From Classical Values: “The act of getting coffee is not, by itself, a gender-specific act,” Schiller wrote. The fact that a vice president wrote “looks nice, dresses well,” on notes when she was hired also doesn’t add up to discrimination, the judge wrote. “While the behavior of plaintiff’s supervisors may have been rude, gauche, or undesirable, their actions do not violate federal or state antidiscrimination laws,” Schiller wrote. Klopfenstein, who

And a well-written review it is, too. No spoiler warning required. [S]uffice it to say that The Dark Knight qualifies as the first official comic book adaptation that truly succeeds in being a great artistic achievement in its own right. h/t Jason Blake

at the Royal Kennel Club . . . Well, I hope Philip Alston will remember . . . Experimental Esquimaux? (putting the tusk in Tuskegee?) Headline of the day: Man accused of strolling in thong, fake breasts The strolling will get you every time. Let the ethnic jokes begin.

Will Baracky speak in Hershey or New Orleans?

It wouldn’t make any sense for people to claim that Wes Clark was “swiftboating” McCain’s war record, as that would be telling the truth about it, technically. It’s not surprising that Josh would write of “DC Press Lords Lay Down Fire for McCain,” though, when I’d be equally accurate in stating that MSM editors just lay down for Obama. Prone. UPDATE: So much for absolute moral authority. If he were

The AP’s Jennifer Loven covers Barack Obama’s speech on patriotism, in which he said he “will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign” and implictly threw his surrogate Wesley Clark under the campaign bus for questioning John McCain’s war record. [Update: Here’s the official squishing sound. -K] The Hill notes that Obama also implicitly whacked MoveOn for its “General Betray Us” ad last year.  Yet Obama refused to vote on

Jeff Jarvis flags the report at The Nation that Barack Obama supporters are using his own network to organize a protest against his support for bill updating the terrorist surveillance program: [W]hen it’s a grassroots organization that makes you — rather than a party — and you say you’re beholden to them not to special interests and big money and lobbyists, well, then you really are beholden to them. If they rise up

I am a human being! Not a mechanized bull!*

Reflects well on my nature. A couple of days ago, I noted the unidirectional application by journalists of a study involving evidence and bias.   A new study demonstrates that “conservatives” are better people than “liberals”. McGehee: One Toke Over the Line

The Chicago Tribune’s Paul West reports that Barack Obama plans to deliver policy speeches over the next few months, the breadth of which may depend on how confident he is that he will win.  If a recent focus group moderated by Democratic pollster Peter Hart is any indicator, Obama may have to get specific: “I just know ‘vote for change.’ I don’t know what change,” [Janet Mader, 32] says. “I know there has