Author: VD

Even the post-communist Chinese grasp what so many Western women can’t:

“Rich men are normally very busy, and most of the women they meet are there for work or business, which these men consider to be unsuitable for relationships.”

If you want to stay home and take care of the kids, do you want to marry someone who wants to stay home and take care of the kids? Most people can understand that, so why would they ever think that a successful and ambitious man wants to marry a successful and ambitious woman?

Everyone can’t play quarterback if you want a functional team.

Devious plan to bring down airliner by explosive orgasm thwarted:

A couple’s ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years.

Remember when “conservative” commentators openly made fun of the idea that the Patriot Act would ever be used for anything but catching evil terrorists trying to destroy America?

That was awesome.

In fairness, I don’t think anyone has managed to answer Jonah Goldberg’s challenge to name a single library that has been assaulted via the Patriot Act, so obviously his dismissal of Patriot Act concerns remains intact, if even more obviously irrelevant than before.

Apparently defense wins in this league, as the two highest scoring teams are currently 4th and 5th:

86 Mounds View Meerkats
68 East Mesa WhiteTrash

75 COS McRays
55 Santa Barbarians

75 Burns Montgomerys
36 Pale Horse Cowboys

64 Greenfield Grizzlies
51 Mile High Club

46 Newport Sea Dogs
37 West Texas Vikings

It seems at least one editor at National Review can’t wait to see a female president:

…what if a little down the line, John McCain asked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate?

You see, this is why I said it would take a defeat in 2008 to fully open Three Monkeys eyes. How anyone could imagine that moving the Republican Party further to the Left will do anything but ensure Bush-Clinton IV is beyond me.

Then why don’t the Anti-Defamation League and the ACLU?

Muslim leaders joined their Christian counterparts yesterday to launch a powerful attack on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas. They warned that attempts to remove religion from the festival were fuelling Right-wing extremism.

A number of town halls have tried to excise references to Christianity from Christmas, in one case by renaming their municipal celebrations “Winterval”. They have often justified their actions by saying Britain is now a multi-faith society and they are anxious to avoid offending minority groups.

But the Muslim leaders said they honoured Christmas and that local authorities were playing into the hands of extremists who were able to blame Muslim communities for undermining Britain’s Christian culture.

It kind of takes the wind out of your sails when the people you are “defending” inform you that your efforts are counterproductive and undesirable, doesn’t it. Unfortunately, it’s not as if that will stop them.

I think the ideal solution would be for every person who favors banning all mention of Christmas to be informed that they will not be getting any time off in December until New Years Eve. It’s not as if a particular collection of genes should logically care which random collections of genes happen to be in their vicinity at any particular point in the space-time continuum anyhow.

Now, I wish my Jewish friends both a Happy Hannukah and a Merry Christmas. They do the same with me. This is not rocket science! In the West, we celebrate Christmas. Accept it and deal with it, or go somewhere else.

Why I prefer English newspapers:

This is the problem. I am designed to kill foxes, bend every woman I meet over the nearest piece of furniture and give her a damn good seeing-to. But in an evolutionary nanosecond, it’s all changed. After several million years of programming we’ve been told that what women really want is a husband who leaves his colleagues in the lurch at 7pm and comes home to make a delicious quiche.

That’s like telling your faithful family toaster after a lifetime spent making toast that you want it to become a washing machine. And it’s not just a bunch of baggy-breasted feminists making the point either. It’s every single girl from the age of puberty to the menopause.

Last weekend my colleague James May hurt his wrist while performing a stunt at the MPH show in London. Being male, mostly, he shrugged it off and kept going, which caused all the backstage women to treat him like a leper. If he’d wanted to impress them he should have abandoned the show, gone home, sold his heartwarming story to OK! magazine, and spent the next six weeks watching Love Actually with his cat.

I’m trying to imagine this being published in the Washington Times, let alone the New York Times. And you know, I just can’t. Even the writers with whom I disagree vociferously at least don’t write that stultifyingly milksop politically-correct prose that so many products of American J-schools produce by the quart.

But underneath the slashing sarcasm is much the same point that the Pan-Gargler often makes, which is that it is ridiculous and counterproductive for men to look to women to tell them what it is that makes a man.

83 COS McRays
65 Mounds View Meerkats

77 Mile High Club
66 East Mesa WhiteTrash

64 Pale Horse Cowboys
55 Santa Barbarians

62 Burns Montgomerys
62 Newport Sea Dogs

58 Greenfield Grizzlies
39 West Texas Vikings

France has sent a stiff complaint to Brussels about the European Union’s choice of logo to commemorate its 50th birthday next year. The offending image, a child-like rendition of the English word together, does nothing to serve the cause of European unity, the French Government claims.

Their objections come after a shower of rude comment throughout Europe about the logo, which was chosen at a cost of €200,000 (£134,000) last month by a jury of experts from EU institutions and member states. The winning entry from among 1,700 submissions was the work of a Polish art student. A common gibe on the internet is that the jumbled letters evoke a ransom note more than festive celebration of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The full slogan says: “Together since 1957”.

The interesting thing is that for most of those 50 years, the citizens of the EU did not realize they were subject to Brussels. I wonder when we’ll be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American Union? My guess is 2042.

We are all Mexamericanadians now.

I may be somewhat of an anti-abortion extremist, but I have to say that I have seen better cases against the ongoing atrocity than this unusual one:

Imagine what our cultural conversation would have been without… Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, the 17th century Mexican dramatist, who also was a hunchback and wrote some 20 dramas including “La Verdad Sospechosa.”

Actually, that’s really not all that hard for, oh, I don’t know, PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE! Seriously, while there’s certainly a time to show off your knowledge of obscure literary figures, any such urge is probably better resisted while making an argument designed to play on the emotions of the masses.

And the long list of “accomplished people with birth defects” doesn’t strike me as all that impressive considering that it starts with a retired ice skater and a Congressman dead for more than a century.

Next time, stick with Byron, baby. You can’t go wrong with Byron… okay, you can, and in fact probably will, but you’ll have a good time anyhow.