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…show how reality works. You make the call. In fact, all of the video games I play tend to have a decidedly anti-liberal tilt. From the seemingly innocuous Sims to more obviously hawkish games like Call of Duty, many video … Continue reading →
…Khamene’î worried? Via Michael Rubin @ the Corner. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →In Dr. J’s previous rant, he waxed poetically with regard to President Reagan’s foreign policy, probably because as a youth Dr. J was more concerned about living under the Red Flag than the havoc wreaked on our economy President Carter … Continue reading →
What’s on tonight? This is on tonight. Get it on. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →FROM HIS UNVERIFIED TWITTER ACCOUNT PROCLAIMETH THE KILMER: America all the way! Caddies have moved elegantly into the 21st century; rocky road is over! It’s fat smooth sailing now! This is a glory! VERILY HE IS OUR HUCKLEBERRY! Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
If this is so, no other word leaps to mind. Not having read the cables in question, one doesn’t know if the British press is exaggerating, but if we actually traded UK national-security information to the Russians in exchange for … Continue reading →
Very well reviewed by Dr. D, also at City Journal. The world’s children are, taken as a whole, the healthiest who have ever lived, in no small part thanks to immunization against the common infectious diseases of childhood that, not … Continue reading →
Vaccines, which save millions of lives every year, are one of the most successful public-health interventions in the history of modern medicine. Among the diseases that they prevent is the whooping cough. Why, then, is that sickness making a scary … Continue reading →
Ghettoputer’s sane alter ego just completely hammers Illinois. Now airing in radio markets around the state. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Continue reading →Either way, we’ve got a lot of rubble to climb out from under. Click to embiggen, of course. Via Greg Ransom. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Like these guys. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Via Terry Teachout. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Continue reading →Big F*@&ing Deal Alert! The Mandarin’s Orbital Laser Mind-switching Weapon (TM) is a rousing success. The Gormogons have successfully swapped the mind of gaffetastic Vice President Biden with that of Dr. J’s mancrush, economist Arthur Laffer. Dr. J has relocated … Continue reading →
First, as regards “Publius,” don’t worry, Dr. J., the Gormogons are of course monitoring all your online activity. The Mandarin’s files are extensive. Second, Confucius* is much more sanguine about a secession of Southern Sudan than the Czar. As bad … Continue reading →
We actually showed up the following day. Turns out 1 B.C. wasn’t a leap year, and GorT didn’t want to make two trips. Don’t expect a joke about the lack of room at the inns. Leave it to the government … Continue reading →
(You’d know that that means, had you clicked through on my last post…) Pictures! Pictures! And a little bit on the less-sexy but maybe more-important DF-21D. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →China’s military: “Paper tiger or real?” You know what Confucius thinks… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →And he’s right. Not that it may matter. From the president on down through his secretary of defense, the service secretaries, and a cast of generals whose decorations would choke an alpine meadow with color, we are told that further … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →No, not really. This is a thoughtful piece that deserves your time, though. But both books come around to a similar argument: this month’s ubiquitous carols and crèches notwithstanding, believing Christians are no longer what they once were — an … Continue reading →
…while the kids bring up the bread, wine, and birthday cake! From the great Dr. Boli. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →In answer to Dr. J’s question, while the Volgi isn’t strapping on the leather and garters like ’Puter, nor can he rouse himself to great indignation about the repeal. He has two observations, though. First, it’s curious how DADT quickly … Continue reading →
So there you have it. The foundational assumptions of American intellectuals as a group are firmly based on the assumptions of the progressive state and the Blue Social Model. Those who run our government agencies, our universities, our foundations, our … Continue reading →
Alas, law enforcement stopped him just short… CHICAGO (CBS) – Even though it was snowing, it was apparently not too cold for one man who was arrested after people saw him running around wearing nothing but socks and carrying a … Continue reading →
Thanks, Katō! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…you’re supposed to put the kibosh on ideas like when the Mandarin says, “Let’s invest forty mil in a beachfront resort on Yŏnpyŏng-do.” ‘Club Yellow Sea,’ my 至聖 ass… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. … Continue reading →
