Archive for August, 2005

Summer movies. We love to talk about them, lament their perpetual decline in quality, speculate about which ones will strike gold and which ones will strike gold, not to mention hold forth on what should have been instead. Then we forget about them. Poor summer movies. Here’s a recap of the 2005 summer movies I [...]

“Minority numbers plunge at Latin” screamed a Boston Globe headline after public exam high school Boston Latin statistics showed that non-white enrollment at the school is down a whopping 3.6 percentage points since 1998/99, the last year the school used race as merit, from 49.7% to 46.1%.
Plunge, indeed.
In order to milk maximum indignation over the [...]

Free speech is untouchable, stupid freebie dead-tree boxes shouldn’t be. This is dadgum disgrace:

Muttawa, the anonymous Saudi blogger who quickly made a name for himself with his eloquence, wit, and scathing criticism of the Saudi royal family but then went silent on August 10 last year, has picked up blogging again.

Två juridikstuderande unga kvinnor sommarvikarierade på en av Halls hårdare avdelningar och - tänka sig - upprördes över arbetsklimatet!
Företaget där jag var anst¨lld för några år sedan hade en kvinnlig receptionist som tidigare jobbat som fängelsevakt på en Maximum Security-anstalt i nordöstra USA. På fängelset hade hon burit full skyddsmundering hela tiden hon vistades på [...]

Efter ett milt uttryckt körigt säsongsuppehåll kunde regerande Super Bowl-mästarna New England Patriots glädja sig åt att försvarsklippan och lagkaptenen Richard Seymour kommit överens med Patriots om kompensationsnivån för 2005 med klubben och därmed avbrutit sin träningsstrejk. Patriots har visserligen visat under de senaste tå säsongerna att ingen är oersättlig, men efter förlusten av först [...]

Most polls about how people view abortion ask questions about Roe vs Wade or to what extent abortion should be legal, but who really thinks or talks about abortion in those terms? Here’s how the question really should be framed:
Do you favor slaughtering unborn babies
OR
Do you favor oppressing women?
I strongly favor slaughtering unborn babies
I [...]

I am not the only right-winger who grimaced in, at least in my case, disgust when reading or hearing President George W. Bush saying that Intelligent Design theory should be taught in schools along with evolution. Call me a Godless heathen (and why not, since I am a Lutheran), but I happen to find evolution [...]

I still can’t believe Rupert Murdoch shelled out $580 million to buy MySpace, but I think I’ve figured out what MySpace is: Open Source Maxim.

A Lydia Lowe has an op-ed piece in today’s Boston Globe where she gloats about going lawyerevial on Beantown. Some number of elderly immigrants haven’t bothered to learn English, so they’ve been bothered by a lack of ballots and voting instructions in Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Spanish.
Carpundit offers an outlandish solution.