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Here are the Blogs in the z- Robert Bove category. Sunday, 4 June 2006
I was in the pharmacy looking for my usual shaving cream (a superpowerful, mentholated, environmentally and explosively dangerous aerosol-canned brand my grandfather used), when I noticed, as if for the first time, that almost all the products, whether for shaving, shampooing, or brushing were touted ...Read More...
Posted on 06/04/2006 6:11 AM by Robert Bove
Saturday, 3 June 2006
Paul Belien has a lovely little report today regarding the march of "essentialism" through the ruins of the West:
“There seems to be a god to suit every lifestyle. All gods and all lifestyles are tolerated. It is this observation about polytheistic religion that struck me as similar ...Read More...
Posted on 06/03/2006 3:39 PM by Robert Bove
Saturday, 3 June 2006
That question is raised by Kadnine in the comments on a post by Allahpundit entitled, "Roger Ebert: I want to have Al Gore's baby."Strong venting about Ebert, Gore, and, as an aside, a nice shot at John Updike's new book channeling a sympathetic jihad Muslim.Interesting question inspired by ...Read More...
Posted on 06/03/2006 8:30 AM by Robert Bove
Saturday, 3 June 2006
Steven Martinovich reports: The New Criterion's blog recently likened ESR scribe Michael Moriarty to Col. Kurtz. Today, Michael responds. Some of what they said of the actor (late of the TV show Law and Order):
Some say Moriarty has gone insane, a conservative Colonel Kurtz up the river in Canada. ...Read More...
Posted on 06/03/2006 6:21 AM by Robert Bove
Friday, 2 June 2006
Derb weighs in at the Corner re that Scotland deal: they have going there:
Scotland Explained [John Derbyshire]...by Dr. Johnson:"Disconcerted a little by this, Mr. Ogilvie then took new ground, where, I suppose, he thought himself perfectly safe; for he observed, that Scotland had a great many ...Read More...
Posted on 06/02/2006 5:18 PM by Robert Bove
Friday, 2 June 2006
Picking up on my earlier post re parochial web surfing.My wife and I have been assembling an itinerary for our second trip to Scotland, end of this month. As I said, we're too green to the place to know or care much about the politics. The folks are hospitable, the land achingly beautiful, ...Read More...
Posted on 06/02/2006 1:42 PM by Robert Bove
Friday, 2 June 2006
In an ongoing effort to at least glance at affairs political in the U.K. that don't clearly address my own parochial concerns, I get out from time to time and surf among the swells and eddies of blogs across the political and cultural spectrum. This one by David Farrer caught my eye today:
In ...Read More...
Posted on 06/02/2006 7:00 AM by Robert Bove
Friday, 2 June 2006
There are jobs and then there are jobs. Ice cream executive falls in the latter category. It must be especially gratifying if you run an ice cream company that retails its product from musical trucks sent into neighborhoods teeming with children. Like James Conway, R.I.P., ...Read More...
Posted on 06/02/2006 5:51 AM by Robert Bove
Thursday, 1 June 2006
Haditha. We know how the name resonates in the sinkholes of mainstream media, but they react to everything that way. They fume; they pick up their paychecks. MSM blew their rhetorical wad eons ago, and countering the latest versions sometimes seems a fool's errand. How does Haditha ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2006 12:35 PM by Robert Bove
Thursday, 1 June 2006
The horse of the hour is making the most important comeback of his life, according to this report:
A quick look at Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and how he's progressing from lifesaving surgery at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.:Dr. Dean Richardson said Wednesday that he is continuing ...Read More...
Posted on 06/01/2006 6:29 AM by Robert Bove
Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Via Aussiegirl, this excerpt from Christopher Hitchens' Memorial Day essay in the Wall Street Journal:
"Always think of it: never speak of it." That was the stoic French injunction during the time when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine had been lost. This resolution might serve us well ...Read More...
Posted on 05/31/2006 1:26 PM by Robert Bove
Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Posted on 05/31/2006 5:55 AM by Robert Bove
Tuesday, 30 May 2006
Eccentric, Possibly Unhinged Woman Admits She Has Not Read The Da Vinci Code
Puerto Rico Celebrates Dependence DayLaw Professor Sale Says Enron Verdict Sends Warning"Osama" Popular Google Search Word in "Certain Parts" of UK Okay, the first two are intentionally ironic, their stories ...Read More...
