Progressive Grad Student:  “So as part of my community service work with children (we’d recently completed our “Bravo Kyoto” poster, macramed from hemp and freshly picked daisies, and finished with rainbow glitter), we were gathered this morning into a sharing circle watching Playtime Disney’s “Higglytown Heroes”—a show to which I generally give high marks, promoting as it does the idea that each member of the community is equal in social

Hmmm.  Where have I heard this argument before?  From the WSJ: […] There is little doubt that the Washington Post story on alleged prisons in Europe has done enormous damage—at a minimum, to our ability to secure future cooperation in the war on terror from countries that don’t want their assistance to be exposed. Likewise, the New York Times wiretapping exposé may have ruined one of our most effective anti-al

From the Spain Herald: The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” The PSOE’s justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans. …and 99% with

Referencing an LA Times story, the New Editor’s Tom Elia notes that teachers unions are steering their members into inappropriate retirement plans that charge abnormally large fees, in return for which the unions receive millions in payments from the investment companies that set up the accounts. These transactions effectively transfer large portions of the teachers’ retirement savings into income streams for the unions—and is done mostly without the knowledge of

Fausta’s blog looks at the latest (disputed) brainchild of progressive French thinking:  Airbus passengers fly standing up! Which, judging from the conceptual pictures printed in the Times UK, uses a harness and bar system similar to something you might find on a EuroDisney adult ride.  Or, for the less sanguine, a personal caging system similar to something you’d find in a slaughterhouse, just before the spring-loaded bolt squares up the

From CNN: Fox News’ Tony Snow is set to move from the anchor chair to the hot seat, agreeing to take on the role of White House press secretary amid slumping poll ratings for President Bush. The appointment of Snow, who has formally accepted the job, will be announced Wednesday morning, according to three Republican sources familiar with Snow’s discussions with the White House. He will replace Scott McClellan, who

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is Patterico, whose one man crusade to bring the LA Times to account for its ideological bias is becoming the stuff of legend. 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

Christopher Hitchens takes on the McCarthy leak, and taunts those whose outrage over the Plame affair was as cynical and manufactured as, well…whatever their previous cynical and manufactured outrage was.  Honestly, there have been so many that it’s impossible to keep them straight without a flow chart.  But I digress.  Here’s Hitchens: […] instead of being rewarded for her probity, Mary McCarthy has been given the sack. And the New

The Online Houston Chronicle has asked the lovely Rightwingsparkle to be its conservative blogger. You can visit her here, where she is blogging under the name of “TexasSparkle.” Which is helpful, insofar as it reminds some Houstonians that they aren’t living in, say, California or New York. Congrats, and best of luck!

From Reuters: An official in Turkey’s ruling party has been arrested for chewing gum while laying a wreath at a monument to the country’s revered founder Kemal Ataturk, the state Anatolian news agency said on Monday. Veysel Dalci, head of the local branch of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Black Sea town of Fatsa, was charged with insulting Ataturk’s memory during Sunday’s ceremony marking Turkey’s National Sovereignty