Bravo, Michael Ramirez

… an Army that can be defeated by a kerfuffle on Twitter … The U.S. Army has deleted a tweet that used the term “chinks” in armor after people freaked out that the same word can be used in a completely different context as a racial slur against people of Chinese descent. “Chinks in special ops’ digital and physical armor poses challenges, experts say,” the tweet read, followed by a

He passed away Thursday at the age of 81. Washington (AFP) – US poet, songwriter and singer Rod McKuen, a multiple Academy Award nominee, has died at the age of 81, US media reported. McKuen died on Thursday in Los Angeles of respiratory arrest after suffering from pneumonia, friend and producer Jim Pierson said, according to the Los Angeles Times. His work included the Academy Award-nominated song “Jean” for the

#nailedit

— And though he does his best to present its illiberal aspects as at least minimally intellectually justifiable — using perverse grievance politics and self-fulfilling prophecies about power relations themselves belied by the outsized wielding of power over discourse the self-styled oppressed and marginalized possess — in the end what is revealed is what I’ve been writing about here consistently since the inception of this site back in 2001, and

But hey, we can take care of that, I think. After all, Christie has overseen NJ’s credit-rating tanks, and Bush — well, Common Core, amnesty, “center-rightest,” et al. Both fit this description perfectly: ” he is the wrong man at the wrong time representing the wrong people.” Then of course, there’s Princess Lindsey. Who is a McCain favorite. And there’s nothing more important in a GOP primary than the imprimatur

Since February 1st is Superbowl Sunday — as well as my birthday (I’ll pass on the cake, thanks. It’s broccoli and carrots in a light ranch dip all the way down for me from here on out) — I figured I’d go ahead and get this posted now before most people, myself included, disappear for the winter version of spring break. Not only is my birthday on Superbowl Sunday this

Some of you have emailed me about getting your kids involved in wrestling or martial arts, so I’ve decided to suggest a few training aids that really work. Here are a few tools that I think will prove useful, both for kids and for adults looking to get into grappling / wrestling / MMA: Iowa Style Snapper: working the head is a crucial skill, and developing the functional strength and

Idiocracy incarnate. Which, I suspect, we’re supposed to see as the “democratization” of education rather than what it truly is, the corruption of intellectualism and the intentional formation of a benighted and propagandized civic base easily won over by arguments appealing to emotionalism, identity politics, and bumper-sticker bromides. From The Federalist Papers blog: There’s a delightful and true saying, often attributed to Joseph Sobran, that in a hundred years, we’ve

A friend of mine — a liberal, but she’s showing signs of slipping now that I’ve gotten my hooks into her — represents a group of adjunct teachers at a Colorado community college who have tried to bring legislation that would give adjunct professors and teachers more say in their departments, if not things such as health care, etc. Currently, some 75% of university teacher positions are held by adjuncts,