In context of this, it's really worth watching the whole clip, but especially at the 8:50 point:
Ann Althouse
I've decided to get out of the academia game while the going's so abysmal there's a chance that hope might peak behind a horizon, and like many a former liberal.
Dear Ann, Thanks for the link! And Meade, it's been great! UPDATE [By SL]: As for the idea that it's "small" to want to not want trolls distracting discussion in.
One big problem in America today is that people like Glenn Beck are spouting a lot of bizarre conspiratorial paranoid nonsense in "respectable" high-profile media settings, because their employers have found that encouraging crazy people to regale millions of Americans with pernicious lunacy on a...
As Hendrick Hertzberg points out, for people like Althouse the only significant form of racism left in America appears to be the racism of liberals who patronize black people (by.
Ann Althouse wishes to emphasize that, while Glenn Reynolds based his assumption that Amy Bishop is a left-wing radical on a single RateMyProfessor comment, her own evidence is absolutely airtight:LGM.
I had the same thought as Jason Zengerle; inviting Iranian diplomats to the July 4 embassy picnics was potentially an intelligence gathering opportunity. This appears not to be the case, however. Also, this is the nicest thing that Ann Althouse has ever said about anyone...
The box of wine showed up on her doorstep earlier than usual today, and Ann Althouse is already coughing up her soul to Maureen Dowd:But, really, the complaints you hear.
Thers explains.
Saith Ann Althouse [no link, but you know where to find her]:Really, how bad is it to say "pimped out"? Is it "nappy-headed hos" bad? Did anyone think Shuster was literally calling Chelsea a whore or even making any reference to her womanly virtue? "Pimped...
Well at least we know she was also vapid 30 years ago:I was all set to vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. I'd voted for Carter in the New York.
If you didn't read Molly Ivors' latest deconstruction of Maureen Dowd -- which appears to be part of a much-needed if unintended series -- you owe yourself the pleasure. (It.