The great things about these parkour clips (conical hat tip to Patri for this one) is that they show that Batman is possible.
Archive | May, 2009
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 5: Thanks For Helping Me Get In Power, Suckers
Here’s what the defenders of Sotomayor’s nomination are saying:
Known as a moderate on the court, Sotomayor often forges consensus and agreeing [sic] with her more conservative nominees far more frequently than she disagrees with them. In cases where Sotomayor and at least one judge appointed by a Republican president were on the three-judge panel, Sotomayor and the Republican appointee(s) agreed on the outcome 95% of the time.
So in other words, by making this nomination, Obama is stabbing his supporters in the back? Yay?
Objectivist Form Letter
I was recently reminded of this wonderful piece. (Conical hat tip to Stephan.)
Unfeared!
I’m watching Larry King trying to match wits with Jon Stewart; when King said “I am unfeared!” (meaning something else), that about summed it up.
Stakeholder Problem
This sounds like a remarkably bad idea.
Out of Africa
A white student born in Africa has been suspended from medical school (specifically, the euphoniously named University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey) for calling himself a “white African-American.”
I suspect there’s a tendency on both the left and the right to blur the distinction between this kind of lunacy and, e.g., the censure of white students who dress up in Klan costumes or blackface to reenact lynchings (as occurred on my fair campus a few years back). Many on the right would like to insinuate that making a fuss about demeaning minstrel shows is just as crazy, just as much a symptom of (as they like to say) “political correctness run amuck” as making a fuss about an American from Africa describing himself as African-American. Likewise, many leftists of the authoritarian variety might have us believe that the latter is a serious racist incident just like the former – a kind of verbal blackface, if you will.
Both reactions are wrong. These are cases where we need to, um, discriminate. (But don’t expect university administrators to figure out the difference without the help of a bit of pressure.)