The Watcher on May 21 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all Kodachrome – Paul Simon Please Note: I made an unfair assumption in my original post and have deleted that from the post. My apologies to Ms. Bradford. I know it’s not high school, but [...]
The Watcher on May 14 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again The Times they are a-changing – Bob Dylan The times are changing at the Watcher’s Council and not in a good way. We bid farewell to American Digest after an all to short stint on the [...]
The Watcher on Apr 30 2010 | Filed under: Feature Post, The Council Has Spoken!
He freed a lot of people, But it seems the good they die young. Abraham, Martin and John – Dion This week’s winning council entry, The Roots Of Slavery & The Races Hustlers’ Holy Grail – Reparations by Wolf Howling, which takes issue with those who, like Henry Louis Gates, seek reparations from for African Americans [...]
The Watcher on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Sometimes I think it’s a sin When I feel like I’m winnin’ when I’m losin’ again Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot Because of its vastness, the British Empire was said to have been the empire on which the sun never sets. In a sense, the sun has set on the British Empire in that many of [...]
The Watcher on Apr 16 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Circumstance has forced my hand To be a cut price person in a low budget land Times are hard but we’ll all survive I just got to learn to economize Low Budget – The Kinks (h/t Top 10 songs about paying taxes) This week’s winner is the fine satire by newest council member American Digest, [...]
The Watcher on Apr 09 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan (covered by Jimi Hendrix) Lots of people talk [...]
The Watcher on Apr 02 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
And when the radical priest Come to get me released We was all on the cover of Newsweek Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard – Paul Simon Lately we’ve been treated to much teeth gnashing on the Left and in the MSM about the growing incivility of political debate. What’s odd about this victimology [...]
The Watcher on Mar 26 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Don’t know much about history Wonderful World – Sam Cooke When I announced the submissions, I emphasized the issues of the day, but this week’s winner, Bookworm Room’s Tom Hanks shows stunning ignorance when he claims Americans were engaged in racial genocide against the Japanese during WWII is less about contemporary issues (though it is a [...]
The Watcher on Mar 19 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Wolf Howling and Walter Mead Russell lead this week’s winners!
The Watcher on Mar 12 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Congratulations to JoshuaPundit for this week’s winning entry Obama Tells Israel They Have No Right To Their Religious Shrines. As Vice President Biden leaves the Middle East, Jennifer Rubin observes, regarding a comment he made to PM Netanyahu: “… it is precisely the sort of ill-conceived, bullying message that certainly must convince the Israelis not to [...]
