The story. And Lileks’ related screed. [thanks to LGF]

The story. And Lileks’ related screed. [thanks to LGF]

I just caught Bob Odenkirk and Dave Cross plugging their “Mr. Show” DVD on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” Surprisingly, neither of them was very funny. Except maybe twice. But sometimes that’s just the way the Jell-O judicates. Okay, now I just feel silly.

“Four people were killed

“Four people were killed

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last makes the point that ESPN — bowing to Title IX feminists — is biting the hand that feeds it: “First They Came for the Wrestlers“: Some […] creepy programs are scheduled for ESPN this weekend. On Saturday we have ‘On the Basis of Sex: The Battle of Title IX’ and its companion show ‘On the Basis of Sex: An ESPN Town Meeting,’ followed

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last makes the point that ESPN — bowing to Title IX feminists — is biting the hand that feeds it: “First They Came for the Wrestlers“: Some […] creepy programs are scheduled for ESPN this weekend. On Saturday we have ‘On the Basis of Sex: The Battle of Title IX’ and its companion show ‘On the Basis of Sex: An ESPN Town Meeting,’ followed

Suman Palit (of the always informative Kolkata Libertarian) writes his ode to Israel. Well, it’s more of a list than an ode, really. But if you ignore the numbers, and excuse the fact that nothing much rhymes, and can convince yourself Suman wrote it while sporting a black turtleneck and a beret and sipping a Dry Riesling…it’s a friggin’ ode.

“The days of standing behind your nation may be behind the times. In this new era radicals bolstered by their own sense of self-importance consider their cause more significant than national security.” So begins NYU Professor Herbert London’s latest column in The American Prowler. Dr. London continues: Take as an example the Greenpeace plan to post a color map on the Internet showing how a terrorist attack on the Kuehne

Are “soft values” — “sensitivity, subjectivity, tolerance, self-esteem, a therapy-based view of behavior, relativism, and nonjudgmentalism, all replacing the ‘hard’ values of individual responsibility, objectivity, self-control, patriotism, strong social expectations, and commitment to moral judgments” — adequate to the job of fighting terrorism? John Leo ponders: If you think soft values are adequate for the job, the behavior of Johnelle Bryant should set off bells. Bryant, a Department of Agriculture