The Borking of Netflix: movie service finds privacy law to be an inconvenience

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 2:35 pm, February 6, 2012

In the 1980s, Senate Democrats went all out to derail Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.  Among other underhanded moves, Bork’s movie rental history somehow found its way into the public discourse.  There was nothing at all remarkable about the man’s cinematic taste, and the failure of Bork’s nomination owes much more to Ted [...]

In which the Washington Bureau Chief still doesn’t get foreigners

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 12:00 pm, January 25, 2012

One must suppose any state with a functioning hereditary monarchy has let obsession with the rich and famous get out of hand.  Here in the states, we got rid of royalty and replaced it with Hollywood, the U.S. Senate, and drunk Kennedys.  These individuals support a rip-roaring pulp journalism industry, which those of us with degrees pretend not to [...]

Zuccotti Park: A song of soap and sophistry

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 1:43 pm, October 18, 2011

I spent part of this morning reading a little article titled, “Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe”  Yes, I know I need to use my time more wisely. I will start by sharing some of my thoughts on the alleged intellectual majesty and mystery of the shenanigans currently gripping America.  One thing [...]

In which the Washington Bureau Chief is officially old enough to rant about the nation’s youth

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 11:54 am, October 14, 2011

A young man starts a website dedicated to surveillance style photos of a woman he barely knows. It attracts several hundred followers and the people who personally know the subject find it rather funny that she is unaware she has a stalker and that she is the subject of a blog. When someone does spill [...]

In which the Washington Bureau Chief wishes she’d thought of putting it like that

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 8:30 am, October 12, 2011

Over at How Conservatives Drove Me Away, James Sinclair wrote a great short article on the underlying commonality between the Tea Party and the more recent Occupy Wall Street movement. And he illustrated it with a Venn Diagram.  Which I kind of loved.  (Venns are basically infographics for people who understand basic statistics but not [...]

In Defense of the Political Insult

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 4:31 pm, September 16, 2011

It is one thing to allow some behavior legally and another altogether to smile upon it in polite society. Trying to legislate manners is as stupid and dangerous as trying to lower the murder rate via cotillion lessons.

In which the Washington Bureau Chief mocks the afflicted

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 12:56 am, August 30, 2011

Affirmative action for ugly people.  Yes. Of course, the op-ed calling for this hideous policy came out in today’s New York Times.  The facts are these; a man, a friggin’ economics Ph.D, thinks the ugliest people in the population – the 1-2% of the population who look like they’re half badger – ought to have a right [...]

High Speed Rail – Obamatrain, 1979

by T.L. James | 11:03 pm, February 16, 2011

Atlas Shrugged it ain’t, but if the Obamatrain boondoggle promised trains half as slick as Supertrain, I suspect it would get a lot more support.

Just Because It Is Legal to Protest the Mosque Does Not Make It “Right”

by Elliot | 9:56 am, August 29, 2010

In the furor after Ali Hasan called those who opposed the Ground-Zero Mosque bigots, the argument over the mosque has basically been two sides talking past each other.  Supporters of the Mosque call those in its opposition bigots who are ignoring property rights, while opponents of the Mosque claim that the Mosque’s supporters are confusing [...]

Friday Funny – Iron Man 2 Review

by wesley | 6:36 am, May 21, 2010

Need a good laugh this Friday morning? Larry Correia, one of my favorite fiction writers and author of sci-fi and gun culture thriller Monster Hunter International, tears apart an Iron Man 2 movie review from liberal, self-loathing, self-righteous, proud-to-be-a-victim, naive, feminist Natalie Wilson. She explains how the movie’s gender lessons belittle women and encourage irresponsible [...]

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