In a recent posting, Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students, Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown focuses of the most recent—or one of the most recent—follies de jour in America’s academia, rage among four students at Columbia who discovered that Ovid’s Metamorphoses contain a whole lotta rape. According to the complaint, one student “said her professor…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Just white bread folks, huh? I don’t think so.” “A striking case of technological convergence, yes. But somehow it’s still scaring the shit out of me.” “Damn! You never know what’s going to come out of those things!” “Are they bringing us toast or taking our butter? That’s the question.” “Must be…
Hundreds of armed, fat, white, tattooed, motorcycle-riding Texans arrested after a bloody shootout that left 9 dead, signifying nothing
That’s right. No one has used this as an excuse to make negative statements about people who ride motorcycles or who are armed, fat, white, tattooed, or from Texas. Because there’s nothing America hates more than invidious moral generalizations based on a sample of one! Afterwords But it is apparently OK to refer to the…
42 Democrats in search of a policy
I don’t know if the recent vote in the Senate by 42 Democratic senators that temporarily derailed President Obama’s Pacific trade package was purely for show, but I suspect that much of it was. Politics is a two-way street, after all, and a smart politician always works both sides when he can. But there’s no…
Why I’m voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton in November 2016
Actually, I won’t be, because I live in the District of Columbia, which always votes Democratic, giving me the luxury of voting my conscience. But if I were living in a swing state, I’d be pulling that lever for Hillary and pulling it hard, just the way she likes it. Because Hillary, bless her heartless…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Just say ‘Who was your father, Leatherface?’ Trust me, it’ll kill.” “Just say that you only support juggling that doesn’t destroy the environment.” “Ask him where he’ll be when all the kids with one hand start showing up at the emergency room.” “Just say that you’re going to use your chainsaw on…
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, cracking down on the Yellow Peril
Bloomberg has a nice—“nice” as in hideously ugly—story on the Dept. of Homeland Security’s passionate determination to investigate anything that might turn out to be worth investigating, particularly if the facts were different. For a variety of reasons, it’s a thing in China to have your baby in the U.S., if you’ve got the cash….
Baltimore Morals
Kudos, a bit belated, to Radley Balko for punching up (or perhaps down) against the “black people are just as scary as ever and it’s all Obama’s fault!” meme being pushed by the Right in the wake of the brief Baltimore riot, during which, to the disappointment of many “conservatives”, I suspect, no one was…
Nick Morgan Quintet—“Ask Me Now”
Performing at the Rex, Oct. 21, 2014. Nick Morgan Alto Saxophone; Brain O’Kane Trumpet; Lee Wallace Guitar; Jon Meyer Double Bass; Morgan Childs Drums. Posted by Eugene Beck
The British are not coming!
Conservative “analysts” are worried, as well they should be, that the British lion is no longer willing to play up, and play the game. A week before the election, the Washington Post could already read the handwriting on the wall: “the overarching result is already clear: A stalwart U.S. ally is growing weaker, more inwardly…