From the Australian, “New Literature Course ‘Too Political’”: The subject that would replace English literature in West Australian high schools encourages political and moral sermonising, according to a noted English professor who shares the concerns of teachers lobbying against the changes to the course. Poet Dennis Haskell, the University of Western Australia’s acting head of English, Communication and Cultural Studies, said it was sad that the draft consultation exam for

Rarely of late have I encountered descriptions of my theoretics that I believe are intellectually honest.  And that don’t incorporate the word “paste.” Which is why I am happy to highlight one that I must admit delights me to no end: Goldstein, it seems to me, is the academic left’s nightmare of what Michaelsian thought can produce”—Scott Eric Kaufman, writing at The Valve (a discussion site for those invested in

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guests are TKS’s Jim Geraghty and Jawa Report Rusty Shackleford Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Again.  Which explains my tinny, nasally voice.  And of course my failure to respect the online identities of certain community

Reid: “One Whopper with cheese, an order of onion rings, and a Diet Coke, please.” BK drive-thru girl:  “What size on the onion rings and the Diet Coke?” Reid: “Oh, may as well go ahead and make them both larges.  I mean, it’s not like I’m going to pay for the stuff—not when I plan on studying the effects of deep-fried onion and cheese-draped flame-broiled beef on the average white

“Man, that Goldstein is one paste-eating moron, man. And I soooo mean that!”

Seems that sometime during the night, while Mr Mom slept (my being tired from a holiday weekend spent haus frauing and eating Nathan’s hot dogs coated with paste), a couple of folks posted some “private” information about the esteemed and inveterately civil “Thersites,” who—like many of his leftwing blogger friends—uses his internet anonymity to hurl epithets at others without fear of any kind of damage to his own public reputation.

Off to spend the rest of the day with my wife and son.  Not that I haven’t enjoyed the civil exchange with “professor” Thersites and his confused commentariat, mind you.  Just that, well, a mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day weekend.  Me, I have no doubt I will, as pulled pork sandwiches and corn on the cob

Q: What do you get when you cross Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan? A: I’m not quite sure, really.  But whatever it is, somebody needs to get it a Midol and a history book.  I touched on this in a brief reply to Greenwald yesterday (in his post, he calls me “one of the most intense enemies of American values,” which is true, if by “American values” Greenwald means “preening