As Patterico notes, the NYT finally took some time to look into Obama and the CAC — but the story leaves much unremarked upon. Still, it’s a start: Mr. Obama was nominated to the Challenge board and was elected chairman in 1995, said Ken Rolling, executive director of the group, which operated through 2001. Mr. Obama continued to teach law during his five-year unpaid tenure as board chairman, and he
My brief conversations with inanimate objects
September 2, 2008
This should play well with the parents of teenagers…
Partial transcript from Larry King last evening, featuring liberal radio host Ed Schultz and Republican Moderate, former Rep Susan Molinari: KING: Ed — we haven’t heard from Ed in a minute. Ed? SCHULTZ: I don’t think Governor Palin could get 40 million viewers on TV. So – she’s got to raise the bar when it comes to interest. Half the country doesn’t even know who she is. And, Larry, I
August 25, 2008
My eleventh brief conversation with the 2mg regimen of Klonopin (clonazepam) prescribed me by my GP
me: “I gotta tell you, buddy. Mixing you with Absinthe and some quarter cask single malt last night? Made me feel like one of them alien abductees. It’s like I lost time.” Klonopin: “Yeah, too bad, that. Because I had the video camera running. And I can tell you that the only anal probing going on here last night happened when you stumbled over your swivel chair and cornholed yourself
July 14, 2008
a post that explores what life might be like if oatmeal could speak, 16
oatmeal: “So, what’s that you’re eating there — Kashi? Nice. Maybe later, you can write me a poem, then go and have your mangina bikini waxed. “You effete yuppie freak.”
July 13, 2008
Welcome to the Grand Illusion
In just about an hour or so I’m off to Red Rocks for a Styx / Boston concert. Of course, DeYoung’s absence will turn the the Styx set into the rock equivalent of going over the house of a recently divorced friend and feeling kind of awkward that his hot shrew of an ex-wife isn’t around anymore, making that plate of Saltines and cubed American cheese he’s set out as
July 1, 2008
Theocrateaser [Dan Collins]
Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and  in a move sure to cause controversy  support some ability to hire and fire based on faith. At the same time, he’ll be privately reassuring the nutroots that he means no such thing. Karl’s post just below is also germane to
May 22, 2008
My first brief conversation with the ghost of Andy Gibb
Me: “So, you following the elections this year?” Ghost of Andy Gibb: “Elections?” Me: “Yeah. The presidential elections. In the US.” Ghost of Andy Gibb: Ghost of Andy Gibb: Ghost of Andy Gibb: “Here’s a little secret for you, brother. In Heaven, you can do enough coke to kill a freight train full of circus elephants — and still not get any more dead. Plus, the shit is free.” Me:
April 24, 2008
My twenty-second brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick
Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me:: “Whatever. Fine. Go ahead and dance. You have my permission.” Merrick: ” — I AM A HUMAN BEING!” Me: “Okay, now you’re just being plain silly…”
September 18, 2007
My twenty-first brief conversation with the Ghost of John Merrick
Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me:: “You know, many nutritionists these days are touting string cheese as a really healthy snack food. Something about the calcium and protein content. Worth looking into, I think.” Merrick: ” — I AM A HUMAN BEING!” Me: “Yeah, yeah, I know it. But were you a tube of string cheese, the likelihood that some superhot aerobics instructor would take you into her mouth
August 13, 2007
my twentieth brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick
Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me: “Well, given that such classifications are constructs decided upon by social consensus and transitory cultural norms — not the kinds of fixed categorical universals so conveniently prescribed by patriarchal Enlightenment fetishists bent on defining and controlling thought by way of appealing to an ’empiricism’ whose data is troubled by Heisenberg’s principles of observation, and whose position toward its subject is inscribed by prevailing