Dear Sirs: I am writing to let you know that I’d be happy to manage the Rockies for 10% of whatever it is you happen to be paying Clint Hurdle.  In fact, allow me to sweeten the offer:  if, in the unlikely event I don’t win more games than Hurdle has won in any one of his seasons as manager, I will refund fully half of my already reduced salary,

oatmeal:  “For the last time, they’re not ‘seeds of Christ.’ They’re frickin’ raisins.  Jesus—I think that Quaker getup is really starting to mess with your head, Friend.”

Sulfuric acid and male chauvinism as a function of Otherness.  Granted, chemical burns aren’t, under the twisted rationale of an establishment feminism that oftentimes finds itself caught in the logical snare of its own fidelity to identity politics, as potentially empowering as covering up in a burlap sack.  But it’s hard to deny that melted skin and a useless eye don’t practically force a gal to assert her individuality… (h/t

Thomas Sowell, on the way the MSM chooses and frames its “scandals” (which, in case you needed it, provides additional anecdotal evidence for a media that not only skews left, but—when at all plausible—protects its ideological fellow travelers from potentially negative scrutiny): Before the Washington Madam surfaced, the big scandal in town was the Bush administration’s firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. But it was not a scandal, as far as

From the Guardian of all places, an interesting analysis of “anti-faith” proselytizing as a growth industry.  Madeleine Bunting, “The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it”: What [the New Atheists] all have in common is a loathing of an increasing religiosity in US politics, which has contributed to a disastrous presidency and undermined scientific understanding. [Daniel] Dennett excoriates the madness of a faith that looks forward