Thanks @Eagles and Coach Kelly for giving me the opportunity to play the game I love! Romans 8:28 #Blessed — Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) September 5, 2015 I have always been impressed by Tebow’s affability, and his refusal to play the tit-for-tat game that modern media insists upon. I have no idea whether Tebow is good…
Shorter CNN: “John Paul Who?”
Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way first: yes, I watch CNN, for a variety of reasons. (I don’t particularly like FoxNews’s format and I’m not watching MSNBC. Although lately I’ve been watching that One America News Network, but it can’t keep up with breaking news.) Anyway. My wife and I…
Once In A Lifetime
…Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment of history and exactly the right place… This will change too, very quickly. Like a planet spinning off into the universe. A moment like this won’t come again for a thousand years… As I contemplate the dire state of our nation and the world, and the current presidential aspirations…
This Anti-Islamic Microaggression Shall Not Stand: “Stampede” Refers To Animals, Not People
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and a host of other major newspapers and other media have insulted Islam with their ignorant or intentional use of the word “stampede.” The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition clearly states that stampede is: A sudden panicked rush of a number…
Is Health Care Demand Really Elastic?
In an otherwise unremarkable article about what everyone who is paying any attention has seen, and remarked upon, The Washington Post repeats a claim that seems more and more suspicious to me. Higher deductibles are a tool to reduce unnecessary health-care use, because people are more likely to think twice about seeing a doctor or…
Yogi Berra: 1925-2015
I have nothing new to say about Laurence Peter Berra. I never met him, have no relationship with The NY Yankees other than being a fan, and never even saw him play, although my grandfather took me to a Mets game when Berra was managing in the early 1970s, so I have some connection! But…
The Monster That Will Not Die
To promote a recent Royal Albert Hall concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D Major, the BBC commissioned a caricature of famed violinist Leopold Auer for the show playbill. Auer was such a master of the instrument in his day that composers, including Tchaikovsky himself, wrote music specifically to highlight his mastery of the instrument. So, of course,…
Tentative Thoughts on Academic Freedom
So there’s been a ongoing dustup in my field over an article about a blowjob. No seriously. HuffPo of all places has a decent enough rundown (although a few months old, since then Prof. Dreger became former Professor Dreger by resigning in protest, plus some other back and forth in the Chronicle of Higher Ed that…
Am I Becoming A Populist?
Not really….or at least not in the historical sense, but this definition is oddly pleasing in a time in which our political representatives conspicuously, publicly, arrogantly reject the desires of those who elected them. Populist:a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people As a callow youth I sneered at the populist…
A Useful Idiot Self-Identifies
‘Why I’ve finally given up on the left Left-wing thought has shifted towards movements it would once have denounced as racist, imperialist and fascistic. It is insupportable Source: Why I’ve finally given up on the left » The Spectator I find young Cohen’s epiphany fascinating. A dim bulb – about the wattage of one in…