Tar and feathers … One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I’ll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn’t have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested
June 2015
June 10, 2015
“Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial'” [Darleen Click]
KC Johnson writes on yet another episode of Facts be damned, the man is always guilty … Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of innocence doesn’t count. Amherst expelled a student for committing rape—despite text messages from the accuser, sent immediately after the alleged assault, (1) telling one student that
June 10, 2015
Process as Punishment: DOJ targets libertarian Reason Magazine [Darleen Click]
Ken White: The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution. DOJ is targeting Reason.com, a leading libertarian website whose clever writing is eclipsed only by the blowhard stupidity of its commenting peanut gallery. Why is the government using its vast power to identify these obnoxious asshats, and not
June 9, 2015
When there are no standards for marriage, marriage will cease to exist … [Darleen Click]
Same-sex marriage is being considered inevitable (and anyone who even questions it will be punished). Now on to the next frontier — let’s watch serious lawyers seriously arguing that there is a constitutional right to polygamy The Emory Law Journal has a symposium on the constitution and polygamous marriage. Some articles are on whether the government may criminalize adults entering into polygamous religious marriages, even when the parties aren’t claiming
June 8, 2015
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” [Darleen Click]
Favorite headline of week. He pitches righty, lefty — and evidently, also underwater. Faces Aquaman in next outing. pic.twitter.com/efxaQxFp8Z — Neill Woelk (@NeillWoelk) June 8, 2015
June 7, 2015
What?? You expect teachers to know the subject they’re teaching???!! You cad!! You reprobate!! [Darleen Click]
You RAAAAACIST! A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding the test of knowledge illegally discriminated against racial minorities due to their lower scores. At first glance, the city’s second Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST-2) seems fairly innocuous. Unlike the unfair literacy tests of Jim Crow, LAST-2 was given to every teaching candidate in New York,
June 7, 2015
Fascism and Communism – sister ideologies [Darleen Click]
This morning’s history lesson: via Smitty
June 6, 2015
WTH? Saudi Arabia Hosting UN Human Rights Conference on Religious Freedom [Darleen Click]
Worthy of The Onion — Despite its reputation as one the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, Saudi Arabia is now hosting in Jeddah a UN human rights conference on combating intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, attended by the president of the UN Human Rights Council and other top international representatives. […] UN Watch expressed alarm that the participation of Ambassador Joachim Ruecker, president of the UN
June 6, 2015
Islam and Assassin’s Veto strikes again [Darleen Click]
A few days ago there was an essay entitled “On Leaving Islam” … now just this “Religion of Peace”, my ass. h/t Sarah Wells
June 6, 2015
Courage? That’s not courage, this is courage [Darleen Click]
D-Day June 6, 1944 “Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]” ~~ Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love ESPN should go f**k itself.