John Tierney reports in the New York Times (and elsewhere): The National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy have set up programs to look for sexual discrimination at universities receiving federal grants. Investigators have been taking inventories of lab space and interviewing faculty members and students in physics and engineering departments at schools like Columbia, the University of Wisconsin, M.I.T. and the University of Maryland. So far, these Title

Please read Karl’s post for the background. Calling Iowahawk, Treacher, Wuzzie, Scott Ott, Ace, any and all funny intartubes people, including our own Jeff G. Demonstrate the humorousness of teh Obama, refute NYT, win accolades. It’s Bernie Mac who isn’t funny, racists. Regarding levity in gravity, here’s a link to a fund for Tony Snow’s family. There’s a web event hosted by the Grinch this Friday, too. h/t hf Rangel’s

Not really, but I was suddenly gripped by the spirit of the New York Post.  The Politico’s John Bresnahan reports that Barack Obama is having to reach out to Capitol Hill Democrats, who are complaining that the Obama campaign is “insular, uncooperative and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democratic victory in November.”  A list of grievances is presented, such as Obama’s habit of turning up in members’ districts

Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) had an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, announcing their introduction of the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008, the companion to a House bill introduced by Rep. Pete King (R-NY) and co-sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). The bills are aimed at the practice of “libel tourism,” in which plaintiffs choose to file libel suits in jurisdictions thought more likely to give a favorable

Lowry writes about the Anti-Fact Consensus at NRO: Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting)

Today’s New York Times follows up on yeterday’s kerfuffle over the New Yorker cover satirizing various attacks on Barack and Michelle Obama by noticing the near total lack of jokes about Barack Obama on  television: Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others have delivered a nightly

Normally, I would not mention that today is my Dad’s birthday. After all, I am a guest-blogger here. Plus, this blog is a case study as to the benefits of keeping family out of it. However, the event is a convenient excuse to mention that since I started guest-blogging here in earnest, my Dad has become a pw reader.  It is the only real blog he reads, but he particulalrly

of ABBA, despite their fundamental ridiculousness.

A conundrum to make leftist heads explode: A Jefferson County Jail inmate has quite a tale to tell about how he got there. The nude man claimed to be Jesus Christ and George Bush when sheriff’s deputies shot him with a stun gun after he ignored their commands. Sad news: Silvermimmel split More Alien Cow Abductions

From Insty Mac comes this tale of populist ethics: In 2004, after a tip from a whistle blower who was later fired, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (Ofheo) issued a report finding that the government-sponsored entity Fannie Mae had engaged in Enron-like accounting machinations that allowed Fannie to overstate its earnings and underestimate the risk the company faced. The accounting wizardry Fannie engaged in was designed so that