The Carnival of the Vanities Number Nine, Number Nine - Page 2

That's pure natural talent, that is. You should have seen the wife's face when I told her.

Yep, it's time to move on, make way for a new generation.

It's time to take up coaching.

Welcome to the Carnival, where the skills on display are at least as good as mine, even without 20 years practice. Welcome especially to our newcomers, nikita demosthenes, Helloooo chapter two!, Everything Must Go, The Claremont Institute and Cut on the Bias.

Deep Thoughts

The Road to Surfdom - The Blog Of Laughter And Forgetting - Thus the left is variously of accused of being unpatriotic, humourless, against family values, anti-children, anti-American, anti-western, anti-progress, unAmerican, unAustralian (substitute country at will) unwashed, unkempt, unemployed, unintelligent, just plain butt unly. The beauty of the technique is that the more the target objects to it, the more likely they are to look guilty, and this is especially true of the charge of being humourless.

Cut on the Bias - Matters of Life and Death - An unborn child has done nothing wrong, has made no choices (not even to exist), and is totally acted upon when aborted. A person who has received the death penalty has chosen a line of behavior that caused great harm to one or more people, and did so in a state of mind that allowed for a different choice. They could have avoided the behavior and didn't.

Furriners

nikita demosthenes - Re: New Zealand and Canada - To wit: the governments of New Zealand and Canada are clearly comprised of a bunch of ungrateful pussies.

Clubbeaux - The most obscure country in the world. - As I can attest, first from teaching international students learning English in Washington and Boston for years then working in Istanbul for four years, few people in the world really know the United States – but every single person on the planet thinks they do.

Heartstrings and Hand Grenades

a small victory - celebration - But now she had to tell me because Tim said on the phone to be ready to be a mother in two days. Two days. After years of waiting and hoping and being disappointed, she had two days to get ready for a baby.

Lhude sing cuccu!

Dustbury.com - A Song by Saddam - Well, it started out as a song by Paul Simon; if nothing else, I've proved that my scansion can be as idiosyncratic as his.
An autumn day,
It's the middle of November.
I say, "Go home,
Take your damned inspectors, nothing here to see!"
'Cause the only thing that matters here is me:
I am Iraq, I am defiant.

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