1984

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger thinks we should spend it on newspapers and TV networks who are losing their shirts.  I think he should go piss up a rope. Read more

Poor white farmboys aren’t too welcome in the Ivy League. One thing I really like about UTSA is our strong support for Army and Air Force ROTC and a BIG military community.  My favorite sections are those with ROTC and GIs in them; the teeners mind their P’s and Q’s around classmates who are grownups. Read more

Clearly no one in the Ed Psych department help design the pie charts for the School of Education at University of Michigan.  Whoever did these doesn’t understand pies.  If this is what gets good rankings from US News and World Report, I’d say their rankings are crap.  Have they never learned falsus in uno falsus Read more

Wretchard says it better than anyone else: The greatest damage that political correctness has inflicted on society is to make each of forget that underneath the accidents of color, nationality and creed, that all of us are men. By dividing humanity into hyphenated buckets, each sequestered in its hate,  the puppet masters have managed to Read more

FOUR HUNDRED lefty journalists participate in a private listserv that just happens to advance their political agenda, and it’s NOT a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy?  Of course not, ’cause Walter Shaprio sez it ain’t: JournoList was a private bull session which brought together left-of-center think tankers, government-oriented academics and opinion-mongers to discuss and debate economics, Read more

…unless we should happen to have an oil spill.  Were Barack Obama and Ray Nagin separated at birth? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

I’ve said for decades that we have a distorted economy and value system when we give greater rewards to people who make deals than to people who make stuff.  The subpar performances of AT&T and the Obama Administration are just the tip of the iceberg.  Even some mainstream journalists are beginning to notice. My racket, Read more

Michael Hard America, Soft America Barone lays into our perpetual adolescence.  One of his loyal readers reads him the Riot Act from the flipside.  Looking back, I guess I was lucky in 1971 with poor job prospects.  The Draft Board was breathing down my neck (#23, thank you), so I enlisted in the Air Force. Read more

And I thought the crap they sold at Wal-Mart was bad… Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

William Voegeli concisely gets us up to date on the Tea Party movement: The sociological but not very comic reality is that Brooks’s Achievatrons wound up being distrusted by millions of their countrymen the old-fashioned way—they earned it. Our new meritocratic masters have been more conspicuously smart than wise. They know a lot, but don’t Read more