From Irish: Flaithiúlacht, which means ruinous generosity, especially with someone else’s money. Whither this gem? Andrew Stuttaford at the Corner. Click through to see where he got it. How to pronounce that? Something like this. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →You know Confucius takes issues of war, peace, strategy, diplomacy, and so forth seriously. Maybe a little too seriously. Defeats and bad press for the U.S. depress him mightily. Still. He can’t stop laughing at this. We’ve apparently be negotiating … Continue reading →
Fire up the jet, boys. We’re going to Akron. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Thanks to Johnson’s Russia List, we confirm once again that the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine. RIA Novosti tells us that “Russian prosecutors drop charges against businesswoman who died in custody.”Vera Trifonova died in April … Continue reading →
By Oleg Volk. Via Boing Boing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Continue reading →It is imperative that European and American leaders show Russia that they will not tolerate this situation. At every bilateral or multilateral forum, European Union member states and the United States should ask specific questions about the progress of investigations … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →And why some people don’t get it. Liberalism in its present degenerate form is reactionary—a gesture of irritation at the backward quality of ordinary American life, at its culture, its food and dress and amusements and politics, and especially at … Continue reading →
Defense Secretary Bob Gates will be told in a meeting today that development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be further delayed, on top of the 13-month slippage that was disclosed in March. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions … Continue reading →
’Puter’s quite the ladies’ man, even if he usually drags them off like a robot in a ’50s B-movie. Still, he has feelings, and doubtless he’s crushed to learn that his prom date* was two-timing him with Matt Labash. So … Continue reading →
Brilliant. Stop on over at Big Hollywood (link on left) for a lot more on Psycho this week. Happy Halloween! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Happy Halloween. (Yeah, it’s not new…) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Among today’s liberal elite, bad faith in America is a sophistication, a kind of hipness. More importantly, it is the perfect formula for political and governmental power. It rationalizes power in the name of intervening against evil—I will use the … Continue reading →
Just a wonderfully brutal take down of some sleight-of-hand with charts. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Amusing, but it stems from what was always a somewhat ugly side of this whole silly ‘shovel-ready’ meme. Basically, what ‘shovel-ready’ was always about was upper-middle-class lefties openly fantasizing about putting armies of peasants to work doing things that…upper-middle-class lefties … Continue reading →
What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Chairman Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in human history, responsible for the premature deaths of at least 45 million people … Continue reading →
Yetis are apparently going into the citrus-fruit business. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Over at Armavirumque, he writes: For the undeserving winners of the genetic lottery known as the intelligent have been so flattered and petted and made much of by the official culture of the last half century or so that their … Continue reading →
…here’s Fred Siegel in City Journal. What Zernike doesn’t grasp is the class dynamics of the Tea Parties—a revolt in the name of self-government against the pretensions and failures of the best and the brightest. The Tea Partiers believe that … Continue reading →
Peter Berkowitz in the WSJ. Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and … Continue reading →
Official site. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →It surely did. If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for … Continue reading →
So, the New York Times has noticed the resurgent Chinese military that’s been weaned on nationalist paranoia: The Pentagon is worried that its increasingly tense relationship with the Chinese military owes itself in part to the rising leaders of Mr. … Continue reading →
Most fun: Charles Krauthammer & Chess. (In the New York Times!) Most important: Islam in Europe Destroyed by Radicalism? by Stephen Schwartz Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →PRESIDENT OBAMA STREAKED — GORMOGONS DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITYCASTLE GORMOGON, PLATEAU OF LENG, 10/11/10The Gormogons disclaim, immediately and categorically, any responsibility for the puerile streaking stunt at a presidential rally yesterday.We have extensive documentary evidence that Ghettoputer Gormogon was, in fact, nowhere … Continue reading →
