Never again?  WFB: Temple University is seeking to reassure donors and top officials after a member of its staff engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric on a secret listserv and questioned the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. Temple president Neil Theobald blasted out a message to university trustees over the weekend after the school came under fire for initially defending the controversial professor in comments made to the Washington Free Beacon. Temple

Well, perhaps “explains” is too charitable. Let’s go with “eventually tries to turn the actions of the Obama Administration into an indictment of the Bush administration, to hilarious, bumbling results”: Christ. People voluntarily vote this dessicated, bug-eyed saddle bag into office repeatedly — and give here tremendous power as leader of the House minority. If that isn’t an indictment on the surreal state of American politics, I don’t know what

Basing my emotional reaction off of a WaPo story, and off of my own attempts to put myself in the (unimaginable) position of Bowe Bergdahl’s father, I was willing to apportion him some measure of sympathy.  After all, the love I have for my sons would probably lead me to do things that under other circumstances would be unconscionable, if it meant saving them.  However, if as early as 2012,

Look:  I’m inclined to be more forgiving to the parents of a young man who’d been taken prisoner for being a naive, snot-nosed, entitled, ruthlessly indoctrinated piece of self-loathing shit.  We’d all — well, most of us (Amanda Marcotte and others like her tend to view offspring as monsters out to steal the joy of having no real responsibilities and a drawer full of unimaginably stained sex toys that needn’t

Who’s ready for some “fuck you, come and take it”-action? — regardless of the happy, “historic” pro-environment spin being put on this by, for instance, USA Today: Taking a historic step to fight climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a plan that aims to slash carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants 30% by 2030 and could accelerate the nation’s shift away from coal. “By leveraging cleaner energy

So argues the Washington Examiner’s editorial board.  And they’re probably right.  But then, there’s the problem with politics:  these Senate Democrats fear the impact of the new EPA rule (unconstitutional though it be, unless it’s a tax, in which case, hey, the founders really wanted a dictatorship. They just didn’t realize it until John Roberts sussed it out) precisely and only because they’re vulnerable at the ballot box.  What such

I mean, I know we’re supposed to pretend that Obama is a great Dad, that he cares about the US in his own way — he just happens to think the founding and all the structural controls instituted as part of the Constitution’s framing are quaint, non-binding, and racist / sexist / xenophobic, et al., and so as an act of love, wants to fundamentally transform the country he so

Time is drawing near as the new house gets closer to completion each day.  We have our pre-dry wall walk-through coming up on Friday, after which the spray foam goes in and seals up all the electrical, plumbing, low volt, etc.  It’s exciting and terrifying at the same time.  I walk the place every day learning for the first time just how houses are built.  It’s been a fascinating experience