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Somebody ALWAYS Beats Me to It.

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Publicola dissects an op-ed in the Denver Post by the ironically named Tom Mauser (permalinks bloggered, the post is June 11, 10:02PM). Mr. Mauser lost his son at Columbine, so his bias is at least understandable, but he’s disconnected from reality here. I suppose losing a son explains that, but I don’t forgive him for it.

Anyway, Publicola does a good job dismantling his arguments against the lawsuit protection legislation. Excerpt:

“Imagine a world in which one of its most dangerous products is exempt from consumer-protection laws. Imagine a world in which the makers and sellers of that product are immune from civil lawsuits related to that product.
The first scenario is already the case; the second is close to happening, right here in America.”

Translation: We’re not going to be dealing with much factual information, so let’s try to get used to the make believe world I’m about to describe to you.

Go read.

Oh, and read the post right below that one too. Excellent!

Crossbreeding a Llama with a Vacuum Cleaner

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James Lileks weighs in today on the “roadmap to genocide,” er, “peace.”

They don’t have helicopters, we’re told, so they use suicide bombers. If they had helicopters, they would have strafed the bus and everyone waiting at the corner. Give them a nation where Hamas runs unchecked, and they’ll have helicopters. They won’t be Apaches. The bill of sale will be calculated in Euros and the manual written in French.

Yup.

He also discusses the local weather, tax rebates, the cycle of life, and crappy hotels in New York. You know, the standard Bleat excellence.

Mystery Solved

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Now I know what it’s like to be linked to by the Blogfather.

YOWZA! Talk about traffic!

Thank you, Professor Reynolds!

UPDATED 6/17/03 because of image server problems

Want to see the power of Instapundit?

I started this blog May 14. On June 2 I won the inaugural New Blog Showcase competition. The evening of June 8 Glenn Reynolds linked to the Chuck Asay cartoon. Here’s the hit trend for the last month:

Nothing further need be said.

Much Crunchy Goodness

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Today’s Bleat is a helluva way to end the week:

The reason Abby Hoffman killed himself,

Andrew Sullivan channels the Force,

A review of an unreleased (and really bad) film,

A liberal reporter “outs” himself on Fark,

And gets bitch-slapped,

and, the one that made me laugh the loudest:

Real-life pr0n videos are doomed; it’s all going to be CGI in a few years as the technology trickles down. And it will be just as mindless as ever. Dixar Pictures presents Finding Reamo.

Unfortunately, he’s probably right.

Damn, that’s funny. I love the Internet.

Sorry about the light posting

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Yesterday we celebrated my daughter’s 24th birthday by having a picnic in the park in the afternoon, but I spent the majority of the morning working on “The Blog that Ate Poughkeepsie”.

I got home about 9:00 PM and was up until 12:30AM last night finshing it. Then I had to get up at 5:30 this morning so I could run my IHMSA pistol match. (Every 4th Sunday of the month at Tucson Rifle Club.) I got back home about 2:00 PM and took a nap. Right now, my wife, daughter, and grandkids are over at my in-laws. The silence is nice. I’ve been catching up on my reading.

Steven Den Beste has a post up concerning England joining the EU that I find worrying. Hell, I find the EU worrying, because as far as I’m concerned there are no checks and balances to restrain the power of the EU government with relation to the member countries, nor the individual citizens of those countries. A “United States of Europe” it’s not.

Rachel’s grandfather died. Drop her an e-mail with your condolences, if you would.

Michelle’s prepubescent husband had another birthday. What is he now? 16? :^)

Emperor Misha is on a roll with his continuing phillipics concerning the Islamofascists™

The Volokh Conspiracy has moved. Change your bookmarks.

Instapundit has links to two articles concerning Germany – one on the political ramifications of its opposition to the war in Iraq, and one on Germany’s collapsing economy. And, Glenn, I’m no econoblogger either – but it worries me too.

Kim du Toit has contributed again to the American economy by finding a reasonably priced M1 Carbine. And lots of ammo for it. (Why couldn’t I have married Connie? Ah, well, I don’t think it’s possible to have done better in the wife department than I did. I’ll just have to envy Kim’s gun collection.)

Clayton Cramer hasn’t posted since Friday, but what he lacks in quantity he makes up in quality.

Ravenwood has some good stuff up. Scroll down to “Government Schools at Work.” Then weep for our lost children.

Acidman is on hiatus. He’s gone to illegally fish for trout. (At least he’s not using dynamite.)

Comments are still open over at Bill Whittle’s Eject! Eject! Eject! for his most recent post Magic. He has over 300 now on just that one post. I will not envy, I will not envy, I will not envy…..

Frank at IMAO is offering the really cool “Nuke the Moon” T-shirt.

And finally, Courtney has a truly evil plan to stuff Acidman’s e-mail while he is gone fishin’ with – and I quote – “every annoying e-card, pics of cuddly kittens, and e-hugs we can find. Want to join in?”

BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Um, no. No I do not. Really. No, I’m not kidding…..

I’m off work tomorrow, but I’ll have honeydo’s to get done. Hopefully I’ll get some blogging in. And I can’t WAIT to see what Jack will have to say in response to my last two posts to The Commentary. Hopefully I didn’t blow one of his frontal lobes.

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NO MORE GUNS IN CHURCH!

It isn’t nice to burgle churches.

Especially not when the deacon’s packin’.

After all, this was Texas.

What do you want to bet there won’t be any more church burglaries for quite a while?