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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

by Diane Ellis on September 10, 2008 / /
During the Democratic primaries and shortly thereafter, one of Barack Obama’s biggest rallying cries was that he was the chosen leader to make friends with the world that has come to loathe us in the past eight years. But suddenly,…

by Joe Malchow on September 10, 2008 / /
Eric Gibson, a man with excellent taste, reacts to the Metropolitan Museum’s appointment of Thomas Campbell as its next director: “It served notice that [the Met] is quite happy, thank you, to continue to stand athwart the fads and fancies…

by Jennifer Bandy on September 10, 2008 / /
My father, a Trojan fan through and through, instilled in me a love of college football from a young age. Unfortunately, Dartmouth football has not exactly proven inspiring over the years. Each season I muster my enthusiasm and hope for…

by Jennifer Bandy on September 10, 2008 / /
Tim Rutten has some interesting commentary over at the LA Times about that crucial voting block, the Catholics. It seems these days that church and state are intersecting more than ever. Democrats, who have mercilessly ridiculed the religious right in…

by Joe Malchow on September 10, 2008 / /

by Joe Malchow on September 10, 2008 / /
Just a few days ago, when the reaction to Sarah Palin’s national début showed that it had been a smash, it was reported that the Obama Campaign was hastily dispatching a cabal of woman Democrats through whom, it was imagined,…

by Zak Moore on September 10, 2008 / /
A recent opinion piece in the Times entitled “No Need for Speed” advances the idea that car should not be manufactured with the ability to go faster than posted speed limits. It is one of the silliest ideas (to put…

by Joe Malchow on September 10, 2008 / /
Both Camile Paglia and Anne Kornblut published pieces today that make no mention whatever of lipstick or barnyard fauna. They both have substantially the same thesis: Golly, isn’t Sarah Palin something? (That’s a sketchy translation, from their more learned cants.)…

by Joe Malchow on September 10, 2008 / /
Because Russell Brand (Who is Russell Brand? We do not know. More on that below.) needs more color. Anyway, in The Sun today you can read two hilarious jokes, proposed by Brand, which MTV could not countenance at its Video…

by Zak Moore on September 10, 2008 / /
About a month ago, reported the LA Times: “Firebombs that struck the home and car of two UC Santa Cruz scientists this weekend were part of an increasingly aggressive campaign by animal rights activists against animal researchers at University of…

by Zak Moore on September 10, 2008 / /
A great and funny article, from Inside Higher Ed, entitled “Viewbook Diversity vs. Real Diversity.” The subject matter is just like it sounds: the tension between inflated, artificial, and superficial group diversity and that which respects and learns from individual…

by Zak Moore on September 10, 2008 / /
I am very excited to report that Jennifer Horn has won the GOP primary race and will be the Republican candidate to challenge Democrat Paul Hodes in the New Hampshire 2nd. Horn has been a vocal critic of the kind…

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