Washington Rebel

Busted!

Born to Fail; Made to Succeed

There are lots of times, when you're a Big Time Journalist (so we fantasize) where you wonder -- three nanoseconds after you hit the send button -- should I have said that?  For example, last night I said about Scott Sonnon "He theorizes too much, and yaps around the subject like a Pomeranian with a boner."  Well now . . .

Imagine my surprise when I received, today's date, an official looking email entitled "A Pomeranian with a Boner."  'Great, I thought.  Here we go!'

Here's what the email said:

I was just sent your blog post. That was some hilarity. Thanks for the chuckles, and the props for CST and the Clubbell.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

V/R,

Scott Sonnon

(Gulp!)

You bet, Coach!  And just so you know we can make fun of ourselves around here, I want you to know I am going through the Intu-Flo routines, and most assuredly resemble a Belgian Baker with an inner tube stuck to his ass!

That is a man's man, boys.   America used to be filled with that kind.  A gentlemen with muskles.  We need more.

Having said that, I believe Sonnon has done three things:

1) Rescued resistance training from stupidity;
2) Introduced a ancient form of warrior training to a 21st Century audience; and
3) Read my blog.

A True Washington Rebel!  Our highest respect to Scott Sonnon!

P.S.  I stand by criticism that what you have to offer is somewhat inaccessible to those of us who forsake gobbledygook whenever possible.  What I'd really like to see is a '1-2-3 this is what you do, you see' for us Belgian Baker types.

My two bits.

Thanks for writing, Coach!

High school friend KD adds:

[I]f anyone ever told me they'd shaken hands with [Sonnon] and not felt like something profoundly human had happened... well... I'd have to wonder about them.

 
This is how we treat our friends.

Hell's Bells

Jason and the Argoanauts (1963)

I can tell you where and when I was (Woodinville, WA, 1965) when I first saw the Skeleton Fighting scene in Jason and the Argonauts.  Had a month's worth of nightmare's from it.  Classic scene!  The Skeletons give the Warm Fuzzy Liberal Battle Cry!  Aggghh!  (And they look like beneficiaries of Obamacare.)

Another great scene: Spartacus vs. the Roman Army.  Oooh!

Wave After Wave of Mindless Robots

Holst's Mars: Bringer of War.  Spanish subtitles.

Real Life Hell: the British at the Somme.  Dee-Pressing.

Let us honor our dead, our ancestors, and those who have shown us strength and honor.

The Doors  The End

Night of the Living Blogger

Stormbringer at a Conference Call

 
Cicero on a Picture Hunt

 
Theo the Philosopher King

Liberalguy

 
Jules Crittenden

 
The Daily Politics

Warning Signs

 
Maggie's Farm

 
Iowahawk

American Lion

 
So the Man-Boy Writes Like Caesar, Does He?

Funny!

Here's what a Lion looks like, boys:

Readers of Thomas Sowell's columns in IBD don't have to be told why he is considered one of America's greatest thinkers — maybe the greatest.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet has called him "our greatest contemporary philosopher," an opinion that British historian Paul Johnson shares in his book "A History of the American People."

Besides his weekly newspaper column, Sowell has written 43 books — 10 in the last five years — two monographs, 87 articles in periodicals and books, and 33 book reviews.

His latest two books, "The Housing Boom and Bust" and "Applied Economics," came out this year. The latter, subtitled "Thinking Beyond Stage One," is one of six he has written on economics.

Dr. Sowell has granted IBD permission to run one of the chapters of "Applied Economics" — "The Economics of Medical Care" — in its entirety. We are doing so because of its relevance to the debate over health care reform. The chapter will run in nine parts over the next week and a half. The first part starts below and continues in the Issues & Insights section, where the other eight parts will appear.

Sowell was born in North Carolina in 1930 and reared in Harlem. After dropping out of high school, he was drafted into the military and served in the Marines during the Korean War.

During his 20s, when he was a self-described Marxist, he attended and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a B.A. in economics. He also has a master's in economics from Columbia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

He has taught at Howard University, Cornell, Brandeis, Amherst and UCLA, and is now the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Now, if the NEA guy said the President writes like Thomas Sowell . . . .

I'd kiss his ass and give him a week to draw a crowd.

Sowell's a man.  Can't say that about the fingerlings in the White House.

See what Dr. Sowell had to say about Eric Hoffer, the Longshoreman Philosopher.

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing 2

Thanks, Kent FHS Class of '74