tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32531925773440011702024-03-07T20:49:25.386-06:00Not an expertSam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-68300113741716155842009-05-09T22:16:00.001-05:002009-05-09T23:07:19.546-05:00Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished: "Les Photographique""Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished" is a continuing series in a new genre that promises to kill dead the Western literary tradition."It was easier during the famine," Felix mused.Copyright © 2009 by S. Ridgway Thornton Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-21056829935755940412009-03-27T11:25:00.013-05:002009-04-25T12:51:30.833-05:00Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished: "Dead Man In The Cockpit""Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished" is a continuing series in a new genre that promises to kill dead the Western literary tradition.One of the advantages of being a writer is that you can go to work drunk," reflected Austen Pillory as he stumbled into his den/office, tripped over Fiddlesticks, his ancient cocker spaniel, and banged his head against the edge of his Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-52023987563732733442009-01-23T23:41:00.011-06:002009-01-24T01:43:42.079-06:00Miracle In Washington: Republicans Magically Turn Economy Completely Around. Wow!Image of of NRCC page on 1/24/2009Confounding the experts, somehow the National Republican Congressional Committee has turned the economy around on a dime, from moribund to spectacularly successful. Here's how they explain it:Economy Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong. Republican tax cuts are creating jobs and continuing to strengthen Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-29830185718970845762009-01-23T04:41:00.003-06:002009-01-24T04:56:04.944-06:00Bill O'Reilly School for Reasonable Journalism™: First Graduate Is A Winner!!!Warning!!!If you are a little bitty kid, listening to the below video may possibly make your ears and nose drop clean off, thereby disfiguring you for life. You should immediately go back to that porn site you were exploring.Responsible adults may now view the below video of the first graduate of the Bill O'Reilly School for Reasonable Journalism™. Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-30434672211297924862008-12-28T12:20:00.008-06:002008-12-28T13:34:58.007-06:00Why Ron Paul Keeps Getting Elected To CongressYeah, I know. It's usually a show-stopper for me, too whenever I see the words, "Ron Paul" in print.Mr. Paul owns the distinction of falling for every half-wit and/or loony theory that has ever come down the pike in the history of the world, then waxing prolix about it in that boring-annoying way of his.Most people credit his political longevity in Congress to the fact the voters in his district Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-43846147666113962052008-12-23T06:00:00.005-06:002008-12-23T06:15:47.792-06:00History Rhymes AgainRemember back in the Good Old Days when for years and years we were slaughtering all those pesky farmers in Southeast Asia because each succeeding President "didn't want to be the first American President to lose a war?"Guess what.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-29643557068603159702008-12-22T08:22:00.007-06:002008-12-22T19:12:56.029-06:00I Saw An Ad On The Internet With Obama's IQ And Had My First Twinge Of DoubtThe ad said, "Obama's IQ is 128, Is your's higher?, Take this test and see."I'd already taken the test, so I knew mine was higher. How weird is that? He got the Oval Office and all I got was this lousy blog.But the frisson I felt wasn't about being theoretically smarter than the President of the United States, it was that number, "128."You see, that was my late father's IQ. My father was a Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-23760274987422191052008-12-20T18:29:00.003-06:002008-12-20T22:16:15.904-06:00Words You Don't Want To Hear In The Middle Of A Firefight With Space Aliens"We need a bigger gun."Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-80363727184189416962008-12-19T08:34:00.004-06:002008-12-19T09:55:22.769-06:00Pentagon Calls Higher Number Of Rapes At Air Force Academy "Encouraging"From the same folks who let Osama escape. Maybe we now know why they were so distracted. Full story here.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-87040819774884266022008-11-26T14:11:00.004-06:002008-11-26T14:15:38.038-06:00Great News For George W. Bush: The LegacyEven though some overly excited opponents of the President have called him a Hitler, Mr. Bush can take comfort in the fact that no one has suggested that Hitler is another Bush.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-16189239561891918382008-10-06T03:06:00.003-05:002008-10-16T13:51:11.665-05:00If Men Had BoobsIf men had boobs, at least they'd have something to talk about besides football.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-35892158293643935712008-09-24T07:57:00.001-05:002008-09-24T07:59:23.081-05:00Shocking Change In Blogging Philosophy at Not An ExpertHenceforth, this blogger will refer to himself entirely in the third person.That is all.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-72444386877885982552008-09-03T09:57:00.002-05:002008-09-03T10:05:25.346-05:00Idiots? What Idiots?Courtesy of www.dangerdom.com.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-70423504546898324952008-08-22T11:05:00.003-05:002008-08-22T11:11:55.230-05:00And Now, For Something Completely DifferentHave I ever mentioned my childhood friend who, when he grew up, decided to have a sex-change operation so he could date lesbians?Remind me later and I'll tell you about it.