Holy cow, the PBS News Hour took her call?

Presupposing that the bang-n’-watch parties took place, now I’m kind of wondering if Falwell the Lesser was relieved at the presence of another man because then he had no reason whatsoever to have to worry about his partner’s gratification, only his own.

In the early 1990s, I worked with an insufferable woman none of us could stand. At one point during the time I endured her, she walked by while I was talking to another employee.

The history of the intersection between the movements for abolition and women suffrage is just heartbreaking. The only way to understand it is to look at the entire history, not just little bits and pieces and this-and-that quotes from much larger, well-argued statements.

He’s also now pulling the “I am not a racist” card out of his back pocket, close to his heart, and reading it slowly out loud. Sorry, Mr. Former-Michigan-State-Official Tom, you don’t just get to declare that. It’s the people who are burdened by your jackassery who get to make that determination.

William Styron once called the n-epithet “our most powerful secular blasphemy.” I think that’s part of it: the temptation to say something shocking is just irresistible to some people, kind of like the sizeable percentage of the population that has an unscratchable obsession to know what it feels like to kill someone…

Back in the dear dead days, this mindset used to be called “reactionary,” and the term carried the connotation of waiting for some infinitesimal step toward progress to occur before the threatened lords of entitlement squawked forth nonsensical objections. “Regressive” is a good description too. I’ve been known to…

I made a comment on the Straight Dope message board something like twenty years ago about how Robert Newton just flat invented the pirate accent we can all now imitate so painfully on Talk Like a Pirate Day. I wondered a-type why no one had ever really seemed to give him credit for what was one of the first broadly…

Amen, amen, amen, preach on the Sony PRS series! After owning at least one of every PRS model, I finally worked my way up to a pair of PRS-950s, the last one before the T-series, and am astounded at all the content I’ve piled up without really making much of an effort. Mobileread and Calibre are my best buds in the…

What an incredible idea.  I’m going to go off and think about this now.  Thank you.

I wonder if Fedida’s lengthy tenure at ABC News is due to her saying or doing whatever is necessary to keep the talent from demanding commensurate compensation. Seems like developing and sustaining a reputation as an ass-ripper would be a great strategy to keep the talent from negotiating for what they’re worth as the…

Is it possible to fit all of this on a t-shirt?  If so, I’ll take three dozen.

Thank you for being courageous in discussing this point in a time in which political disagreements so often lead to weary retreat.

My wife listened to me read the article and then replied shortly, “Hexit.”

Apologies for jumping into this so late int the discussion, but I remember hearing about McCorvey meeting Flip Benham the week it happened; she was the receptionist (if I’m recalling her position correctly) at a women’s health clinic that offered abortion services. Operation Rescue took advantage of the vacancy of a…