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“The Gods of the Copybook Headings” illustrated
[Thanks to the links from Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle), and John C. Wright's Journal (John C. Wright -- what, you were expecting Karl Rove?). In fact, if you follow the...
View ArticleI was wrong. I was completely wrong.
Romney did not win big. He did not win at all. The GOP did not gain control of the Senate and may have lost ground. I was clearly wrong on what the American people wanted. At least 49% of them, in...
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Compared to whom?
Among the election post-mortems I’m reading this morning, I see a frequent refrain about how Mitt Romney wasn’t a strong or ideal candidate. My immediate question is: compared to whom? Here are the...
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Packing to leave the country
No, no, no — just on a cruise. Or, more specifically, on the National Review 2012 Post-Election Cruise. Sandra and I went on the NR Cruise last year and had an absolutely wonderful time. This year, I...
View ArticleWeighing in on Project Orca [updated]
[Final version -- flights are done and I'm on the ground in Florida] “All the most important mistakes are made on the first day.” - The Art of Systems Architecting (Maier & Rechtin) Project Orca...
View ArticleAt sea
I’ll add a photo later, but our ship — the ms Nieuw Amersterdam — just left the Ft Lauderdale ship channel and is now at sea, a few miles off the Florida coast and headed for the Bahamas. I’ll try to...
View ArticleNational Review 2012 Cruise — Day 1
Our port o’ call at Half Moon Cay (Bahamas) was cancelled due to strong winds and heavy swells (tenders are used to transport passengers to and from the island), so we spent the whole day at sea (with...
View ArticleNational Review 2012 Cruise – Day 2
It’s hard to believe that this is only day 2 of the cruise — we have been underway since about 5 pm on Sunday, with only a half-hour pause at the Bahamas in a vain attempt to see whether we could make...
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Whither this blog?
OK, so I was (and am still) dismayed by the outcome of the elections, and all that has happened during the two months since has done little to alleviate my concern. Given that plenty of other blogs...
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Obamacare and the Fraudulent Turk
Decades ago, while home for the holidays from college, I attended a church-sponsored all-night New Year’s Eve party for college students. The organizers, whom I knew, had cozened me into providing...
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