Humor

Sheryl’s Brilliant Idea

Boy, when Rosie thinks you’ve gone over the line, you’re pretty radical:

“One square! Has she seen my a**?”

And Don Surber has penned a song about it:

All I wanna do, is wipe my bum…

What a gift to the blogosphere.

[Evening update]

Instapundit has more. As I said, a gift.

[Update at 8:20]

Now she’s saying that it was a joke.

Yeah.

Right.

A joke.

Just like John Kerry’s.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Well, you know, I did go back and read the original blog post that set off the kerfuffle, and while I’m not familiar with her other writings or her general blogging style, I’m willing to believe that she was in fact being (or at least attempting to be) humorous (the bit that she added from her brother, about washing the single square, admittedly helped). I know that I’ve suffered in the past from people taking seriously posts meant to be satirical (though it does help to identify it in the post category). so I’m willing to cut her some slack.

But it seemed like an unusual source of satire on that subject.

So, what do my commenters think? Do we believe her?

War Commentary

Who Cares What’s Actually Happening?

The Dems have a problem–how to lose a war without being blamed for it. They pulled it off in Vietnam, but I hope that they can’t do it again.

What’s curious is that congressional Democrats don’t seem much interested in what’s actually happening in Iraq. The commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, returns to Washington this week, but last week Pelosi’s office said “scheduling conflicts” prevented him from briefing House members. Two days later, the members-only meeting was scheduled, but the episode brings to mind the fact that Pelosi and other top House Democrats skipped a Pentagon videoconference with Petraeus March 8.

War Commentary

Who Cares What’s Actually Happening?

The Dems have a problem–how to lose a war without being blamed for it. They pulled it off in Vietnam, but I hope that they can’t do it again.

What’s curious is that congressional Democrats don’t seem much interested in what’s actually happening in Iraq. The commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, returns to Washington this week, but last week Pelosi’s office said “scheduling conflicts” prevented him from briefing House members. Two days later, the members-only meeting was scheduled, but the episode brings to mind the fact that Pelosi and other top House Democrats skipped a Pentagon videoconference with Petraeus March 8.

War Commentary

Who Cares What’s Actually Happening?

The Dems have a problem–how to lose a war without being blamed for it. They pulled it off in Vietnam, but I hope that they can’t do it again.

What’s curious is that congressional Democrats don’t seem much interested in what’s actually happening in Iraq. The commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, returns to Washington this week, but last week Pelosi’s office said “scheduling conflicts” prevented him from briefing House members. Two days later, the members-only meeting was scheduled, but the episode brings to mind the fact that Pelosi and other top House Democrats skipped a Pentagon videoconference with Petraeus March 8.

Political Commentary

Reality-Free Zone

Mark Steyn, on VPI:

I think we have a problem in our culture not with “realistic weapons” but with being realistic about reality. After all, we already “fear guns,” at least in the hands of NRA members. Otherwise, why would we ban them from so many areas of life? Virginia Tech, remember, was a “gun-free zone,” formally and proudly designated as such by the college administration. Yet the killer kept his guns and ammo on the campus. It was a “gun-free zone” except for those belonging to the guy who wanted to kill everybody. Had the Second Amendment not been in effect repealed by VT, someone might have been able to do as two students did five years ago at the Appalachian Law School: When a would-be mass murderer showed up, they rushed for their vehicles, grabbed their guns and pinned him down until the cops arrived.

But you can’t do that at Virginia Tech. Instead, the administration has created a “Gun-Free School Zone.” Or, to be more accurate, they’ve created a sign that says “Gun-Free School Zone.” And, like a loopy medieval sultan, they thought that simply declaring it to be so would make it so. The “gun-free zone” turned out to be a fraud — not just because there were at least two guns on the campus last Monday, but in the more important sense that the college was promoting to its students a profoundly deluded view of the world.

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!