Archive for: June 2008

From Classical Values:

“The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act,” Schiller wrote. The fact that a vice president wrote “looks nice, dresses well,” on notes when she was hired also doesn’t add up to discrimination, …

And a well-written review it is, too. No spoiler warning required.

[S]uffice it to say that The Dark Knight qualifies as the first official comic book adaptation that truly succeeds in being a great artistic achievement in its own …

at the Royal Kennel Club . . .

Well, I hope Philip Alston will remember . . .

Experimental Esquimaux? (putting the tusk in Tuskegee?)

Headline of the day: Man accused of strolling in thong, fake breasts

The strolling …

Will Baracky speak in Hershey or New Orleans?

It wouldn’t make any sense for people to claim that Wes Clark was “swiftboating” McCain’s war record, as that would be telling the truth about it, technically.

It’s not surprising that Josh would write of “DC Press Lords Lay Down …

As an addendum to Karl’s post about O!’s fibbing, Barry states“Surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.”Surely, I can disagree.

Surely, I can state categorically that any political philosophy that …

The AP’s Jennifer Loven covers Barack Obama’s speech on patriotism, in which he said he “will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign” and implictly threw his surrogate Wesley Clark under the campaign bus for questioning John McCain’s …

Jeff Jarvis flags the report at The Nation that Barack Obama supporters are using his own network to organize a protest against his support for bill updating the terrorist surveillance program:
[W]hen it’s a grassroots organization that makes you — rather …

I am a human being! Not a mechanized bull!*

Reflects well on my nature.

A couple of days ago, I noted the unidirectional application by journalists of a study involving evidence and bias.   A new study demonstrates that “conservatives” are better people than “liberals”.

McGehee: One Toke Over …