they couldn’t get any dumber, the Gang of 88 at Duke stage a super-secret teach-in to counter the McCarthyism of criticizing the Gang of 88.  They wouldn’t allow recording devices, because that would have corrupted the proceedings and provided an opportunity for misrepresentation. They also objected to syllabi being reported.  I have a big, giant Freedom of Information Act form to hammer them with, though. Scum.  Twipe.  Tenured douchebaggery. Epimenides

Shhhhh.  Jeff’s sleeping.  That means we can raid his stash of red pills and defrost the roadkill with a bottle of Hornitos.  I also brought some Placidyll that I found in my Great Aunt Marian’s fridge. Actually, though, this is another thread where you can Popov about whatever laptop you think Jeff should buy.  Only this time, in order to make your comment, you must hit the PayPal button.  Me? 

…If, as the New York Sun reports, the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is successful in its efforts to ban the letter “X” (for its resemblance to the Christian cross, an icon already banned in Saudi Arabia), how, then, are Saudis going to be able to find buried treasure?  Or, you know—Jenna Jameson movies? Tough time to be an Arab, I should think… ****

A well-crafted piece on moral equivalence, entitled ”Blunting the Senses in the Name of Fairness”.  Snippet: To recap briefly: Cultural equivalence is evident when Tariq Ramadan depicted those who criticise religious intolerance and intimidation as “extremists”, thereby suggesting some parity of derangement between the people who published cartoons of Muhammad, or argued for the right to do so, and the believers who made homicidal threats and set fire to occupied

But the reality is, as I experienced over and over again in the Lamont-Lieberman race, this is the liberal blogosphere’s standard-less operating procedure. They have decided that the best way to fight the “right-wing smear machine” that they so despise is to create an even more venomous, boundary-less, and destructive counterpart and fight ire with more ire. Lots of love in the comments. Ya think?  “Even with global warming, you’re

Wait, is this more of that satire stuff?  Because I have to admit, it fooled me at first—until I got to the passages about about baby-stepping “in the direction of diversity,” and about how the right-wing smear machine made a concerted attempt to seek out “a fresh young feminist target” for destruction, so insecure are they in the presence of outspoken women, and so committed are they to defending the

Much of New Orleans is situated under pee-level. Charles Rus-hammer. Andrew Sullivan agog at spectacle of Malkin.  Bemoans rocks, houses made of refrangible materials, rough play.  Some think that it was too fair and balanced. Waamblin’ Woes. h/t Bill D. Cat Related excellent short article at Opinion Journal by Mary Eberstadt on Christian Bashing and the Left.  A day late, lots of marbles short. When Power Rangers are criminalized, only