Something I’d missed: @bb: I initially gave Dan Collins and his mto.com address the benefit of the doubt. It’s not unheard of for a government lawyer to consult former colleagues with expertise when drafting regs or statutes. Hell, lobbyists and corporations write most of that stuff anyway. However, he seems to be the same Dan Collins of https://www.proteinwisdom.com/ who blogs and comments all around, a real wingnut idealogue, and there’s

‘Vote for Romney is vote for Satan’ Wow.  I had no idea he’d tap Cheney as his running-mate. Hey, did I mention that John & the Missus are up to speed at Wuzzadem?  That foot injury really messed up his brain for a while.

Durham Wonderland notes that the impenitent 88 continue to make egregious asses of themselves in public.  The absurdist academese in which Professor Grant “Far Out” Farred has to couch his slanderous attack cum self-defense demonstrates the depths of self-delusion to which the egoist is willing to descend in order to justify his hatred.  From K C Johnson: “It is because the law knows that it cannot achieve foreclosure, because it

Another twofer: First, from Opinion Journal:  “Axis of Soros:  The men and motives behind the World Bank coup attempt”: Mr. Malloch Brown, remember, was until last year Kofi Annan’s deputy at the United Nations. In that position, he distinguished himself by spinning away the $100 billion Oil for Food scandal as little more than a blip in the U.N.’s good work, and one that had little to do with Mr.

First:  “Pennsylvania Court Orders Sperm Donor to Lesbian Couple to Pay Child Support”: A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple conceive two children is liable for child support under a state appellate court ruling that a legal expert believes might be the first of its kind in the U.S. A Superior Court panel last week ordered a Dauphin County judge to establish how much Carl L. Frampton Jr. would

In the WaPo: George Tenet and, more important, our premier intelligence organization managed to find weapons of mass destruction that did not exist while failing to find links to terrorists that did—all while missing completely the rise of Islamist fundamentalism. We have made only a down payment on the price of that failure. Slam dunk. See also Imamasses, below.

[INT:  ROADHOUSE.  DALTON EXAMINES A SMALL KNIFE WOUND ON HIS ARM; I MARVEL AT HIS HAIR] Dalton:  “Pain don’t hurt.” me:  “Sure it does. Or else what you’re talking about isn’t, by definition, ‘pain.’” Dalton: Dalton: Dalton:  “Why do you have to be such a dick?” ~ finis ~

…when it begins with an audible popping sound in the middle of your upper back—and you aren’t naked and being straddling by a trio of hookers holding just-opened bottles of Cristal. Anybody know of a do-it-yourself home traction kit?  Delivery a must.

Inside Higher Ed asks, apparently in all seriousness, “Inclusivity or Tokenism?” Not much on nuance—and saddled with the disturbing habit of recognizing a rhetorical question when we see one—we classical liberals are revoltingly cocksure in our assertion that demanding a woman appear in a panel discussion as a condition of accepting the validity of the historical scholarship at issue, is rather clearly tokenism, and trivializes women scholars as “diversity” place

…at Hamline University. Which is odd, because I was almost certain universities had gotten around the accusation that they routinely crush dissent by installing pen-sized free speech zones where such untoward musings are grudgingly allowed.  In the name of “tolerance.” Guess some free speech is just too hurtful for the enlightened arbiters of appropriate discourse.  If it goes “bang,” it must be muzzled.  Unless it’s, say, Clinton’s penis, around which