This is bizarre. Even from a state which elected Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, instituting a citywide dress code which insists that the only school colors kids can wear are those of the U of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State U? Parochial, provincial, xenophobic; pick your adjective. News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video …
I went up to Tripler today for a post-surgery follow-up meeting with the ENT docs. True to form, I saw yet another doctor I’d never met before. He explained that the PET/CT scans showed no sign of any spreading cells, but that they want to see me every month for a year just to be …
Tina Brown of Newsweek/The Daily Beast must feel like she really did her job this week. Her magazine ran a cover story written by Niall Ferguson entitled “Obama’s Gotta Go.” That in itself would be provocative enough to sell a lot of magazines to the casual buyer at the airport or in the supermarket. But …
From a column expressing astonishment at the whacko statement1 from the guy running against Claire McCaskill for the Senate in Missouri: Michael Kinsley famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” This election season, Republican politicians have offered a variation on this principle: …
At the U of Arizona when my fraternity’s budget didn’t run to live bands we had records for our parties. This one was always on the playlist.
Instead of an orchestra, what awards show has a cheesy female voice that recites “Please Stop; I’m Bored” to winners whose acceptance speeches go on too long?
We had house cleaners in today and I’m tired from all that supervising. Take-out burgers or subs or baked Spam™ with baked beans and cauliflower? What say you?
I wonder how many of my fellow drivers and their passengers will figure it out.
A new study shows voter fraud has been virtually non-existent since 2000. A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent. …
Here’s Paul Krugman on the media and its collective conclusion that Paul Ryan has serious ideas: “. . . a large part of the commentariat decided early on that they were going to cast Ryan in the role of Serious Honest Conservative, and have been very unwilling to reconsider that casting call in the light …