Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
On Monday, I noted that ObamaCare regulations requiring employers to provide full (really full) insurance coverage to all employees may make running restaurants, which have a famously low profit margin, so prohibitively expensive that many will go out of business. It turns out that we needn’t fear this eventuality, because
Continue readingI’m not boasting when I say that I move in very rarefied circles. It’s a fact that became glaringly obvious to me today when I started reaching out to legal colleagues via LinkedIn. I’m launching a new business enterprise, and those connections will be useful. For those unfamiliar with it,
Continue readingThere are a couple of things about modern life that are hard to understand. The first is why so many more children have potentially fatal peanut allergies than did in my youth. I have no idea why this is so, and probably never will. The second thing that’s been mysterious
Continue readingTo begin with, DL Sly is right that, if I don’t make each and every one of you aware of Iowahawk’s latest post of genius, I am doing you a profound disservice. I won’t even make an effort to summarize what Iowahawk has done. Suffice to say that your life
Continue readingSo now we know what historical ignorance looks like: A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles. “St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High
Continue readingFor the most part, teachers across America are hard-working, committed, good people. A teacher raised me. My Dad was willing to work for a pittance because he had a genuine calling to teach. Nowadays, teachers ostensibly get paid much more money than my Dad did, but at what cost? As
Continue readingI’ve really been shocked with the way the conservative media has been misrepresenting a campaign tweet photo that shows Obama and some supporters trying to spell “Ohio” with their arms. All the conservative media keeps saying they’re spelling O-I-H-O. As if! In fact, if you look at the photo, it’s
Continue readingDon Quixote and I dined at McDonald’s today. Usually, the employees are Hispanic. Their English is fractured, but the service is competent and friendly. Today, we had a young Caucasian boy, who looked to be around 17 or 18. He did not look as if he had a disability. (I
Continue readingThe headline was that Obama’s former law school professor has issued a video urging people not to vote for Obama: Obama’s Harvard law professor says ‘President MUST be defeated in 2012’ (even though he’s the man Barack used to have on speed dial) That’s a pretty darn good headline. To
Continue readingBarack Obama has kept carefully hidden all of his college records. Many of us have assumed that this secrecy is because those papers show that he took nothing but Leftist Mickey Mouse classes and ended up with lousy grades. Now that we know that Obama marketed himself to publishers as
Continue readingThe San Jose Mercury News talked to fifteen teenage student journalists about issues ranging from texting while driving to Trayvon to politics. As journalists-in-training, these students are presumably better informed and more engaged than their peers. That presumption could be wrong. The students’ responses to the Trayvon matter fascinated me
Continue readingStudents, not normally a personally wealthy group, are all for redistributing other people’s money. Apparently, though, they draw the line at redistributing the fruits of their own labors: The next step is to get the students to listen to Jon Lovitz’s F-Bomb laden rant and understand that, whether we’re talking
Continue readingFrom Season 1 of The Simpsons (waaaay back in 1990), comes “Bart the General“: After defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz, Bart becomes Nelson’s latest target. Sick of the harassment and torment, Bart, Grampa Simpson, and Herman (a slightly deranged military antique store dealer with a missing arm) rally
Continue readingThe other day, Zombie put up a post that resonated with me on more levels than you can imagine. It turns out that Zombie deciding to drop in on a lecture at UC Berkeley (my alma mater) to hear a lecture by an English as a Second Language, or ESL,
Continue readingSproul Hall houses UC Berkeley’s administration. Back in pre-computer days, when you wanted to get anything done (i.e., enroll in classes or get forms or whatever), you had to go to Sproul. The lines at Sproul were always ridiculously long and slow. Way too often, after I’d stood in line
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