The slippery slope to thought control keeps slip slip slipping along…. The Nova Scotia government has published a list of words and phrases it wants banished from the news media, because it considers them offensive to people with mental illness. The province’s health department is also offering cash awards to citizens who monitor the airwaves and newspapers and report any use of what the government calls “outdated, negative, inappropriate” terms

My son, now just a bit over two months old, has begun smiling quite a bit of late — social smiles this time, not like before, when I found myself charmed by what turned out to be the coincidental facial contortions of a boy whose intestines were waging war with the garlic my wife had slathered on her pasta a few hours earlier. So if you need me, that’s where

Here’s the setup: British singer George Michael said today he was retiring from the music business and intended instead to put all his future songs on the Internet – for free. The 40-year-old pop star told BBC radio he would never make another album for sale in record shops, because he did not need the money and wanted to be less famous. Michael is currently promoting his latest album Patience,

And I thought people who drove with cell phones pressed to their chins were bad…

Madrid Train Terror Blasts Kill 173 Sadly, that number is climbing.

George Will examines the success of the No Child Left Behind Act’s underlying conservatism, which manifests itself in a pedagogical paradigm shift away from blind spending and toward school accountability: Federal money – the 8 percent [of total spending on grades K through 12] lever – is large enough to change what must be changed before anything else can be: the subject. Answering the question “Is Bush a Conservative?” in

Good lord!

John Cole provides the necessary corrective to a nascent meme — concerning White House overnight guests — currently being shopped around the blogosphere by low-level Democratic ideologues. If the meme has legs, you can bet it’ll be trotted out by better-funded partisans higher up on the foodchain in a matter of days. Which I suppose is to be expected. Sadly, splashing truth over this phantom fire won’t keep the BeatBush™