Neanderpundit

Since my daughter was born, I stopped playing the do-over game. You know, the game where you think, “if I could do this all over, I’d ___________.

I wouldn’t do anything that would undo my child. She’s perfect and I wouldn’t have her any other way.

On the other hand, there are some missed opportunities in my life, and among them, in retrospect, I think I’d like to have done a stint in the Marines. I did briefly consider service, and my dad counseled me to go on to school. “If we were at war, son, it would be different. We are at peace.” Dad considered serving to be a great path, if there were a specific reason for the service, but felt I’d be losing four years of education if I stepped away.

Maybe he was right. I do know this: if I was fit enough to lie about my age and ride the bus to Paris Island right now, I would do so, in a heartbeat.

What I can do, is salute the Men and Women of that esteemed Corps on this day.
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Well, it’s not like I haven’t been doing it for years.

And frankly, a good dry fart, as I have mentioned in the posts linked above, is one of the Good Things in life. As some other people have recently realized. Leslie has the rundown, I’m not gonna redo all those damned links.

I may be slow, but I eventually spot trends.

It seems no matter how much I try not to be involved in conversations with liberals, (not wanting to engage in battles of wits with the unarmed) I invariably get drawn in because some moron makes a snide comment in what otherwise is a great discussion. I feel compelled to comment, and their response reminds me of the liberal Peewee Herman Argument.

No, stick with me a moment. You make a statement that is true, verifiable, and concise, and rather than state the obvious “That may be true, but let’s discuss x…” the garden variety liberal counters with (the equivalent of) “you are but what am I?” I was reading a discussion in Chez Alli, one of my favorite spots. She was speaking to the decisiveness of the left in regard to their name calling etc, tactics in regard to Bush, and I have to agree with her.. and someone calling himself “jb” (of course, no email or link, what do you expect) comes back with “so there”.

“So there?” I am amazed that four year olds read her blog. Certainly, my daughter got past the “so there” stage when SHE was four, I cannot imagine anyone still spouting that as “reasoning” as an adult.

Idiots. (Lest anyone accuse me of namecalling, “idiot” is a reasonable description of anyone who uses “so there” as a point in an argument. An idiot is above an imbecile and a moron in intelligence, but still of a lower level. Calling George Bush “shrub” etc as Alli points out, is purely partisan.)