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Since I’m alone for a few days, I think I’ll go on a barbecue spree. Having said that, I’m off to the Texas Roadhouse for a rack of ribs.

and timely, considering that I just published an article on student evaluations yesterday. This over-educated idiot masquerading as a professor obviously needs a crash course in ethics:
The D reported yesterday on lecturer Priya Venkatesan (also undergrad ‘90 and a Med School researcher) who, in a series of strangely passive-aggressive group emails, announced a plan to […]

Jules points to this article by Don Surber on that ever-elusive youth vote:
Young people don’t vote
At least not in mass quantities, which is why Republicans should not sweat losing the under 30 crowd today.
Marc Ambinder has a nifty chart. It shows that people 18-29 lean left not right in politics.
Duh.
Of the 18-29 group in 1992, […]

The Carnival of Ed is up.

From (where else?) the paper that brings you more idiocy than any other paper in the world, the New York Times:
In sum, I was suffering from a severe case of biobigotry
Please. Kill me now, before these liberals get any st00pider. Please.

Let’s talk evaluations, starting with this article from Inside Higher Ed:
But what if the much derided Web site’s rankings have a high correlation with markers that are more widely accepted as measures of faculty performance? Last year, a scholarly study found a high correlation between RateMyProfessors.com and a university’s own system of student evaluations. Now, […]

The dogs on the porch, soaking up the warmth, and as you can see from the look on Dolly’s face, totally uninterested in coming inside.

In a 6-3 decision, the SCOTUS upholds Indiana’s voter ID law (the decision is here, if you’re a law geek).

Dinner time.

You know, as in green nuts. We first have this zinger from Steyn:
The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway […]

It seems that spring is here (although it’s supposed to get down into the 30s at night next weekend). Click the thumbnails to get the biggie version. First, Scott’s at Sylvan Acres Farm just outside Bellefonte:

Ducks in Talleyrand Park (they’re utterly unconcerned by humans):

Cherries in front of the library annex:

The original library, […]

Yeah, I know, it’s Sunday, but Sam’s had these round steaks on sale, so instead, we’re having chicken-fried steaks, with the obligatory mashed potatoes and gravy, of course.
It’s real easy.
You want relatively thin beef — round steaks or chuck eyes are good. Get out the mallet and pound the frak out of the steaks. Season […]

Glenn Reynolds points to this rather annoying hand-wringing article by one Bill Stutz at U Penn, entitled — and I’m giving the title because you know from it exactly what kind of diaper-dumping nonsense it’s going to be — “Who is responsible for America’s swollen prison population?”
Pretty much everyone—Republican or Democrat, right or left—familiar with […]

but apparently it isn’t. Glenn Reynolds gets it, though:
Note that the impact of these denunciations is to discredit those who reflexively play the race card on Obama’s behalf, and to ensure wide circulation of the ad beyond North Carolina.
Exactly. Had McCain said nothing, the only people who would have seen that ad would have been […]

Insightful, too: Barry Obama’s Acceptance Speech

Let’s see, McCain has been running races — and winning them — since 1982, yet people who have never run for office, much less run and won, seem to know much more about campaigning than he does.
I find that fascinating.

First, Scott’s for two roasted pork sandwiches with horseradish, then to the Creamery to get a milkshake, and a half-gallon of Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, coconut ice cream with chocolate chips and buttered toasted almonds.
Now for a nice nap.

This has to be a joke.

Advice to Obama and Hillary on how to win Indiana.
Off to Scott’s!

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Off to do errands. Sam’s. Must do Sam’s. Did not last week. Then off to Scott’s!

