The World Has Gone Mad
I’ve been summoned for jury duty many times; I’ve never even gotten to voir dire.
Until now: Through some perversity of the Fates, I was actually impaneled yesterday.
A juror impaneled is like — is like a butterfly mounted. All day, every day for the rest of the week and perhaps even Monday or Tuesday [...]
Life Goes On: Adios, Erroll Southers
The week in politics just keeps getting better and better.
In a brief and happy follow-up to an earlier post on Big Lizards, Terror Strike Out, we are pleased to report that Barack H. Obama’s nominee to head up the Transportation Security Agency, Erroll Southers, has withdrawn. Or Obama withdrew him. Or he was [...]
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Voters
Late last year, Big Lizards ran a post, Will B.O. Run for Reelection? - Obamic Options 006, that even we labeled “strange.” In response to the title question, we wrote:
I predict that, if the Obamacle ponders the race of 2012 and sees a strong Republican contender and only luckwarm support for himself, he will [...]
In Theory, It Ought to Be a Theory, But…
Frequent commenter Snochasr: has responded to a previous Big Lizards post titled Gas Masquerade, which notes that even some mainstream scientific publications for lay readers have begun to think a second time about the pronunciamentos of globaloney. Snochasr japed:
This looks like my list of the “top four flaws” in the theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic [...]
Wow, That Was Quick: Scozzafava Drops Out of NY-23 Race
I think my predictions for the special election in New York’s 23rd district are pretty safe now:
Republican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her bid in next Tuesday’s NY 23 special election, a huge development that dramatically shakes up the race. She did not endorse either of her two opponents — Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman or [...]
Sarah Palin: Whipping Girl of Left AND Right
Proving yet again that literacy may be overrated, now it’s the Washington Times — not the Post, the Times! — which absurdly misinterprets what Sarah Palin said about ObamaCare “death Panels”… even after she explained, very clearly, exactly what she meant (incidentally vindicating the last two posts in this series by Big Lizards):
Isakson Aims at [...]
