading →
Yesterday, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC as it’s affectionately known, decided New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was not sufficiently conservative to address its 2013 gathering in Washington, D.C.One of ‘Puter’s favorite columnists, Charles Krauthammer, took CPAC to task, … Continue reading →
Only four months after the election, and the suggestions to the GOP on how to regroup and reorganize have recently gotten very good. And consistent: we talked about them here already, but the same ideas keep popping up again and … Continue reading →
What a clown act the President has become; he isn’t seriously fooling his most loyal followers with his political stunts, and by God even the left-most media is calling him a nutjob. In unrelated—seemingly—news, one of the most historically corrupt … Continue reading →
GorT has a few emails that he received over the last week or so that merit replies (the rest were about ‘Puter and Czar’s latest adventures at the Leaping Peacock, Mandy’s satellites interfering with The Hopper on DirectTV, Volgi’s latest … Continue reading →
GorT read ‘Puter’s post earlier today regarding sequestration. Let me first state that I’m in agreement with his conclusion: To win this debate once and for all, Republicans have to call the Democrats out and expose them for what they … Continue reading →
Merlin, the court wizard spake: … Ok, Merlin the court wizard tweeted: @gormogons I present this resume and application for Castle RSO – bit.ly/13F9kbq— Matt (@NKYAggie) February 24, 2013 Normally, all things firearm are delegated to The Czar, Mandy and … Continue reading →
The proper response to Democrats’ profligate spending is to callthem out, make them pay for their beloved programs withoutborrowing. Pictured, House Republicans after passing a balancedbudget bill, taunting the Democrat led Senate as “cabrons.” ‘Puter is sick and gosh-darned tired … Continue reading →
The Czar has read and consumed your publication since the April 1979 issue. He has subscribed without fail since 2000, but is compelled to conclude he will not be renewing his subscription. In that time, he has seen the publication … Continue reading →
This was posted on the ‘Being Liberal’ page on Facebook today: Ironically, gay marriage is closer than high pressure to being a cause. Think of the butterfly effect. The Spanish word for butterfly is mariposa, which is also a gay … Continue reading →
The Last Judgement by Gislebertus. Note, no sequestration anywhere on the tympanum… …and I feel fine. Dr. J. was reflecting on the sequester this morning. The sequester does not even result in real spending cuts, but like everything called a … Continue reading →
At least we don’t have the liberal, hippie religion of being Herbert. “I am not One!” GorT has been contemplating Catholicism in the modern world due to a few things: (1) a recent conversation with his parents regarding a pretty … Continue reading →
May the odds be ever in your favor! Dr. J. stumbled upon Nate Silver’s (yes that Nate Silver) Oscar predictions for this year. He worked his fancy math on the Oscars just like he did to predict the 2012 election … Continue reading →
The mighty Borepatch pulled a chair up by the lobby bar, took a sip of his freshly made Yoo Hoo mojito, and told the Czar: About your latest missive, I couldn’t help but think that while large parts of the … Continue reading →
Long-time reader BG let us know via Twitter that HuffPo is reporting “Scientists Create Zombies in Lab,” and adds that this should be like shooting fish in a barrel for us. This story is not at all limited to HuffPo, … Continue reading →
With Eliquis you don’t need to give up green tea with your blood thinners. Vaccines, alongside guns, appears to be a topic our readers like to write in regarding. Operative BG writes: Did you ever see this video of Penn … Continue reading →
‘Puter and Czar attended Lake Suuperior’s Walleye Festival last February. The young woman pictures was the deckhand assigned to our boat. Czar insists he has never seen a woman more at ease handling 24″ of aquatic fury impaled at the … Continue reading →
Long-time reader Mark Spahn of Seneca, New York, is head of our recently inaugurated Caring & Sharing Division. He notified the Czar of a genuinely weird story involving the Czar’s long-time annoyance—the Department of Homeland Security, under Janet “Concrete Blonde” … Continue reading →
GorT made his predictions back in September and while not 100% accurate, I still believe that sequestration is a real possibility. There is growing sentiment that it might not be such a bad thing. The Federal government grew, sequestration just … Continue reading →
The MSM is at it again. Or rather, still. A physics guy familiar with the recently discovered (?) Higg boson said that the mass of the particle is about 126GeV, which potentially leads to instability in its mass. As a … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s seen a few of his former schoolmates who are far less attractive than Jenny McCarthy (and from a tony Quaker prep school, no less) waxing philosophic regarding the public menace of forced vaccination on that intellectual echo chamber … Continue reading →
The Czar was having dinner the other night with a police detective with whom he is well acquainted. The Czar asked if he was the one who bought up all the Czar’s ammunition. The detective smiled politely and mentioned how … Continue reading →
