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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 0 Comments

Fake: McDonald’s “College Grad Job Ad” listing “fake but accurate” Unfortunately, everything else is real. Really sad: U. Chicago Demolishes Reagan’s Childhood Home Really a glimpse of things to come: Gay Students Seek Campus Chaplain’s Removal from George Washington U. Video: Woman Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State Stanley Kurtz – What’s the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Leslie forwarded me (via Captain Capitalism) this course description at the University of Maryland: ENGL488B - Topics in Advanced Writing: Writing for the Blogosphere: Prehistory, Theory, Practice This course will offer students an immersion in blogging as a writing practice and as a social/literary genre with deep,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 4 Comments

From Ben: I hope we survive to read the book...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 15 Comments

April 10 is the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of The Thresher submarine. At 9:18 a.m. on April 10, 1963, sonar operators aboard the U.S. Navy submarine rescue ship Skylark, which was accompanying the nuclear attack submarine Thresher, heard a chilling sound “like air rushing into...

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Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 19 Comments

Joe Klein recently wrote, ObamaCare incompetence (via memeorandum) Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 05, 2013 14 Comments

The Obama Administration has come up with another transparent stunt to attempt to paint the lackluster sequester doom as something other than the PR attempt that it was. Obama announced he would give 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury, a move that has now...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 5 Comments

1) Casting the first stone - and all the subsequent ones too What's the difference between assault with a deadly weapon - a shooting - and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds? Why should teenagers think of rock-throwing as something fun to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 9 Comments

The "unemployment rate" is a number which increasingly is just political, as we have the Obama-phenomenon of large numbers of people leaving the workforce thereby dropping the "unemployment rate" since people who leave the workforce don't count as unemployed. Long ago a reader predicted the terms...

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 05, 2013 6 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 7 Comments

I will take credit for the "Everybody Be Like BuzzFeed" mania sweeping politics, with my post Do not underestimate BuzzFeed Politics, which ran on February 6, 2013. I pushed the mania into overdrive when I mentioned the word ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 18 Comments

Father-daughter dances, currently banned in Cranston, Rhode Island after the ACLU  and a single mother threatened to sue under the state anti-discrimination law, are one step closer to reinstatement. The Rhode Island Senate has approved language amending the law to allow single-sex events if comparable events are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 3 Comments

Pallywood never sleeps. You already now that Pallywood is the longest running series in the history of fiction. Now it's being used to help incite a Third Intifada over the death of a Palestinian terrorist from cancer while in prison in Israel, via WaPo: Maysara Abu Hamdiya, 63, died...

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