Is it a chronic case of teh gay?  I hope you’re better, soon. Some same-sex marriage supporters are urging people to “call in gay” Wednesday to show how much the country relies on gays and lesbians, but others question whether it’s wise to encourage skipping work given the nation’s economic distress. Organizers of “Day Without a Gay” — scheduled to coincide with International Human Rights Day and modeled after similar

David Thompson provides the follow-up to Bill Ayers’ absurd self-justification: Eco-hippies break into Stansted Airport, disrupting flights for 3 days. The Guardian thinks it’s all in a good cause. “It’s odd how some are so keen to dismiss the ‘normal democratic processes’ in favour of undemocratic, criminal – and much more exciting – avenues. Specifically, avenues unburdened by details like persuasion, verification and reasoned argument, and which instead hold passengers

When the Washington Nationals played their first-ever baseball game in the nation’s capital in April 2005, two congressmen who oversaw mortgage giant Freddie Mac had choice seats — courtesy of the very company they were supposed to be keeping an eye on. Efforts to tighten government regulation were gaining support on Capitol Hill, and Freddie Mac was fighting back. The baseball tickets for home opener were means of influence. According

in Oxford Children’s Dictionary: Oxford University Press has removed words like “aisle”, “bishop”, “chapel”, “empire” and “monarch” from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like “blog”, “broadband” and “celebrity”. Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been culled. The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society. But academics and head teachers said that the

A response to an earlier post: Talk about arrogance, but apparently New York Times Columnist Timothy Egan wants to stop Joe the Plumber from being allowed to have his book published and calls the government oppressed blue collar man a “no good citizen” and a “no good plumber.” Arrogantly, Egan imagines that Joe somehow doesn’t deserve to have a book deal. Egan imagines himself more qualified than Joe to write

Worldwide Jihadi Industries has the cure! Rania al-Ambaki was rescued after officials jammed cell phone signals near where she was chained up. The young woman may have been drugged by Al-Qaeda before she was chained down. CBS News reported: Rania al Ambaki was handcuffed to a gate at an Iraq security checkpoint. She was a human bomb, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Suspicious officers immobilized her, jammed cell phone

Jan 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. Feb 22, 1933 – 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police. Feb 27, 1933 – Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere. Feb 28, 1933 – Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire. March 22, 1933 – Nazis open Dachau concentration

Via Insty, Eric Posner on Bill “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird” Ayers: ERIC POSNER: Was Bill Ayers a terrorist? Pretty much. “Under current law, Ayers was a terrorist. This definition is not idiosyncratic; similar definitions can be found in the laws of foreign countries and in international treaties. Ayers seems to think he ought to be excused for violence because his motives were good, but that is the

Stolen from PsyBlog: We tend to think of our emotions as having laws unto themselves, but one psychological researcher has suggested that our emotions do follow certain general rules. This post begins a new series on the psychology of emotions with Professor Nico Frijda’s twelve laws of the emotions (Fridja, 2006). As for most laws there are exceptions, but these have been synthesised from years of psychological research and hold