Glenn Reynolds, in the NY Daily News: In The Roanoke Times last year—after another campus incident, when a dangerous escaped inmate was roaming the campus—[Virginia Tech graduate student Bradford] Wiles wrote that, when his class was evacuated, “Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness. That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I
April 2007
Just when you thought Rosie O’Donnell couldn’t get more stupid…
…She takes that next step toward full-blown dementia, her BDS burning so hotly it could melt steel. That is, if steel could be melted by something very hot. Which we know is impossible. Anyway, apparently not content with being a mere Truther, Rosie used her extra large stool on ABC’s “The View” Tuesday to raise the inference that Bush was quite happy to see all them black folk die during
another moment of unabashed pragmatism
When the craving for a sweet snack forced me to choose between a bowl of gourmet Rocky Road ice cream and a Hostess Fruit pie (blueberry), I chose not to be forced to choose. No regrets so far.
“Representation” and the new apologia
From Todd Boyd, ESPN’s Page 2: Now that disgraced radio talk-show host Don Imus has been booted, can we finally get down to some “real talk” about the multiple issues embedded in this racial theater? There is a lot to sort through here, but after a week of debate centered around “nappy-headed hos,” half-assed apologies, cries of censorship, and a curmudgeonly shock jock’s lame attempt at being funny, many pundits
Gun Control Control
Yesterday, a certain contrarian commenter accused me of framing the Virginia Tech shooting as a straw man argument, noting as I did that the budding humanities professors who haunt the DU underground—at least until they can save enough of that Quizno’s counterboy cash to buy themselves a Playstation 3—were already turning the shooting into a referendum on the 2nd Amendment. Noted said contrarian: If you search the whole world, you
How an “anti-feminist” frames the Duke Rape case
Cathy Young, “Last Call for “Rape-Crisis” Feminism?”: […] When it first made headlines, the Duke rape case was widely treated as an ugly tale of racism and misogyny, of white male jocks brutally asserting their sexual dominance over a black woman. Now the story represents a very different paradigm: a rush to judgment based on politically correct dogmas about race, gender, and victimhoodâ€â€not just on the part of the prosecution
News You Can Use [Dan Collins]
Not sure where Jeff is, but perhaps he won’t mind this public service: Expert: Heed Hints From Would-Be Killers Good advice. I wonder if there’s a media equivalent to the Stages of Grief that inevitably involves bringing on an expert to express the obvious. Also, the guy was South Korean (not Chinese), and a loner, and an English student. So, shouldn’t that have set off some warning bells? I mean
the “what in God’s name is that thing in my garbanzo beans?” post (inspired by true events)
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9 prospective names Britain will use for the “war on terror” now that they will no longer use “the war on terror” to describe the war on terror
“The War on Super Meanies” “That Unpleasant Business in Araby” “Osama’s Complaint” “Harry” “The Thing the Jews Started” “The Big Ben Preservation Society” “Bush’s Bollocks” “Lawrence of Arabia, 2: The Empire Strikes Back” “London Bridges…TO PEACE!”*
