An original copy of Action Comics #1, the comic that introduced Superman to the world, was recently sold in a private transaction. For one million bones. I wonder what this kind of thing (and other valuable collectibles) would be worth if our Moms decided not to throw out all the stuff we had stashed in [...]

I received an email from our friend Val Prieto, who runs the great pro-Cuba, anti-Castro blog Babalú. Val and his fellow contributors work the front lines in the battle to fight the lies and propaganda emanating from Castro-led Cuba for nearly fifty years. I’ll let Val do the talking on this: Currently, Cuba has the [...]

I love being right, even if just in a small way. Over the past few years, I’ve had lots of fun picking on “Dr.” Leo DiCaprio, thespian, resort entrepreneur and environmental expert. You can review my commentary here, here and here, as well as observations from Sheryl Crow and the one-piece-of-toilet-paper fiasco. Celebrities have been [...]

I wish I could have felt a bit more outraged after reading the story of Yale senior Aliza Shvarts, a mentally-deranged “art” major who decided to impregnate herself, then induce miscarriages, all in the name of making some kind of “statement.” The only “statement” I believe she successfully made is the one where she says [...]

Look, I despise Rosie O’Donnell. At one time, I actually thought that she was funny in A League Of Their Own and as Betty Rubble in The Flintstones. Unfortunately, as I’ve found her more and more disgusting over the years, I also find that I can’t watch those two movies when I see them on [...]

I’m a great believer in privacy. My concern about the day-to-day surveillance we often unknowingly submit to in public grows a bit more every day. As someone who’s worked for the government in different capacities for many years, I must acknowledge that the use of surveillance techniques are very effective, especially for the military and [...]

A story making the rounds of the news sites reveals that the “Dr.” Al Gore compound in Tennessee is using electrical energy at a pretty exhorbitant clip. According to an allegedly conservative watchdog group in the Volunteer State, Dr. Gore’s mansion is using the same electricty in a month that the average American home uses [...]

In recent weeks, I’ve been going through my old record collection, attempting to rip some of the old vinyl I love to MP3. This project started when someone asked me about a record of African religious music (more about that in a future post). What I discovered, as others have in recent years, is that [...]

I was driving around in my truck the other day, listening to the new CD player I just installed in the dash. And I suddenly had an idea that’s gonna make me rich… The CD player in the dash is a really big thing for me. The truck is a 2003 Ford that I purchased [...]

Remember Joe Jackson? Jackson burst onto the music scene in the late 1970s, part of the “new wave” music movement that was an offshoot of punk and the precursor to the “alternative” music label of the 1980s and ’90s. Jackson released a pair of indispensable rock-and-roll albums, Look Sharp and I’m The Man, before eventually [...]

Back in January, I discussed an article published in the WaPo about the lack of abortion facilities in South Dakota. Now, it looks like those backward yokels (well, that’s how they’re probably viewed in other parts of the country, right?) are taking their battle against abortion to the next level. This may be the first [...]

Made the annual visit to the movies this weekend. Actually, I volunteered, something I rarely do, but it was with the girls, so I didn’t mind so much. We saw Firewall, a thriller with Harrison Ford and Virginia Masden. I figured, how bad could this be? This is a movie about a big-time network security [...]

I thought I’d be able to cool off a bit after writing the Britney-Spears-mocks-Jesus post below. Then I read this. You have to wonder where this mixed-up kid is getting his ideas. Look, he doesn’t like Bush, Wal-Mart and Oprah. But were I the teacher who read his manifesto on murdering and destroying all these [...]

And in a related finally-getting-cancelled-from-TV story comes proof that the networks still aren’t getting it in regards to how their programming relates to whatever Christian viewers they may have left. NBC was already forced to put The Book of Daniel on (permanent) hiatus after a backlash from advocacy groups and lousy ratings. You would think [...]

Didn’t those ten or eleven protesters banging on pots at the Capitol during the SOTU want Bush to step down? Do you think they’ll be satisfied with this instead? Gee, first Martin Sheen, then the pill-popping priest, now this. Perhaps Congress needs to hold hearings.

I love America. The United States is the greatest nation in the world. There is more opportunity available in America, to those willing to work hard, than in any other place on this planet. In America, I am free to do what I like, within reason and short of any criminal or harmful activity. I [...]

In spite of my advancing age, I try to keep abreast of new music. I don’t care for much that’s extremely popular today, so I tend to look off the beaten path to find the interesting stuff. Occasionally, I find myself listening to something from the “old days” that I still like. For example, I [...]

I love being right. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this entry regarding the about-to-premiere NBC series The Book of Daniel. My conclusion was that perhaps NBC should produce a show about a somewhat-ordinary minister with a family of regular folks who have to confront ordinary, everyday issues: You know, something like 7th Heaven, [...]

I see the Iranians are continuing on their quest to piss off nearly every human being West of the Nile River. First, they’re basically flipping the world the bird regarding their nukes. Now they’re going to sponsor a “conference” on the Holocaust, which I imagine will be a bunch of people sitting around, denying that [...]

I recorded the March For Life from C-SPAN yesterday. I was winding up the recording on the DVR and noticed that, in addition to the pro-life event, C-SPAN showed some video from Sunday night’s pro-choice rallies outside the Supreme Court. I haven’t watched much of any of it yet, but while scanning through the video, [...]