Source and interview link here. Ah, the America of your dreams…the only one you actually like… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Global-warming J’accuse?Read the whole thing. Seriously. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →So, after having made the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock by awarding it to the barely-inaugurated President Obama because he, um, was, er, so, uh, I mean such a great…peace-making-potential guy, the Norwegians decided to actually make a morally serious … Continue reading →
Four years ago this week, the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered execution-style in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. The truth is an increasingly scarce commodity in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Politkovskaya’s murder showed that for those … Continue reading →
So, over at Contentions, J.E. Dyer puts up a bunch of links showing Russian attempts to bully Japan over the Kuril Islands, concluding: Its significance cannot be overemphasized. In approaching this confrontation, Russia is effectively treating Japan — a G-8 … Continue reading →
GUY SORMANCommunism’s NurembergThe crimes of the Khmer Rouge are inextricable from Marxist/Leninist ideology. What the Khmer Rouge brought to Cambodia was in fact real Communism. There was no radical distinction, either conceptually or concretely, between the rule of the Khmer … Continue reading →
Look for the union label on your state and local tax increase, writes Stephen Malanga: The sight of rich people pleading to be taxed more has attracted attention to the November ballot initiative. But otherwise, support for the ballot measure, … Continue reading →
But we’re happy to report that Dr. J has released ’Puter from the hospital and sent him back to Castle G with a rusty milkpail full of horse tranquilizers. O Volgi, sayest thou, how is this different from any Monday … Continue reading →
All goes well. He has finally been convinced that the hospital staff are not evil sorcerers trying to steal his mojo. He’s even let them puncture his flesh, a privilege he normally reserves for Dat Ho on boil-lancing night. See? … Continue reading →
Well, it’s no surprise to you Gormogons operatives. Maybe others are starting to pay attention. The greatest geopolitical development that has occurred largely beneath the radar of our Middle East-focused media over the past decade has been the rise of … Continue reading →
“…Our Army and Marine Corps are significantly undersized; and military modernization remains a neglected requirement that has very few champions in Washington.” Hell and yes. Read on. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Heather Higgins writes: Hey, what’s the problem with real world consequences to your bad ideas when you’re a smug, snarky, sanctimonious ideologue? Nothing! If you’ve just killed the kids-only insurance market, that must be the insurance companies’ fault – because … Continue reading →
The typically modern mind is 1) skeptical of absolute, unchanging standards and 2) in love with the idea of progress. But this is a logical impossibility, a self-contradiction. Without an unchanging standard, there can be no progress, only change. To … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →If this is true, this is an amazing, ninja move. The implications are fairly terrifying, especially if someone develops a less discriminating version. Cyber security experts say they have identified the world’s first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to … Continue reading →
Speaker Pelosi announced the Congressional Democrat’s Pledge, but you’ll have to re-elect them to see what’s in it. Best, Dr. JRoyal Surgeon to the Gormogons Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →One hesitates to enter ’Puter’s bailiwick of edumocation, but this takedown by Friend of the Gormogons Flava Last prompts the following thoughts off the top of one’s head, and what are blogs for if not making unconsidered comments publicly? One … Continue reading →
Congressional GOP’s “Pledge to America.” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Here’s the thing about this—we used to be able to build some impressive stuff quickly as well. Empire State Building: 410 days. Rockefeller Center (14 buildings): nine years—of which Radio City Music Hall was done in the first two years … Continue reading →
Pictured: Inside Mandy’s Dreams Hey, Dr. J., you’d better cease and desist on that orbital ultrasonic death ray post-haste. I don’t give a crap what the hell Mandy tells you about hunting Yeti, but the entire species of homo vertex … Continue reading →
The Car, the Ditch & the Slurpee. Yeah, you probably better get over there and read that now. Just empty your bladder first. Better safe than sorry. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Because this retiring Air Force general’s presentation to the Air Force Association makes it clear that our this-generation aircraft are increasingly vulnerable to both Russian and Chinese SAMs and fighters, and our heretofore unchallengeable air superiority is becoming, well, challengeable, … Continue reading →
