Month: February 2006

Here’s a nice web page devoted to Danish stuff that you can buy to defy the hate-mongers’ boycott. My personal preferences are and

The US Curling team lost a critical medal-round match to the evil Canadians today:

The U.S. skip couldn’t lead the United States to the Olympic gold medal game, losing to Canada 11-5 in the men’s curling semifinals Wednesday night.

Canada clinched at least a silver medal and forced the Americans to play Britain in the consolation game for third place. That would be the first Olympic curling medal – men’s or women’s – for the United States.

This is a total bummer because the critical end was won by the Canucks after Rojeski violated the Hog Line. That’s the kind of thing you’d expect from Bode Miller if he was a curler, but for Shawn it was a big surprise.

I have to go get drunk now.

Cathy Young and Jeff Goldstein have been discussing a peculiar case of false rape allegations for a few days, and now we have the official response from the feminist establishment. It’s not pretty.

It seems to me that the trouble with rape laws in America today is that the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of easy convictions. This was accomplished by expanding the definition of rape toward the “informed consent” standard and limiting evidence that can be introduced in court with rape shield laws. So we have a fundamentally different dynamic in rape cases than in all other criminal prosecutions.

How to remedy that situation – to put the pendulum on dead center – is a hard problem, but it’s not something that we’re going to make much progress on until those who advocated our out-of-balance condition stop pouting and throwing tantrums.

It is certainly the case that women in Islamic Republics don’t have the rights they should, but the nexus between their condition of that of the middle-class American white women who make false allegations of rape after a bad date is non-existent.

In order to fully appreciate Olympic half-pipe, you got to know the lingo, so go check out the glossary for such terms as these:

McTwist
An inverted aerial where the you perform a 540 degree rotation and a flip. When done in the halfpipe, you approach the halfpipe wall riding forward, becomes airborne, do a backside 540 degree rotation while performing a front flip, and land riding forward. When done off a straight jump it’s called a Misty flip.

and this:

Fakie
Riding backwards. Also called riding switch.

There’s no choking in snowboarding.

What a horrible game. The officiating was criminal, Holmgren coached like a rookie, the gimmick plays worked and the Steelers caught all the breaks. If I cared about the outcome of this game I’d be throwing up.

The Rose Bowl was way better than this travesty.