The Inner Ring

Available at BigCSLewisFan. This made the rounds thanks to reddit, and since I hadn't seen it before, I wanted to put it up. You can see the parallels to events in Surprised By Joy. Its funny how much "Middle-Aged Moralists" can teach you -- things you already sorta knew, but never fully got your finger on top of.

The Truth About Women

In the spirit of all the fun that gets poked around vis-a-vis male/female relations, I thought I'd cite Myths and Truths, which's a little on the jaded side, but very entertaining in that "been there, done that" kinda way. Even with the broad generalizations (pun intended), my dating life would have been so much happier if I'd have seen this when I was young....

UPDATE: Two women have told me they read this and thought "Yeah, women are just like that! Hey, I'm not like that....!" I'm not saying his statement applies to all women any more than all men like football. But I did marry one of his stereotypes my 1st time around....

Pentagon & Boeing 757 Engine Investigation

If you've had a hard time dismissing the "tin foil hattery" that's been going on about with theories that postulate the Pentagon brass sending a missle onto themselves instead of Flight 77 crashing into it due to the sheer lack of facts to analyze, here's a handy analysis. I know that it's tempting to want to dismiss a conspiracty-theory out of hand (like any significantly-sized group of soldiers would whack their own buds), but even stopped clocks are right sometimes, so I think it's important to address theories directly. Anyway, here's the link.

Amen, Brother!

From my brother, Boxing Alcibiades:

Juan's going to the Sandbox, and when he gets back, for Physician's Assistant training. Not bad for a kid who used to be a migrant worker -- when he's done being "exploited by the Pentagon" (for those of us not steeped in '68er cant, that translates as "expensively and exhaustively trained") he's going to easily double my slightly-above-average middle-class salary).

My buddy, The Lizard Queen, has a doctorate now, and is, in theory, an official member of the intellectual elite. Her Mom grew up in a bamboo hut.

And people wonder why I have no patience for cringing, whinging, suck-ass leftist whiners who bitterly harp about how there's no social mobility left in this country.

The 'Day Without Immigrants' Backfires

By "Cinnamon Stillwell" (I can't imagine that's her real name), a freelancer from San Francisco. Could it be that at least someone in my town has a freakin' clue?

Judge for yourself at The 'Day Without Immigrants' Backfires.