Right Wing Nation

I got hungry looking at that picture of frog legs, but I don’t have any, so I decided on the nearest thing: fried chicken. I tossed some chicken from the deep freeze into the microwave, and it should be thawed enough to pull all the pieces apart and chop off the ribs and wing tips (for the ever-growing stock bag).

It will be an experiment. I’m out of bacon grease (sniffle!), but I have clarified butter. It should make nice brown chicken, and good gravy.

Back when I was a freshman, there was a restaurant in town (decades gone now, I’m afraid) that had an all you can eat basket of fried chicken Sunday special. Every restaurant in town had Sunday specials, since the dorms didn’t serve Sunday dinner. That was some good eatin, even if it was restaurant chicken. A whole basket full of fried chicken, for I don’t remember, but undergrads were able to afford it, so it couldn’t have been more than five bucks.

I’m rambling. Sorry. I really have a craving going.

Team McCain rolls out John Murtaugh:

“When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn’t do more.

“While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friend’s violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obama’s political career. Given Ayers’ celebrity status among the left, it’s difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue? Any honest accounting by Barack Obama will necessarily cast further doubt on his judgment and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.

“Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets — but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family.”

If you’re unfamiliar with Murtaugh, read this.

I repeat. Aieeeeee!

But I speak also from experience. On a winter morning on the campus of one of our finest colleges, in a lively Ivy League setting with the snow falling outside the window, I sat with a seminar of some twenty-five students, all seniors majoring in history, all honors students-the cream of the crop. “How many of you know who George Marshall was?” I asked. None. Not one.

At a large university in the Midwest, a young woman told me how glad she was to have attended my lecture, because until then, she explained, she had never realized that the original thirteen colonies were all on the eastern seaboard.

How about this?

When asked what historical figure they’d most like to study this year, an astounding 22 of the 35 students in Ms. Ellingham’s eighth-grade history class at Susan B. Anthony middle school in Minneapolis answered, “Yoko Ono” and/or “John Lennon.”

Too radical for George McGovern.

This one has Maxine Waters making an idiot out of herself — not difficult, since “idiot” probably overestimates her intelligence, but it’s something seen far too seldom.