Man, how they hate her.

Ya gotta love it: Sarah Palin accuses the media of committing a blood libel in trying to tie her to the shootings in Tuscon and, instead of responding to her criticisms, they accuse her of being an anti-semite for using the term “blood libel.”

It’s been a busy month.

I just finished David Horowitz’s autobiography.

Waah.

You’d think that after 8 years of Bush-bashing, President Obama would recognize the need to take as good as he gives. But no; instead, he just comes off sounding petty and immature.

Esoteric Things My Father Taught Me

OK, just one esoteric thing my father taught me:

When you’re looking for something you dropped on the floor, get down and look across the floor rather than just standing there looking down at the floor.

Books

When I was a young man, my favorite authors were Stephen King, Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury; while I’ve always liked history, I read mostly science fiction in those days.

Now, as a middle-aged man, I read mostly non-fiction, especially history; my favorite author currently is David Horowitz—I’ve just started reading his autobiography, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.

Lemonade

A long time ago on a continent far, far away I had learned that the German word for a lemon-lime soft drink was “limonade”.

Many years later, when I had the occasion to go to England, I asked the waitress for “something like a 7-Up”; she said she could give me a lemonade and put some lime cordial in it. It turned out to be a green-colored lemon-lime soft drink; the next day I just asked for a lemonade. I don’t know why it took me so long to make the connection; I don’t know why the waitress didn’t just bring me a lemonade in the first place.

No Mosque at Ground Zero

Anyone wondering why there should be no mosque at Ground Zero has only to learn two things:

1. That Muslims build mosques at conquest sites.
2. That the date of 9/11 was not picked by accident.