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October 5, 2008

a progressive American vignette

Found this in the Sports section of Saturday’s Denver Post: A 15-year-old Chicago high school sophomore was told to remover her replica Cubs jersey at school because the dean thought the last name on the back, Fukudome [a starting OF for the Cubs – ed], sounded too much like a profanity. Ronny Cox, Andy Dick — and a million Asians with the last name Dong — could not be reached

“Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached a Tipping Point”

Dan discovers a journalistic anomaly — from no less than the NYT. Next up? A deluge of frogs falling from the sky. Or maybe a decent Vin Diesel movie. Both of which, I believe, are signs of the apocalypse.

How the Left Hijacked the Magic Words

Solution? Have the “objective” media turn an empirical fact — William Ayers is not only a terrorist, but a proudly unrepentant one — into a “coded” message of racism. Here’s the APs Douglass Daniel, “Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge”: By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering