When the craving for a sweet snack forced me to choose between a bowl of gourmet Rocky Road ice cream and a Hostess Fruit pie (blueberry), I chose not to be forced to choose.  No regrets so far.

From Todd Boyd, ESPN’s Page 2: Now that disgraced radio talk-show host Don Imus has been booted, can we finally get down to some “real talk” about the multiple issues embedded in this racial theater? There is a lot to sort through here, but after a week of debate centered around “nappy-headed hos,” half-assed apologies, cries of censorship, and a curmudgeonly shock jock’s lame attempt at being funny, many pundits

Yesterday, a certain contrarian commenter accused me of framing the Virginia Tech shooting as a straw man argument, noting as I did that the budding humanities professors who haunt the DU underground—at least until they can save enough of that Quizno’s counterboy cash to buy themselves a Playstation 3—were already turning the shooting into a referendum on the 2nd Amendment.  Noted said contrarian: If you search the whole world, you

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Cathy Young, “Last Call for “Rape-Crisis” Feminism?”: […] When it first made headlines, the Duke rape case was widely treated as an ugly tale of racism and misogyny, of white male jocks brutally asserting their sexual dominance over a black woman. Now the story represents a very different paradigm: a rush to judgment based on politically correct dogmas about race, gender, and victimhood—not just on the part of the prosecution

Not sure where Jeff is, but perhaps he won’t mind this public service: Expert: Heed Hints From Would-Be Killers Good advice.  I wonder if there’s a media equivalent to the Stages of Grief that inevitably involves bringing on an expert to express the obvious.  Also, the guy was South Korean (not Chinese), and a loner, and an English student.  So, shouldn’t that have set off some warning bells?  I mean

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Next time a progressive taxation supporter lays out the case for higher taxes, citing better roads and schools and maintaining public parks, etc. as justification—point him or her to this post at Sweetness and Light. Then, as s/he sputters outs a strained response, politely interrupt and ask for $50 so you can buy a McDonald’s Value Meal for each of the 15 Christianist buddies you’ll be driving down to the

Hot Air is tracking the story closely.  Meanwhile, the sociologists at the Democratic Underground are in thesis-framing mode, already placing the blame where it belongs—with the NRA.  Because clearly, had we simply banned guns, nobody would have been hurt.  And in fact, as one commenter at Hot Air pointed out, because guns are already illegal at Virginia Tech, this shooting must never really have taken place.  See?  Reality-based. Next up: