NFL player killed.

***UPDATE*** looked up the etymology for the phrase and found this on Wikipedia (a source that is interesting).


I read this article from Jason Whitlock, whom I've cited here before.

His writing is powerful and salient. Why does he seem to be the only voice with this message? I suppose Bill Cosby is close. I wanted to write, "Whitlock is a guy that calls a spade a spade", which I think is a poker reference, but I feared it would be taken as a racial slur. What is this world coming to?

Stephen King and his scary comment.

Saw this from the master of horror. Horror indeed.

Let me get this straight. King obviously believes waterboarding is torture. So the rational, intellectual method to forward discussion is to suggest the daughter of the President be subjected to torture? I suppose he's another of the "compassionate" liberals? I guess it's an interesting tactic, to suggest that another human be subjected to what you believe is torture to prove it is torture. What a jerk. I've read very little of Mr. Kings works, and I think I liked what I read. I doubt if I'm a fan now of the Liberal in the closet. Ha, now that's a true horror story.

Thanksgiving? You bet.

Loved this Mark Steyn article.

Aside from Britain and France, the Europeans cannot project power in any meaningful way anywhere. When they sign on to an enterprise they claim to believe in — shoring up Afghanistan’s fledgling post-Taliban democracy — most of them send token forces under constrained rules of engagement that prevent them doing anything more than manning the photocopier back at the base.

It’s not just Americans and Iraqis and Afghans who owe a debt of thanks to the U.S. soldier but all the Europeans grown plump and prosperous in a globalized economy guaranteed by the most benign hegemon in history.

Brilliant.

The Hawk has his work cut out for him.

Good economic history of Buffalo in this article. You can probably replace Buffalo with Toledo in many instances, except being "showered" with Federal funding. I suspect that Buffalo suffers from the same political leadership vacuum as Toledo. Strong Democratic counties, both Erie and Lucas.

Global warming is a scam.

From the guy that founded The Weather Channel? The same channel that has Heidi Cullen screeching about global warming and insisting that scientist that don't agree should be disowned by the NWS?

See link here.

Fascinating.

Missed October. Drat.

I guess the arrival of new family members will do that.

Did I miss anything?