How Art Buchwald explained Thanksgiving to the French

The late Art Buchwald wrote the following column to explain Thanksgiving to the French while he was a correspondent in France and it became an instant Thanksgiving tradition: One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day, known in France as le Jour de Merci Donnant. Le Jour de Merci Donnant was first started by …

Gingerbread cookie ice cream

… is teh awesome. It’s a seasonal flavor that Safeway is carrying as one of its house brand ice creams. I put the chocolate fudge topping on it that turns into a hard shell and it is scrumptious. This is the first year that Safeway has carried one of my favorite flavors of ice cream …

The sanctity of marriage

So, if I understand this correctly, the current primary rationale against same-sex marriage equality is that the spouses involved cannot directly conceive children with one another, but straight people can marry ANYONE of the opposite sex, whether or not they intend to have children together, up to and including a person of the opposite sex …

Ignoring Sarah Palin's job record versus ignoring Obama's

Daniel Blatt, aka Gay Patriot West, saw Gov. Palin being interviewed this week and discussing her interview in 2008 with Katie Couric. Gov. Palin said that Couric never asked her any questions about her record in Alaskan government as a mayor, commissioner and governor. Instead, Couric badgered Gov. Palin by asking the same questions on …

Absolutely Fabulous — 'I'm chanting as we speak'

Margaret and I loved watching “Absolutely Fabulous” over and over. We saw its American debut, which included this music video of the Pet Shop Boys. I hoped it would be shown again in the reruns, but it never was, so this is the first time I’ve seen it, except from my own VHS recording, since …

Happy birthday, George Eliot

Gay Patriot West, Daniel Blatt, and I share a love for the English novelist, Mary Anne Evans Cross, who wrote under the nom de plume, George Eliot. He has a lovely post today in honor of the 190th anniversary of her birth. Eliot’s greatest novel, Middlemarch, is regarded as one of the best novels in …

When the Left mocks Obama, come to find it's not racist

The Left has begun to mock Obama, who is the most pre-eminently mockable man ALIVE. Surprise! When the Left ridicules Obama, it’s not racist. Well, I’ll be. The video below is from The Onion, which has just caught up with the idea that a man who must have his every remark scripted and scrolled across …

I think it's because of the poisonous brown film, Moe

How kind of dear Moe Lane, whose blog fu I admire and study every day, to link me today and say he ought to do it more! I rejoice at the prospect! And, in the spirit of full disclosure, covet the traffic, which I shall reciprocate to the best of my ability! (New gentle readers: …

Who chooses Michelle Obama's clothes and why do they hate her?

From the Greenroom at Hot Air, Track-a-crat profiles “A Day in the Life of Michelle Obama.” Remember that I wrote about the colorful abstract print dress included above because she chose that cheerful pattern over her signature funeral director color palette from the Malcolm X line of designer Louis Farrakhan, which she usually favors, to …