Puffin’s Place

Do you know that you can set up a snopes.com feed?
If you do not and you have an email account, let me caution you against two items currently going around.
One email sets forth the theory that the Obamas funded their college educations with “funny money.” The subsequent letter is full of fraud, hysteria, and provincialism [...]

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With considerable pleasure, I am discovering a rebirth of interest in thinker and writer Lionel Trilling, the Columbia prof who actually thought we had an obligation to be intelligent.
If you do not remember this man, listen to the video below.

A recent issue of Newsweek included a terrific look back at the 50’s liberalism of which [...]

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If you care at all about wildlife or want a VP with an ounce of respect for life, you had better check out Joe Biden.

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After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort
UPDATED: 11:31 a.m.
Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long retreat for its executives at the luxury St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif., running up a tab of $440,000, Rep. Henry [...]

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If the prognosticators are even close to being right, pretty soon polar bears and many, many other kinds of wildlife will leave the world entirely to those responsible for the vanishing ice, the polluted rivers, the poachers and hunters, and the varied threats that come with the incursion of people into environments that were once [...]

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A rather hilarious cartoon that I came upon the other day featured Sarah Palin selling a perfume called Moose Piss. I sent it around to a few friends, including several who live in Alaska. These latter were far less amused than I and reminded me of an excellent point: the absurd Sarah Palin in no [...]

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Just when I think I will not again mention Sarah Palin, she appears spouting more insidious nonsense. This time, she rakes up Obama’s private Weatherman, with whom he sat on a board in Chicago some years ago.
Linking Bill Ayers to Obama is, of course, the McCain camp’s desperate attempt to equate 60’s homegrown radicals who [...]

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The woman is a ninny.

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Did you catch the walking interview segment Katie Couric did with Palin when KC inquired about the magazines Palin read? Waving her exquisite fingers, Sarah Palin said, “Oh, I read them all.” Asked for specifics, she burbled something like Oh I just read all that come in front of me.
I was delighted to come upon [...]

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for an excellent and informative post on the views of Palin/McCain shared by some animal rights groups. Check out Julian Long’s post here.
What can we do? Refuse to support those who believe animals are fodder for our amusement and tormet and experimentation, sign the World Society for the Protection of Animals petition, and become financially [...]

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