First:  “Pennsylvania Court Orders Sperm Donor to Lesbian Couple to Pay Child Support”: A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple conceive two children is liable for child support under a state appellate court ruling that a legal expert believes might be the first of its kind in the U.S. A Superior Court panel last week ordered a Dauphin County judge to establish how much Carl L. Frampton Jr. would

In the WaPo: George Tenet and, more important, our premier intelligence organization managed to find weapons of mass destruction that did not exist while failing to find links to terrorists that did—all while missing completely the rise of Islamist fundamentalism. We have made only a down payment on the price of that failure. Slam dunk. See also Imamasses, below.

[INT:  ROADHOUSE.  DALTON EXAMINES A SMALL KNIFE WOUND ON HIS ARM; I MARVEL AT HIS HAIR] Dalton:  “Pain don’t hurt.” me:  “Sure it does. Or else what you’re talking about isn’t, by definition, ‘pain.’” Dalton: Dalton: Dalton:  “Why do you have to be such a dick?” ~ finis ~

…when it begins with an audible popping sound in the middle of your upper back—and you aren’t naked and being straddling by a trio of hookers holding just-opened bottles of Cristal. Anybody know of a do-it-yourself home traction kit?  Delivery a must.

Inside Higher Ed asks, apparently in all seriousness, “Inclusivity or Tokenism?” Not much on nuance—and saddled with the disturbing habit of recognizing a rhetorical question when we see one—we classical liberals are revoltingly cocksure in our assertion that demanding a woman appear in a panel discussion as a condition of accepting the validity of the historical scholarship at issue, is rather clearly tokenism, and trivializes women scholars as “diversity” place

…at Hamline University. Which is odd, because I was almost certain universities had gotten around the accusation that they routinely crush dissent by installing pen-sized free speech zones where such untoward musings are grudgingly allowed.  In the name of “tolerance.” Guess some free speech is just too hurtful for the enlightened arbiters of appropriate discourse.  If it goes “bang,” it must be muzzled.  Unless it’s, say, Clinton’s penis, around which

Simone: I know you’re right, Pee-wee, but… Pee-wee: Everyone I know has a big “But…” C’mon, Simone, let’s talk about *your* big ”But”. Yaser El-Menshawy, chairman of the Majlis Ash-Shura of New Jersey, the state’s council of mosques, condemned the plot and said he is glad it was not carried out. BUT he said the motivation of people who plot against the government “cannot be stopped simply by law enforcement

It’s come to this.  From Orson Scott Card: In last Sunday’s News and Record, columnist Andrew Brod heaped ridicule on those who dare to contest the religion of global warming. What is his proof? He doesn’t think he needs any. In fact, he’s against proof. He likes it when governments make massive changes without any evidence that those changes are necessary. He spends his whole column citing political documents like

From The Rocky Mountain News: A 21-year old Mesa County man appeared at the courthouse in Grand Junction Tuesday afternoon and walked past a sign saying security personnel will search briefcases, purses and pockets.  he presented himself at the security station and put into a designated tray a marijuana pipe with burnt residue in the bowl.  He was issued a summons for possession of drug paraphernalia. See?  No good deed

But for many security experts, the men’s motivation is what serves as the starkest warning. ”The animosity felt toward the United States isn’t something just outside our borders,” says Bruce Hoffman, a professor of securities studies at Georgetown University in Washington. “There are obviously people inside this country who have the same hostility and are prepared to use violence.” We see this hatred every day from nutroot bloggers and trolls.