A novel way to treat Old Glory

Gateway Pundit has the latest from the University of Maine, where a student art display has spread out across the floor in such a way as to make it difficult for people passing through the hallway to avoid walking on our nation's flag.

This sort of behavior towards the Stars and Stripes is such a bold, daring, and innovative form of art! I can't think why nobody has ever done anything like it before.

Sheesh. That sort of stuff is why I dropped out of studying art and became a history major (for as long as that lasted.) At least I wasn't living in the past, just studying it.

Michelle Malkin: Kevin Spacey hearts Hugo Chavez

I used to really like Kevin Spacey. Most of the work he's done in front of the cameras demonstrates an incredible talent at acting.

Unfortunately, Spacey doesn't seem to have a whole lot of common decency, if he's buddying up to South America's dictator du jour.

Is there no way in the world to get through to these Hollywood folks that despotism -- no matter whether it's left or right -- is much, much worse than what we have in Washington, any given year? Why are they so bound and determined to make great pals of the worst people in modern history? What, precisely, makes so many fine artists so profoundly morally stupid? Is it something in the ocean breezes?

Iranian leader visits NYC

There is already quite a bit of noise going on, about Ahmadinejad's proposed visit to the UN, his speech at Columbia U, and his proposed tour (now canceled -- and yet, he still threatens to visit there without permission from the city) of Ground Zero.

Personally, I would encourage the city to allow him a visit to the site of the destroyed WTC. Not only should they allow him to visit, they should require that, out of respect for all the victims of terrorism, he stay a while at the site -- at least 444 days.

Edwards nuttier than bridge mix

What scares me is that so many people still take this man seriously as a political contender. John Edwards came out today and spoke in favor of mandatory health care.

That's not to say he thinks simply that it should be required that it be available to everybody, but that shirking your national duty to have an annual pelvic exam, mammogram, and whatever other poking and prodding and do-good treatment your barely-passed-his-med-school "expert" says you need to do, could get you "corrective actions" of an institutional sort.

So, suppose I were to continue to follow the advice of the first doctor to treat me for my "mood disorder." I'd have taken happy pills until I hanged myself. "Just give it a little more time," got me a blackout and an apparent attempt to drown myself in the icy waters of a tributary to the Chicago River in January (it was a long time ago, granted, but cutting out the antidepressants and working with non-chemical, alternative options has probably saved my life all these years). Needless to say, I now avoid certain types of doctors until I've done a lot of homework. Guess Edwards will have me locked up, huh?

My mother was given birth control pills in her younger years. She now has to take mega-doses of thyroid meds and blood pressure meds and anti-nausea pills (because the thyroid and bp meds "may cause dizziness," which nobody figured out before Mom got desperately sick with dizziness at the beginning of this past summer).

My sister-in-law used government doctors to deal with her upper chest pains. "GERD," they said. You should take those little purple antacids, and try to find a career less stressful than ambulance driving. Otherwise, you'll just have to live with acid reflux.

Until she passed the mother of all gallstones. Ooops!


Just what is it about these leftwits that makes them think the big, bureaucratic government half a continent away knows more about what I need for my personal, small-scale well-being than I do? What makes them so smug they think they can tell the educated, free population -- some of whom were, granted, only educated to the standards set by the leftwits themselves --
how to run their private lives?

Whatever happened to "right to privacy" and "keep your hands off my [body parts]"? Do these only come into play when we're talking about their moralities, and not for anybody else? Only gays and abortion proponents will now have any right to privacy, in Edwards' New World Order. The rest of us, if we object, will be "treated" for our mental problems before they deal with our physical weaknesses.

This kind of attitude, I think, is giving me coprolalia. I have to go before it becomes coprographia.

Will somebody please stop Pelosi?

Nancy Pelosi was made Speaker of the House last year. She does not merely represent a small constituency -- she is supposed to be a leader of the electorate. Why, then, is she consistently meeting with enemies of the people of the United States of America while she refuses to meet with our leader and the leaders of allied nations? Why does she refuse to support aid to our allies based upon rumors, but encourage continued aid to enemies of all civilization, regardless of cold, hard facts? This woman even voted against her own country, last year, on a bill stating that we had the right to continue to defend ourselves and our best interests as a nation, in the Global War on Terror.

Why has this woman not yet been charged with treason? Or, at the very least, sent up for violation of the Logan Act?