Posted on 05/30/2006 9:24 AM by Robert Bove
Tuesday, 30 May 2006
The New York Sun printed a letter of mine this morning. Unfortunately, you have to be a subscriber to see all of it online, but here it all is anyway:
Letters to the Editor
May 30, 2006
'Britain's Last Hope'
I applaud your constant attention to the dire threat jihad Islam poses to ...Read More...
Posted on 05/30/2006 6:31 AM by Robert Bove
Monday, 29 May 2006
Is there are real chance Prince Charles will convert to Islam? Some interesting speculation over at Gates of Vienna resulted from a report about an unstereotypical Anglican bishop:
Here at Gates of Vienna we’ve become accustomed to the moribund irrelevance and passivity of the Anglican ...Read More...
Posted on 05/29/2006 6:11 AM by Robert Bove
Sunday, 28 May 2006
Last week, if you remember, a jihad Muslim was convicted of plotting to blow up Americans and their subways here in NYC. It is possible he will spend the rest of his life in enforced peacefulness:
"Pakistani man was convicted of planning to blow up a New York subway station ahead of ...Read More...
Posted on 05/28/2006 6:16 AM by Robert Bove
Saturday, 27 May 2006
The June/July First Things has the following brief, uncredited review of Robert Spencer's The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (review not yet available online):
"This book might be described as an extended bill of indictment against Islam and a debunking of ...Read More...
Posted on 05/27/2006 9:09 AM by Robert Bove
Saturday, 27 May 2006
Lots of possibilities, especially if you include military actions that weren't officially declared wars. Still, these days, you'd be hard-pressed to top the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).Soldiers from that war to remember:Ulysses S. GrantWinfield ScottGeorge B. McClellanAmbrose BurnsideStonewall ...Read More...
Posted on 05/27/2006 6:22 AM by Robert Bove
Friday, 26 May 2006
Some New York City worryworts, including my cat Mr. Pants, got into a tizzy when these babies flew very low overhead. (Wonder if the Derbyshires will be able to see the Jones Beach Airshow from their rooftop this weekend?) In advance of the Memorial Day weekend air show at Jones Beach ...Read More...
Posted on 05/26/2006 8:00 AM by Robert Bove
Friday, 26 May 2006
Bob Cunningham at Power Line nails it:
Here's what they're missing, and it is the principal reason, in my opinion, WHY the anti-ILLEGAL forces are so upset -- and so powerful.It has to do with the bad faith, calculated deceit, Orwellian propaganda, dishonest sophistry, misdirection, arrogance, presumption, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/26/2006 5:57 AM by Robert Bove
Thursday, 25 May 2006
Posted on 05/25/2006 9:40 AM by Robert Bove
Thursday, 25 May 2006
It no longer should be news that defeatism is rampant among Western elites. One thinks of the great news the other day that steel from one of the destroyed World Trade Center towers is being used to build a warship (we are at war, aren't we?)--and one notes the immediate attempt by defeatophiles ...Read More...
Posted on 05/25/2006 8:08 AM by Robert Bove
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Remember the film Stand and Deliver, the hit schoolroom drama of 1988?If you do, you remember Jaime Escalante, the teacher portrayed by actor Edward James Olmos, and the school, East Los Angeles’ Garfield High School, where Escalante successfully prepped woefully unprepared, low-income Hispanic ...Read More...
Posted on 05/24/2006 7:59 AM by Robert Bove
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Here's the latest on the big-hearted Barbaro:
There was more good news Tuesday from the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, where Barbaro was transported Saturday night directly from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
"He's actually ...Read More...
Posted on 05/24/2006 5:38 AM by Robert Bove
Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Conservatives and others rightly complain that movies that reflect their values need to be made as a counter to the prevailing left-liberal ethos of Hollywood, a Hollywood which has embraced the most intrusive barbarism of our times, rap "music." They complain, quite eloquently, that ...Read More...
Posted on 05/23/2006 8:00 AM by Robert Bove
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