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February 26, 2002

Get Your Wurtzel On:  Part Two of Jim Treacher’s “Bozac Nation”

Elizabeth Wurtzel responds: “What are these, Altoids? ‘Curiously strong mints’ my ass! Bring me the smack, jack! Lizzy’s ready to ride the horsey! (Oh, and bring me some Oreos, too. Double stuffs…)”

Bandwidth Band-aid

Our DSL is down again, so posting will be light until we can get the problem straightened out. We apologize for that emptiness you’re feeling inside…

Take your first left, and keep goin’ ‘til you reach an ivory tower…

Well, Andrew Hofer and Matt Yglesias have chimed in on the prevalence of an “academic left,” so to keep up, I’ll offer a few observations of my own (which I first posted as a comment on Andrew’s site): As an undergrad, I didn’t notice much in the way of a liberal slant to my classes — but then, I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention in those years, busy

No Exit?  Kant argue with you there…

My results on the Ethical Philosophy Selector: 1. Sartre (100%) Click here for info 2. Bentham (82%) Click here for info 3. Epicureans (82%) Click here for info 4. Kant (75%) Click here for info 5. Rand (73%) Click here for info 6. Mill (71%) Click here for info 7. Spinoza (63%) Click here for info 8. Stoics (60%) Click here for info 9. Aristotle (56%) Click here for info

Goody Goody Gumdrops

National Review’s David Kopel reminds readers that

Define “parent”

John Leo, writing in U.S. News and World Report, points to some