"Wilding"
Dave linked to this outburst below. It's worth noting that when American Thinker Robin from Berkeley describes what she calls the "wilding of Sarah Palin," she fails to mention that the original "wilding" -- the infamous rape of the Central Park jogger in 1989, resulted in the wrongful convictions of six teenage boys, who collectively ended up spending several decades in prison for a crime they didn't commit.

Self-Parody is Too Mild a Term
Shorter Verbatim Bernad Henri-Levy: "I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don't know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to."I suppose it should go without saying that this alleged Major Intellectual cannot be bothered to advance an argument defending the proposition that apprehending someone who raped a 13-year-old and then fled the jurisdiction after pleading down constitutes an "immense, unbelievable

William A. Jacobson likes making my points for me.
Which is unfortunate, because I'm about to call him illiterate. He claims that I argued that Sarah Palin and her supporters are "racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in the available photos." I did nothing of the sort. My claim, as you can tell by the words I used to write it, was that the "images she and her people have decided should represent her mass-appeal on a mock-presidential bid launch" demonstrates that "her own handlers consider her appeal limited to white people." I

Thanksgiving: Arguments Against "Authenticity" Put Into Practice...
Although I regretted missing out regular Thanksgiving meal with the superb hosting of regular readers MJD and JRD, we for the first time hosted Thanksgiving for my girlfriend's family. My feelings on turkey having

Friday Daddy Blogging
Elisha and Miriam