I'll have more to say about this later, but I'm out the door for a Christmas dinner with my partner's family. Merry Christmas, Lord P.Of course, the British university system never really recovered from the Thatcher slash and burn approach, only just recently recovering a...
things that make me want to drink
In what surely must rank as one of the most ingenious draft-day choices since the ascent of Sam Bowie to the NBA, I actually paid several dollars for the pitching.
Shorter Krauthammer:The Bush Doctrine? It's forty different things! It's democracy, whiskey and sexy! It's John Kennedy! Suck on that, Charles Gibson!Here's a testimony to the profound fucktacularity of the Bush.
Jesus, make it stop:More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard...
Between visits to Beefaroo, the family and I managed to spend a few days in Chicago during our recent venture to the midwest. Just before heading off to O'Hare for.
I thought I'd seen seen some awful graduation ceremonies in my day, but Jeebus! At Wash U. in St. Louis, Chris Matthews will give the commencement address, and Phyllis "Rape.
Just so you know, Richard Perle really wishes we'd turned Iraq over to the Iraqi National Congress -- which is to say the people who loaded the Bush administration's trencher with all the bullshit they could gobble with a gigantic wooden spoon.Having noted that, I'm...
Conservapedia has the scorecard. Give yourself a point for each entry that sounds familiar. Take a celebratory drink for those in bold. Give yourself two points if you have no.
. . . I'm wondering if I should send the following e-mail to the dozen or so students who warm the chairs in my Wednesday night course:Folks-As some of you.
I just finished teaching an upper-division US history course in which my students read -- and I swear I'm not making this up -- Kim Du Toit's repellant 2003 essay on "The Pussification of the Western Male". The class had just finished Gail Bederman's Manliness...