http://www.julescrittenden.com Forward Movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:56:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Booyah. http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/warmal-gloating/ Swine's aloft! Less than a week from now, the biggest travel day of the year. Moms, dads, kids and grandparents, packing into planes, SUVs, minivans and trains to fly and drive in from all over the place and pig out together, then flying and driving home ... just as the swine flu ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/turkey-flu/ Come on. That's so old war. Here's the Obama age take on the old wartime troop-rallying standby. No rush, guys, no decision before Thanksgiving. Fox. President Obama will not announce a decision on his war strategy in Afghanistan before Thanksgiving, his aides told Fox News on Thursday. The latest development on the fate ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/home-for-christmas/ OK, indulge my obsessed-lefty obsession for a minute. A quick wellness check on two of my favorite serious, thoughtful, expert moonbat commentators, Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan. First Sullivan, a professional political observer whose mental health we've been closely monitoring (and whose Daily Dish since resuming "as normal" yesterday has racked up no ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/crazy-is-as-crazy-blogs/ Reader Pat likes CrossFit, a dynamic combination of all kinds of things reportedly employed by various military and police units. Sounds like a great concept. I think this is what my cop brother-in-law was talking about, need to check. I enjoyed the torture session where he made me and our sons ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/crossfit/ It's a kind of post-feminist shout-out. "Democrat goes rogue, declares Palin's book 'great'!" Sandra Tsing-Loh at Salon:  Now hold your horses, you snarky, lefty, NPR-listening, New York Times-subscribing readers of Salon. I haven't jumped ship to declare Sarah Palin herself "great." I'm from California, after all; I am not a creationist, ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/20/lefties-for-palin/ But is it OK if we just leave the lights on, crank the AC/DC,* give him a bath or 183, and maybe walk the dogs? Not to extract information or anything illegal like that ... but no jihadi's martyrdom at the hands of the hated Crusaders is complete without it. Wouldn't want to ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/19/so-we-dont-need-to-interrogate-him/ It's a tall order. It's Andrew Sullivan, coming down off his Palin-induced state of brain implosion, or whatever that was: To Our Readers, An Update This Dish will resume as normal tomorrow morning. We apologize for the lacuna.[*] And I suppose some will say we've gotten this book and the issues ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/19/normalcy-promised/ It's one of the dirty little secrets of intense exercise. Do it, and you'll feel happy. Rat happy, as an inner rat-like calm spreads over you. NYT's Health section explains: Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/19/rat-happy/ (IMPORTANT UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan and his entire staff are gobsmacked. He reports he has some delusional fantasies he needs to sort out. I'll say. He could start with who is the unhinged party and lacks a grasp on reality in his running Palin obsessathon. Also, what constitutes craziness on his part.) How about the ripoff? ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/18/never-mind-the-sexism/