I confess, I enjoy Jon Stewart more when he’s creaming Democrats. And I admire the talent, too: unlike Gary Trudeau of Doonesbury fame, Stewart can lampoon without embedding crypto-compliments (see today’s “He can’t empathize because he’s always thinking” strip.) Wait- I thought BO had retired the “drove the car into the ditch” metaphor after 6,000 times at bat. I guess I was wrong. But, since … Continue reading In the Ditch with BO
My campus was locked down, and then closed, this morning when a gunman began firing shots. He entered the library, where all the security is designed to keep things from leaving inappropriately, went to the sixth floor (early reports said the fifth floor), and shot himself. The university’s warning system, instituted after the Virginia Tech shootings, helped to insure that there were no other injuries. … Continue reading Lockdown: Not Just on ’24’ Anymore
I haven’t been blogging much lately, because I haven’t had many thoughts that haven’t been better expressed elsewhere. But I have to draw attention to a remark of Glenn Reynolds, which seems to me to express an important and little-noticed point: The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college … Continue reading Reynolds’ Law
I recall the poems I read to my children at bedtime nine years ago: URNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of … Continue reading Remember
From the New York Times: Continue reading Faith and Affluence
Zombie has completed his analysis of the education wars, and has done a fair-minded job in describing the situation in Texas. Unlike Thomas Frank, I get it. I understand that American patriotism, far from being nothing more than the reactionary buzzword of small-minded bigots (as leftists believe), is based on a deep awareness that the United States of America is the first (and to date only) … Continue reading Texas and the First Amendment
The View from Alexandria 