A Week’s Worth of Twitter Updates

Posted By on February 20, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • I have a crisp new dollar bill for anyone who can tell me how I'm supposed to get to sleep with my legs spasming every 30 seconds. #
  • Mass Effect 3 (PC) demo tomorrow… it's like waiting for Christmas. #ME3 #
  • STD WTF? #candyheartrejects #
  • #Obvious // RT @E_in_AZ: Never leave tuna unattended while tweeting in a house full of cats. #protip #
  • Now downloading the #ME3 demo. It's only 2GB. #huge #
  • Dear New Jersey: if you want to improve your reputation as a state, keep your citizens off TV. Or pick better examples. #
  • The best part of having Fast Forward on the DVR? I don't have to listen to that "Wheee"-ing Geico pig. Funny once, annoying thereafter. #
  • I've learned to make proper kalbi. The grocery store has kimchi. My rice cooker is getting a major workout. These facts are not unrelated. #
  • Every single Obama decision can be explained when looked at thru the lens of: does it make America weaker? Dumber? Poorer? Less free? #tcot #
  • CBS is running a Colonoscopy Sweepstakes? What next, PBS doing a Mammogram Lottery? Perhaps ABC could do Pap Smear Bingo, too. #
  • Another day, another series of conference calls lined up. Or I could just jump off the roof. Either way, it's gonna be painful. #
  • Mercifully, my conference call has been interrupted… by another conference call. #
  • Based solely on the number of hours I've spent on conference calls, I'd say this week has sucked like a fusion powered Electrolux. #

“My friends, there is still time to turn aside.”

Posted By on February 15, 2012 at 12:05 pm

Daniel Hannan, a UK Member of the European Parliament, spoke last week at CPAC. The clarity and profundity of his elucidation of the history, evolution, and current state of conservative principles puts most American pundits to shame.

It’s long, a bit over 27 minutes, but his speech is well worth hearing. Go on, you know you want to watch it.

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This guy would make a terrific Prime Minister… or a superb immigrant.

It is occasionally — OK, OK, frequently — worth remembering that American history is British history, up until the late 18th century. Our traditions of law and liberty descend from English law and liberty.