protein wisdom: “Gee. Ya think?”

His ghostly shadow — its cold, dank hands contaminating the bread of civic goodness with their unwanted vestigial kneading — pulls yet more good souls asunder. Alas and alack. And so on. (h/t TerryH)

More massaging of the narrative? Why, never! Hiring by the U.S. Census Bureau is expected to spike May’s job figures dramatically. Economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s.com projects the economy will add 575,000 jobs in May, while the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) rough projection is for 560,000 jobs. Either figure would represent the largest number of jobs created in any month since the dot-com crash of 2000. Vice President Joe Biden,

David Harsanyi, Denver Post: […] I’m not one of those who reflexively accuses critics of Israel of anti-Semitism. That would be preposterous. Or nearly as preposterous as pretending that Judaism has nothing to do with the defense, criticism or the never-ending war waged against Israel. And it is undeniable that there are those who consistently and disproportionately vilify the Jewish state as an impediment to peace while at the same

Yes, the FTC study on the “reinventing of journalism” has already been covered here over the last few days, but I figured fuck it: let’s give it some more ink while we still can — before the government’s “potential reforms” to the industry maybe kick in and rescue us all from the “distraction” of unsanctioned and unlicensed voices commenting on the day’s events. From the LA Times, “Obama’s FTC plan

…Tomato, to-mah-to. I mean, reasonable people can disagree, right? And what is the law if not the reasonable reading of a “text” (with the pretend stance that we are doing so) irrespective of its intent? […] according to the Supreme Court of Virginia, “all presumptions are in favor of the validity of the exercise of municipal power.” And therein lies the real problem with eminent domain in Virginia. If you

Regular protein wisdom readers have been long prepped for what we are now seeing with respect to both Israel and South Korea, fantasy narratives of immediate “history” being written right before our eyes by a motivated and insulated Left that no longer accepts the unhelpful “constraints” of factual “tyranny,” or Western “colonialist” logic, or classical liberal appeals to individual rights — and is no longer even asked to, either by

By whom? By Woodrow Wilson and the progressives, that’s who. — Which, that of course probably makes them retroactive conservatives. Q.E.D. (thanks to dicentra)

Can America really be that far behind?

When a kindergartener becomes a first-grader, life’s training wheels come off. And frankly, that terrifies me. But I’m very proud nevertheless. Because when it comes to blocks and blunted scissors, my boy has proven himself more than merely proficient. He’s excelled. So. Who’s his daddy now? I am. That’s who.