Probably not well. History likes to divide presidential analysis into two camps, at least in the Czar’s experience. Sometimes history immediately dumps on the guy: Carter, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, for example, generally were excoriated while they were still sliding … Continue reading →
This was inspired by the Lil Medstudent’s sudden taking to of the Animaniacs which is in heavy rotation on The Hub. This is a little dated (e.g. it stops with President Clinton), but its still a lot of fun: President … Continue reading →
The ever-busy D.T., our spiffy and smiling Myrmidon wrangler, writes to us with a surprisingly accurate opening line: Oh Wise, Mighty, Terrible, Yet Surprisingly Cuddly When the Mood Strikes Him Czar, I read this account of a “racial brawl” at … Continue reading →
Before there were Mean Girls, there were the Heathers… Remember the movie Heathers? If not, it’s in heavy rotation on Showtime this month. For those not in the know, the 1988 movie is about a high school girl, Veronica (Winona … Continue reading →
Not to undo the entire crux of Dr. J’s rational polemic, in which he says that non-letter grades are indeed desirable for little ones, allow the Czar to quote himself: And certainly simpler systems work for K-3 because kids are … Continue reading →
Dolores Umbridge that is: Shorter Dolores: If I SAY they’re meeting expectations, they are meeting expectations, even if they aren’t. Like Columbia J-School students are taught, draw them in with a headline, no matter how inaccurate. Dr. J. read with … Continue reading →
Part of the game’s weird charm are the clunky-looking graphics. But the game isn’t intended to dazzle you, but to provide a powerful learning environment. Царевич has developed a crazy affinity for the game Minecraft. If you don’t know what … Continue reading →
Dr. J. loves this interactive graph from the UK Guardian. The authors created a graph analyzing the reading level of the State of the Union report (or speech) since our nation’s founding using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. The dots are … Continue reading →
You know what other moron drinks water on stage in front of the entire world, plainly indicating his unfitness for the highest office in the land ? President Obama, that’s who. As Freud would say, sometimes a drink is just a drink. 'PuterAlways right, … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw our friends over at IMAO link to this on teh twitterz this morning: New blog post: Pluto’s moons goo.gl/fb/ywlzO— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 13, 2013 Apparently we have observed that the flagship Dwarf Planet Pluto (the 9th … Continue reading →
Here are two thoughts GorT had last night between talking with his kids about the Pope, watching parts of the State of the Union and watching all of Senator Rubio’s (R-FL) response. 1. Liberals, in general, see and are voicing … Continue reading →
One of the above is an exceptional American, the other is an exceptional loser Generally when liberals hear something that sounds conservative and reasonable and comes from someone who they would typically classify as being from a demographic that they … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin locks himself away in the lab for a couple of months and he emerges to find out that the International Olympic Committee has removed wrestling from the core list of sports for the 2020 Olympic games. According to … Continue reading →
Would North Korea be public about its nuclear test if Mitt Romney had been president today? This seems a fair question. Another question: would they be conducting a nuclear test at all? This one is probably yes, given that the … Continue reading →
The Tony’s just ain’t the Tony’s without Bernadette Peters! The Royal Exchequer writes Dr. J. regarding his celebrity polemic: Dr.: The town I live in had two television channels when I was a kid. Today, 50 years later, we would … Continue reading →
NYT editorial cartoonists rendition ofliberalism’s preferred treatment of the Catholic Church. There can be only one.And Obama’s got the job. New York Times’ former executive editor, now a full-time writer, Bill Keller issued the Left’s marching orders this afternoon, weighing in with … Continue reading →
“If I had it to do over again, I’d haveexcommunicate Maureen Dowd andE.J. Dionne this many times for falselyportraying Church doctrine and bringingscandal upon Christ’s Bride.” ‘Puter was as shocked as anyone to hear that the leader of the Roman … Continue reading →
Congratulations Kelly! Next time we see you at the local Mexican joint, Clan J. will pick up the tab! Rx- Mrs. Dr. J. and Lil Resident are watching the Grammys, Lil Medstudent’s watching TMNT. I think I’ll read a book.— … Continue reading →
In a shocking move, Pope Benedict XVI announced that, effective February 28th, he will resign due to the frailty caused by his age. This news surprised the cardinals and started the frenzied speculations about his successor. The last time a pope … Continue reading →
O Mighty Czar, At risk of further inciting your wrath, I have an observation regarding the “standards-based scoring” post. This final Kuzniewski quote: The zero is the most damning of grades because it’s the lowest and has the most significant … Continue reading →
