Cathy Young, commenting on a New York Times piece concerning the rise of “fat studies” (like “women’s studies”, “gay studies”, etc.) on campus, notes the idiocy of such a pursuit in devastating fashion: Maybe the next frontier in the academic…
I’ve been trying to process the election for the last two days and have come to the following simple conclusion: man, that sucked. I’ve tried to be sanguine and have succeeded at points, but the more the Dems open their…
Glenn Reynolds and Radley Balko took issue this week with the Senate’s recent passage of a measure designed to curtail Internet gambling by American citizens. Reynolds and Balko object to the bill (well, technically, a rider on another bill) from…
I know that I’ve done my fair share of bashing the Philadelphia Inquirer over the years (most of it well-deserved) but I believe that they deserve a hearty attaboy for being one of the first major market media organizations to…
(Yes, that was a Strong Bad reference). I was about to have a coronary on my commute in this morning, as I had made the classic mistake of tuning in to NPR in lieu of the cruder-yet-somehow-more-morally-uplifting fare peddled by…
Air America, long on the financial ropes, is apparently about to declare bankruptcy. I can’t say that I’m particularly surprised or saddened to see it go, although it probably means that Al Franken will be back at his former position:…
…Because otherwise I’d have to stop, seeing as they’re sponsoring a rally for illegal immigration to the tune of $30,000. Disgusting. The beer, I mean. Their actions are deplorable, too. Good thing I’ve got the Ying – cheap, good, local,…
If you haven’t been watching the news or listening to the radio, (or, I suppose, reading the Internets, in which case: what the heck are you doing here, wasting your time like this?) you probably aren’t aware that CBS, in…
Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
James Lileks had an absolute humdinger of a screed the other day concerning the manifest childishness of what passes for “culture” and “intellectual thought” these days. The whole thing is worth a read, but I think these brief excerpts really…
