From Dan, who counsels, “Let’s render them meaningless, instead of instruments of propaganda.” Me, I’m glad to say I’ve been doing my part for years — though out of laziness, admittedly, rather than in the service of some higher ideological calling. In fact, Rasmussen phoned the other day, and I told the automated lady asking the questions that I’d love to help, but that just then wasn’t a particularly good

From Reut Cohen, PJM: On September 18, Metro State College in Denver announced that campus officials would investigate a college professor who assigned an essay in an English composition course which explicitly called for a critique of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. According to students, their instructor, Andrew Hallam, told them that their assignment was to write an essay to critique the “fairy tale image” of the