Right Wing Nation

Thanks to JimmyB for the title. It’s true, you know. Yesterday, I added one to the list of people that just need to be taken out and shot. Check out the picture (clicky to make biggy):

Yes, you don’t need to clean your glasses. The Color Purple: The Musical. I’m trying to think of something, […]

It’s 65 here. It’s 46 back in the mountains.

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If you saw a church named St. Mary the Virgin, you’d assume it was Roman Catholic, […]

Yesterday was the Met performance: Aïda, with Angela Brown singing Aïda to Dolora Zajick’s Amneris. First, we went to the JP Morgan Library to see the library and another exhibit. I realized I had forgotten the camera, so we walked back to the hotel. We then began a leisurely stroll toward Lincoln Center (more about […]

to tell you this? Gizmodo says Don’t buy an iPhone.
There is about a 1:157,692,177,645 chance that I will buy one, because:

I hate cell phones
I hate catch-all gadgets. I want to watch TV on the TV, thanks.
It’s cool, and I hate cool.
It’s an Apple product, and there a few things I despise more than Apple.

It’s Star Trek Weekend at National Review. I kid you not. Ask Ed Driscoll.
I may very well have more to say about this later — then, I may not, given that I’m in Manhattan.

I stumbled out of bed (in this hotel room), and without coffee, deleted the akismet (spam filter) queue, so I may have deleted comments. I’m sorry. I should have known better.

In Manhattan, after a long Amtrak ride. Amtrak is comfortable, with lots of leg room, I’ll give them that, but they need to be as long as it takes to get from one place to another.
In search of food. Amtrak’s food leaves lots to be desired.

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Before we go to NYC. Our vicious guard dogs. Click on the pic to see the album:

Last day, Gettysburg. Click on the pic to see the whole album:

The third day, and the King Tut exhibit. Click on the pic to see the whole album:

Second day. Not so historic Philadelphia (not counting Geno’s, that is). Click on the pic to see the entire album:

First full day in Philadelphia. Historic Philadelphia. Click on the pic to see the entire album:

The Philadelphia trip. First stop: Valley Forge. Click the pic to see the whole album:

Charleston, South Carolina. Click on the pic to see the whole album:

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Andrew Bolt:
Hysteria over ice melt at one end of the world, but near-silence at the ice increase at the other. Almost like someone was trying to fool you, or something.

There’s a commercial on right now for parking balls. A parking ball is a tennis ball you hang from the ceiling of your garage. Why would you hang a tennis ball from the ceiling of your garage? Well, so you don’t, you know, drive too far in and crash against the wall, or not drive […]

Like I said, they’re always trying to outst00pid themselves. Tim Blair has documented more slobbering st00pid from the left.

Here’s what I emailed about Bollinger/Columbia inviting the Hitler Midget to speak.
The NY Sun hit the bullseye:
The real problem at Columbia is the group that is President Ahmadinejad’s real host — the 24 members of the university’s board of trustees. This is a group that has, throughout the long slog of anti-Israel agitation and occasional […]

EdWonk points to this Journal-Constitution graphic. I’ll translate the relevant stats from the graphic into numbers.

58.8% of graduating seniors go directly to college.
67.5% of college freshmen are still enrolled the following year.
66.7% of those students earn at least an associate’s degree.

First, let me get one thing out of the way. I don’t believe, as apparently […]

The Ed Carnival is posted (that’s early!)

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(I’m resubmitting this to the Carnival of Education, since last time, it disappeared down the black hole.)
Since your ad for the principal’s position states that you want, and I quote, "A hands-on principal with significant experience as an educator," I’m your man. Read on.

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Darwin would be proud:
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. […]

The Blogfather says that it’s been a bad week for academia, and points to this article on Volokh:
According to the Columbia Spectator, Barnard religion professor Alan Segal was asked by the university to provide a list of archeology experts to comment on the controversial tenure case of Nadia Abu El-Haj’s tenure–archeologists who “preferably” were not […]

while I put together an article is Unemployment Training, by Professor Haberman. Here are a couple of snippets:
For many urban youth in poverty moving from school to work is about as likely as having a career in the NBA.While urban schools struggle and fail at teaching basic skills they are extremely effective at teaching skills […]

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This Thursday, we’re driving to Lewistown (20 miles away) to pick up the Amtrak to New York City. We’ll be coming back the following Wednesday. We could drive, and get there in less time (the train takes 5 hours), but who wants to drive in NYC? And who wants to pay for parking in NYC? […]

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You’ve seen a short snippet already — the “Jeri would make a better first lady than Bill Clinton” snippet. Here is the whole thing. Good job, Fred.

Not quite yet, but we’re close. I took these last fall from Skytop, just a couple of miles from here, up on the top of the next mountain ridge. Click on the photo below to see the whole album.

The game was at Michigan last night — that means we can go to the Waffle Shop.
Back later.

This time, it’s a comment on Don Surber’s article about MickeyD’s sales. It’s too good not to reproduce the whole thing:
Why should we believe another culinary post from Don Surber? He is in the pocket of Big Popcorn Butter.
The “Big Mac Attack” is yet another neocon conspiracy to slaughter the peopleses and childrenses of the […]

Born Again Redneck posted yesterday about videos he’d seen recently. As it happens, one of them was Apocalypto.
I did a BA in anthropology, remember? My area specialty was Mesoamerica, so I was curious about Apocalypto, but didn’t see it in the theater. We watched it yesterday. (By the way, the whole movie is in Maya, […]

Browned the chops in some butter, splashed in a little sherry and heavy cream, covered them, and turned them down to smother. Ready to eat now. And I went with plain old fried corn. Less to distract from the corn, important since it may be the last until next year.

This will stay at the top for a while — scroll down for updates. From Bruce:
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, […]

From Sebastian:
Choosing to rob gun shops is one such poorly thought out career choice.

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