Month: November 2009

Home / (Page 5)

Pishtacos

By
|
On November 21, 2009

From the “subplot excised from The Road for being too disturbing and creepy” file: Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fa

Tenure and Equity

By
|
In Uncategorized
|
On November 20, 2009
Via Berube, Dean Dad uses the fact that a recent Supreme Court decision has been interpreted by lower courts in ways that have undermined the academic freedom of public university professors to…argue against tenure. Now, there are certainly good arguments to be made against the tenure system (especially in high schools, where research generally isn’t […]

Track? Mat? Court?

By
|
On November 20, 2009

The esteemed Dr. Noon is not the only blogger to be studying Going Rogue in depth. See also Going Commando, who supplies indispensable detail on the naming conventions within the Palin family…

Who?

By
|
In Dave Brockington
|
On November 20, 2009
The European Union selected its President and High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice President for External Affairs. In the classic stereotype of the dull gray bureaucrat, they’ve selected a couple of relative lightweights (given the nature and stature of the position) whom nobody outside of their jobs, families, and closest work colleagues […]

Going Rogue, Chapter 2

By
|
On November 19, 2009

The funniest sentence thus far in Going Rogue occurs about a third of the way through the second chapter when our heroine — speaking through the Palinese translator Lynn Vincent — declares

Smeared By A Murderer

By
|
On November 18, 2009

A great catch by Cole, who notes that a new CNN special should remind us that one of the chief witnesses in the extremely thin and frequently illogical witchhunt against Scott Beauchamp, First Sergean

1 4 5 6 14
It is main inner container footer text