Puffin’s Place

. . . no-one ever collided with the sky.

Puffin’s Place header image 4

Entries from August 2008

It’s noon and it’s dark again.

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Remember Arthur Koestler’s 40’s novel, Darkness at Noon? A recovering communist, Koestler looks at Stalin’s purges and the show trials of Moscow in which what today would be called “persons of interest” confess to multiple political sins.
I am reminded of this time and this book when I hear theĀ  morbid confessions of McCain and Obama [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Book Reviews · Ideas

Whiners-in-chief plan party in Denver

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

So Billary have mounted new sulky steeds and are heading toward Denver to defeat the dreaded dragon Fairness, Class, and Integrity.
Perhaps there will be a rollcall about what part of the horse they represent/.

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas

If you are going to read Corsi’s misleading book, read this as well

August 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From the Obama team:
Right now, vile smear-peddler Jerome Corsi is back with a new book of lies — this time about Barack Obama.
In 2004, Corsi helped launch the Swift Boat smear campaign with a book of distortions and lies he wrote about John Kerry. We’ll need the combined efforts of every member of the Action [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas

Identity before substance?

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a paragraph from today’s online Washington post on the upcoming Democrat convention:
“Two of the dates will be rich with symbolism: Clinton, who came closer than any woman in history to winning a major party nomination for president, will speak on the 88th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote, and Obama will [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas

Purpose Driven Rick Warren and the omnivorous right: Clowns for god

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling in religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas

Especially for spammers

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Give it up, guys. Your spam is not going to get through, and you are simply using up my time and yours.
Thanks.

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas

Argh, the Olympics again

August 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Am I the only person on earth who is weary, weary, weary of the Olympic Games? Riddled with dishonesty (cf gifts and lures to make the Committee select City A over City B, drugged athletes), covered mawkishly by the press as though this gathering of jocks really DID signal earthly harmony, and focused on all [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Ideas