I’m posting from my class today, so this will be short so my boss and students don’t see that I’m slacking. Via the AP we have the nugget that punishment for Hillary! is unlikely. So much of this seems to hinge on the idea that nothing was marked classified, even though people I know who had…
Month: August 2015
Great Moments in Leftist History
Ever wonder where that hyphenated American rubbish started? You know, where seemingly everyone describes himself as a [fill in the ethnicity]-American? Whatever happened to the melting pot? The story is both fascinating and disturbing. It involves Bella Dodd, who was sort of a distaff version of Whitaker Chambers, a one-time functionary of the Communist Party…
Paddy, We Hardly Knew Ye.
“A real mad prophet.” 39 years ago, as my senior year of high school was just kicking off, I wandered into the converted classroom that served as the office of our school paper. Desks, chairs, a cabinet, a few typewriters and our mascot, a deer head which we called “the moose” mounted over the blackboard. Not exactly…
Freedom Is Often Rather Stupid Looking
The artistic tradition in Israel is strong and, because it is a modern country beset with all of the usual post-modern cultural crap, it has performances like the one above; from a street fair in Bat Yam a bunch of “artists” dressing up in onesies and prancing about like children. I have contempt for most…
Alaska’s Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali: Thank You Barack Obama For Continuing Your War On America
Alaska’s Mount McKinley to be renamed Denali by the Secretary of The Interior Sally Jewell who is, by the way, about as ugly and mannish looking as a woman can be. “Generally believed to be central to the Athabaskan creation story, Denali is a site of significant cultural importance to many Alaska natives,” the White…
Speaking of Academic Craziness …
Professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal alien,” “male,” or “female.” Source: Professors threaten bad grades for saying ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ ‘female’ Further proof, if any were needed that the inmates have taken over the asylum in higher education. If there were…
The Case Against Pete Rose
No, not Major League Baseball’s technical case. I really don’t care whether the commissioner has enough evidence to keep him out of baseball, or more probably just limit his exposure. This is a sport that has embraced Mark McGwire. What I care about is whether he gets into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. And…
Go set a Watchman, a brief review.
(Spoilers ahead, because I’m not going to try to figure out what’s a spoiler and what’s not.) So Harper Lee’s lost book was published a few weeks back. There was some controversy over the publishing of it due to Lee’s diminished capacity. I’m not going to go too deep into that because it’s complicated and…
I Want YOU (To Tell Me If This Is Hate Speech)
So, you nick round to the local pub for a pint and when you excuse yourself to go to the john to “have a gypsy’s” you come face to face with this; what at first seems like an iconic shot of Lord Kitchener on the public message board is in fact pure unwashed, unreconstructed bigotry. Wow!…
The Coming Rift Among American Jews Is Long Overdue
The New York Times is reliably pro-Obama, which means they are reliably anti-Israel. Nothing new there…they have been uncomfortable with the whole “Never Again” idea for decades. How dare the Jews fight for themselves! Just line up and meekly walk into the gas chambers…. And today’s article about the tension in the American-Jewish community about…