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February 9, 2015

51 years ago today … [Darleen Click]

Holy moly Ed Sullivan was the show to watch on Sunday, especially for us after dinner at my grandparent’s home. I very much remember watching this broadcast and thinking “eh, I like The Four Seasons better.” I was only 9.

“First they came for the Jews …” [Darleen Click]

How illiberal and hateful (but I repeat myself) can Leftist students get? Beyond parody … Inside, the anti-Israel students also voted to support a boycott of the U.S., among other countries, through a second Resolution calling for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds. As to the U.S., the grounds for divestment were: WHEREAS, The government of the United States of America is

Crowd-sourcing your non-existent inner polymath [bh]

When I was young I chased every random thought that came along. Isn’t Spanish guitar amazing? Maybe I should waste a week or two embarrassing myself. Russian novelists are interesting in a way that demands an attention to the language itself. Maybe I should learn a couple dozen nouns and adopt the sadly amorphous verb conjugation of an out-of-town man asking how one should best bus or automobile or steel

It takes someone with a PhD in psychology who studies gender to say something so utterly clueless about human sexuality [Darleen Click]

Peggy Dexler, author of a book which celebrates “Raising Boys without Men” … (future prison guards will appreciate her contribution to their job security) … writes about the horrible contribution to the scourge of the “male gaze” that is swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated This year, though, Sports Illustrated has gone too far. In the photo, Davis eager pulls down her bikini bottom and thrusts forward her pelvis in a