Banning books and substituting “racial harassment”

And at a university, of all places:
MY RACIAL HARASSMENT NIGHTMARE - New York Post

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Heed the Wisdom Of Gaia

I missed this yesterday, but it’s worth reading to prepare for next year’s festivities:
Classical Values :: The Songs Of Distant Earth Days
To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, environmentalists have predicted 8 of the last 0 planet-ending disasters. Between the man-made industrial ice age, crushing overpopulation, acid rain, lethal oceans, and Venus-like clouds of toxic smog cloaking the [...]

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Iraq: Two wars, one battlefield

I mostly agree with this analysis:
The Jawa Report: The Two Wars in Iraq & Mistaken Republican Support for Obama
I also agree with the view that in a broader historical context, all three Iraqi wars (including Desert Storm back in 1991) are really just individual battles in a much longer, larger war against the multinational forces [...]

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“We need more white people.”

Said Michelle Obama’s event managers, as she prepared to make yet another self-defeating speech.
“And double check to make sure they’re typical!”

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Those class notes are on a Need To Know basis!

What an incredibly stupid lawsuit:
Lawsuit Claim: Students’ Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor’s Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.com
The textbook company and the Professor are scared to death that eeeevil students are going to steal their precious knowledge. I assume they also require the students to sign an NDA before attending classes (that’s a joke, I [...]

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Better Dead Than Fed

That’s the policy of African leaders:
Reason Magazine - Demon Seed

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Age and the Presidency

The world’s 10 oldest leaders
A 2008 Pew study found that while less than a quarter of younger voters, when told his age, considered McCain too old for the presidency, fully 40 percent of retirement-age voters regarded him as too old.
While some people might find this result counterintuitive, I’m not really surprised that younger voters have [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke makes his final rendezvous

I’m sorry to hear that Arthur C. Clark has died at age 90. As Bruce Webster notes, he was the last of the “big three” writers who created the foundation for modern science fiction. The other two giants of 20th century SF were Issac Asimov, who died back in 1992, and Robert A. Heinlein, who [...]

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Jury nullification and drug laws

I’m not generally in favor of drug legalization or decriminalization. Drug manufacturing, distribution, and dealing  are serious crimes and should be punished harshly. Possession and drug use are often punished too harshly. Putting those people in jail for years or decades and giving them a permanent criminal record doesn’t help them, stop drugs, or serve [...]

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If the boobs don’t fit, you must acquit?

Big breasts win verdict for Japanese pin-up - Yahoo! News
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career — they also helped her overturn a court verdict.
The bikini model, who goes by her professional name Serena Kozakura, was cleared after a court decided she was too [...]

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