That Sally Mason didn’t tell them to “grow up” should be firing offense. In an interview published Feb. 18 in The Daily Iowan, President Sally Mason said she was dismayed by the reports of sexual assaults. She said “the goal would be to end that, to never have another sexual assault. That’s probably not a realistic goal just given human nature, and that’s unfortunate. …” Criticism erupted over the phrase

Maggie, right after we moved into our current house.

And when we nurture and accept and then institutionalize the idea of a consensus-driven “truth” that in turn is born of an interpretive paradigm that grants itself permission to determine, by way of will to power, the intent of others, then ascribe it to them, it is a short step to dictating that to be sane, one must hew to the prevailing power’s orthodoxy — leaving the meaning of insane

Her magnum opus would be about a narcissistic visionary named Dr Googlestein — only by novel’s end, instead of trying to hunt down and kill his creation, Dr Googlestein would be training it, indoctrinating it with the “correct consciousness” (rather than that false consciousness often evinced by, eg., conservative women), then renting it out to progressive governments to make sure that the ignorant masses could “do no evil” to the

It’s like Mississippi Burning, only instead of redneck Klan members (who were Democrats, let’s remember), we now have the “pro-woman” “choice” crowd pushing its agenda on a race Margaret Sanger herself was very eager to pare down. For the sake of societal pruning and balance, you see. Looks like it’s working — at least in Mississippi. 50 years hence. If only the Klan had learned to frame their narrative as

Evidently, he feels his 30-something percent approval rate — coupled with a decision to downsize the military in a world growing increasingly dangerous (thanks in large part to Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry, who love them some Muslim Brotherhood folk and some communists, to boot) — gives him great power of the GOP. And he’s right. Because the contemporary GOP is a bunch of go-along-to-get-re-elected (and eventually, on to

So. We’ve gone from “let them eat cake” to “why should they get cake? That’s for the better people, not the teeming masses of infuriating mediocrity whose lives I as Queen am entitled to control.” To which I have this response: go bang a gourd, you unelected, entitled, bitterly anti-American scold. Or let Oprah strap one on and do it for you. (h/t nr)

When Helen and I returned from living in Italy and got our first real place — a dumpy, $400 per month duplex owned by a short order cook — one of the first things we did was head to Denver Dumb Friends league to find a dog. As my wife tells it, Maggie was in a pen with ten other puppies, and she wasn’t among those that came running to

Wife out of town on business, a sick baby, and an older son who needs rides to and from school — then has to go to practice — leaves me no time to tell you about how your country is going into the shitter. Except to say your country is going into the shitter. Rapidly. Like, it drank the water in Mexico-rapidly. *flush*