Breaking News: “Bobbitt’s Arrest Costs Him Celebrity Boxing Match”! ‘t seems the infamously truncated one’s been busted once again — for spousal abuse this time (dude! have you learned nothing from having your, er, tally-whacked?) — so he’ll miss his FOX “celebrity” boxing match against Long Island Lolita pimp, Joey Buttafuoco. Tough break for the star of 1996’s Frankenpenis. No matter, though. Former female wrasslin’ star Chyna’s gonna step in

Writing in The National Review, Stanley Kurtz raises some interesting questions about structurally hyperbolic “zero-tolerance” policies: Maybe you missed the latest ‘zero tolerance’ horror story. It seems that seven fourth-grade boys were suspended from school for pointing their fingers like guns during a game of ‘army-and-aliens’ on the playground. What’s worse, the school brought these boys in for questioning to see if their parents owned guns-as if that should matter.

Writing in The National Review, Stanley Kurtz raises some interesting questions about structurally hyperbolic “zero-tolerance” policies: Maybe you missed the latest ‘zero tolerance’ horror story. It seems that seven fourth-grade boys were suspended from school for pointing their fingers like guns during a game of ‘army-and-aliens’ on the playground. What’s worse, the school brought these boys in for questioning to see if their parents owned guns-as if that should matter.

I keep saying The Weekly Standard needs a blog. And here’s why. This observation comes from the latest WS “Scrapbook,” under the heading “Massacre? What Massacre?” (subscriber’s only): The Scrapbook became rather suspicious when it heard Hasan Abdel Rahman, the chief Palestinian representative to the United States, tell Fox’s ‘Hannity Colmes’ last week that, with regard to the fighting in Jenin, ‘I never said it was a massacre.’ As everyone

Courtesy of my wife, who found this while she should have been working: “Biggest Cheaters in Baseball.” I gotta admit, I’d never even heard of the Maury Wills incident before today. Related: Wonder what Bump Wills is up to these days…?

Well, Jonah may not recognize one when he sees it, but Stanley Kurtz kinda does… Here, in the service of discussing the Andrew Sullivan-New York Times conflict, Kurtz gives a nod to the blog: Not many folks could get themselves booted out of the pages of The New Republic and the New York Times and still prosper as a pundit, but Andrew Sullivan is no ordinary fellow. Howard Kurtz may

Well, Jonah may not recognize one when he sees it, but Stanley Kurtz kinda does… Here, in the service of discussing the Andrew Sullivan-New York Times conflict, Kurtz gives a nod to the blog: Not many folks could get themselves booted out of the pages of The New Republic and the New York Times and still prosper as a pundit, but Andrew Sullivan is no ordinary fellow. Howard Kurtz may

Writing in Reason,* Cathy Young reports that evidence is once again necessary for a rape conviction at Harvard. Welcome back to America, Crimson Tide. We missed you! From “Unwanted Sex: A turning tide on date rape“: The wars over campus date rape are no longer in the headlines, but the latest news from this front is sure to get some attention. Harvard has adopted a new policy under which sexual

Jonah Goldberg’s latest NRO column, “In Defense of Elitism,” concludes with these apt observations: Right now, the word-elite of journalists and academics are the ones asking, ‘Who are we to judge?’ This elite is the one incapable of discerning the difference between a bone through the nose and the moon launch. It is this elite which says that the canon isn’t worth reading; that the Constitution is a fig leaf

I’m having a good morning. First, I get to pontificate a bit about baseball (thanks for the prompt, Welch), and now this: Rush has released a new “album,” Vapor Trails! Rush! Now, if Valerie Bertinelli shows up at my door in Daisy Duke-cutoffs and a wet t-shirt, asking to use my shower, I can call it a day…