ishkabible http://www.ishkabible.com/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:37:39 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" The Financial Times has an interview with Gloria Steinem, a former Playboy bunny and founder of Ms. magazine who was a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Steinem, who now backs Barack Obama, commits an amazing blunder:
She believes women will vote for Obama even if Clinton doesn't get the much-mooted consolation prize of the vice-president's spot on the Democratic ticket--a job Steinem doesn't think is good enough for her anyway. Why? "It's not an independent position, to put it mildly. I would rather see her as the president of the Senate."

Steinem apparently is ignorant of Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution, which stipulates: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate." Hard to believe both Playboy and Ms. had such low standards.

"The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations," by James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, August 4, 2008

]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/08/the_soft_bigotr.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/08/the_soft_bigotr.html Ay Caramba! Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:37:39 -0500 "Society is the same in all large places." "Society is the same in all large places. I divide it thus:
1. People of cultivation, who live in large houses.
2. People of cultivation, who live in small houses.
3. People without cultivation, who live in large houses.
4. People without cultivation, who live in small houses.
5. Scrubs."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) (writing while a medical student at Harvard)

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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/society_is_the.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/society_is_the.html Caught Our Eye Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:37:45 -0500 Counsels of St. Francis de Sales Live + Jesus!

"I found Him, whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go."

"Gaze on God simply and straightforwardly and let Him do as He pleases."




St. Francis de Sales by Bro. Benedict Schmitz, OSFS, Ingolstadt, Germany




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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/counsels_of_st_3.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/counsels_of_st_3.html Salesian Tonics Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:17:08 -0500 Time for Some Campaignin'

Time for Some Campaignin' - from JibJab on YouTube

]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/time_for_some_c.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/time_for_some_c.html Fun Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:13 -0500 Happy Yorkie and owner


Happy Yorkie and owner, Richmond, VA


]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/happy_yorkie_an.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/happy_yorkie_an.html Dogs Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:07:09 -0500 Globalization and Its Discontents

Red State Update: Budweiser Bought By Foreigners? - YouTube

"Country Boys Can Survive: The Boys of Red State Update have Risen from Murfreesboro Obscurity to National Fame," by Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene, September 20, 2007



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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/red_state_updat.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/red_state_updat.html Humor Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:47:21 -0500 "Bachelorhood And Its Discontents" It wasn't just that the bachelor was untrustworthy, wrote [George] Ade, he was also a “draft dodger” and a “slacker,” one who had exchanged the traditional male role of provider for that of refusenik. Or, as another wag put it, “The bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.” Until quite recently the office bachelor was seen as a serious liability, and earned considerably less than his married counterpart. Vance Packard, in his 1962 book The Pyramid Climbers, noted that, “In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him…[However] the worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn’t married. Is it because he isn’t virile? Is he old-maidish? Can’t he get along with people?” By contrast, the married man was the steady one, the stable lot, not least because, in Tallyrand’s memorable phrase, "a married man with a family will do anything for money.”

"Bachelorhood And Its Discontents," by Christopher Orlet, New English Review, July 2008




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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/bachelorhood_an_1.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/bachelorhood_an_1.html Caught Our Eye Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:07:29 -0500 "Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013"

The Onion: Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013




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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/sources_warn_mi.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/07/sources_warn_mi.html Fun Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:37:42 -0500 Bumper stickers: "both popular and ineffective" It is a fact that white people will never turn down an opportunity to enlighten other people on the correct way to think. While this is very easy to do through email or face to face conversation, it is exceptionally difficult to do while driving a car. Fortunately for white people there is a solution that is both popular and ineffective: bumper stickers.

#100 Bumper Stickers, Stuff White People Like

]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/05/bumper_stickers.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/05/bumper_stickers.html Caught Our Eye Sun, 25 May 2008 08:27:50 -0500 Redneck Update, er, Red State Update A few videos from Red State Update....

Catching Up With Edwards, Biden, Huckabee:

Hillary Wins Kentucky, Obama Takes Oregon:

From Red State Update

]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/05/redneck_update.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/05/redneck_update.html Politics Thu, 22 May 2008 20:47:09 -0500 These Yorkies love riding on the Piaggio MP3

Useful Yorkie Stuff | Piaggio MP3]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/04/these_yorkies_l.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/04/these_yorkies_l.html Fun Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:07:47 -0500 Counsels of St. Francis de Sales Live + Jesus!

"Contemplation takes a completely simple, unified view of the object it loves. It is a simple gaze."

"Do all by love and nothing by force; love obedience rather than fear disobedience."




St. Francis de Sales by Bro. Benedict Schmitz, OSFS, Ingolstadt, Germany




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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/02/counsels_of_st_8.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/02/counsels_of_st_8.html Salesian Tonics Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:47:17 -0500 Dogblogging Gratuitous Yorkie pics

Ollie
Ollie


Baxter
Baxter - embarrassed by a recent trim; it will grow back


Useful Yorkie stuff

]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/dogblogging.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/dogblogging.html Dogs Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:27:05 -0500 "Humanity, thou art sick" "In my mother’s generation, shy people were seen as introverted and perhaps a bit awkward, but never mentally ill."

So writes the Chicago-based research professor, Christopher Lane, in his fascinating new book Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness. ‘Adults admired their bashfulness, associated it with bookishness, reserve, and a yen for solitude. But shyness isn’t just shyness any more. It is a disease. It has a variety of over-wrought names, including “social anxiety” and “avoidant personality disorder”, afflictions said to trouble millions’, Lane continues.

Lane has taken shyness as a test case to show how society is being overdiagnosed and overmedicated. He has charted - in intricate detail - the route by which the psychiatric profession came to give credence to the labelling of everyday emotions as ‘disorders’, a situation that has resulted in more and more people being deemed to be mentally ill.

"Humanity, thou art sick: Shyness is now ‘social phobia’, and dissent is ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’. How did everyday emotions come to be seen as illnesses?" a review by Helene Guldberg of "Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness," by Christopher Lane, in spiked, December 2007



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]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/humanity_thou_a.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/humanity_thou_a.html Caught Our Eye Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:17:38 -0500 Yorkies Two happy little campers...

Ollie

Baxter, aka Mr. B



Ollie

Ollie



Baxter and Ollie

Baxter and Ollie



Ollie and Baxter

Ollie and Baxter


]]> http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/yorkies.html http://www.ishkabible.com/archives/2008/01/yorkies.html Dogs Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:57:08 -0500