This is appalling. Not especially surprising, since we’re talking about a group of people who stand to benefit from having the dumbest population possible. I mean, why don’t we just fucking outlaw education? This won’t hurt a huge majority of Americans, but it will do some rather on-point damage to my family, for instance. One reason my sister took her

I cannot begin to describe how truly frightening this is. Never mind, for just a second, what this says about the brain-dead politics The Future of America® is buying into. What about the abject failure of the education system that’s producing this new generation of Hitlerjungen? Nicked from today’s Benton Communications-related Headlines: US STUDENTS SAY PRESS FREEDOMS GO TOO FAR

[Thx to the dad-in-law for passing this on.] I love U2. My favorite band, and in my view easily one of the greatest bands that ever lived. Some days I’ll even argue that they have eclipsed The Beatles as the greatest ever. Not only that, I’ve seen them in person three times, and they are hands-down the best live band

Well, this is certainly good news.

Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi has died of stomach cancer at 60. RIP.

This is a new piece by Cody Barstow, who I’ve been trying to get into blogging forever, and I may finally be getting to him. The article essentially argues that, well, here’s a snip: A volunteer force is the perfect way for a government to avoid dissent in the country. Respect for the fallen and living precludes dissent….With a draft,

This is great news for the Nuggets, I think. I’ve literally been waiting for Denver to start talking to Karl since about this time last year. I’m not sure he’s the guy who can get them to the mountaintop, but I do think that within three years he can get them pretty close. We’ll see – I’m also expecting a

Well, there you have it. I’m a Ravenclaw!

See, I don’t know what these two morons were thinking. Last words: “Hey, Bubba, why don’t we go see can we find some heat-packin’, snuff-dippin’ white trash to rob?” When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby and Gloria Doster never hesitated. The pair pulled out their own

After that last uncalled for little snark, it occurred to me to wonder what Ben Fong-Torres had to say about his portrayal in Almost Famous (something I have meant to investigate ever since I saw the movie, but never got around to). I mean, he came off looking like a king-sized cut of USDA Prime putz, so it made me

About Rolling Stone’s refusal to run that Bible ad – I spoke too soon. Thanks to karlchristian for pointing me at the, ummm, clarification? “We have addressed the internal miscommunications that led to the previous misstatement of company policy and apologize for any confusion it may have caused,” Lisa Dallos, spokeswoman for Wenner Media, Rolling Stone’s parent company, said Monday.

There is much to hate about Bill Gates, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been a Gates hata for years. But there’s also much to admire in the man, and his commitment to global health issues – $7B donated in the last ten years or so – ranks right at the top of the list. His business

1. Hmmm. Let’s see. Guard the perimeter. Pound it inside to the big guy that nobody on the other team can stop. Don’t feel a need to force three-pointers. Result: Wake Forest 74, Cincinnati 70. 2. On a side note, how ’bout that Wake non-conference schedule? It’s not enough that playing the basic ACC schedule this season would automatically give

I’ve said it repeatedly – radical Muslim fundamentalists and the American Right agree on more than they realize. Truth be told, they agree on a lot more than they disagree on. Take today’s CNN item, which begins predictably enough: An Internet recording claiming to be from wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi condemned democracy as “the big American lie” on Sunday

I have long argued that organized Christianity is a whole lot more about Peter and Paul than it is Jesus (a point that somebody like Doestoevsky would no agree with me on) – to the point where I sometimes call it “Paulianity.” But I’m not sure I’d go as far as these folks. And at this stage I have neither