Scalia on 60 Minutes:
“People who believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia.
Scalia denies that the controversial decision was political and discusses other aspects of his public and private life in a remarkably candid interview with […]

Another Szechuan dish, dry-fried beef. Kuo calls it spicy beef. It’s a simple, homey dish, high in the yum! factor. This is one of those things you want to eat slowly so you can savor it. This would be a great picnic dish, since it’s as good at room temperature as it is hot. I […]

From the (!) LA Times:
Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show.
Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential […]

I see Hugh and Ed have pretty much given the minutes (Geraghty gives his account here), which is good, because while I was on the phone, the dogs had to go out, then come back in, then go back out, etc. Here, however, was McCain’s grab-em-and-hold-em line:
I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare.
(Yeah, I did kind […]

Lasted thirty minutes, and I just got off. I’ll address a few of the issues raised in a future post, but something really needs to be said. There were three questions about the North Carolina Wright ad controversy. McCain answered. The second question pushed. McCain answered. The third question was a glitch, after McCain had […]

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Crime? Corruption? Big city machine politics? No, those are symptoms. The root cause can be summed up in two numbers, the total presidential primary votes.
Democrats: 429,578
Republicans: 21,421
Maybe I’ll write a book. What’s the […]

I haven’t given out the rubber nose in some time, and there are some serious contenders here — and they’re both Republicans. They both got way too much of the st00pid, so without further introduction, here are our winners.
First up is an Indiana Republican (well, he’s from Crown Point, and the close proximity to Chicago […]

Identity politics, as Mark Steyn points out:
Stanley’s analysis below is correct - and dear old Nora Ephron’s sneer over at The Huffington Post about whether Pennsylvania’s embittered white men are more racist than they’re sexist or vice-versa gets things completely upside down. The embittered white men are just about the only demographic weighing these candidates […]

Bull Dog Pundit has some interesting commentary on yesterday’s primary, discussing what the primary has to say about what will happen in November. But here is what caught my eye:
What shocked the hell out of me is that Hillary Clinton [won] Montgomery and Bucks County - 2 of the 4 “bedroom counties” collaring Philadelphia.
That’s a […]

Whoever wins in November, the 5th Congressional District here will have the honor of providing the US House with one of the ugliest Representatives.

That’s Thompson, the Republican, on the left, and McCracken on the right. Thompson is younger than I am — but he doesn’t look it.

Everybody by now knows the Borg Queen won Pennsylvania 55-45, right?
Here are the results from my precinct.

Registered Voters - Total
1762

Registered Voters - Democratic
645
36.61%

Registered Voters - Republican
877
49.77%

Ballots Cast - Total.
874

Ballots Cast - Democratic
480
54.92%

Ballots Cast - Republican
394
45.08%

Voter Turnout - Total

49.60%

Voter Turnout - Democratic.

74.42%

Voter Turnout - Republican.

44.93%

Well, I was partially right about Cahir. Local results:

Representative In Congress 5th […]

At least, that’s what they said. No line, no wait. But what is Huckabee doing on the ballot?

As everybody in the US knows, today is our primary. I rather like the idea of being an informed voter, and there are a couple of races I don’t care that much about, but thought I’d read up on before I walk across the street to vote, so I went to the county webpage to […]

From the Blogfather:
MORE REVISIONIST HISTORY from MoveOn.org. We are in favor of the war in Afghanistan. We have always been in favor of the war in Afghanistan! Pay no attention to that petition in the Google cache!

The $%&*@# primary is tomorrow, and then, it will be over. At least here. I just got my third robocall asking me to write-in my Democrat state rep’s name on my Republican primary ballot because he’s more conservative than the Republican (well, libertarian running as a Republican).

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
You didn’t just say salad, did you? What do you think I am, a metrosexual?

Middle school students in Texas beat a student, and upload it to youtube. We could go on forever about the incident itself, and how many years these scumbags should spend in prison, but let’s look at what the administrators say in response:
RAYMONDVILLE - Administrators of the Raymondville school system said they will review the district’s […]

So the window boxes are up on the deck (although they would only fit on the inside), and the herbs and flowers are planted. Now to hang the hooks in the basement staircase — they’re to hang bags of potatoes and onions and so forth.

I just sent this to Obama. I’ll let you know if I get a response.
Are you going to print a CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRICE OF ARUGULA bumptersticker? If you are, I’d really like one, because I know the price of arugula is at the top of my priority list! Then, I’m one of those bitter […]

Well, not technically. We have about three inches of soil, and limestone underneath, so I’m hanging window boxes on the deck. So far, rosemary, basil, and that’s it. More later.
I need to do that before it starts raining.