Monday, July 31, 2006
A Link (08:30 PM) - Ann Althouse unwinds, and sees the country, and hears country….
Picnic, and Other Words That Are Not Racist (08:13 PM) - It is a special art today, a taught passtime, to discover offense that might be had at things that never seemed offensive to anyone just yesterday. Governor Mitt Romney set off the latest round, with his mention of the “tar…
The Terror in Seattle (07:48 AM) - Man walks into Seattle’s Jewish Federation, shouts, “I am a Muslim-American, angry at Israel,” and shoots five gals. This happened last Friday. But it isn’t terrorism, the FBI says. Hate crime. And the press? Well…Authorities did not release many details,…
College Migration (07:28 AM) - According to this, the college-aged populations of the Northeast and Midwest are dwindling. Where are the kids going? The South, the West….
“Scoop” (06:59 AM) - I am excited to see the new Woody Allen movie, “Scoop”. “Match Point,” his first film with Scarlett Johansson, was the only really good thing I saw in 2005. If 2006 tracks similarly, his second with Johansson may be just…
University Partisanship and the Service Gap (06:41 AM) - Via a reader who describes it all as “rather shameful” and via Pajamas Media, there is this report at National Review Online of 1) The growing gap twixt rich and poor in duty to the United States of America, and…