What a boob: I always wanted to be fluent in another language. I studied Spanish in school, passed my HS Regents exam back in the day, but never got it down. I never learned Italian because of the racism that my grandparents faced when they came to the US in 1915. Studying a new language in school actually helps a person “think” better as far as I’m concerned. Maybe that’s

one of those wonderful people you’ve insulted: Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine’s satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals doesn’t bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans. “You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things,” the presidential candidate told CNN’s Larry King. “And for this to be used as

The word ‘chav’ is a weapon of class hatred and should be banned, Left-wing academics claim. The Fabian Society believes the term, a common derogatory expression for a brash white working-class person, is offensive. It wants to silence those who use it to describe loutish types in Burberry baseball caps, scraped-back hairdos and clanking fake gold ‘bling’ jewellery. The obnoxious teenage single mother Vicky Pollard, played by Matt Lucas in

Sen. Barack Obama called the war in Iraq a “dangerous distraction” Tuesday and said more emphasis must be placed on the battle in Afghanistan. Sen. Barack Obama said he would take the country in a new direction, should he become president. “As should have been apparent to President Bush and Sen. [John] McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was,” Obama said

and humor. Submerged Burge Urges Bailout

Insty’s meaty piece in Popular Mechanics.

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