Operative BG writes in from his adventures in the 8th dimension regarding Dr. J.’s coverage of Dr. Carson’s speech: Esteemed Dr. J. – If you speak truth to power and nobody reports it, is it still spoken? My reaction to … Continue reading →
ScottO writes in in response to the Czar’s review of the Ruger P89. Dread and Powerful Czar, I have one thing to say about your italicization of bona fide: Merci beaucoups! FWIW, bona fide is not recognized as English by … Continue reading →
If you merely read a transcript of Dr. Carson’s conservative revival speech, you will have missed a critical nuance. The President was sitting one person over from Dr. Carson as the good Doctor lambasted the entire liberal progressive philosophy operating … Continue reading →
The Czar is on a full-tilt rage this morning, so look out. The Czar is wont to read local newspapers; as you know, he thinks the entire newspaper industry is a dying business model, but enjoys reading the wit and … Continue reading →
Dr. J beat GorT to the punch. The video of Dr. Carson’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast is quickly making the rounds on the social media sites. It is very, very impressive and you should sit down with your … Continue reading →
Welcome to the Terrordome! Gentle Readers, Yesterday Dr. J. almost ran off the road in his Imperial Shuttle when he heard excerpts from Dr. Ben Carson’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. For those not in the know, Dr. Carson … Continue reading →
Your ‘Puter has the power! To reason away!Dang, the Doobie Brothers were awesome.Mostly because of their anti-bootleggingappearance on What’s Happening. Classic. Liberals and the media (but then ‘Puter repeats himself) have been spectacularly successful in portraying conservatives’ guiding principle as irrational, … Continue reading →
As you know, the Czar was born halfway through the 13th Century and has seen much. So have his parents, who are ridiculously ancient. Anyway, his sainted parents are looking to move to a retirement community, which they should have … Continue reading →
The one one the left is a good doctor, the one on the right, a good businessman. Dr. J. was watching MASH last night. MASH was appointment television for Dr. J. and Papa J. who served in Berlin during the … Continue reading →
Because despite all the back-and-forth on the Second Amendment lately, we have not had a bona fide gun review on here for a while. And yes, the Czar is the kind of guy who italicizes bona fide even though it … Continue reading →
GorT has previously written about his belief that liberals, largely, seek the short-term, knee-jerk solution without considering the longer term ramifications. Well, courtesy of the Twitter Machine and one of my fellow Gormos retweeting it, I noticed this juicy tidbit: … Continue reading →
GorT is a big believer in correlated data and there are certain demographic trends that aren’t looking promising for the United States. The one I usually cite is the population numbers by age versus investment behavior by age. I believe … Continue reading →
The Democrats have been lauded as being on top of their social media usage when compared to the Republicans. However, I will say that they generally have ended up opening doors for online mocking (one of our specialties) by poor … Continue reading →
One of the best comments about Ron Paul was sent to us some time ago by Bluesun, who forwarded us a comment that Ron Paul was a broken clock who was right 23 hours a day. The Ron Paul clock … Continue reading →
Our intellectual betters at the New York Times thoughtfully advise us it is now inconceivable that any rational person could oppose President Obama’s brilliant “compromise” regarding religiously affiliated employers and government mandated birth control coverage. ‘Puter learned the following facts from … Continue reading →
Bowties are cool… “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan Dr. J. always softly chuckles when the left tries to portray the right as a group of backwards thinking Luddites because a … Continue reading →
We’re not saying where Amelia is… As far as dynasties go, the Plantagenets were certainly style over substance. Henry II contributed to codifying the law, but got away with murder. Yes, yes, we know all he said was, “I’m so … Continue reading →
Even a liberal-friendly polling organization like Pew is announcing that 53% of Americans think the federal government is threatening our freedom. And yet 51% of us voted for the guy taking them away. Anywhere from two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans … Continue reading →
Very alert and long-time follower mastermind EC writes in: Okay: This is much ado about nothing, but four points: 1. President Obama is depicted firing an over and under shotgun. Why is there a wisp of smoke about 8″ back … Continue reading →
See? The President is too macho and tough! Like Reagan! Even though we were told that there were no pictures of the President shooting, suddenly someone comes up with one in the same amount of time it would take to … Continue reading →
Dear Cub Scouts of America, A quick note about your most-famous annual event, the Pinewood Derby. It really needs to stop. As such, both the Царевич and Цесаревич will not be participating this year, even though they each came up … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw this link a few days ago but wanted to post it today, for Super Bowl Sunday. Your Gormogons have Bears, Redskins, and Eagles fans in their ranks. Football is not the official sport of the Gormogons, but … Continue reading →
