Tell you what: howsabout you people dance, and me and the little guy just sit here with a 12-pack of Corona Light and some cheddar popcorn and watch all the silly white folk strain to locate the beat in Johnny Cash’s American Recordings IV.
August 5, 2005
August 5, 2005
The Death of America, #1378: “NCAA Bars Colleges’ Indian Mascots in Tournaments”
From Bloomberg News: The National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments, a ruling the president of Florida State University called “outrageous and insulting.’’ The NCAA’s executive committee said the organization, which governs college sports, is limiting the prohibition to tournaments it controls. It doesn’t have the power to institute an outright ban, said University of Hartford President Walter Harrison,
August 5, 2005
Will Ms Jeralyn Merritt please pick up the white courtesy phone…?
So. What are we to make of this, do you think…? (via Drudge)
August 5, 2005
The Cancer of Partisan Rage
An email sent to Kathryn Jean Lopez and posted on The Corner (re: preliminary attempts by the New York Times to have the adoption records of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ children forcibly opened): How stupid are you? Wait, don’t answer. Roberts’ adoptions are relevant because he has two adorable, white blond kids. He probably exerted pull to get them, leaping ahead of the tens of thousands of other adults who
August 5, 2005
A brief message from John Bolton’s mustache, “Regis”, to the Ambassador from Syria, who, it turns out, is not quite the alpha male he thought he was
Yeah, that’s right, I’m looking at you. Little bitch.*
August 5, 2005
McCain to America: “Do as I legislate, not as I, uh, violate the spirit of said legislation in an attempt to ready myself for another presidential run in 2008”
Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute—a non-profit “think tank” that just so happens to reside in “the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman).” From “The Horse McCain Rode In On,” in today’s New
August 5, 2005
Paradise Regained
From the Washington Post: Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced new deportation measures against those who foster hatred and advocate violence, as his government tries to counter Islamic extremists in Britain. Blair said the government would draw up a list of extremist Web sites, book shops and organizations and said that involvement with them could be a trigger to deport foreign nationals. Hmmm. Galloway. That’s a Scots-Syrian surname, isn’t