28 May 2007 – 7:56 pm +0800
I neglected to post even a quote for today, so go read what I wrote three years ago. It’s still true.
25 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
If you want a lover
I’ll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I’ll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I’m your man
If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you [...]
23 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
But the crimes [Michael Moore] points out about the American health care system [in his new documentary Sicko] ring horribly true. He names pharmaceutical companies who are allowed to put their own price tags on vital drugs.
— James Christopher, The Times, 20 May 2007
(Uh, setting your own price on your own products is a crime???)
22 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
I just saw John Wayne on the Late, Late Show
Save the girl and ride away.
And I was hoping as the credits rolled
He’d make it back to her someday.
But here I sit alone in Denver
Sippin’ the California wine
And I’ve got all night to remember you
I’m in a lone star state of mind
— Fred Koller, Patrick Alger [...]
21 May 2007 – 6:20 pm +0800
It’s only going to be there another 24 hours, so go there quick — AICN is (briefly) hosting the first footage from John Rambo, Sly Stallone’s second smackdown of modern pansy movies in two years.
Rocky Balboa was, by all accounts, far better than anyone had any right to expect.
But John Rambo looks jaw-droppingly excellent and [...]
21 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go,
I’m standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breaking, its early morn,
The taxi’s waiting, he’s blowin’ his horn
Already I’m so lonesome I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me,
Hold me like [...]
12 May 2007 – 1:27 pm +0800
John Hawkins tries to come up with a list of Manly Movies, but comes up way short, in this blogger’s not at all humble opinion:
Rooster Cogburn: Because no list of manly action movies is complete without a John Wayne movie on it.
Last Man Standing: A Bruce Willis gangster remake of “The Good, the Bad, and [...]
10 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
— Ayn Rand, “Philosophical Detection”
9 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
The grammar has a rule absurd
Which I would call an outworn myth—
“A preposition is a word
You mustn’t end a sentence with!”
That rule I very often flout
Because it makes me far from calm.
It’s one I do not care about.
I wonder where they get it from!
I’ll make a preposition do
The thing I want to use it for.
Why [...]
8 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Thou art that madness of supreme desire,
Which lacking, beauty is but dross and clay.
Within thy veins is all the fire of day
And all the stars divinity of fire.
Thine are the lips and loins that never tire,
And thine the bliss that makes my soul dismay.
Upon thy breast what [...]
7 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made [...]
4 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Being human means being evolution’s bitch.
— Jane Galt, 1 May 2007
3 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Everybody seems to agree that civilization is facing a crisis, but nobody cares to define its nature, to discover its cause and to assume the responsibility of formulating a solution. In times of danger, a morally healthy culture rallies its values, its self-esteem and its crusading spirit to fight for its moral ideals with [...]
2 May 2007 – 7:57 pm +0800
Yes, Virginia, it really is that simple.
1 May 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
This week, both the House and the Senate voted for defeat in Iraq. That’s to say, Congress got tired of waiting for deadbeat insurgents to get their act together and inflict devastating military humiliation on U.S. forces. So America’s legislators have voted to mandate the certainty of defeat. They want the withdrawal of American forces [...]