Of no particular import, really—the battle isn’t mine, after all—but I thought I’d point this out anyway, if only because it touches on much of the drama we’ve experienced here over the last week or so.  In a post titled “Platform Twelve,” Norm Geras—who no one with an ounce of intellectual integrity could mistake for an arch conservative bent on using linguistic premises as some sort of fascist tool to

*Must Credit protein wisdom* Details are still a bit fuzzy, but I have it from reliable sources that both Fitzgerald and Rove were spotted today—alive as any pair of randy zoo monkeys. Which means that Jason Leopold is still eligible for the Pulitzer.  Thank goodness.

I think Al Gore just shed a tear — though whether out of grudging gratitude or because his worldview has be shaken to the core is a matter of some dispute. Or maybe it was just something to do with an onion. (h/t Dave Price)

From Cathy Young: England’s National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) has voted for an academic boycott on Israeli institutions of higher education that do not renounce Israel’s “apartheid policy.” […] Also today, the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the largest labor union in Canada, voted in favor of a boycott of Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians. Are these boycotts anti-Semitic?

me: “Wow.  I feel really great all of a sudden.” Klonopin:  “You’re welcome.  Say, by way of thanks, howsabout you introduce me to some of those Flintstone’s vitamins of yours?  I’ve always had a bit of crush on that Betty Rubble, and from what I’ve been hearing around the medicine cabinet, I don’t think she’s all that happy with Barney anymore.  And Wilma…well, she’s always been the experimenting type.  If

From the Australian, “New Literature Course ‘Too Political’”: The subject that would replace English literature in West Australian high schools encourages political and moral sermonising, according to a noted English professor who shares the concerns of teachers lobbying against the changes to the course. Poet Dennis Haskell, the University of Western Australia’s acting head of English, Communication and Cultural Studies, said it was sad that the draft consultation exam for

Rarely of late have I encountered descriptions of my theoretics that I believe are intellectually honest.  And that don’t incorporate the word “paste.” Which is why I am happy to highlight one that I must admit delights me to no end: Goldstein, it seems to me, is the academic left’s nightmare of what Michaelsian thought can produce”—Scott Eric Kaufman, writing at The Valve (a discussion site for those invested in

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guests are TKS’s Jim Geraghty and Jawa Report Rusty Shackleford Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Again.  Which explains my tinny, nasally voice.  And of course my failure to respect the online identities of certain community

Reid: “One Whopper with cheese, an order of onion rings, and a Diet Coke, please.” BK drive-thru girl:  “What size on the onion rings and the Diet Coke?” Reid: “Oh, may as well go ahead and make them both larges.  I mean, it’s not like I’m going to pay for the stuff—not when I plan on studying the effects of deep-fried onion and cheese-draped flame-broiled beef on the average white

“Man, that Goldstein is one paste-eating moron, man. And I soooo mean that!”