…anti-colonialism, argues Dinesh D’Souza: But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father’s time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, … Continue reading →
Sentimentality allows us to congratulate ourselves on our own warmth and generosity of heart. Oscar Wilde said that sentimentality is the desire to have the luxury of emotion without paying for it. It turns the people on whom it is … Continue reading →
The Pentagon today is increasing planning for smaller-scale conflicts in which the need for global, conventional warhead launchers will be particularly acute. But New Start, with its myopic focus on Russian arms levels, will severely limit our small-war capabilities. Since … Continue reading →
The energetic push-back of recent months finds me partially elated: Those who reject Islamism and all its works now constitute a majority and are on the march. For the first time in fifteen years, I feel I may be on … Continue reading →
Now Frank Dikötter, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at Hong Kong University, has laid out the vast horror in detail, drawing on local and provincial archives that have only recently become available … Continue reading →
This weekend we celebrate Labor Day in a country divided between two kinds of workers. The first is the private-sector worker, the vulnerable one who rides the business cycle without shock absorbers. The second worker, who works for the government, … Continue reading →
In 2007, 239 patients died of malnutrition in British hospitals, the latest year for which figures are available. A wag might say it must be the English cuisine. But the real roots of this tragedy lie in Britain’s government-run medical … Continue reading →
…reports Rich “Rico Suave“ Lowry. No, not in that way. Very much worth reading. In extremis, Democrats and liberal commentators have dragged the debate over the tea party into the well-worn rut of elite condescension to the bourgeois, a term … Continue reading →
Why are we disappointed? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Since the Czar has displayed some current Gormogon currency (the reserve currency of occult conspiracies—we know our damn monetary policy), we dug into the archive and found some old units of currency issued under our dread authority. For a while, … Continue reading →
Dr. J provides a long opinion on healthcare that’s well worth your time. Hence, we’re declassifying it: Your Notoriousness, I have read Dr. Scherz’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal and the patient letter on his PAC website Docs4patientcare.org. I … Continue reading →
Uncharitably speaking, this is what might be called the Paula Abdul theory of foreign policy, after the famously forgiving former judge on American Idol. Never mind that you can’t sing, or that you’re letting yourself be played for a sucker: … Continue reading →
SLEESTAK REPORTS GHETTOPUTER HAS BROKEN INTO THE MOTOR POOL. LAST SEEN TRAVELLING EASTBOUND ON I-675 NEAR MIAMI, OHIO. The guy lived. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Background here. Thanks, Mike Russell. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Penn Jillette with a fine anecdote—liberally seasoned with profanity, as is his wont. But dead-f—ing-on. You know how we feel about Smart People®. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Publicly owned corporations are more accountable to their shareholders than tenured bureaucracies, which may explain why it took the Ford Motor Company only two years to cancel its Edsel, and not much longer for Coca Cola to restore its “classic” … Continue reading →
Typically great piece by Dr. D. in City Journal. Sample aperçu: The two greatest moral catastrophes of the twentieth century, wrought by Lenin and Hitler, were perverse effects of the Enlightenment. Lenin and Hitler were creatures of the Enlightenment not … Continue reading →
Hey, rah-rah, women at the State Department, but does anybody worry about the image this might present to profoundly sexist cultures? Or calculate which negotiations a sex imbalance is likely to hinder or hurt? One would think sending an all-woman … Continue reading →
Lurking about the presidency in the guise of secretary of state, America’s chief diplomat has embarked upon a mistake that someday may rival Dean Acheson’s exclusion of Korea from the Pacific defense area, or April Glaspie’s muddled words to Saddam … Continue reading →
Nice work, whoever you guys are. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Here’s a couple tiny excerpts, but you need to read Arthur Herman’s piece in the upcoming Commentary. Twice. Not just because it jibes extensively with Confucius’s* thoughts on the American military. Seriously. Make time. Print it out. Whatever it takes. … Continue reading →
Your Notoriousness, This could only be the work of an agent of the D.C. Chapter of the Gormogons… Best,Dr. J. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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