I have always had a sentimental attachment to Silent Night. When I was in Catholic grade school, it was the first Christmas song I ever learned. We kindergartners sang in it in that year’s Christmas Assembly. I learned all the versus by heart and my parents assured me I sounded amazing. Later, after I had [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Christms Song of the Day
Posted in Holiday, Xmas Lyric of the Day on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Christmas Song of the Day
Posted in Holiday, Xmas Lyric of the Day on November 28, 2008 | Comments Off
I am going to start this year with a song that it not only a great Christmas song, but one that follows my favorite song writing convention: really driving, up-tempo music combined with at least semi-depressing lyrics. 99 Red Balloons, of course, is the canonical example (and yes, the English version. The German version doesn’t [...]
Pavocaust!
Posted in Holiday on November 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. And if you’re making a turkey, don’t forget to save the carcass and make stock. Waste not, want not. Let’s also take a moment today to remember that for all our differences, what unites us far outweighs what divides us.
Civics Quiz
Posted in I do too have a life on November 26, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Take it here, leading and seemingly irrelevant questions and all! I managed a perfect score, although I admittedly had to make educated guesses on three or four of the questions. Via Uncly-Wuncly.
Insulation
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment, I do too have a life on November 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My house was built in the late 1950′s, and it was insulated for shit. The previous homeowners had put fiberglass batting down, but they did so over the top of blown-in insulation which had settled, meaning that they were insulating a nice toasty air pocket in the attic, rather than insulating the house. After watching [...]
The Constitution, Then and Now
Posted in Bloggin, General, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics on November 25, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, supposed Constitutional scholar Michael Stokes Paulsen, from Univ. Minnesota Law School, digs up a startling and confounding Constitutional issue regarding Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State: the “Emoluments Clause” of the Constitution (Article I, section 6) states: “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was [...]
Anyone Know How to Cook a Turkey?
Posted in General on November 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In a fit of what can only be described as insane optimism, I volunteered to cook the Thanksgiving dinner this year. Keep in mind, please, that I once burned water and that it is actually illegal for me to prepare food in three Indiana counties. So if anyone (except tgirsch. tgirsch is a full on [...]
Soda? Pop? Coke?
Posted in Culture, Flame Bait, I do too have a life on November 21, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Our favorite Uncle notes: You can tell when you’ve hit yankee country. When the gas stations stop calling it “soda” or “soft drink” and start calling it “pop”. Since I grew up in “yankee country” (by which I assume he means “the North,” rather than its true meaning, roughly 3/4 of greater NYC), but always [...]
Who Decides?
Posted in Church & State, Politics, Religion on November 21, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Publius does a nice job summing up what’s at the heart of the liberal/conservative divide on “social conservative” issues: The social conservatives’ positions tend to empower government over individuals. If they got their way, the public would be forced to submit to the government’s decision-making. The more liberal position, by contrast, allocates power to individuals [...]
The Bush Legacy
Posted in General on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Paleocon Daniel Larison minces no words in explaining why Bush doesn’t get more credit from his critics: War opponents don’t give him credit that his war is now not nearly as destructive and horrifying as it once was–he started the war! Critics of his NATO expansion policies don’t give him credit for that because it [...]
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