The Scratching Post

In the process of having some fun at Dean's expense , I spent a little time going over Hitler's pre-war and invasion of Poland speec...

The Puppy Blender is at it again, agitating about the War on Boys . Meanwhile, feminists are yapping at each other about who is the most fem...

I'm using power tools, drinking beer and watching football in my garage. Theology, cats, economics and general carping and whining will ...

... because you'll be missing too much fun. My most recent session at Catholic Charities started with an elderly Russian fellow who sp...

... and can't think of anything else. One of our sons read the Rolling Stone piece discussed earlier  and had an interesting take on ...

I had something else to blog about, but a medical emergency within the Catican staff took precedence. Out on maneuvers with the Catican Guar...

Peace on Earth, good will towards all.

... by The Afters. It's a great song for this time of the year when we've got family all around, but are really busy doing ... what ...

And so very appropriate, too!

Rolling Stone has decided to get into the Camden act with a lengthy article, Apocalypse, New Jersey . It's pretty standard liberal fare,...

Camden, NJ, is the large city with the highest percentage of single parents. It's an outstanding example of the fruits of moral relativi...

... and the NAACP will freak out if you say otherwise. Phil Robertson had this to say about his relationship with blacks in his life: ...

There's a good article in IEEE Spectrum debating the notion that there's a crisis-level shortfall in the number of scientists, tech...

Pondering yesterday's visit to my daughter's school where the teachers were focused on the racial aspects of their topic areas and w...

A short post on a topic I hadn't planned to touch, but whose meaning seemingly just leaped out at me and grabbed my legs*. I stopped b...

Yesterday, I had some fun with Dean's excellent post wherein he was shocked to see yet another NYT columnist come out in favor of autho...

In the past, I've been harsh on the way NBC Sports managed its English Premier League rights. My biggest complaint was that unlike Fox S...

Our normally coherent buddy Dean over at the Monastery of Miscellaneous Musings has managed to blow a gasket and has come down hard on the ...

So here we are, it's December 13, and there's been nothing even remotely like the number of complete transactions required to make O...