It’s a little after midnight here on the ranch (for instance, why did I call it “the ranch?”) and my eldest and I are snatching a few minutes from the jaws of sleep to have a little improv session. We did this without any planning or practice, on the spur of the moment. We had a lot of fun, so go ahead and check out this satirical youtube video. We are quite assertive about our politics but sometimes you have to cut loose and make fun of the nutjobs on… Read more Humorous Video →
My husband regularly puts himself through a particularly difficult and unpleasant intellectual ordeal: he reads the writings of people whose ideology he despises. One such author is Benito Mussolini. According to the famous WWII-era Italian dictator, the essence of fascism (for my loving spouse has put me to the torture of listening while he reads extended excerpts) is the belief that every citizen of the modern state exists because of the beneficence of the state and therefore ought to devote himself to the welfare of the state. All goods through… Read more Fascism vs. Marxism; Collusion vs. Conspiracy; One-income vs. Two-Income →
The Wall Street Jounal Online linked to this recent blogpost about Russia, National Intelligence and the Mythical Iranian Nuclear Program. A Putin-admirer we all know and love is the intelligent author of this post.
Slow Literature 