Shaun Kenney

Everyone remembers the Monty Python sketch, but this example of a “brain dead” patient getting ready to be terminated hits a little bit closer to home:

Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

“I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do,” he said.

Asked if he would have wanted to get up and shake them and say he’s alive, Dunlap responded: “Probably would have been a broken window that went out.”

The sad thing is, we have practically no idea how many other times this has happened across the country — with the opposite result.

Filmmaking clearly does not require a logic class… but as anyone who has watched those mind-numbingly annoying MPAA videos knows, clearly it is not required for protecting marketing rights and copyright laws, either.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2009 Virginia Republican ticket.

…well, that last part still is yet-to-be-determined. But it’s the ticket even Too Conservative wants!

CRFV is holding a weekly poll. This week: Crazy Private Citizens. Head on over, and Vote Noam Chomsky for Craziest Liberal!

I will grant Chomsky one good idea

, but his political ideas I personally find contradictory, as I have never fully understood the “libertarian socialist” perspective — either one is libertarian to the point of charity, or one is a socialist attempting to create utopia. Beyond this, I couldn’t think of two diametrically opposed ideals, and believe it would require a greater mind than Chomsky (great as it is in certain fields) to reconcile the two.

Is Democrat Rep. Bobby Scott this out of touch with mainstream America?

This is a problem that is not going away. From former Senator Brandon Bell:

I have heard a lot of people say that Mark Warner will deliver Virginia to the Democrat Presidential nominee. As much as Warner would like to do this, I doubt he will be able to. With Gilmore’s negatives as high as they are, I feel certain that the Independent vote will flock to Warner and likely to the Democrat nominee for President. If Jim Gilmore is our nominee, he, not Mark Warner, will be able to claim the distinction of handing Virginia to Clinton or Obama and maybe even the Presidency itself. So after mismanaging our State finances and fracturing the Republican Party over the car tax, Gilmore is set to turn this red state blue. The Democrats may end up loving Gilmore after all.

I have not commented much on the Gilmore/Marshall race (though I am supporting Bob Marshall), but at some point in time the cards need to be laid out on the table. The Camp Gilmore response to the Bear Sterns piece from the AP left more questions than answers…

More to come after the Easter holiday.

At least the prolific booster of all things TC Mr. Loudoun Insider has signalled his support.

Wonder how long it will take for a Bob Marshall icon to replace (or at least join) the Gilmore icon at TC? All things aside, as the delegate totals continue to come in and the tone of the Camp Gilmore becomes more acerbic, Marshall’s prospects at the RPV Convention this may continue put conservatives within striking distance.

Get ready.

Go figure… a nice thing to remember this Easter Triduum.

I gotta love when there are certain processes I have taken for granted for years just spelled out as theory by folks smarter than I:

This means that, your level of natural talent notwithstanding, excellence is accomplished mainly through the tenets of deliberate practice, which are roughly:

1. Focus on technique as opposed to outcome.
2. Set specific goals.
3. Get good, prompt feedback, and use it.

The theory is called “deliberate practice” and focuses on form first, results second. Good processes produce good policy.

I guess the only disappointment is that the article doesn’t address whether the mummified dinosaur had feathers or not.

Sorry… that’s a bit geekish, but there has always been that speculation.