Years ago, when I still lived in Iowa City, there was a hip weekly publication of the sort that plagues all college towns, and part and parcel of this pile of posturing poo was Dan Savage’s column. So, I probably read it having a cup of bad coffee at the hipster douchebag cafe that allowed smoking, and in it were Savage’s sententions regarding heterosexual sex, which he characterized as unimaginative

Al Armendariz is the fellow who bragged about crucifying opponents to the EPA’s extra-constitutional power grabs and creation of opportunities for picking winners and losers in energy, otherwise known as graft. After recounting his patently insane comments, Christopher Helman at Forbes’ makes some related observations: The former professor at Southern Methodist University is a diehard environmentalist, having grown up in El Paso near a copper smelter that reportedly belched arsenic-laced

Sometimes things are lost in comments and as some things shouldn’t be lost in comments we occasionally find ourselves in posts like this. Jeff would like to thank all y’all for the kind words, gifts, and additions to the tip jar.  He’s currently looking out for the rest of the family because they’re either very, very young, just came out of surgery, or a fun-loving youth tempted by armadillian promises

… of opposing his re-election This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the

I’ve been thinking about writing on this topic for a bit, now, and this seems like a pretty good place. When I was in high school and college, the British band The Police were one of the most popular. They made some good music that I enjoyed, and they also sang a lot of pompous rubbish under lead vocalist Sting. One of the songs that has held up pretty well

I seem to recall that Jeff has posted once or twice on the concept of ‘race’ being entirely artificial and not very helpful. It appears that the Trayvon Martin race warriors have now, once again, painted themselves into another amusing corner of the roundhouse (Classical Values via Transterrestrial Musings). The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by