“For their own good. Though as Queen, I reserve the right to enjoy a 10-ounce American Wagyu steak and special-order red velvet cake. Because leading so vigorously requires the kinds of extra calories that simply doing as you’re told doesn’t. It’s a curse, frankly. “Oh, if the masses only knew how good they have it!”

I’m curious, because somehow we’re supposed to believe it’s somehow “racist” to require you to prove yourself yourself before you cast a vote (as a way to combat voter fraud — which of course isn’t a big problem, and even if it is, well, RACISTS!), and yet it’s not considered “racist” to require people to show a picture ID to board a plane. Though I’m sure that’s just an oversight.

So writes Amanda Marcotte, who confuses the singular with the plural (at issue is one Scout), and whose elevation to the status of a widely published public thinker is a particularly salient (and, unfortunately, recurring) reminder of the intellectual rot the academic left has institutionalized in its long march through both language and our cultural institutions. In an article dripping with contempt for those who don’t readily allow for Marcotte’s

Incidentally, whatever happened to Alan Colmes? Didn’t he use to be on with Hannity? Or maybe he still is, but his skin finally grew so translucent that he’s all but invisible…? Either way, an improvement to the show.

Here’s a bit of free advice: if you want to push overweening and censorious legislation like SOPA, make sure before you do so you aren’t going to later be caught using copyrighted photos without attribution on your campaign website. That is, hide your own sins before you look to pre-emptively punish everyone else’s. You petty tyrants. God, how I’ve grown to hate legislators.

At the University of Denver where I once taught (and where Brian Kiteley still teaches), the answer, apparently, is yes: The professor [Arthur Gilbert, Josef Korbel School of International Studies] made these anonymous complainants feel harassed by – get this – bringing an art deco vibrator into the classroom during a discussion of how sexuality was theorized historically and by discussing studies linking masturbation to prostate health. Of course, the

First, I thought this was Rick Perry’s best debate performance. He seemed much more relaxed and confident last night — like a man who is actually relaxed and confident, not simply trying to appear that way on a national debate stage. I hope his performance — which to my mind was his only really good one thus far — keeps him viable. At the very least, it’s bought him some

As if we weren’t doing enough ourselves to strain the system, there’s this. Washington Times: Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system. The unclassified 2009 report “Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses” by financial analyst Kevin D. Freeman, a copy of

Actually, that’s my headline. The NYT and Paul Krugman went with something less candid. And you know, honest. (thanks to JD) **** update: Speaking of which…

My copy is on its way from Amazon, and once it arrives I plan on continuing my “provocateurism” series using the book as a jumping off point for discussions — most of which, I realize, will devolve into happyfeet redefining moderate as “staunch” while trying to cast conservatism as homophobic, xenophobic fringe extremism engaged in by Mexican-hating hill people and vacant-eyed Jesus vessels determined to persecute the gays, using the