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-19268018766078485272008-08-05T20:51:00.006-05:002008-08-05T21:47:41.333-05:00Huffington Post Censors Protect The Republican Slime MachineAlex Castellanos, one of the premier GOP hit men in the McCain Campaign (bio here), recently regurgitated one of his signature, fact-challenged Jeremiads at the Huffington Post, targeting Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.Castellanos first fumes that on his European trip, "Obama was not only treated with respect, he was received enthusiastically, a public affront to an administrationSam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-84493636898760144762008-08-03T17:34:00.008-05:002008-08-05T21:48:27.408-05:00Huffington Post Censors Are Big Fat IdiotsIn his August 3, 2008 article on the Huffington Post excoriating New York Times Op-Ed columnist Michael Gerson for inventing facts for a column, blogger David Sirota said:"Michael Gerson's column suggesting Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter for vice-president is the latest example of someone paid to report the facts actually refusing to do 5 minutes of work to, ya know, report the facts."Yours truly Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-49242695802311735292008-08-03T15:48:00.004-05:002008-08-05T21:49:05.673-05:00How To Deal With Huffington Post RejectionitisWe've all had the experience. You craft a snarky, non-profane, non-ad hominem comment on a blog and the darned blog censors blitz it out, forever putting paid to your attempts to be a half-wit.Well, to heck with all that. From now on, each Huffington Post comment reject goes here. Entries may contain additional material (such as how dumb the HP censors are and why), thus offering further Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-43578635293767531302008-05-13T10:33:00.004-05:002008-05-13T10:38:46.419-05:00Bill O'Reilly's Seminar On Stage DirectionsThanks to the CollegeHumor website.Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-58119893287530408022008-05-07T12:33:00.003-05:002008-05-07T13:08:49.363-05:00JFK Assassination: You Can't Handle The Truth, Part IIIn a previous post, the possibility was raised that John F. Kennedy's assassination might have been prompted by concerns within the government about possible mental instability brought on by Kennedy's prescription drug abuse.Feeding into that possibility is the claim by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton that he found evidence Kennedy experimented with LSD during his affair with Mary Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-33940824278464281772008-04-24T14:22:00.016-05:002008-04-24T16:27:49.517-05:00Clean, Cheap, Unlimited Energy: Why You Can't Have ItImagine an energy source that is unlimited, clean, safe, and available now. An energy source that is so scalable, it can be used to power anything from an 18-wheel truck to a city the size of New York. An energy source for which all the science and most of the engineering has already been done. An energy source so clean that it has a zero carbon and nuclear footprint. An energy source so safe, Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-89915517448468511012008-04-06T17:46:00.003-05:002008-04-06T18:49:13.688-05:00The Truth About The Surge: Iraq Is A Failed StateFreelance reporter Nir Rosen was invited to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Mr. Rosen is a highly respected journalist who has reported extensively on Iraq as both an embedded reporter and independently. His written statement, submitted to the Committee before he testified, is available here.Some of his more telling comments:Today Iraq does notSam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-56418883433001204972008-03-22T14:53:00.005-05:002008-03-22T15:04:47.521-05:00Results Of The November 2008 National ElectionsThis is a duplicate of a comment on the Huffington PostThe decline of Sen. Obama's quest for the Presidency and the likelihood of a Clinton nomination is a die that was cast the moment the Clinton campaign made the decision on the kitchen sink strategy before the Ohio/Texas primaries.My sense is that Sen. Clinton will go into the Democratic convention with the tide on her side and will Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-5412776652733126702008-03-16T09:34:00.000-05:002008-03-16T09:45:19.378-05:00This Space Reserved For A Statement By Senator John McCain Which Is Neither Delusional Nor An Outright LieForeign political donations: was the Senator against them before he was for them, or vice versa? Related question: which member of the Senator's entourage will be going to jail for violating U.S. election law by accepting foreign donations?Senator McCain as well as members of his staff adamantly denied there was anything remotely political about his trip to Europe and the Middle East this week. Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-53237009634102527952008-03-15T10:37:00.003-05:002008-03-15T10:57:52.446-05:00Presidential Interviews: Barack Obama Answers Several Charges Leveled Against Him And His SupportersANNOUNCER: Now our own Wendy Terwilliger grills Presidential candidate Barack Obama on new charges that have surfaced from the Clinton and McCain campaigns. Wendy?WENDY: Thank you, Charles. Senator Obama, it has been charged that as many as several million of your supporters have had sex with a partner other than their spouse. Do you support such behavior by still accepting their support?OBAMA: Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-31384095795533310162008-03-14T10:34:00.003-05:002008-03-14T10:39:00.902-05:00Great Moments Of The Rich And Famous: Presidents CollectionPresident Taft's Claim to FameSam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0