I can’t believe I fell for the old, lie-on-TV-and-I’ll-give-you-a cabinet-post-trick! Remember when Susan Rice did the Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit™ last September blaming the Benghazi massacre on you-tube video? Remember how folks believed that she was doing this as … Continue reading →
Make no mistake, Dr. J. knows Catholic Doctrine regarding contraception as well as he understands the Quaker Peace Testimony. Gentle Readers, Errant Catholic HHS Secretary and Useful Idiot Kathy Sebelius put forward so-called accommodations in the HHS mandate today in … Continue reading →
This morning, we have a pair of emails to answer. First up is JAB, who scribbles in from the Double-Wide to point out that she totally missed the Czar’s warning about writing in to correct him. Your Czarness: I fear … Continue reading →
Dr. J. is emptying out his inbox and finally has a moment to respond to these missives from earlier in the week. Operative RKB writes in: I did not know you had a kitten, but apparently he(she ???) is putting … Continue reading →
…or something like that. Maybe a more apropos title for this post would be, “Life Imitates Popular Soap-SitDramaComs”. Where is GorT going with this, you ask? Two days ago, I was watching The Five on FoxNews and Greg Gutfeld made … Continue reading →
RKB writes into the Czar with an appropriately supplicating tone: Oh great and dreadful Czar, She isn’t using a pump shotgun, which tells the Czar she knows about shooting clays. Bet she knows the President lied about his experiences based … Continue reading →
R2DT pictured here with R2E2 and R2C2, now get charitable, y’all! Operative R2DT writes in from the Outer Rim Territories regarding his niece, R2E2’s ongoing efforts to raise money and awareness for a rare illness that took the life of … Continue reading →
The other Illinois governor still behind bars, George Ryan, ended his stay in a federal prison and is now in what criminal justice types curiously term a Halfway House, deep into Chicago. About the only bipartisan thing Illinois government does … Continue reading →
Ah, well, it looks like the liberal whackjobs are after the Boy Scouts again, and are fostering the idea that Scouts might consider allowing gays to lead scouting programs. True? False? Actually, these things do not matter to the liberals; … Continue reading →
GorT’s second offspring celebrated her birthday over the weekend. As part of it, we had a number of young teenage girls over at the house for cake and ice cream (that got ‘Puter’s attention). As they got ready to sing … Continue reading →
Look, I was an ensign in Starfleet! That counts as military service, right? Dr. J. saw this post over on NRO’s Corner. In summary, Democratic Party PACs are looking to engage in a little Operation Chaos™ in the Kentucky Republican … Continue reading →
A bipartisan group of eight senators—including some conservative Wunderkinder—has met and put together a large bill for immigration reform. Rumors are that both Democrats and Republicans understand the immigration system is broken and could be easily fixed with some common … Continue reading →
Quoth the Czar: With any luck, Confucius* will write in with some of his copious collection of pet peeves in writing. Don’t get me started. But here’s one: One pet peeve is people who fail to realize that the Oxford … Continue reading →
One thing all of your hosts share here is a love of writing. Except, of course, Mandarin; he prefers shouting at the computer, especially when he reads Drudge. But he’s actually a skilled writer as well. Our site has the … Continue reading →
The ‘R’ is for rich guy! Dr. J. forgot to mention the most obvious example of economic slut-shaming from 2012. Governor Mitt Romney, who was pilloried for his success by the media, the Obama campaign, (ed. Oxford comma) and their … Continue reading →
ERMAGERD! LRNZ FLRZ!1!!El@vEntY! It is official. J.J. Abrams will be directing Star Wars: Episode VII! Screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3) will be drafting the script. Dr. J. is excited about this. He is the most successful … Continue reading →
The ‘A’ is for affluent. Slut shaming (also hyphenated, as slut-shaming) is defined as the act of making someone, usually a woman, feel guilty or inferior, for engaging in certain sexual behaviors that violate traditional gender expectations. These include, depending … Continue reading →
Have you read Governor Bobby Jindal’s kick-in-the-pants speech from Charlotte? Read the whole thing, especially if you want to have a really good day. In the speech, Gov. Jindal lists seven things that Republicans need to do to win elections. … Continue reading →
First, let us be perfectly in sync: the entire idea of women serving in active combat roles is a distraction, pure and simple, by the Obama administration. Second, like most of these awesome, super-cool ideas by the Obama administration, this … Continue reading →
When experts reconstruct disasters, they continually highlight how a series of minor events can compound into a gigantic collapse later on. A safety switch is left off a day before an unusual cold snap occurs; an inspector calls in sick, … Continue reading →
