Meant to put this up yesterday—sorry! No posts this weekend. I’m in London, covering the wedding! Just kidding. I’m in Minnesota.
What is Obama hiding? Why haven’t we seen these documents? His daughter is allergic to MAN’S BEST FRIEND. Is Obama? Is that the sort of man we want leading the free world? Does he hate dogs? Is he allergic to toxic coal dust? Is that why his energy plan discriminates so heavily against fossil fuel … Continue reading
From last month’s Washingtonian: Even some of his outside interests seem like curve balls. Skeet shooting, basketball, and paintball games may be standard fare for a churchgoing family man, but not so much belting out the Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight” at karaoke night as he’s been known to do. “After Run-DMC,” says Cuccinelli, … Continue reading
The Washington Post‘s (birthday boy) Dana Milbank “explains” Obama’s subtlety: The political right is befuddled as it tries to explain him: First, Obama was a tyrant and a socialist; now he’s a weakling who refuses to lead. The political left is almost as confused, demanding to know why Obama gave away so much on health … Continue reading
This is wholly uncharacteristic of Pep, and it doesn’t quite fit with my prior distinction between him and Mourinho, but I understand. Why? Well… Righteous Anger > Indulgent Complaining? Or, maybe it’s simply impossible NOT to get dragged into the gutter with José? Something like that. (Much more worrisome, I think, is Barça keeper Victor Valdés … Continue reading
For about a week now, I’ve been thinking about Freddie DeBoer’s piece on cynicism in university education. Something just seemed off, but I couldn’t figure it out until today. So… Yesterday I taught my last section for the semester, erased the chalkboard, turned out the lights, and biked home fully-immersed in that familiar post-teaching emotional … Continue reading
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten’s piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal was another piece of evidence showing the awkward political torsion that education reform inflicts on American political divisions. Think about it: Weingarten’s piece was entitled “Markets Aren’t the Education Solution.” She’s a union leader. It appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Are … Continue reading
Andrew Sullivan picks up the surprisingly-active public discussion on hell (too good not to cite almost all of it): My worry is that hell in the afterlife distracts from the hell here and now. That hell, in Christian theology, is about rejecting the unconditional love of God, because we refuse to recognize it, because we feel unworthy … Continue reading
Just a quick follow-up to last month’s post on the new American majority favoring the legalization of same-sex marriage (chart by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight):
To this day, I haven’t found a more compelling analysis of Americans’ environmental weakness than Keb’ Mo’s “Victims of Comfort.” I’m not crazy about this particular video version, but the song is peerless:
